Comments on: Iran’s Green Revolution Could Change the World

By: David W. Lincoln

David W. Lincoln — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:06:05 +0000

An addendum. I am in Canada, I will be sending that analysis to the Israeli, Japanese, and German embassies, as well as the British and Australian High Commands (some sort of british thing that acts like an embassy, but only between members of the British Commonwealth), in Ottawa.

So, for those in the United States, and elsewhere, would you parcel out amongst yourselves those embassies which would be most welcoming of the message.

Also, would appreciate guidance as to how many times each embassy should receive the analysis, so that in our exuberance, we do not kill the goose which laid the golden egg.

This is one way for us, outside of Iran, to aid those on the front lines, to take out the malignancy that has afflicted this world for far
too long.

Long may truth and freedom overlap!

By: David W. Lincoln

David W. Lincoln — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:22:58 +0000

Taking a look at Michael Ledeen’s most recent piece
here, he refers to Steve Schippert. The analysis is intriguing, and the Al-Arabiya news story (the first blue link) with the comments are astounding.

Asking BHO to consider to begin a human rights abuse case against his fellow traveller, I need a dinner jacket, is as forlorn, or bereft, of logic as asking a fox to guard a henhouse.

If anyone can get the word out to legislators outside of the United States, to follow up on that course of action, I have one question: why
are you waiting?

Time is of the essence, and there is no time like
the present.

http://threatswatch.org/rapidrecon/2009/06/regime-change-iran-movement-se/

Thank you.

By: David W. Lincoln

David W. Lincoln — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:14:53 +0000

From your lips, A.W. to God’s ears.

I came across this radio interview elsewhere:
http://live.radioamerica.org/loudwater/player.pl?name=wnd&url=http://feeds.radioamerica.org/podcast/DWP/audio/000007_010275.mp3

Needless to say, it is my conclusion that it is worth acting upon,

By: A.W.

A.W. — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:23:33 +0000

The more i read the more convinced i am that we would be crazy to let this opportunity go by. I don’t know why obama is so determined to squander this possibility.

the regime now is neither doomed nor guaranteed to survive. its all on a knife’s edge and really could go either way. i pray to God that the iranian people will soon enjoy their God-given right to freedom and democracy, and i hope the road to that freedom will be as bloodless as possible (and if the tree of liberty must be fed, let it be with the blood of tyrants more often than patriots). Let us hope Neda and all the other voices of iran will not have been silenced in vain.

By: David W. Lincoln

David W. Lincoln — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:16:18 +0000

My bad, the letter was about Selah Shehadeh, not Sheikh Yassin. Here is the letter, and I think it still is valid.

George Jonas does a very good job showing that democracies often get their hands dirty when dealing with those who use terror as a weapon, as in the case of Israel and the bomb it dropped on Hamas leader Salah Shehadeh (George Jonas column, Sharon Serves Notice, July 29).

Reinhard Heydrich, one of the top SS officials in Nazi Germany, responsible for the killing of thousands of Jews, was the Shehadeh of his day, and in a very good description in William Stevenson’s A Man called Intrepid, a detailed look is given of Heydrich’s assassination by British trained Czechoslovakian agents fighting the Nazis.

I say this because, it is just as true today as at any point of history — the arch-murderer’s actions finally caught up with them.

Even though innocents also lost their lives during the Nazi backlash following Heydrich’s killing, those who were living under the dark cloud of National Socialism gathered hope that it too would one day be brought to its knees.

BTW, the letter was written in July, 2002.

By: David W. Lincoln

David W. Lincoln — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:17:12 +0000

Mr. Samford, yes things are being done now. For instance, what Gert Wildeers is doing, as well as Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Walid Shoebat, Father Zakarias, Kamal Saleem, Wafa Sultan, Bat Yeor, et al, to expose the ugliness
of those who follow in the footsteps of Sheikh Yassin (onetime spiritual head of Hamas).

When Israel took him out, the National Post printed a letter to the editor
of mine that equated that action with the taking out of Heydrich.

Now, it is one thing to be killed for the witness of Christ, which was almost the fate of Joel Rahman in Afghanistan, but that is marginally better
than being a second class citizen in Malaysia, because one is not a Muslim.

I hear your frustration, and it is possible to deal with both of the matters
I raised above, but it is difficult to give equal bearing 24/7 to both. Sometimes it is possible to deal with the lack of equality, more easily. Other times it is easier to deal with those with blood on their hands.

One other thing, it is very easy to deal only with what is going on in North
America, Australia, and Europe. The rest of the world is seeing considerable growth in the church, and I dare say that that is where the future will be written, especially in the next 20 years.

