Public Funerals
One way to assess a society's stand on individual freedom and cultural disposition is to examine how they conduct their public funerals and mornings. Watching the pictures from Iran's dissident Ayatollah Montazari funeral in Qom makes me wonder how even the so called "green" party and reformers view individual freedom. The pushing and shoving to either view the dead body or get close to it is symbolic of rank and file not really experiencing or ready to fully engage the hard work of freedom and democracy. The purely emotional showing indicates to me the lack of understanding what it takes to become an Islamic civil society in Iran.
The free Muslim citizenry will morn loss of the religion or national hero with come and reflection as opposed to pushing others to get to the body. The free individual will not violate the person next to them to express their sorrow or feelings. They will care more for the person next to them than Ayatollah or president so and so. They will file gently and pay their respect with dignity that the dead citizen deserves.
I do however noticed signs of that sort of approach to public morning also which makes me more hopeful for blossoming of an organic and native democratic principles based on Islam and cultures in Iran.
Monday, December 21, 2009
Thursday, November 05, 2009
Killings at Fort Hood
This sort of craziness is not good for rest of middle easterners in US. I expect if few more of these incidents occur we are up for some sort of general reaction (aka encampment) or mass exodus forced by the government on folks in lieu of indefinite imprisonment. Gitmo could be expanded to house more of the homegrown suspects or likely to act violently.
This guy being apparently second generation middle eastern makes this whole situation more complicated. The no fly list and watch list right now is mainly made up of green card and first generation immigrants. Now we can expect that the list will grow with US born suspects.
We the middle easterners may even find out how Japanese felt back in 40's. The problem is the more government stereotypes the lot the more these alienated bunch will act up their stupid and ill mined crazy actions. In another words the longer the no fly list and watch list gets the more shit will happen here.
Isn't that just dandi!!!
This sort of craziness is not good for rest of middle easterners in US. I expect if few more of these incidents occur we are up for some sort of general reaction (aka encampment) or mass exodus forced by the government on folks in lieu of indefinite imprisonment. Gitmo could be expanded to house more of the homegrown suspects or likely to act violently.
This guy being apparently second generation middle eastern makes this whole situation more complicated. The no fly list and watch list right now is mainly made up of green card and first generation immigrants. Now we can expect that the list will grow with US born suspects.
We the middle easterners may even find out how Japanese felt back in 40's. The problem is the more government stereotypes the lot the more these alienated bunch will act up their stupid and ill mined crazy actions. In another words the longer the no fly list and watch list gets the more shit will happen here.
Isn't that just dandi!!!
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Oh dear Me -- Here is the head news, how stupid they must think the average American person is?
New York Times - Karzai's brother is on CIA payroll and suspected to be involved with the opium trade.
Its amazing that same ways of so called wining a war like the Vietnam era are being followed to the tee. Is this all the smart Pentagon and West Point guys can come up with. Saddam did that all the time and other desperate regimes are doing that every day. They kill the ones they are afraid of and are not willing to sell themselves! Do they really think if someone forsakes his native land and sells his services to a foreign agent can be trusted?
I wonder if CIA is still paying Hamid Karzai, the president?
With this approach we are doomed and will have to in a short time pluck the last American from the US embassy in Kabul, does that look familiar?
What a waste of life and limited resources we have in this planet. Isn't there a UN law against recklessness and disregard to human spirit because you have the largest Army and bank account in the world?
New York Times - Karzai's brother is on CIA payroll and suspected to be involved with the opium trade.
Its amazing that same ways of so called wining a war like the Vietnam era are being followed to the tee. Is this all the smart Pentagon and West Point guys can come up with. Saddam did that all the time and other desperate regimes are doing that every day. They kill the ones they are afraid of and are not willing to sell themselves! Do they really think if someone forsakes his native land and sells his services to a foreign agent can be trusted?
I wonder if CIA is still paying Hamid Karzai, the president?
With this approach we are doomed and will have to in a short time pluck the last American from the US embassy in Kabul, does that look familiar?
What a waste of life and limited resources we have in this planet. Isn't there a UN law against recklessness and disregard to human spirit because you have the largest Army and bank account in the world?
