Where is their vote?

[Dia]

"Sister, have a short sleep, your last dream be sweet." Yesterday we printed a touching letter from an Iranian woman that began with these ominous lines: "I will participate in the demonstrations tomorrow. Maybe they will turn violent. Maybe I will be one of the people who is going to get killed..."

Tonight, she posted a second letter, passed along and translated by two readers. She writes about her "sister" in this cause who was killed today, referring to Neda.

Yesterday I wrote a note, with the subject line "tomorrow is a great day perhaps tomorrow I'll be killed." I'm here to let you know I'm alive but my sister was killed...


I'm here to tell you my sister died while in her father's hands
I'm here to tell you my sister had big dreams...
I'm here to tell you my sister who died was a decent person... and like me yearned for a day when her hair would be swept by the wind... and like me read "Forough" [Forough Farrokhzad]... and longed to live free and equal... and she longed to hold her head up and announce, "I'm Iranian"... and she longed to one day fall in love to a man with a shaggy hair... and she longed for a daughter to braid her hair and sing lullaby by her crib...

my sister died from not having life... my sister died as injustice has no end... my sister died since she loved life too much... and my sister died since she lovingly cared for people...

my loving sister, I wish you had closed your eyes when your time had come... the very end of your last glance burns my soul....

sister have a short sleep. your last dream be sweet.

Warning - Very graphic images at link below of a woman at the protests. Very upsetting.

A young girl dies by gunshot ? درگیری*های تهران ? کشتن یک دختر جوان توسط بسیجی ها ? Iran news and images

more:
Iran Updates (VIDEO): Live-Blogging The Uprising

The Green Brief 3 - NiteOwl - Why We Protest - IRAN


puts lots in perspective for me.

 

[Dia]

 

[steyou]

This is truely remarkable to me. Compare the cowardness of the masked terrorist to the young and old people of Iran fighting for their liberty and a real change for their country. While engaging in the fight they choose not to cover their faces. WOW. Makes turtle lady seem trivial.

 

[wrobert]

This is truely remarkable to me. Compare the cowardness of the masked terrorist to the young and old people of Iran fighting for their liberty and a real change for their country. While engaging in the fight they choose not to cover their faces. WOW. Makes turtle lady seem trivial.

It certainly does. I wonder how someone might help these people in their quest for freedom.

 

[hnooe]

It is funny--when freedom, democracy, or democratic thought evolves from "need,"i.e., the Iranians needs, not OUR needs or OUR take on things. Then, it would follow that we have then created more of an evolving, permanent shift toward many of the very things we as a country we found out well over 200 years ago, and are now being discovered by the Iranians, albeit slowly.

What is transpiring there now is REAL "shock and awe!"

 

[Dia]

If you're on Twitter, set your location to Tehran & your time zone to GMT +3.30. Iranian security forces are hunting for bloggers using location/timezone searches. The more people at this location, the more of a logjam it creates for forces trying to shut down Iranians' access to the internet. Cut & Paste & Pass it on Revolution/Revolucion !

 

[Dia]

Young students die in Iran by BASIJIS gun fire. And, if they make it to the hospital, they are being arrested. These things are happening right now & are quickly being uploaded to the internet & virally (twitter is one of the places) shared worldwide.

Graphic video

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npdISZUtdmU"]YouTube - Injured young students die in Iran by BASIJIS[/ame]


http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2009/jun/22/iran-ayatollah-ali-khamenei

 

[Lynnie]

Freedom is an innate 'emotion' that most people desire. While I am certainly not pleased with the violence in Iran with these protests and demonstrations, the people are expressing their desires to be heard! I am proud of them. And, my heart breaks for the family of the young girl who was shot as well as others who are injured or killed. The blessing is that her death was evidently very quick.

C2F, you are obviously impassioned about this......please continue posting! And, thank you!

 

[BeachSteelers]

My deepest Apoligies to the Iranian people for the lack of support by our President. When we stop helping others who yearn for the freedom that we take for granted then it's no wonder brutual regimes continue to florish. I suspect that with our last 3 elections rigged and corrupted then obviously it wouldn't be prudent to point out other Countries fixed elections.
Dead people voting, more vote in 50+ cities than eligible voters. Sounds like our elections!
Did Acorn set up shop in Iran?

 

[scooterbug44]

We are helping them by not getting involved - the US taking a backseat and letting other countries speak out and the democratic process to run its course is the BEST thing we can do.

We get involved and it is seen as the US once again interfering in the Middle East.

From what I am seeing, there is no way this ends w/o major changes in Iran.