The Reform Party .....of Iran
My posts yesterday were just a little over-excited. That's okay.

I remember when the berlin wall came down, and fall of the USSR. Those were exciting, historic times. It seems that the some more countries on earth are ready to free themselves and I believe that a similar joyous occasion may be about to unfold.

Either Berlin Wall or the unfortunate alternative: Tianneman Square.

So those are the choices that the mullahs, militias, policemen and other authorities will have to make. one thing about the tianeman (sp?) square massacre is that the chinese democracy movement was not widespread. It was localized, and has since diminished. the mullahs, and the police will have to look into the eyes of their brothers, sisters and cousins and slaughter them for an unpopular government.

Like the terrorist attacks on innocent women and children in Israel, there is a wide moral frontier that has to be crossed and sustained for the authorities can destroy a widespread, popular movement. to keep it down, will require a force i do not believe iranian authorities have. the protests have been going on for years without an extremely violent counter-revolutionary attack.

So what is preventing a massive retaliation? Why are some of the police defending the people from the militia defenders of the ayatollah? the nominally elected congress is one reason.

the reformers, while somewhat responsible for the mess that the country is in (reformers without reform, really), are sticking their necks out for the real reformers at street level. reform-minded legislators are banding together to protest the heavy handed response of the fundamentalist militias, and asking authorities to treat the students with respect. it seems now that the militants are too far gone to be reasoned with, and will have to be removed like a cancer from the face of iran. until then...

we can watch the courageous freedom fighters battle in the street in Iran, like those that fought 40 years ago in the southern states...remembering the words of martin luther king:

"Walk together children! Don't you get weary"