Yesterday evening, a large group of Iranian-Americans and Iranians gathered outside the Iranian consular office on Wisconsin Ave. in Washington, D.C.. to protest election fraud and the violent treatment of Iran's peaceful pro-democracy demonstrators by Iran's government.
Of the 200-250 people in attendance (I stopped counting at 200), only one person in the crowd expressed support for "re-elected" President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Wearing a red "Iran" soccer jersey and holding a picture of Ahmadinejad printed on 8.5" x 11" paper, he stood silent on the opposite side of Wisconsin Ave from the other demonstrators.
He was a very confused and very confusing young man.
I say he's confused because anyone who would peacefully demonstrate in support of someone who just gunned down peaceful protesters clearly isn't thinking. Either that, or he's a prankster.
And I call him confusing because despite his willingness to face down a crowd outnumbering 200-to-1, he repeatedly covered his face with his Ahmadinejad picture when people tried to take his photo.
Perhaps he's worried people are going to post his picture on the Internet, which will in turn let the people he encounters daily in Washington, D.C. that there's a cheerleader of fascism in their midst.
He's free to told whatever stupid opinion he'd wishes. And I'm free to tell everyone I can that this man applauds the massacre of innocent people.
1 comments:
WOW - We obviously have freedom of speech and expression of one's opinion, but this is equivalent of holding pictures of HITLER while his army was gunning down civilians during WWII in the streets of a democratic country...
Thanks for the face pic. I have a great place to post it. http://idthebasiji.blogspot.com/
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