To The Most Respectable and Honorable Citizens of Iran (Protests have started in Tehran, Feb 14)

[DrGee5]

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And so it has begun... Protests have started in Ferdowsi square. Choppers flying over Tehran. May Allah give them courage and strength.

[Uben]

1. What happens when it spreads to China?

Tianamen Square will be nothing to compared to what's coming. No doubt they will supress the people as long as they can, but technology is catching up to them quickly. Their people will revolt, it's just a matter of time.

[starroute]

4. China has a long history of popular uprisings

The Yellow Turban Rebellion of 184-205 AD was sparked by "an agrarian crisis, in which famine forced many farmers and former military settlers in the north to seek employment in the south, where large landowners exploited the labor surplus to amass large fortunes." According to Wikipedia "The government was widely regarded as corrupt and incapable and the famines and floods were seen as an indication that a decadent emperor had lost his mandate of heaven." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Turban_Rebellion)

There have been other uprisings since, but that one's the prototype -- and the Chinese have long memories. The government is as aware of this as anybody, but paradoxically, their attempts to stay in power by buying grain on the world markets is only likely to destabilize other marginal regimes.

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Analysis/Walker/2011/02/14/Walkers-World-The-new-Egypt-needs-food/UPI-21451297683420/?dailybrief

With world food prices hitting highs this month, the situation is about to get a deal worse thanks to the latest report of what the official Xinhua news agency says is China's worst drought for 60 years. Xinhua added that Shandong Province, the heartland of Chinese grain production, was facing its worst drought in 200 years unless serious rains come this month.

Reports from witnesses say the land is so dry from Beijing south through the provinces of Hebei, Henan and Shandong to Jiangsu province and Shanghai that trees and houses are coated with dust -- the topsoil that has blown off the drought-parched farmland. . . .

That is the real concern for the threatened regimes of the Arab world. Once China with its massive sayings of almost $3 trillion in cash starts to hit world food markets, few other countries are likely to be able to afford to import the grain needed to fend of riots and even starvation. Hungry people have little patience and few options and if the United States and Europe want events in Egypt to unfold in an orderly and peaceful manner, food supplies may be the key.

[leveymg]

2. Egypt is not Iran, Iran is not Egypt.

We saw the result of efforts at regime change in Iran last year. Not encouraging and counter-productive to the democracy movement.

[dotymed]

3. Will it spread to America?

We desperately need to rebel and retake our government. We have the largest wealth disparity in the world. Unless WE put an end to it, they will put an end (economically and further repressed) to us.
Yes, the "Class War" started at least thirty years ago. We are losing mainly because we have refused to "fight" (peacefully).
Our country is failing miserably, except the wealthy/ruling elite who make our "laws" that they refuse to abide by. Of course, the "enforcers" are mostly underpaid thugs who desperately want to belong to the ruling class. They do not stand a chance.
Even those who have sold out to become local politicians don't stand a chance to join the club of the rulers.... they think that by going along with the "steal from the poor and give to the wealthy" meme, like their masters do, they might join "them." lol...No way. You are the hired help.

[fasttense]

5. Americans need to know how President Obama will react to an Egypt style protest.

in his own country. The world needs to know. Will he send out the military like Herbert Hoover did? Will he stop the cops from beating protesters up? Will he listen? The world requires that Americans demand the same freedoms as the people of Iran and Egypt are fighting for.

We must march on DC for Economic Justice for All. We must do it soon. We need to do it for our country. We must do it for America.

We must do it for President Obama.

[dotymed]

8. Let's do it please.

Let's start organizing "Continental Congress'(?) in each state, determine the issues that must be redressed and revolt (peacefully). We can start a new (each day) post on DU, gathering ideas, etc... and start our peaceful revolution by mid-spring? I am just one man, together, we are the power...

[Moostache]

6. When the rich and the elites set aside the rule of law...

then it is time to no longer lend credence to their so-called "law".

If banksters believe that theft, fraud and larceny are no longer punishable by law; then why should I respect their right to security in their person and effects?

If Supreme Court Justices no longer believe that rules governing conflict of interest or fair payment of taxes owed apply to their highnesses, then why should I respect their right to life, liberty or the pursuit of happiness?

If former administration officials (including Presidents and Vice-Presidents) can admit, on the record, to ordering torture and the violation of the Geneva Conventions and UN Declaration of Human Rights, then why should I respect their rights to a fair and speedy trial?

Why not start turning to mob rule and communal justice if the "system" is no longer a servant of the law but instead is a servant of money and power?

The further we slide down this slippery slope - where I am held under threat of homelessness for not paying MY DEBTS, but the banks and government officials remain in bed to ensure THEIR DEBTS are not mandatory; where Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito can issue deciding votes on abortions of law like Citizens United on the one hand and fail to EVER recuse themselves from key decisions in the present (or future) on the other, where Bush and Cheney and their toads from "Justice Department" can go free even as our national economy tanks and our military readiness hits all time lows - I have begun to wonder at what point do we reach critical mass? AT what point do the majority of this nation, the 99% of us who are being royally screwed by the top 1% and their slavish minions, at what point do we rise up and say "THAT'S IT, GO TO YOUR ROOM!"

I have to be honest, I am leaning more and more and more towards an anarchist's view point when I see the laws of this land so blatantly flaunted without consequence for the "ruling elites" and can't help but notice a prison population of GREATER THAN 2 MILLION "AVERAGE" AMERICANS!!!! When the laws of the land no longer apply equally to all, then we have no justice.

[tavalon]

7. Wow

Just wow.