Sacramento Iran Demonstrations
Well yesterday I unfortunately missed a gathering of all the Persians in the Sacramento area. However, today I was fortunate enough to attend one at the capitol building.
What a site. Everywhere I looked I saw shir-o-khorshid flags, pro-democracy/anti-theocracy banners, and heard chants of death to khamenei,mullahs,ahmadinejad etc etc. However, there were two groups of people in this demonstration. There were the pro-democracy,free Iran group who support regime change. Then there were the Mousavi supporters,who came from the university of Davis, who couldnt care less about regime change, but had the nerve to sing the traditional national anthem.
These people were preventing others from taking pictures, and even telling people who were carrying the true flag of Iran to pretty much fuck off. I was there with some relatives, and we could just tell their leader was a IR sympathizer. Especially when he was yelling at people carrying the shir-o-khorshid flags to leave and not take pictures.
America is a democracy, its a free country. We all know that. However, why are these people scared of having their pictures taken? Why are they afraid at all? Isn’t the point of a demonstration to show that you are not afraid?
Believe me a lot of people there were upset that these people have caused this much division within the Iranian community in Sacramento. I’ve also heard that the same situation happened in LA not to long ago. That fact that Iranians in the West are this dumb, and misinformed about things is sad.
They see millions of people fighting with guards and security in Iran, and they think that all this is just so Mousavi can become president in an already fucked up system. Yeah..right.
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What do you want PMOI, the ‘great’ Shah, ethnic federalists, communists? ^-^
Why are you so quick to assume that I am implying that we bring the Shah back or w/e?
I’m saying that this uprising isn’t just about Mousavi becoming president, and people getting their votes. Its way more than that. Mousavi is a figurehead, he is a means and, for lack of a better term, an excuse for the people of Iran to speak out against the current government system. My problem with these people from the Sacramento demonstration today is that they think that this is all about Mousavi, and not about regime change, freedom, democracy etc etc.
This election was the last straw for everyone, and you can see it in the various youtube videos that are straight from the cell phones of those who are in the streets.
However, whatever the case I hope the best of those who might attend the rally(s) today.
Ok, sorry. Thanks for the update. It’s more clear now. I btw see a lot of twitter accounts pretend to be posting from Tehran. Hard to check if the people are really in Iran.
Mideast Youth: Sacramento Iran Demonstrations http://tinyurl.com/mnq6tg