From Her Mouoth To God's Ear

Violent, vicious coercion works. As dedicated as people are to freedom, independence, human rights and just needs acknowledged, they are not collectively suicide-prone.

As it is the young and the restless in Iran have more than adequately placed their theocratic government on notice that they will no longer tolerate the conditions under which they are forced to live. Without dignity, and the right to choose for themselves how they wish to comport themselves and the values they want to adopt for themselves and the achievement of their futures.

The Guardian Council has admitted that there were voting irregularities. Simply that. And that despite those irregularities which they claim are of no signal moment, the outcome of the election will not be affected. The will of the Supreme Leader is not to be denied for he has the ear and is the mouthpiece of the Supreme Spirit.

And those who demonstrated, those who fulminated against the legitimacy of the election, those who have brought the social order of the country into chaos, will be held responsible.
Being held responsible they will be arrested, incarcerated, tortured and then may or may not be allowed to live.

Little wonder that this threat, following hard on the brutal assaults by the Basij, the Revolutionary Guard, the Iranian police with their batons, their tear gas, water cannons, and lethal weapons, sending some to the morgue, many others to hospitals, and others yet to the notorious prisons of the country, have finally succeeded in stilling the protests.

Even the curious suffer. Even those taking no part in the rebellion, simply there as onlookers, witness to their country's history.

Security forces and government agencies now threaten the family of Neda Agha-Soltan, not to hold memorial services for her, not speak about her death, to remove black mourning banners from their home. Grief and anguish are to be stifled, for the greater good and glory of the Iranian Republic.

She was cautioned of the danger should she attend the protest on Saturday. Ayatollah Khamanei had, after all, warned demonstrators that they and they alone would be responsible for violence.

The young woman was curious, she wanted to see for herself events unfolding. She never really seriously believed she would be the main event to unfold that early evening. "Don't worry. It's just one bullet and it's over", she quipped.

And so, those who came out to protest, the women of Iran, no longer willing to be manipulated and their basic human rights taken from them, the students who insist on greater civil and civic freedoms, they are in their aggregate, responsible for the death of a vital and beautiful young woman whose philosophy in life was to live it to the fullest.

That's all it took, after all. Just one bullet.

The mass protest dissolved into nothingness. The symbol first, then the substance; beaten into submission.