Drop By Drop They Coalesce, And Then Become A Sea

(The title is an Iranian proverb-my rendition)

We've all had the thought or the conversation: what needs to happen for this Green Wave to "overtop" the levee? What we've all acknowledged is the problem of truth-dissemination. When your unjustified adversary controls the means of communication, how do the far reaches of the country find out a storm is a foot? How can you increase the veracity of the wave, if the droplets are oblivious?

But what if your adversary was even more clueless? Wouldn't that be nice! In our thoughts and conversations, we've known that beyond the fact that the adversary is self-serving, greedy and brutal, it's also stupid. We've watched the brutal moron cling to it's self-create pedestal--with tooth and nail--and wondered how can this image be made known to all the droplets. Well, that problem seems to have been partially taken care of, thanks to the stupidity of the adversary.

The following is quoted from Iranproxy (via http://irannews88.blogspot.com/ )

Family friend from Tehran: As you know many people from villages & rural area were bussed into Tehran. Many if not most of these ppl had not really seen or heard anti-govt slogans. When they were in Ghods protest they were shock to see anti-govt things. Some of villagers then asked green ppl about election and what happened. Some of villagers said they would tell their ppl in villages about election fraud. So in this way having ppl from villages & talking to them was good. Now we know that green message will spread to villages even more now. They will tell their friend & family in villages and news will spread.

The regime's whole effort has been to suppress and contain the truth. But its tactic of busing thousands in to Tehran to drown out the truth has lead to the dissemination of that very truth. Are we surprised that the villagers didn't know anything about the uprising? No. Are we hopeful that these rural droplets will coalesce in to a wave. You betcha!

Where In The World Is Taraneh Mousavi?

First watch the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHukHr-OFNo

Apart from the obvious unbelievable "fact", that in the whole of Iran, there are only 3 Taraneh Mousavis, the Iranian government's propaganda machine's ineptitude actually causes me to think the rumor is true; even if it isn't.
This is the supposed interview with Taraneh Mouavi's mother and sister, in which they say that the picture is of their daughter who is living in Vancouver, Canada. Prior to the interview, the man said: They searched the whole "sapte ahvaal" of Iran, and found only 3 Tareneh Mousavis . One born in 63 in Paris and living there; a 40 year old, and a 2 year old. This begs at least 4 questions:

FIRST: They only claim the existence of three, so what about the Tareneh they are referring to? With her, it would make four. Because the Paris born one must be registered for them to find out about her, and they mentioned her as one of the three.

SECOND: Why did they not find the Taraneh Mousavi, who is the object of this report?

THIRD: If they couldn't find her, how did they find her family, if she wasn't in "Sapte Ahvaal"?

FOURTH: How stupid do they think we are? We know how stupid they are; they can't even count: three plus one makes three.

Wait a minute; hold the presses...!

How come I've not been paid? Who do I have to complain to?
Since I'm working for the West, which entity in the West is responsible to pay me for my tireless work on their behalf. I've expended a lot of energy disseminating news, and fomenting dissent in Iran through my one contact there. I've actually made up a whole bunch of lies, doctored pictures, spent hours on Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, twisting reality to make it look like Ahmadinejad stole the election. Also, since I had no clue about politics before this, and took it upon myself to jump in to the fray on behalf of the West, it meant additional time brushing up on the ways of covert operations. I mean I had to figure out how Twitter works--no simple feat in itself. This all takes a lot of time. Who's going to pay me for all this?

http://www.stumbleupon.com/s/#20llo6/www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1915399,00.html/

If you think, like me, that we should be compensated, please sign my petition, and yes, you will be anonymous. Have fun:

http://www.petitiononline.com/want2Bpd/petition.html

I should have added

A Bosnian talking about the siege of Sarajevo once said:
"...the future has to be plausable;...reality has no such constraints."

And a feminist proverb of indeterminate origin says "only she who attempts the absurd, achieves the impossible"

These are the words I focus on as we march, Always Forward.

I suppose, I'll explain the title first. After the Iran 2009 election, "Always Forward" crept in to my e-mails, as a salutation, encouraging recipients to forward, and disseminate the information (both ways: in and out of Iran). Then, it occurred to me, Always Forward was also a subliminal message, put out in to the Ethernet, urging the movement; wishing it a long.
I've finally figured how this Blogging works. This is my fourth foray, but now I have it. I inadvertently, started three or four other blogs. But I didn't mean to do that. I wanted one place to collect my thoughts. I posted my first blog after the start of the uprising, but they are scattered. This will be where I will start, and may copy & paste the others, here, later.

I just came across a link to a document. It shows how a Basiji gets paid bonuses for presenting himself at various venues. In other words, his loyalty is bought.
http://payaneshab.blogspot.com/2009/08/blog-post_2571.html

I can't help but comment.

When you impose poverty--both spiritually and materially, you remove volition, and direction; so things can just stay the same.
Between choosing to feed his family or not, what do you think a Basiji is apt to do? That's an easy decision for him. Make it hard.

One way would be to cause him to lose face (aaberoyash beravad). Have him have to explain himself to neighbors, family, friends. It wont take much for people to shun someone who could have beaten a loved one. I've already read how, for some Basiji's life at home has become difficult. If those who know the Basiji, for instance, somehow mark the houses, and others just ignore, and shun them, then immediate family and friend will feel it and know. But it can't be overt. It has to be subtle. Maybe neighbors pile their garbage in front of the Basiji's house. So people passing by, will know. I'm sure those in the trenches will have much better ideas. For every Basiji shamed in to hitting less hard, and holding on less tight, and aiming less accurately, will mean one protester gets away. I don't think this will do much to soften the heart of higher ups though. But they are not the ones, wielding the "batoms", and taking aim.

I'll close by quoting something by Leonard Cohen (not vetted) via Twitter: "There is a crack; a crack is everything. That's how the light gets in."