Archive for June, 2009
Mr. President, You Must Support the Iranians
As we watch so many young Iranians being beaten in the streets and teenager Neda gunned down by a government sniper, asking for freedom as we have it, we are forced to say, “Mr. President your actions in favor of these people is not enough.” The scenes are so reminiscent of Tiananmen Square in China 20 years ago when George Bush withheld his hand and the future leaders of a free China were similarly beaten and killed. Both countries have been defined as enemies in their time and each could now be free with non-military encouragement.
In the specific case of Iran the people have clearly “re-voted” in the streets when their ballot vote was denied, and their having protest signs in English is an obvious attempt to appeal to the West for support. Moreover, they are using facebook and twitter to send video clips in English so current information can be available to us. Can you not see that you can accomplish what your predecessor George W. Bush could not, by his secretive and unconstitutional regime change ploys, without firing a shot and have the goodwill of the next generation of Iranians also? Iran will become a nuclear power. Would it not be better to have such power in friendly hands?
Tiananmen Square “We Want Liberty Too”
By Dr. Harold Pease
Twenty years ago June 4, thousands of students gathered at Tiananmen Square to oppose socialism. Using a copy of the Statue of Liberty they created to symbolize their bid for freedom over 2,000 stood as Patrick Henry had years before with his, “give me liberty or give me death.” No one in history symbolized this more powerfully than the brave student who stood in front of the line of incoming tanks offering the only thing left to him, his body. The Chinese government continues to tell us nothing of this man. Eventually over one million demonstrated in the streets of China in support of the nations bid for freedom.
Led by the student intellectuals from the universities, the group supposed to be the base of future communism rule, it caught the existing socialist government leaders completely by surprise. Paralyzed for seven weeks-how could they destroy their future socialist base?-the decision was made by the Old guard. In the middle of the night a tank drove through the Square of demonstrators at full speed crushing to death hundreds under its massive wheels. It was followed by indiscriminate gunfire and other incoming tanks and thousands were wounded or killed.