Comments on: “Now, please”

By: CERDIP

CERDIP — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 03:41:49 +0000

Please excuse the OT intrusion. The daughter of an associate has gone missing in Covina, California. Any help or news would obviously be greatly appreciated. Photo and contact info here Thanks for your attention.

By: Howard Beale

Howard Beale — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 03:20:44 +0000

Hey Mr. Simon:

Can you please ask Michael Ledeen if his SISMI buddies helped tip the Papacy towards Ratzinger through intereferece, aided by eavesdropping via the ‘cellphone scrambling platform’ installed in the Sistine Chapel?

By: triticale

triticale — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 03:11:15 +0000

The chemistry requires, however, a supersaturated solution for the seed to have an effect. If the solution is too weak, the seed itself may dissolve.

Note that I do not claim to know how these details alter the analogy.

By: charlotte

charlotte — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 03:01:11 +0000

Good chemistry, richard!

By: richard mcenroe

richard mcenroe — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 01:17:26 +0000

Modern communications is the seed that crystallizes the solution of popular movements. When people saw the men and women of Iraq and Afghanistan marching defiantly to the voting booth, they realized they were no longer alone in the resentment of tyranny.

By: Charlie (Colorado)

Charlie (Colorado) — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 00:38:40 +0000

The truth is the most dangerous thing for the Tyrant other than a hangman’s noose or a bullet in the head.

No, truth is worse. A bullet just kills one tyrant: truth and liberty can kill a tyranny.

By: Rick Ballard

Rick Ballard — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 20:41:50 +0000

Otter,

When Jimmah and the Senocrats gave the OK to Khomeini’s Revolutionary Guard to put down our ally the Shah the Revolutionary Guard had guns and had shown a willingness to use them.

W has issued a promise to “stand by those who seek democracy” – he hasn’t issued a promise to plant the seed which if properly watered, fertilized (blood of patriots), and nurtured will grow into the tree of liberty. The mad mullahs have the guns and the will. The ‘tipping point’ will come when the Iranians get out and start dying for liberty, not before. I don’t mind the US giving all aid possible, including fighting alongside Iranians seeking freedom but I’m damned if I’ll support spending US blood and treasure to hand Iranians a nice tidy package of democracy to open when and if they feel like it.

If Iranians really want liberty then let them start fighting and dying for it. I’ll start believing them when I read about the fear of the mullahs, not before.

By: Otter

Otter — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 19:35:39 +0000

That dramatic tipping point is now very close in China, Iran, and North Korea.

I certainly hope so, but after several hundred Ledeen predictions of imminent revolution in Iran, my faith in his prognostication is waning.

By: Bruce W.

Bruce W. — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 19:35:21 +0000

Although they wouldn’t know about it sufficiently without the internet, at least as important as the flow of truth into these regimes about their own governments’ wrongdoings is the truth about the changed course and the real commitment of the U.S. in supporting the freedom of others.

To borrow his pappy’s phrase, I pray that W “stays the course”.

By: Don Singleton

Don Singleton — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 18:43:09 +0000

I did not see a TrackBack, but my response is at http://donsingleton.blogspot.com/2005/04/revolution-continues.html