As IF Times

link FT.com / Middle East & North Africa – Iran’s Greens seek to fire up support.

I’ll bet if you took some DNA strands from the incumbent Iranian Theocracy and also from the liberal/progressive media in the U.S., there would be conclusive evidence that they sprouted from the same potted plant.   The Mullahs in Tehran’s glee from cheering on the ‘people’s revolution’ in Egypt has turned to indignation now that it appears that  the same demand for change is starting again in Iran.  As we know, this is the same double standard of perspective that is used by the predominantly liberal media in the U.S.  It may well be true that the uprising in Egypt was a spontaneous movement of  youth against a despotic ruler and that the entire population had a role.  Anyone who watches the daily broadcast will note that not only is there  a conspicuous absence of women from the protests, but that most protesters are hardly young.  Maybe the women get filled in on the day’s events at home later on.

It will be interesting to watch the attitude of the media when the Iranian authorities move to squash the so called green movement ( no relation to the wackos here) in that country, and they most surely will,  when the crowds try to emulate what has happened in Tunisia and now in Egypt.  The Iranians may be shocked to find out that the Egyptians really DO want to throw off the old dictator, but NOT to be replaced by a theological one sympathetic to Iran’s.  They may not have seen that coming.  Will the west report the brutality of the government when they start putting down the protesters?  Will the U.S. government make public comments about respecting the will of the people in Iran? They didn’t the first time as we recall. 

Most people are nervous that Egypt will fall under the rule of theocratic nutbars, but it may well be that the people don’t want to be under anyone’s arbitrary dictates, especially those with their modern 12th century ideas.   If social media is responsible for allowing the people to rise in the first place, they must also be aware of life outside the prison of most Arab states.  It may occur to them that living life pretty much the way it was just after the invention of the wheel isn’t all that great.  They look at people like Michael Moore in the west and think, ” I can do that!” 

It is also amusing to compare the popular uprising in Egypt and Tunisia with the same kind of of movement in the U.S. just recently, namely the Tea Party movement.  As we know, that movement was labelled by the lefty media as a fringe movement, pushed by conservative wackos and racists with nefarious intents.  In fact, it was and is a populist movement against the creeping take over of all that affects people’s lives by big government.   They’d have had a much better shake of it if only they had younger people and no women.