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Originally Posted by jOHN rODRIGUEZ
I'd make a joke here, as I do to keep discussions from raging into something they're not, but I'll maintain.
I still stand by all I've said.
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Yeah....I remember when stuff like this CNN video was happening in the US in 2004. Oh wait, no I don't.
But
this sounds like a description of the US in 2004...
TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Security forces wielding clubs and firing weapons beat back demonstrators who flocked to a Tehran square Wednesday to continue protests, with one witness saying security forces beat people like "animals."
At least two sources described wild and violent conditions at a part of Tehran where protesters had planned to demonstrate.
"They were waiting for us," the source said. "They all have guns and riot uniforms. It was like a mouse trap."
"I see many people with broken arms, legs, heads -- blood everywhere -- pepper gas like war," the source said.
About "500 thugs" with clubs came out of a mosque and attacked people in the square, another source said.
The security forces were "beating women madly" and "killing people like hell," the source said.
"They beat up a woman so bad, she was all bloody," the source said in a description that underscores the growing and central role of women in the uprising.
Oh wait, no it doesn't.
What's going on in Iran, to me, looks to be headed towards flat-out revolution. The horrifically violent crackdowns don't seem to be doing anything to stop protests, only solidifying opposition. I'd be posting more in this thread, but all I can seem to do is just sit and try to soak in everything that's happening there. It's absolute craziness. As I mentioned before, I just wonder how much of this police state behavior would have been hidden to the world had it happened just a few years ago, before it was so easy for individuals to spread videos, photos and messages around the planet.