No Laugh Track.
Tehran TV via LA source shows the Minister of Intelligence explaining to the Charlie Rose of the Twelvers how he is certain the election was not stolen by the regime he works for. Proof? Mullah Stooge says that if the ballots were phony, they would be all neat and pressed and flat, as if just out of the box. Mullah Stooge is adamant. Charlie Twelver Rose nods at this shrewd detail. Final frames on clip are shots of the boys recounting 10% of the ballots in order to demonstrate to the TV audience that all was well. Note how the ballots are flat and pressed and just out of the box. No laugh track, but the music is delightful.
Confessions Continue.
The NYT, heretofore supporting POTUS aim to make a peace partner of Tehran, is boxed in to the necessity of reporting that the Twelvers are torturing prisoners (nothing as cruel as waterboarding, merely beatings, cigarette burns, and sleep deprivation and remarks about what happens to your family after you vanish) in order to make them confess on TV.
Confess What?
Confess that they were lured out of Iran to Velvet Revolution training seminars conducted by foreign powers in order to undermine the Revolution. The confessions are said to be creative. The regime's trendy web sites are the source:
"Alef, a Web site of a conservative member of Parliament, referred to a video of Mohammad Ali Abtahi, who served as vice president in the reform government of former President Mohammed Khatami, as showing that he tearfully "welcomed being defrocked and has confessed to provoking people, causing tension and creating media chaos."
This theater will drag on for weeks. The executions started already with a posse of so-called drug smugglers in the north of the country. One man's drug smuggler is another man's student leader. The regime is threatened. The putsch continues.
POTUS Keeps His Silence.
The Obama administration has fallen silent, at least, hard to hear. The excuse may be that the White House does not want to trouble Tehran while British Foreign Secretary David Milliband is pleading for negotiations to rescue the abducted Iran nationals who were working in the British Embassy in Tehran until it was discovered by the mullahs that Old Blighty is a nest of spies. POTUS must not speak out, because it may make the mullahs cranky, and the mullahs, when annoyed, sometimes take over embassies. For now, the mullahs look to be putting Hossein Rassam, 44, on trial. Milliband is hoping for talks. POTUS Obama is hoping for Milliband's hoping. What remains of the Obama administration policy with Tehran is incoherence inside ineptness wrapped in an Ace bandage. Again, there is no Plan B. If appeasement and surrender do not work, the Obama administration announces it is consulting with other powers and working to return to meaningful dialogue as soon as the smoke clears. Yes, everyone in Europe is laughing. Within the first six months, the Obama administration has established itself as evasive, pompous, glass-jawed, timorous, unprepared, facile and harmless. Churchill has quit the watchtower in Heaven and gone to paint more landscapes in Marrakech -- that scene of the Atlas Mountains he loved so well he took FDR to see it in 1943, remember?
The state-run Fars news agency reported that 20 people were hanged this morning in Rajai-Shahr prison west of Tehran. In addition, the state-run Etemad daily reported today that two other prisoners were hanged in the city of Shiraz, southern Iran.
The hangings today follow 12 other executions which took place earlier this week in Tehran and Qom.
*Arresting Officer:* "This is your receipt for your husband...and this is my receipt for your receipt."
*Sam Lowry:* I only know you got the wrong man.
*Jack Lint:* Information Transit got the wrong man. I got the *right* man. The wrong one was delivered to me as the right man, I accepted him on good faith as the right man. Was I wrong?
*Tuttle:* "Listen, this old system of yours could be on fire and I couldn't even turn on the kitchen tap without filling out a 27b/6...Bloody paperwork."
*Jack:* "Until this whole thing blows over, just stay away from me. It's not my fault that Buttle's heart condition didn't appear on Tuttle's file!"
*Helpmann:* "Bad sportsmanship. A ruthless minority of people seem to have forgotten good old-fashioned virtues. They just can't stand seeing the other fellow win. If these people would just play the game..."
"We're fielding all their strokes, running a lot of them out, and pretty consistently knocking them for six. I'd say they're nearly out of the game."
"Jill? Yes...Sam I think I ought to tell you. I'm afraid she's upped stumps and retired to the pavilion. Thrown in the towel."
"All I can say is don't fall at the last fence. The finishing post's in sight. See you in the paddock...keep your eye on the ball."
*Guard:* "Don't fight it son. Confess quickly! If you hold out too long you could jeopardize your credit rating."
*Sam:* "I love you."
DZstroke015 Sam Lowry, Ministry of Information Retrieval, and his dreams coming true?
*"Brazil" in Iran?*
I'm sorry, but, I believe that promoting EXODUS is the best policy concerning Iran and North Korea. Call out for the people to turn their backs on dictatorial rule and move en masse to safety. Let the real powers on Earth deal with the desperate despots without the innocents having to pay the price for their so called "leadership's" fanaticism.
Even J Bolton, considering the long term reverberations of a Nukler N Korea, has said that a mass refugee egress, while engaging the regime in Pyongyang militarily, is more in Beijing's interest than the inevitable tension and proliferation in the region that will occur if the status quo remains. I don't know why his take on NK would not apply to Iran, too.
EXODUS of the Innocents...
What they circumvent is 'Why even count those neat even ballots?' Just announce a number!
>>Call out for the people to turn their backs on dictatorial rule and move en masse to safety.
Right. Naturally, once they hear this entreaty from the West, the respective governments will happily stand aside while the disaffected pack up and leave, just like Nazi Germany, East Germany, and Soviet Russia did! Why didn't we think of this before!
Not the West calling for it, but, the regional nations, like I've said before. Iraq, China, S Korea, Turkey, Azerbaijan, etc. Besides the population of the regimes, they are the ones most threatened.
Call out for the oppressed, who are held captive by henchman and have no recourse, to come out of the land with a guaranty of safe passage for the innocents. At least, let it be known there is that option. It will definitely send a strong message to the tyrants, too.
EXODUS
Curious that current operations in Afgha proper are in a southwesterly direction. Hmmm