Free At Last, Free At Last, Thank God Almighty, They Are Free At Last!
America just voted the FIRST ever black president into the White House, but as we see in the reactions of the people from all over the world, Barack Obama is not only the president elect of the United States of America, he is identified as the President of the World!
Why? Because not only African Americans and every single person in the world who knows anything about America's Civil Rights struggles of the 1960s see in him the realization of Martin Luther King's DREAM, not only the entire population of the African continent see in him the vindication of their ancestors who were treated as subhuman possessions of the White English "gentlemen" savagely stealing and taking them to the New World as slaves, but also because almost ALL Muslims (the ordinary, God fearing, moderate Muslims who have no terrorism on their minds) identify with Obama and call him "One of Us"!!!!!
Simply by electing Barack Hussein Obama, America has just closed up all terrorist recruiting shops for AlQaeda, and ALSO, it empowered freedom seeking, pro-democracy reformists in Iran to stand up to the likes of Ahmadinejad!!!!
Contrary to what most anti-Obama Republicans tried to do by scaring the American people of this great man's middle-name, it is PRECISELY due to his Muslim roots and his middle-name that actually the world's extremist, fundamentalist, radical hate-mongers who don't even make up 0.1% of the Muslim world's population of 1 billion, will NOW have no leverage or credibility with their anti-American rhetoric!
Why? Because NOW the uneducated Muslim masses (who are very similar to the HATEFUL uneducated racist masses in America's deep south, among them 2 neo-Nazis who actually tried to assassinate him), the ones who have bought their leaders' nonsense about the dysfunctional nature of Western Democracy, can just point to America's PROOF (i.e., Obama's victory) to the contrary NOW and say: "but if that's NOT really a democracy, then how could a black man with a Muslim middle-name get elected to the highest office?"
This is a historic moment not only for Americans, not only for African Americans, not only for minorities in the United States of America, but for every SINGLE Human Being all over the world who EVER had a dream, ever dreamed of one day tasting the sweetness of Justice and Freedom, and every single person who has ever had the Audacity to Hope for a better tomorrow!
I for one (a Persian Canadian "Citizen of the World"), in the morning after that HISTORIC night, when I woke up on November 5th, in a +15 degrees Celsius Spring-like weather (not a normal occurrence in Canada!!!!!!!), had ONE song playing over and over again in my head, and that's the song that I remember (as a 9 year old wide-eyed exuberant kid, watching the beginning of the formation of a brand new Republic on the FIRST ever Referendum Day in Iran of 1979) being played on the radio, the song that our entire nation was singing all day long on that glorious day:
Doctor Mohammad-e Mossadegh, Mossadegh, mobaarez-e bozorg, Mossadegh, mobaarez-e bozorg! dar bahaar-e azaadi, jaaye Mossadegh khaali, jaaye Mossadegh khaali!
I guess my subconscious went back to that song because I was thinking about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and how the Americans must be missing him now! So, I started to sing that same melody with these words:
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Dr. King, revolutionary man, Dr. King, revolutionary man! It is the "Spring of Freedom", we wish Dr. King was here, we wish Dr. King was here!
I really couldn't contain myself! I started imagining that today is the day that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s spirit up in heaven, together with the spirits of Mahatma Gandhi and Patrice Lumumba and John F. Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln and many many more heroes of HUMANITY, are all having a celebration up there with God Almighty!
Then I thought of our Iranian heroes and martyrs who must also be invited to that bash, like Amir Kabir, Dr. Mossadegh, Mohandess Bazargan, Dr. Shariati, Dr. Chamran, Ayatollah Taleghani, ..., and then I sighed, thinking sadly that probably it won't be too long before this group of heavenly angels will have other heroes like Nelson Mandela and Teddy Kennedy, and Grand Ayatollah Montazeri, and Dr. Ebrahim Yazdi joining them up there in that garden of Eden.
I'm glad President Mandela and Senator Kennedy have already gotten the recognition and honoring that they deserve from their people, but can Iranians be allowed to honor such revolutionary heroes as Dr. Yazdi and Ayatollah Montazeri before they leave us behind?!
November 5th 2008 is the day HOPE is born in the world, and I think it has the potential to be the day that Iranians' "Spring of Freedom" in 1979 finally gets a chance to breathe its fresh air into the wet soil of humanity and see flowers of FREEDOM bloom!
It can be the day the Iranian revolution can begin anew, to reform itself, to reorient itself in the direction that its martyrs and founding fathers had in mind, and the freedom loving people of Iran can start to HOPE that they can join their brothers and sisters around the world in screaming:
Yes We Can!
God Bless Barack Hussein Obama!
God Bless Seyyed Mohammad Khatami!
Long Live Freedom and Democracy for ALL!
Now, ...
