"By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April's breeze unfurled;
Here once the embattled farmers stood;
And fired the shot heard round the world."-Concord Hymn, Ralph Waldo Emerson
Michael Totten, in his usual brilliant style, has assembled a series of videos and images of the beginnings of revolution in Iran (Michael J. Totten, Iran on Fire, June 13, 2009).
Iran has the best and most educated population in the Middle East. For 40 years the people have been living under the most brutal and oppresive of regimes. Corrupt Mullahs have been running the country and have been the puppetmasters of the political realm. It is the Mullahs who want nuclear arms with which they would terrorize the world. It is the Mullahs who want to continue to destablize the region and will do anything to prevent liberty from spreading.
In our sterlized and ever-inreasingly impotent culture, the images of riots are seen as a horror, of something to be quelled. We have experienced riots in America, but they are the kind sparked not by a desire for liberty, but out of greed and a sordid excuse to loot and pillage.
When looking at the images in Iran we should not equate them with the Rodney King, Detroit Hell Week, or the Spring Break riots, burning in the hearts of those who want to destroy ordered-liberty through fear. Instead, we should look at Iran's riots with our hearts beating with the passions of our Forefathers.
Car on fire, Iran (Source Michael Totten)
The Shot Heard Round the World (Source Ana's History Channel)
This could be the spark of a revolution that could lead the Iranian people out of their 40-year darkness, and the fires the couragous youth are setting is the way into the light of precious liberty.
If you are a praying kind, pray for them, and their success.
"It is unfortunate that the efforts of mankind to recover the freedom of which they have been so long deprived, will be accompanied with violence, with errors, and even with crimes. But while we weep over the means, we must pray for the end."- Thomas Jefferson to Francois D'Ivernois, 1795
H/t Instapundit.
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