And All The Ayatollah’s Men Couldn’t Put Him Back Together Again
Why is it that the political right always castrates itself? Given that all they really have is balls, it seems painfully ironic.
Yesterday, in response to the recent electoral protests in Iran, Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Hoseyni Khāmene’i addressed a circus tent full of men who all looked relatively the same – much like a Republican convention, where even the women look like stodgy Caucasian men desperate to hang on to their semblance of Old World power. But I digress.
Thomson Reuters reported on the speech by Khāmene’i, excerpting several pieces of the monologue that seemed noteworthy, such as, “… I am urging them to end street protests, otherwise they will be responsible for its consequences, and consequences of any chaos…” and “… If there is any bloodshed, leaders of the protests will be held directly responsible.”
While – yes – Thomson Reuters is a Western news source that is not necessarily friendly to the Iranian establishment and – yes – these quotes are excerpted from their original context, neither of these facts affect the point I am about to make.
Cause watch me now; I’m going to except them even further.
“… they will be responsible for its consequences…”
“… leaders of the protests will be held directly responsible…”
Did you catch that? Did you hear what just happened?
Essentially, what Khāmene’i has done is placed all the responsibility for the outcome of these protests – all of it, positive and negative – on to his adversaries. No matter how many people are killed by riot police or secret police, no matter how many are left maimed or made into refugees, no matter how much bloodshed results, there ain’t no flies on the Ayatollah.
But if his adversaries have all the responsibility, then Khāmene’i must have no responsibility. And if Khāmene’i has no responsibility, then dig this – he has no power. Allow me to italicize this for emphasis – the Supreme Leader of Iran has abdicated all power. In much the same way, the wielder of a gun has no power if they cannot take responsibility for (i.e. control) their weapon. Eventually, they will shoot themselves in the face.
And like most right-wing extremists, he did it to himself. All that’s left to happen now is for several thousand individuals to be murdered so that these fundamentalist numb skulls can express their fear with bullets. Because the Ayatollah has no responsibility, I assume the triggers will simply go off by themselves. Good luck to all those in their line of sight.
Sayyid Ali Hoseyni Khāmene’i, the Ayatollah of… fizzle fizzle ssssssssss…
- the Supreme Leader of Iran has abdicated all power. the wielder of a gun has no power if they cannot take responsibility for (i.e. control) their weapon. Eventually, they will shoot themselves in the face.
True, except you’ve made your point while thousands and thousands die in the streets.
Pure nonsensical blog dude
Comment by zx — June 25, 2009 @ 3:33 pm
“Thousands and thousands” this commenter says. Well let’s do the math on that. “Thousands” is plural so that equals at least 2 thousand. So by this commenter’s account, at least 4 thousand people have died, specifically “in the streets”. None of them are dying indoors like civilized cunts. And I guess the only way for the commenter to actually know this as a fact is that he or she is there, in the streets of Tehran, counting people as they die. How else could the commenter possible know these ‘facts’?
Of course they do not know these facts. They believe these facts. Which makes them opinions, not facts. Further shown by the commenter providing absolutely no reference for the statement that he or she represents as fact. They’ve decided themselves that there must be “thousands and thousands” of people dying as part of a smoke and mirrors game to point out what’s so wrong about the world – a distraction to cover up a lack of confidence in themselves and perhaps a feeling that their life has no active meaning, a sense of helplessness. They feel helpless, therefore the world must be wrong.
The commenter accepts that the point they’ve perceived me as making is “true”, but for some reason, in their mind, the validity of that point is dependent entirely upon this circumstance of “thousands and thousands” dying, that they themselves made up. So did they really understand the point that they called “true”? Of course not; they go on to call the whole blog “nonsensical”. Not because it’s nonsense mind you, but simply because they did not understand the point that they pretended to understand at the beginning of their comment.
This commenter would fit right in with Khāmene’i’s Iran – reactionary (and therefore powerless), ignorant, exaggerative and fearful.
Comment by sifr4 — June 26, 2009 @ 1:12 pm
Mr. Sifr4 =
you are the one that said:
“All that’s left to happen now is for several thousand individuals to be murdered so that these fundamentalist numb skulls can express their fear with bullets”
I apologize for saying ‘thousands and thousands’ instead of ‘several thousands’ – my mistake.
Not sure of your point anymore though. You seem to love your own words so much as to lose the reader in your arguments. Sorry.
Comment by zx — June 29, 2009 @ 11:40 am