In the spirit of seeking FREEDOM for Iranians, I would like to refine some of the predictions I made in my previous post here (about Iran's 10th presidential elections next June):
I still maintain that President Khatami will not nominate himself (because Iranians need him as their 3rd Supreme Leader one day), but also I still stand by what I read from that picture of him standing between Dr. Aref on one side and Dr. Zarif on the other! I still think he wants to endorse Dr. Aref as the Reformist candidate for presidency next year and recommend Dr. Zarif as his potential Foreign Minister. But what I would like to tell President Khatami is this:
Sir, I understand that in our Eastern culture, AGE and seniority is a very important virtue to be highly considered in all positions of power, which is why you will think of Dr. Aref or Dr. Kharrazi before you would ever recommend a 48 year old young man like Dr. Zarif for the job of president, but remember Dr. Martin Luther King's expression:
The Fierce Urgency of Now!
This was the reason Teddy Kennedy endorsed a 47 year old Barack Obama, and now that he is the leader of the FREE world, with whom Iran would like to one day have those "grand bargain" negotiations (about which you faxed George W. Bush in 2003), don't you think Iranians should send a counterpart who UNDERSTANDS America, understands the western culture PERFECTLY, is already considered by American politicians and scholars as "the MOST brilliant diplomat in the world", is called by western journalists "a suave looking Iranian who speaks with a flawless American accent", and has already made personal connections with President Obama's future cabinet members, such as Chuck Hagel? (the second picture in the page below)
http://american-iranian.org/multimedia/pictures/events/aic_june_25th_event/album0.html
Dear President Khatami,
PLEASE endorse Dr. Javad Zarif for president, PLEASE ask all your friends (like Mr. Rafsanjani and Karroubi and others) to endorse him, and make sure ALL Iranian voters know of the AMAZING service he has done to his country by saving Iran from the war mongering intentions of John Bolton, Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney who said on the eve of Iraq's invasion:
"Everybody wants to go to Baghdad, but REAL men want to go to Tehran"!
Dear Iranian Youth,
Let's start a grassroots online campaign for Dr. Zarif, (something like the www.barackobama.com) and URGE him to run, URGE the elder leaders of Iran's pro-democracy movement to endorse him, and organize the ground operations needed to get ALL Iranians on board and have them learn about who this great man is!
I wrote many blogs on my.barackobama.com over the past 21 months, and underneath them all I always wrote "Obama All The Way", I will now dedicate that slogan to Dr. Zarif!
Zarif All The Way!
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Just like you, many other Iranians living abroad are excited about Barak's election. I am hoping that this wave of freedom reach Iranian borders and free our nation of this infestation. However pardon me for being a little negative but realty sometime acts as a splash of cold water on the face. Iran is not ready for a "Barak". It took eight years of Bush's radicalism for Americans to look at a young and different person with odd name. Iran needs at least another four years of Ahmadinejad/ Mullahs Dictatorship to ripen enough for a revolution. If Iranians elect a moderate administration without a mandate then that will give these unelected mullahs time to regroup. I know Barak's election has caused this excitement for Freedom all over the world but to have a successful revolution the most important ingredient is "Timing". The other ingredient is a "Leader" and the third is "People Power”.
Dr Zarif is young and can wait for another four years. He will not have time to set camp and get young generation behind him in few months.
I am hoping for Ahmadinejad victory in the next election. I think he is not only a radicalism but also insane thus perfect for acting as the last nail in this Mullah dictatorship.
You certainly can't see the same degree of enthusiasm inside Iran. Besides, I'd like to remind you that Mr. Khatami stopped being president over 3 years ago. What I'm trying to say is, you can get emotional and write about your feelings, but I'd recommend sticking to a balanced tone and language, or at least using facts as facts.
On the Zarif front, the great diplomat as he is and we know it, he is virtually unknown within Iranian borders. If one is to take your advice and support Mr. Zarif, a huge amount of warm up will be required to make people get to know him. My only reservation would be if he is a capable man on otrher sides of the presidency job, rather than just international. For instance, how well does he know economy and security.
Dear Tehranologist, thank you for reading my blog and commenting on it. I just wanted to answer your sarcastic remark about Mr. Khatami not being the president for the past 3 years! don't we all know it??????!!!!!! :-(
Yes dear friend, the whole world is painfully aware of who currently is the president of Iran! but if you don't know this, let me tell you:
In the West, once you are elected president, you will forever be addressed as Mr. President (or Ms. President in the more progressive countries whose people have moved beyond sexism). That is why I addressed him as "Dear President Khatami", that's why I wrote "President Mandela", and that's why your dear current president will also be called "Mr. President" for the rest of his life wherever he goes!!!!! Now, was that wise for you people to give HIM that honor 3 years ago? well, I'm sure you'll find out the answer soon enough!
