Thursday, November 5, 2009

Iranians are posting info on individual Riot police officers


Facing an increasingly brutal crackdown, and with no way to fight back, Iranian revolutionaries are fighting back by taking the battle to the individual riot police. The Green movement is posting photographs of the riot police officers as they beat up young demonstrators, most of whom are girls. What really caught my attention was that they also included the individual officers' name, rank, unit, as well as their home address and phone number.
This is their way of trying to hold their oppressors accountable. Some of the riot police officers can no longer go home and forget about their rough day at work anymore. Sooner or later they will have to answer for their actions to their families, neighbors, friends, and most likely future courts, if and when the regime is overthrown.
This revolution is evolving in many ways:
-When the government refused to grant permits for public gathering, the greens used government events to make their voice heard. The latest example was Nov.4 when they went to a government sanctioned anti-American demonstration, commemorating the hostage taking of American diplomats, to chant slogans asking the American president Obama to support them in their struggle against the anti-American Iranian regime. They walked over the picture of the supreme leader instead of walking over the american flag, as is customary in such events.
-When the government started using the online video footage to track down demonstrators, the Greens started taking clips showing the backs of people rather than filming while facing the demonstrators, many of whom now waring masking for good measure.
-When there was no opportunity to express dessent on state television, some brave soles confronted the leadership, including the supreme leader, in the government's own TV covered events and the government to task publicly. They held the regime accountable for its actions and oppression on state media, even if it was only for a moment to be censored later.
The future is now more unpredictable than ever but with the government squashing peaceful demonstrators it's a matter of time before some of these demonstrators decide to arm themselves and exercise whatever version of self defense they deem appropriate. We will then have a full blown civil war that will only end after much loss of life.
Lets hope this regime expires before this stage of the revolution.

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