Portraits of Courage…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Scholl

Too bad it will stay here on a site that only had 1/3 the page views of the LA Times last month.

I’m not trying to diminish this Iranian’s protest, I just think it and shoe thrower are entirely unrelated incidents.

I dont think that is the point. The point is that a Bathist, who follows Sadr, is most likely a reprehensible human being, who is against supposedly everything the left stands for. Yet the left makes that pansy shoe thrower into a hero. Why, because he did something against Bush. It shows how the left will tolerate anyone, even if that person does not have anything to do with the lefts policies, as long as they hate Bush. Thats very juvenile.
Where as this iranian student, is extremely brave for speaking out against there dictators. Where he most certainly will be either jailed , if not disappear.

I can understand why. The latest “news” about our beloved leader’s choice in puppies drowned it out.

Wouldn’t want to broadcast anyone questioning an authority outside President Bush or pro-American countries.

Might send the wrong message. People might think it’s acceptable to question Beloved Leader.

What does that have to do with anything? Are you saying protests are only valid if you risk losing your life? If you think an action is wrong you should be against it whether or not it endangers you.

aengus on December 18, 2008 at 1:32 PM

Moral relativism strikes again.

One man discusses creating legislation because of his feelings. The other has men and women executed because of his feelings.

Are you seeing the difference? If not, then you have to look a little past the surface. Some protest true tyrants. others protest those who pose no real threat to them.

Our country is in very serious trouble. It is close to a catastrophe, the seeds of which have been sown in our public schools and universities.

Which took more guts — tossing shoes at President Bush in Iraq, or standing up to the mullahcracy in Iran?

…you nailed it…Mr. Bush wouldn’t retaliate…I don’t think you could say the same of the folks in Iran….

…so, the “journalist” turned pop-culture hero risked nothing but celebrity…the students risked a good licking at best, and beheading or hanging at worst…there’s no contest….

Better yet, aengus, I would like to see how you would have voted in the Iraqi elections when Saddam was still in power, openly marking your ballot while a soldier with a rifle is staring at you.

Bishop on December 18, 2008 at 1:40 PM

I would have cast a write-in vote for Tancredo.

I’m not trying to diminish this Iranian’s protest, I just think it and shoe thrower are entirely unrelated incidents.

If legal protests in free countries are trivial then why complain about about Obama and Democrats?

I would like to be as courageous as the Latvian priest who kissed his Bible in front of Soviet troops but even if I’m not faced with that scenario I’m still going to be against what I regard as evil.

If you think an action is wrong you should be against it whether or not it endangers you.

aengus on December 18, 2008 at 1:32 PM

Wrong? Well, the shoe throwing was only morally wrong in that it amounts to a minor assault, but ironically shows just how incorrect the shoe throwers message was.

Brainwashed or simply afraid? During the Great Terror many people in the Soviet Union would applaud for Stalin until their hands would practically bleed. Not because they loved him, but because the KGB was watching for any sign of disloyalty.

Disturb the Universe on December 18, 2008 at 1:36 PM

I’ve actually seen film footage showing that a bell had to be installed, in order to advise the audience that it was OK to stop clapping, and sit down. Absent the bell, they were afraid to stop clapping for Stalin.

Just think of what could happen on our college campuses, if the conservative students stood up to the Socialist professors en masse.

This student’s life was on the line, and he acted. I hope that American students will act, too.

The brave Iranian student is standing up to tyrants. The shoe-thrower is a tyrant, since he’s a former Ba’athist who then latched onto to the Sadr movement.

Has Leftist moral relativity reached the point that we’re now supposed to be concerned with the “protests” of tyrants?

Are you against the crimes being committed against the people of North Korea by their murderous, dictatorial regime? Why not head over to Pyongyang and announce it loud and clear under the towering statue of Great Leader?