Please read this earlier blog-post of mine too, and you'll know what my hopes are for our dear "Man in a Chocolate Robe":
http://mrs-immanuel-kant.blogspot.com/2008/10/advice-to-freedom-loving-iranians.html
Allaho Akbar, Khatami Rahbar!
It is no mere coincidence that Democratic Party Republicrat, Barack Obama, had the unheard of amount of approximately 600 million dollars in his political campaign coffer compared with fellow Republican Party Republicrat, John McCain’s, approximately 100 million campaign coffer dollars. This fact alone should give some crucial insight into the despicable financial role played by corporations, and their outrageous, unacceptable, and massively inordinate amount of influence and control over the electoral system in this so-called democracy. Most of this money is blood money, based upon exploitation from the corporate Wall Street and military corporate elite. This fact alone gives yet another good indication as to what to expect under an Obama presidency. It is totally reprehensible and unacceptable and an utter mockery of democracy.
Voting for either candidate was an absurd vote of confidence perpetuating a system of indentured servitude, global slavery, murder and criminality.
Not ALL people caught up in this totalitarian dictatorship of fools are lazy and complacent or willing to accept a president Obama whose control is through globalization projects like the Council on Foreign Relations.
Your unwarranted and unfounded support of Obama is precisely what the elitists wanted with his election. The war on people of color in the Middle East will continue and escalate, economic depression and wealth transfer will continue and all the while you forget that these are the same people that executed Mossadegh, Kennedy, King and others.
While I realize you have the right to censor this comment and perhaps will exercise that right I still wanted you to read the reality. Your support of Obama is as shameful as support for McCain. People too easily forget history and at the same time fail to exercise their ability to research and investigate.
Try reading at GlobalResearch.ca or other non-mainstream sites to gain an accurate view of the person you've decided to worship so you aren't devastated when the killing, resource depletion, wealth transfer and abrogation of freedoms obviously continues.
j.prager@yahoo.com
To dekota1955,
Your points are well taken, this world is nothing but a f@@kup and we should end it now.
I wonder where we can find some massive amount of cyanide so the whole world could participate in a general suicide.
I don’t know why we really vote or why we volunteer in campaigns or give few dollars of our hard earned money to this democratic exercise? We all should ban election and let some rich prince or sheikh become our leader.
P.S, when are you running for an office so you can fix these worldwide problems?
Dear Dakota1955,
Thank you for your comment, but you were wrong about us "liberal elitists" being like radical conservatives when it comes to censorship of people's opinions!!!!! Of course I post your comment and will engage you in a conversation, because I actually believe in "Freedom of Expression"!!!!
It's apparent to me from reading your words that you dismiss me and talk to me in such a condescending way because in your eyes I'm just one of those "colored Middle Easterners" who can't possibly have the mental capacity to "exercise their ability to research and investigate", and so, you give yourself the right to politely call me ignorant!!!!
But you know dear Dakota1955, I'm not that prejudiced! I won't do the same to you! I will just inform you that Dr. Mossadegh was NOT "executed", he was betrayed in a Coup d'Etat orchestrated by the CIA in 1953 under President Eisenhower (a Republican), the same people who killed JFK, MLK, Bobby, and many more, but today not only Teddy Kennedy and the entire Kennedy clan, but even Eisenhower's own grand-daughter come out and in one voice call for "The Fierce Urgency of Now", not because they're all the same in their "evil plans of world domination" as you would have it sound like (you're probably a Ron Paul supporter), but because they have ALL realized FINALLY that it's time for a real CHANGE in their world view!
Of course America will look out for its own interests in the world, so will every other country, but there's a big difference between the Neocon's approach to getting what's best for America, and the Liberal's pragmatic view of the 21st century global village where unilateralism will no longer work! Thanks to George W Bush and Dick Cheney who proved it over the past 5 years by going to Iraq!!!
You are wrong Sir, but I would never give myself the audacity to call you an ignorant racist the way you called me an uneducated "colored Middle Easterner"!!!!
Dear Dakota 1955,
Based on recommendation I checked out GlobalResearch.ca to do some research on my own. Very good site but I always would like to know who’s sponsoring a site so I did more research on their site. One way to determine if this is a propaganda site or not is to try and find information on different countries. That is exactly what I did. I search under "Israel" and a bunch of bad stuff popped out. I search under "USA" and more bad stuff showed up. I search name "Iran" and the only article was about India and Iran deal. Then I went to section called "Women Rights" there I found all the bad things about Iraqi women, killing of Palestinian women by Israelis but nothing about how Iranian women are suffering under this Unelected Mullahs Dictatorship. Here is my question to you and this Global Unbiased Research group:
Do they know there is a country name Iran?
Do they know Iran execute children?
Do they know Iranian women go to jail for showing a strand of their hair?
Just wondering.
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