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autorank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 12:47 PM Original message |
"Give me liberty ... " Iranian People Demand Democracy |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 01:07 PM Response to Original message |
1. On the one hand, I feel profoundly shamed. |
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AlphaCentauri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 01:42 PM Response to Reply #1 |
5. Do you think Twitter could start a revolution in the US? |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 01:54 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. Twitter offers that possibility. However one of the other big |
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AlphaCentauri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 07:41 PM Response to Reply #7 |
21. sadly some of the votes Obama got were from those whos ship was sinking |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 03:11 PM Response to Reply #5 |
12. I wouldn't count on any such possibility: a service like twitter will be very easy to shut down |
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AlphaCentauri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 07:47 PM Response to Reply #12 |
22. It would be interesting to see what the right wing elites that promote twitter |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 08:15 PM Response to Reply #22 |
24. A text-messaged left revolution will find itself with dead cellphones. A twittered |
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AlphaCentauri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-24-09 10:22 AM Response to Reply #24 |
30. Corporations control the government as in Iran the Ayatollah's do n/t |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-24-09 03:44 PM Response to Reply #12 |
32. Ihad not thought about that. But you are right. |
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autorank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 01:10 PM Response to Original message |
2. Iranian web sites / blogs |
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msedano (682 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 01:27 PM Response to Original message |
3. Such spontaneity signals |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 01:38 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. When people were out in force against Bush's Iraq war |
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msedano (682 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 02:21 PM Response to Reply #4 |
8. You have a point there... |
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formercia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 01:50 PM Response to Original message |
6. People who are slaves to debt cannot afford to revolt. |
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autorank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 05:05 PM Response to Reply #6 |
18. Sort of like "hitting bottonm" n/t |
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formercia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-24-09 07:49 AM Response to Reply #18 |
28. The Oligarchs have lost control |
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AntiFascist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 02:27 PM Response to Original message |
9. K&R n/t |
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autorank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 05:04 PM Response to Reply #9 |
17. Me |
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autorank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-24-09 09:02 PM Response to Reply #17 |
35. . |
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Me. (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 02:55 PM Response to Original message |
10. Here's What I Can't Figure Out |
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Kaleko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 05:11 PM Response to Reply #10 |
19. Yes, the brazenness with which these leaders flaunt their abuse |
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Hubert Flottz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 02:58 PM Response to Original message |
11. "Give me liberty" |
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autorank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 09:17 PM Response to Reply #11 |
26. It's a right that shouldn't be denied |
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Hubert Flottz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-24-09 10:15 AM Response to Reply #26 |
29. Dictators and Rough Riders can dish out the shock & awe |
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autorank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-24-09 09:02 PM Response to Reply #29 |
34. Are these guys nuts or what? |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 03:17 PM Response to Original message |
13. k&r |
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autorank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 09:43 PM Response to Reply #13 |
27. You're right about the smell. It's the vultures, vulcans, or others |
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ihavenobias (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 03:18 PM Response to Original message |
14. # 10. n/t |
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puebloknot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 04:40 PM Response to Original message |
15. "We, the People" can't seem to imagine that "those people" in Iran ... |
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autorank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 05:03 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Bears repeating |
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puebloknot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 05:23 PM Response to Reply #16 |
20. I keep feeling that this revolt is a mirror for America in which ... |
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autorank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 08:40 PM Response to Reply #20 |
25. I agree |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-24-09 03:45 PM Response to Reply #15 |
33. Good take on the situation. I think all of us are in awe. |
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Uncle Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 07:59 PM Response to Original message |
23. I believe this is the real deal; a popular uprising by the Iranian people. |
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autorank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-24-09 11:31 AM Response to Original message |
31. KR |
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