Doing The Job American Media Won’t Do: The Faces Of The Dead And Detained
Yes, the people who have been killed or detained by the Iranian government have names and faces. And you can see some of them at Guardian which, unlike our American media, seems to have remembered that.
When the Iranian protests began I wrote that if the protesters didn’t win and quickly the government would crush them and then start picking them off one at a time, taking them away into a nightmare of captivity, torture, and even death. I was right.
In a nightmarish scenario right out of Stalinist Russia, any Iranians who took part in protesting their obviously fraudulent election are now living in fear of that boot to their door in the middle of the night. People are being dragged away. Some are being killed outright.
The bloated, hideous mullahs are shouting for the deaths of their own people, proving that like any other totalitarian government, they care much, much more about their own power than for the welfare of the people they govern.
Of course, our media has been preoccupied with more important things. The fact that what’s happening right now in Iran will change the course of history seems to have been overlooked or given a passing few seconds of air time or a few written words. And the fact that people, real people, are being rounded up and hauled off is being touched on only briefly if at all. They have names and faces, but you wouldn’t know it if you depended solely on our media to keep you informed.
And that’s a damn shame.
