Saturday, September 19, 2009

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!

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