I am in my mid 40s, and I expect a larger say from Africa, South America and Asia by then.

By: Bad Karma

Bad Karma — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:04:15 +0000

I have serious doubts concerning the “revolution”. It’s not that I don’t believe the citizens want “change”, but change from what? Exchanging the current president for one that also advocates violence against Israel, one of the founding members of Hezbollah. So where’s the change? If this “revolution” did not coicide with the elections, I may have put more creedence towards the people wanting to the country of the current government along with the mullahs. But that is not the case, these protests evolved out of Mousavi not being elected and the outcry of tainted votes and practices. Many of these things, quite frankly none of them have been covered at all by the media. Possibly the people used this opportunity (bogus elections) to move forward with vetting the entire government system. This I could go along with. I hold little faith in Barry supporting the “revolution” as well as this achieving much of anything at this point as the ideology regardless of outcome will still be in place.

By: John Samford

John Samford — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:42:08 +0000

Mr. Lincoln, I half agree. We are making progress against the “Radical Muslims”. Just as the west did in the 11th century and again in the 14th, 16, and 19th. We had them on the ropes in the 19th. European nations were squabbling over the choicest parts of the Ulmma. Sorta.
IIRC it was Gladstone who said, ‘Now we have Egypt. Don’t want it, don’t know what to do with it but we can’t give it back. Or maybe it was Earl Gray. Regardless, it was another few bricks to the load that was the “White Man’s burden”.
My points are that this war has been going on since Ol’ Mo came down out of the hills in the 7th century. Almost 1600 years now. By any objective measure the Muslims are winning. The reason why they are winning is they have a plan. That plan is called the Koran (Quran). It, among other things, divides the world into two houses, the house of Islam and the house of War.
So the distinction between ‘radical’ and ‘moderate’ is purely a western one. Muslims use it as what the Russians call a Maskarovia (sp?), or ruse of war. It is a major reason why the Muslims are winning.
Islam found out during the crusades that they cannot match Westerners (Europeans) on the battlefield unless the Europeans screw up by the numbers. So the Muslim learned to use guile and misdirection to defeat Europeans. This became even more important after gunpowder and critical after the ICE was introduced to the battlefield.
In the 21st century propaganda is a more powerful weapon then the ICE. Muslims are masters at it. That is why we ( the West) don’t have a lot of time left.
My great grandchildren will be answering prayer call if something isn’t done NOW.

By: Libertyship46

Libertyship46 — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:42:03 +0000

There have been few times in my lifetime when I have been ashamed to be an American, but this is one of them. For our own President NOT to come right out and support the Iranian demonstrators was a terrible mistake and it betrays everything this country is supposed to stand for. Face it, the mullahs are going to blame us no matter what we do, so we may as well stand with the demonstrators and give them our full support. What the mullahs don’t seem to understand is that Moussavi is almost irrelevant now. The killing has started and the bodies are piling up and the Iranian public has had enough of their oppressive, medieval, theocracy. It may not happen in the next few days, or even months, but the people of Iran have had enough of the mullahs and want a change. And once the mullahs lose the support of the people, trying to stop them is going to be like trying to stop the Berlin Wall from falling. This rebellion is just going to keep growing until it gets a charismatic leader and then that will be the end of the mullahs and their supporting thugs in the Revolutionary Guards. For the American President not to come right out and support this amazing act of courage on the part of the Iranian people is embarrassing and shows how cowardly this administration has become. The mullahs can threaten us with whatever they want, but it means nothing, nothing, if they are overthrown by their own people. We should be doing everything in our power to support this revolution because it doesn’t seem like their leaders can be much worse than what the mullahs are offering right now. If the revolutionaries win, then at least we could say that America supported them when it counted most. If the revolutionaries fail, then America and the Western European powers will have the moral authority to further isolate the despotic regime in Tehran. And the mullahs will NOT attack us in Iraq or Afghanistan if they know we can destroy their power base at home by supporting the revolutionaries with guns and money. We should be standing firmly against dictators and with the people who are fighting for their own chance at democracy. The best part about this is that, aside from moral support, America doesn’t need to do much of anything. This is the Iranian people’s fight and they are the ones who are goign to win it, just like the people of Eastern Europe overthrew their Soviet masters. Shame on President Obama for not being on the right side of history.

By: David W. Lincoln

David W. Lincoln — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:23:40 +0000

I came across this analysis at the Jerusalem Post:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1245184891821&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Needless to say, change is coming. For a prime contagion will have been removed.

Call it a vindication of the Sakharov doctrine: how a country treats its own citizens will be how other countries will be treated.

Change is coming, and those with the most fortitude and foresight will carry the short term, medium term, and long term futures.