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sidecross
06-15-2009, 08:37 AM
Iran’s people, a half-million strong, filled the streets today. This was done while ‘text messaging’, the internet, and TV satellites were blocked by the Iranian government.

If anything is a sign of hope this may be it. This was not an ‘organized event; this was a spontaneous event.

Nothing puts the fear into a government like a half-million people spontaneously showing up.

‘Power to the People’

sidecross
06-16-2009, 05:32 AM
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/06/16-1

This article has links and if I 'cut & paste' they would be absent.

sidecross
06-22-2009, 04:59 AM
“If liberty of speech is to be untrammeled from the grosser forms of constraint, then uniformity of opinion will be secured by a moral terrorism to which the respectability of society will give its thorough approval.”

Charles Sanders Pierce, The Fixation of Belief, 1887