Iran and Neda

[StanF18]

I realize there is already a thread about the "election" (or lack thereof) in Iran, but I sort of thought this poor girl 'Neda' needed to be commemorated in a separate thread.

If you have not heard or seen the story, it is simple, direct, and heartbreaking. I will NOT post the cell-phone video, or even post a link to it, because it is heart-breaking. If you have the stomach, you can see the raw footage on YouTube, and the somewhat sanitized (pixelated) footage on CNN. But she is a 26-year old girl. Absolutely beautiful young woman. Out on a Tehran street with her dad yesterday. Not even close to the most vocal protester. In fact, she is just walking non-chalantly with her dad among the protesters. Next bystander cell phone video shows her a few seconds later. She is lying on the concrete and bleeding out from multiple bullet holes as both her dad and a couple of good Samaratans are trying to plug up the streams of blood shooting from her throat. Her eyes go wide open and then not even 2 seconds later...she dies....right on camera....her beautiful, lifeless eyes are still wide open and "looking" straight....like 2 still black pearls....on a beautiful, silky smooth, young face.... Her young life snuffed out by Iranian Islamic Militia a$$wipes.

It is only human and optimistic to think her globally-transmitted death will not be in vain. But the reality is....it probably will be in vain. Because we are dealing with a twisted, sick government with a twisted, sick intepretation of the Koran. And pretty soon they'll have nukes to boot!

R.I.P. Neda...and R.I.P. the hundreds of other protesters brutalized and killed by the Mullah-Abdullah-Khomeini-Dick-wads......