Friday, October 16, 2009
Afghan Election
This whole so called democracy in Afghanistan seems fishy to me. The vote count and recount seem to go on forever. In some ways its reminiscent of the Iran election except the Supreme Leader in Afghanistan is not one person but the US government. I think after the election US perhaps decided that Krazai needs to go and they need new faces for US consumption. After all they are free!! The Abdolah Abdolah is by the way from the same team that came ( I bet he was even in the same US C30 plane) from US after American soldiers cleared Bagram.
I find this whole Iraq and Afghanistan democracy thing repulsive and sad. They are not free and everyone knows it, because if they were you would not see Karzai, Abdolad, Maleki,.... gang calling themselves "the elected". They very much remind me of early days of Ghazafi.
Supreme Ayatollah USA will have to keep installing leaders to secure the regime. We need regime change by the people of the area and for the people of the area. Obama is and will play the game since the "world control" board game was handed to him.
This whole so called democracy in Afghanistan seems fishy to me. The vote count and recount seem to go on forever. In some ways its reminiscent of the Iran election except the Supreme Leader in Afghanistan is not one person but the US government. I think after the election US perhaps decided that Krazai needs to go and they need new faces for US consumption. After all they are free!! The Abdolah Abdolah is by the way from the same team that came ( I bet he was even in the same US C30 plane) from US after American soldiers cleared Bagram.
I find this whole Iraq and Afghanistan democracy thing repulsive and sad. They are not free and everyone knows it, because if they were you would not see Karzai, Abdolad, Maleki,.... gang calling themselves "the elected". They very much remind me of early days of Ghazafi.
Supreme Ayatollah USA will have to keep installing leaders to secure the regime. We need regime change by the people of the area and for the people of the area. Obama is and will play the game since the "world control" board game was handed to him.
Friday, October 09, 2009
Friday, September 25, 2009
THE BEST IS YET TO COME
Let not forget the forgotten. The west with their violence are encouraging PATRIOTIC reaction. Vietcong were created by the actions of the west they did not exist before US took over the imperial presents from French. The more we the west deploy forces in the region the more profound resistance we will face, its natural and basic human response.
Let not forget the forgotten. The west with their violence are encouraging PATRIOTIC reaction. Vietcong were created by the actions of the west they did not exist before US took over the imperial presents from French. The more we the west deploy forces in the region the more profound resistance we will face, its natural and basic human response.
Monday, September 14, 2009
9/11 Again!
Pre 9/11 conditions related to Middle East have not changed a bit. The events that lead to that vicious attack are still being played out. Israel still occupies Palestine with tacit or direct support from US and West. Saudi, Egyptian, Jordanian, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait kings and unelected DICTATORS get red carpet treatment in US. We seem to have either intentionally or unavoidably have ignored all the indicators that 800 million people in Middle east are not getting voices heard.
Iraq is still and will continue to be a mess, don't fool yourselves in believing that Jeffersonian democracy and freedom has arrived in Baghdad on board Humvee. And about Afghanistan the guerrilla war will go on indefinitely or until like Vietnam US loses appetite and/or decides that pulling out will be better than staying in another words body counts out number number of so called "elections". The covert operations, unmanned drones, and psych ops will not do a thing they just make good news bites and articles for folks back home, nothing more.
Pakistan will also be yet another source of continued pain and suffering for all the players.
Solution - As said before NEED A VIABLE PALESTINIAN STATE and the rest will be done organically without West having to do anything other than cultivating the process.
Pre 9/11 conditions related to Middle East have not changed a bit. The events that lead to that vicious attack are still being played out. Israel still occupies Palestine with tacit or direct support from US and West. Saudi, Egyptian, Jordanian, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait kings and unelected DICTATORS get red carpet treatment in US. We seem to have either intentionally or unavoidably have ignored all the indicators that 800 million people in Middle east are not getting voices heard.
Iraq is still and will continue to be a mess, don't fool yourselves in believing that Jeffersonian democracy and freedom has arrived in Baghdad on board Humvee. And about Afghanistan the guerrilla war will go on indefinitely or until like Vietnam US loses appetite and/or decides that pulling out will be better than staying in another words body counts out number number of so called "elections". The covert operations, unmanned drones, and psych ops will not do a thing they just make good news bites and articles for folks back home, nothing more.
Pakistan will also be yet another source of continued pain and suffering for all the players.
Solution - As said before NEED A VIABLE PALESTINIAN STATE and the rest will be done organically without West having to do anything other than cultivating the process.
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