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An Open Letter to the Iranian People
From a Sympathetic American by Alan Bisbort
We are all Iranians now.
We know your election was rigged. We know who was responsible, because it felt so familiar to us.
We know that the right-wing fanatics in your country are afraid of change. They are afraid of real freedom, afraid of open government.
We know you dont want Ahmadinejad as your president. We know what its like to have a president installed rather than elected.
We know the vote count was held in secret, in a back room, with no witnesses. We know that the will of the people has been thwarted. We know exactly how that feels.
We know that the right-wing fanatics in our country could not be happier with the results of your election, at least as they stand now.
They love having Ahmadinejad in power, so they can use him to demonize all Iranian people. Ahmadinejad is the answer to their prayers.
They love to hate, and who better to hate than someone who can hate back with such intensity?
For eight years, we lived without legitimate leadership in our nation, after our highest court, packed with partisan hacks, voted to suspend a fair, complete and open count of the votes and install a man who lost the election by half a million votes.
For eight years, we woke up to that bastardization of our democracy. Eight years of waking up feeling sick to our stomachs at the violations being done to our Constitution, eight years in which we lived a lie. And every day that lie was nurtured with more lies, lies from our political leaders, lies from our free press, lies from our Holy men and lecture halls and TV screens and movies screens and shopping malls and magazines.
We were terrorized with lies. But we did nothing about it. Oh sure, a few of us marched, a few of us wrote columns for weekly alternative papers in out of the way cities or we blogged about it. We vented to each other, we preached to the choir. We wrote our corporate-owned Congress people, our Representatives and Senators. And, guess what?
NOT ONE DAMN THING WAS DONE ABOUT THE BIG LIE OF OUR ELECTION!
In fact, the illegitimate government that we allowed to remain in power actually got stronger during those long eight years,
leaving us in the end powerless to hold it accountable.
To assure that the leaders of that government would face no consequences, these illegitimate rulers looted our Treasury, compromised our Justice Department and led us into a war that should never have taken place, a war that has now lasted twice as long as our participation in World War II. And we are stuck there, paralyzed by our debt and the continuing lie that we should just move on. To where?
It is, therefore, perhaps insultingly easy for me to encourage you, the Iranian people, to do what we did not do. That is, to do something about what has happened to you in the past three days.
The illegitimate government of Ahmadinejad will respond with violence against its own people and some innocent people will no doubt be killed. But this will happen regardless of whether you do anything or not. Violence is all that an illegitimate government knows how to do, even ones like yours that profess to have the backing of religious leaders and holy writings.
We know that you love your children as much as we love ours, that you want peace and tolerance between our two nations. I hope one day when our political nightmares are over that we can meet and shake hands.
Our hopes go with you.
Good luck.
Alan Bisbort
And why did Bush & Cheney steal power?
So they could empty the Treasury, rape the Constitution
and steal trillions from Wall Street and the Housing market.
Its almost funny how similar our right-wing fanatics are to your right-wing fanatics. That is, it would be funny if it werent ultimately so tragic. For both our nations.
From a Sympathetic American by Alan Bisbort
We are all Iranians now.
We know your election was rigged. We know who was responsible, because it felt so familiar to us.
We know that the right-wing fanatics in your country are afraid of change. They are afraid of real freedom, afraid of open government.
We know you dont want Ahmadinejad as your president. We know what its like to have a president installed rather than elected.
We know the vote count was held in secret, in a back room, with no witnesses. We know that the will of the people has been thwarted. We know exactly how that feels.
We know that the right-wing fanatics in our country could not be happier with the results of your election, at least as they stand now.
They love having Ahmadinejad in power, so they can use him to demonize all Iranian people. Ahmadinejad is the answer to their prayers.
They love to hate, and who better to hate than someone who can hate back with such intensity?
For eight years, we lived without legitimate leadership in our nation, after our highest court, packed with partisan hacks, voted to suspend a fair, complete and open count of the votes and install a man who lost the election by half a million votes.
For eight years, we woke up to that bastardization of our democracy. Eight years of waking up feeling sick to our stomachs at the violations being done to our Constitution, eight years in which we lived a lie. And every day that lie was nurtured with more lies, lies from our political leaders, lies from our free press, lies from our Holy men and lecture halls and TV screens and movies screens and shopping malls and magazines.
We were terrorized with lies. But we did nothing about it. Oh sure, a few of us marched, a few of us wrote columns for weekly alternative papers in out of the way cities or we blogged about it. We vented to each other, we preached to the choir. We wrote our corporate-owned Congress people, our Representatives and Senators. And, guess what?
NOT ONE DAMN THING WAS DONE ABOUT THE BIG LIE OF OUR ELECTION!
In fact, the illegitimate government that we allowed to remain in power actually got stronger during those long eight years,
leaving us in the end powerless to hold it accountable.
To assure that the leaders of that government would face no consequences, these illegitimate rulers looted our Treasury, compromised our Justice Department and led us into a war that should never have taken place, a war that has now lasted twice as long as our participation in World War II. And we are stuck there, paralyzed by our debt and the continuing lie that we should just move on. To where?
It is, therefore, perhaps insultingly easy for me to encourage you, the Iranian people, to do what we did not do. That is, to do something about what has happened to you in the past three days.
The illegitimate government of Ahmadinejad will respond with violence against its own people and some innocent people will no doubt be killed. But this will happen regardless of whether you do anything or not. Violence is all that an illegitimate government knows how to do, even ones like yours that profess to have the backing of religious leaders and holy writings.
We know that you love your children as much as we love ours, that you want peace and tolerance between our two nations. I hope one day when our political nightmares are over that we can meet and shake hands.
Our hopes go with you.
Good luck.
Alan Bisbort
And why did Bush & Cheney steal power?
So they could empty the Treasury, rape the Constitution
and steal trillions from Wall Street and the Housing market.
Its almost funny how similar our right-wing fanatics are to your right-wing fanatics. That is, it would be funny if it werent ultimately so tragic. For both our nations.
