(10:00AM EST – promoted by Nightprowlkitty)
Yes. Support of dissent is part of democracy. Suppression of dissent leads to totalitarianism and dictatorship. Yes. We get it, assholes. And now, YOU’RE gonna get it.
Perhaps you can tell me where were the so-called “free” American press when AMERICAN protesters were filling the streets by the hundreds of thousands in NYC, DC and elsewhere during the Bush administration?
This prurient interest to support dissent abroad is the ultimate in hypocrisy and only serves an agenda bound for destabilization and warmongering in the Middle East. Let’s do our own dirty laundry first – if we want Iran to have a democracy, we haven’t exactly been setting anybody the best example to follow over the last few years.
I have photographs of massive AMERICAN ANTI-WAR protests from 2002 all the way up to 2008 that never saw any mainstream media coverage. Do any of you creeps working for the “free” American mainstream press want to try to explain to me why that is? Go right ahead. I have all day.
Where were the “free” American press in NYC when millions of us jammed the streets around the UN in February of 2004? Yes, you smarmy bastards, it WAS MILLIONS. Your cameras may have lied by omission, your underreporting made a pretense of being the “official” story; but there are enough of us who remember, and OUR cameras did not lie.
Here’s Washington DC, September 25th, 2005. See any “free” American press? No? Didn’t think so…
And here we have NYC, Foley Square, 28 April 2006. See any press there? Remember any stories in the news about this? Nope!
Where were the “free” American press on January 27, 2007 when half a million people filled the National Mall and completely surrounded the Capitol building in Washington DC? That’s right, HALF A MILLION.
Where was the “free” American press at Winter Soldier in March of 2008, when Iraq and Afghanistan combat veterans publicly testified about the war crimes they witnessed and were forced to participate in? Democracy Now was there… where the fuck were the rest of YOU?
And here’s the “Not Really An Impeachment Hearing” that same July. WE were there… where the fuck was the “free” American press?
Where was the “free” American press during the candidate debates at Hofstra University last October, when many of those same veterans were arrested simply for trying to ask McCain and Obama questions about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and two nonviolent AMERICAN protesters were severely injured by AMERICAN police on AMERICAN soil?
The “free” American mainstream press is hardly in a position to throw stones at Iran for suppressing dissent over there, given how complicit they are in doing so right here at home!
But no, you self serving weathervane patriots, I’m not done bitchslapping you yet… because if you truly (if suddenly) give so much of a shit about “the peaceful and democracy-loving people of Iran” then I want to ask you assholes WHERE THE FUCK YOU WERE WHEN CODEPINK WAS DOING THIS???
AND YOU WILLFULLY FOSTERED THAT IGNORANCE BY YOUR SILENT COMPLICITY
WITH THE AGENDAS OF THE MILITARY/INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
AND YOU’RE STILL DOING IT
EVEN AS YOU GO THROUGH THE MOTIONS
OF PRETENDING TO CARE ABOUT DEMOCRACY ABROAD
YOU CONTINUE TO BACKSTAB IT RIGHT HERE AT HOME
I HAVE TWO WORDS FOR YOU, “FREE” AMERICAN MAINSTREAM PRESS
AND THEY ARE NOT “HAPPY BIRTHDAY”!
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FUCK their silence!
FUCK their lies!
FUCK their commercialist agendas!
I can’t believe these assholes are even getting PAID in this day and age!
No one paid me for the photos I took or the stories I wrote, and I did a better job than they ever will of keeping my countrymen informed!
Right on.
I’d add as a footnote the Washington, D.C. march of September 15, 2007, in which I protested. At least 100,000 marchers. The press wrote it off as perhaps 10,000. And yes — Code Pink was out in force.