Comments on: Totalitarians Catching Up to the Internet http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2009/12/totalitarians-catching-up-to-the-internet.html Dispatches from a Small Business Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:12:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Linda Morgan http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2009/12/totalitarians-catching-up-to-the-internet.html/comment-page-1#comment-30492 Linda Morgan Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:17:53 +0000 http://www.coyoteblog.com/?p=9884#comment-30492 This is the very worst, even if the least surprising, thing I've read today. You have to wonder what the friends and family of "Freedom Messenger" may be facing for the posting of this cocky bit of brilliance on YouTube, about the plans for December 7: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kveh_aBv2c&feature=player_embedded God bless all the brave souls who put it all -- everything -- on the line just to show those black-hearted tyrants what Khamenei is made to mouth in the video: Their time is coming to an end. This is the very worst, even if the least surprising, thing I’ve read today.

You have to wonder what the friends and family of “Freedom Messenger” may be facing for the posting of this cocky bit of brilliance on YouTube, about the plans for December 7:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kveh_aBv2c&feature=player_embedded

God bless all the brave souls who put it all — everything — on the line just to show those black-hearted tyrants what Khamenei is made to mouth in the video: Their time is coming to an end.

]]> By: Methinks http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2009/12/totalitarians-catching-up-to-the-internet.html/comment-page-1#comment-30474 Methinks Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:18:37 +0000 http://www.coyoteblog.com/?p=9884#comment-30474 Michael, I think once Reagan became president it was too late. Carter should have sent troops to support the Shah, a US ally. Of course, Carter thought the Shah was mean and sent nothing. Yes, the Shah violated human rights, but on a much smaller scale than the whacked out mullahs ever would and his regime could have been brought around eventually. These nutjobs can't be reasoned with. Ever. BTW, flag@whitehouse.gov was the first of such surveillance in the United States. get used to it. This country is moving in the same direction, as is Britain. I'm sure Americans think they have nothing to worry about because we don't have Gulags yet. But, by the time we do, it'll be too late. Michael, I think once Reagan became president it was too late. Carter should have sent troops to support the Shah, a US ally. Of course, Carter thought the Shah was mean and sent nothing. Yes, the Shah violated human rights, but on a much smaller scale than the whacked out mullahs ever would and his regime could have been brought around eventually. These nutjobs can’t be reasoned with. Ever.

BTW, flag@whitehouse.gov was the first of such surveillance in the United States. get used to it. This country is moving in the same direction, as is Britain. I’m sure Americans think they have nothing to worry about because we don’t have Gulags yet. But, by the time we do, it’ll be too late.

]]> By: Michael http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2009/12/totalitarians-catching-up-to-the-internet.html/comment-page-1#comment-30465 Michael Thu, 03 Dec 2009 07:41:24 +0000 http://www.coyoteblog.com/?p=9884#comment-30465 As an American living among Iranians during the 70s, the country was on it's way to become like Turkey is today. Carter was weak, and while Reagan was busy with the USSR, had he been more aggressive in the middle east, there wouldn't be the problems their that exist today. One of our biggest mistakes was placating Saudi Arabia. By giving them a favored status, it gave Iran and Iraq extremists the leverage to take over those countries. As an American living among Iranians during the 70s, the country was on it’s way to become like Turkey is today. Carter was weak, and while Reagan was busy with the USSR, had he been more aggressive in the middle east, there wouldn’t be the problems their that exist today.

One of our biggest mistakes was placating Saudi Arabia. By giving them a favored status, it gave Iran and Iraq extremists the leverage to take over those countries.

]]> By: Doug http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2009/12/totalitarians-catching-up-to-the-internet.html/comment-page-1#comment-30461 Doug Thu, 03 Dec 2009 07:00:06 +0000 http://www.coyoteblog.com/?p=9884#comment-30461 That's right, appeasement and saying nothing bad about Iran is the way to go. They'll just stop their meanness and become good neighbors. That’s right, appeasement and saying nothing bad about Iran is the way to go. They’ll just stop their meanness and become good neighbors.

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