Let Freedom Ring

Fire of Liberty
Now while the MSM keeps on reporting on the illegal immigrant walkout yesterday and other May Day events, they failed to point out the demonstrations that sprung up in the streets of Tehran. As I've noted before, the kids, dissidents and the labor workforce of Iran are seething mad at the fanatical mullahs and their continued mismanagement of the Iranian economy. This just shows you that the wild-eyed statements that keep on coming out of the regime are just a way to keep the West and their citizenry focused on Tehran's standing up to the outside world instead of the fact that the people are continually going to the street and demanding change. So not only does Iran present a threat to the outside with their nukes but it also serves as a "ignore the man behind the curtain" effect. Here's what Ramin Talaie had to say in his article "Laborers at a May Day Rally in Iran Turn the Tables Against Mullahs" in todays New York Sun:

Against the backdrop of the former American Embassy in Tehran, where American diplomats were first taken hostage in 1979, labor unions gathered for the traditional May 1 demonstrations.

But instead of directing their chants and banners against America, "the Great Satan," the workers made their target the regime that coined the phrase. At issue was a simmering strike of bus drivers, many of whom have not been paid in months.

The demonstrations come as other cracks in the regime are beginning to form. Secular author and opposition activist Amir Abbas Fakhravar on April 29 successfully escaped from Iran and is heading for America. A spokesman for the Iranian referendum movement - which seeks a plebiscite on Iran's constitution - said yesterday that Mr. Fakhravar intended to travel to America without delay.

"How his refugee application is treated will affect the morale of others seeking moral support from the world," Pooya Dayanim said yesterday. "His security situation is very bad. He needs to leave the environment and come to the United States as soon as possible."

Reform Web sites are now reporting that the mullahs, anxious at growing dissent among younger Iranians, have redoubled their efforts to jam broadcasts into the country, a possible counter to the State Department's plan to spend at least $50 million on programming beamed into Iran.

Let's hope the wheels come off the bus in Iran well before they fit nukes on their new ballistic missiles. This just shows you that the time is right to increase our moral/political/economic support towards the students, dissidents and laborers who are fighting for a democratic future in Iran. Freedom couldn't come to more deserving folks.(27 years under mullah rule is enough for anybody.)