Posted by
Defend America on Wednesday, August 19, 2009 7:10:05 PM
I could talk about the situation in Iran regarding their
nuclear program, but what has been on my mind lately is how quiet the news
media have been about the situation in Iran. After the presidential election
back in June, everybody knew it was rigged so Ahmadinejad would win. Their were
tapes and documents that proved just that. Many describe the protests that
would soon occur, to be the first social media protest because it was Twitter
where it all started. Twitter forced CNN, in particular, to cover the story.
Originally, MSNBC didn't give the story much air time, Fox News did give it
substantial air time, when they had the story available to report on, but it
was CNN where the story was really ignored until some people on Twitter
demanded that they cover the story.
So, the networks began covering the story and so did I. I linked to photos and
videos of the protests on this blog. Whether people were being arrested,
injured, or killed, I tried as best as I could to link to those stories. A
person I admire, Former Ambassador John Bolton, was on television on Fox News
almost everyday. I could not describe much how the other networks covered the
story because I didn't watch them. Bolton was on to assess the situation and
what it meant for the United States and Israel. He would describe that we have
to support the protesters because some change could be happening, but he warned
not to get too excited. Our president in the United States, President Obama did
not offer any remarks about the protests in Iran, which we would later find
out, that the president does not care much about freedom because he refused to
support the Iranian dissidents, but would later support the Honduran dictator
in his quest to return back to power.
What was going on in Iran was just brutal. The videos and the pictures, but
what was the hardest was reading the Twitter messages from people in Iran. I
would sit on my computer for hours at a time reading about their suffering and
how they are being killed or arrested or beaten close to death just for
speaking out. I would report of goons coming into people's homes late at night
and beating them. It reminded of Nazi Germany or Stalin's Soviet Union.
The protests died down little by little and all of a sudden there was no news
network covering the story. Twitter messages stopped coming in and videos and
pictures also ceased to appear anymore. I could not report on this story
because there was nothing for me to connect to what was going on in Iran. I
don't know if the protests did indeed die, but this is the problem with the
news. Forgetting all their bias, which is sometimes kind of hard to forget, the
news consistently makes a big deal of a story, and then they drop the story.
Unfortunately, they do and I think it has a lot to do with ratings.
I've been thinking about Iran lately because no more news about protests are
coming from Iran, which means one of two things, a. some protests are still
occurring, but news media stops covering it, or b. which unfortunately, I
believe to be the case, and that is that the protesters lost. These people who
risked their lives over two months ago, in which some of them did die or were
injured or arrested, spoke up for freedom and they were quickly shut down.
Those protests revealed something important about Iran, something which that
nobody should ever have doubted, the people of Iran want to have freedom and
they don't have it. This is why President Obama ignoring the protesters fight
for freedom and support for Honduran dictator, could be his most egregious and
despicable error. Freedom and liberty is what the United States is all about
and I thought that presidents should enforce their message when representing
the United States. By standing up against Iranian dissidents and supporting the Honduran
dictator, I can say that President Obama does not care for freedom and that
makes it easier for him to disregard all that is good in this country and try
to destroy everything that has made the United States so wonderful, so
prosperous, and I could go on and on, but also so free.
I remember those protesters in Iran, who risked their lives, for something that
Americans take advantage too often, but freedom should never be taken for
granted. We should never bow down to dictators or tyrants or people who abuse
its own people because then what the United States stands for, freedom and
liberty, is lost. I wish those people who just wanted an honest, free, and fair
election the best, at least those that are still around and not locked up or
killed. They fought for freedom and unfortunately, they lost. And the United
States loses too every time our president does not stand up for freedom and we
did lose too, not like the Iranians, but we did, thanks to President Obama.