Mohamed Morsi signs Egypt's new constitution into law

[MADem]

15. I am one of those "people" and I am not saying what you're claiming at all.

I left Iran in 1979, in a hurry, too.

The people wanted something else than was delivered--women marched in the streets of Teheran actually thinking they'd get MORE rights with Shah gone--instead they got servitude and slavery. Gays, who were sneered at under Shah, were hanged in the town square under Khomeini. Armenians and Jews, Zoroastrians and Copts, citizens of that land since it was called Persia, and respected as "People of the Book" and protected as religious/ethnic minorities (and who owned the shops where you went for booze, bacon and Xmas trees) were hounded, hectored, insulted and run out of the country. THEIR country. THEIR homeland--for centuries. But hey, "they" were minorities, "others," so "they" just didn't count.

I don't think any of these "people" "wanted" to "move in this direction." I know full well the women who get flogged in the streets for a poorly adjusted rusari or a 'too tight' bulky raincoat (in the middle of the summer), to this very day by the Vice and Virtue assholes, don't particularly care for "this direction" one bit. I doubt the families of kids who get hanged for their orientation like it, either.

It would be nice if a few people in this world had the intestinal fortitude to point out that this kind of shit is just wrong, instead of pretending that it's "will of the people" when votes are suppressed and a result is gamed to produce something that is closer to tyranny than democracy.

But whatever. Just turn your head, don't look too close. It's all fun and games from a distance. From a distance, too, you don't really notice that all of the "power people" in the picture look the same.