People have risked and lost their lives. We sit here and wish and throw our support. But, I am extremely apprehensive about all this. I pray that this movement is not silenced and put down by simply re-counting the votes or even re-doing the election. It will be the waste of every drop of blood and heart break of lost lives to settle for a different face of oppression. People have risen for freedom, for democracy and for human rights. It would be a total disaster if such expression of cry for freedom is lost for a soft spoken theocracy.
Those illusionists who think a secular democracy eventually will emerge from a soft-spoken theocracy are hallucinating. There is no such a thing as “democratic theocracy”. It is absolute nonsense. Therefore, to assume Iranian have succeeded if Mousavi is declared president is the greatest misconception in history.
I believe this movement will continue until a democratic government takes hold. The core of any democracy is separation of church and state. Therefore, this movement will succeed to abolish the sharia law and Velayate vaghih. My only concern is when would someone (or a group) emerge as the leader to funnel the momentum of the masses in the right direction. I feel confident that there are many young brave heros in Iran that will eventually emerge. We all need to keep an open eye for them and support them with all our beings.
There was a blog on this site by Mr. David ET (NIAC) casting votes about how US should behave with regard to current events in Iran. I believe United States should stay completely out of it at this stage of the development. If demonstrations continued and faced increasing beatings, arrests, imprisonment and murder, then US (and the rest of the world for that matter) should protest violation of human rights. However, if Iranian youth continued to stand up for freedom and willingly risked their lives and faced mass murder of the IRI, then US along with every living soul on earth should intervene and save the lives of freedom fighters.
Again, I only hope someone will soon emerge to lead our nation out of the grip of theocracy.
