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: Hoder has many good posts on Iran today:

Optimistically speaking, I guess the recent blocking of all blogging tools in Iran (+ my own poor weblog!) in the days of July 9th, has been a matter of security. Almost any kind of communication with outside world were cut off: cell-phones, long-distance calling cards, VoIP phone lines, satelite TVs, Internet access, and finally weblogs. It is very likely that the reformist government has arranged all of it for the fear of riots in the city and a more than possible savage reaction to them by hardliner vigilante and revolutionary guards. Because hardliners are not practically capabale of doing all this.

So I’m hopeful that the input/output channels will be opened again by saturday and people can access blogosphere again. But anyways, please spread the word. It’s very important….

Israel should be the best friend for Iran in mid-east region with all those anti-persian Arab countries….

One of the common mistakes about Iranian people is that they are anti-western. This is totally wrong. Iranians are maybe the closest people in the region to western values such as rationality, tolerance and individuality….

Read the rest of each post.

4 responses to “Blocked”

  1. IranianWoman (zaneirani) Avatar
    IranianWoman (zaneirani)

    In the spirit of free expression of ideas I like to share my views in response to Hoder

  2. Wind Rider Avatar
    Wind Rider

    Spice
    recommendations at the end of it.

  3. Jim Baxter Avatar
    Jim Baxter

    Many of us agree that ‘ideas’ represents an anemic effort by the
    U.S. in dealing with Iran and other Middle East countries – and a
    few others. Pushing a concept of ‘democracy’ is rightly perceived
    as merely ‘political,’ not foundational, and thus unacceptable under
    their philosophical and religious criteria. It appears shallow
    compared to America’s true potential offering to the world out of
    our unique founding and creative-growth values and inventive
    experience.
    The definitive in human nature is the individual ability to make
    choices. (Is there any other kind of human? ‘Groups’ are verbal
    conveniences – not Reality.) ALL humans share in this true depic-
    tion of our nature. The human being is earth’s choice-maker.
    Such a valid assertion undercuts every man-made alien opinion and
    is verified everywhere on planet Earth – daily. Thus, nature itself
    has laid the foundation for every human relationship, institution,
    and social act. After all, the creative process is a choice-making
    process and functions best in an environment of opportunity –
    Freedom.
    What are our leaders waiting for? Mr. Jefferson’s statement, “all
    men are endowed by their Creator with…Liberty” says the same
    thing.(Liberty is internal – the ability to choose. Freedom is
    external – the opportunity to choose.)
    In public, private, and Christian schools, I taught my 5th
    graders for over 30 years, it is as natural a requisite for
    Earth’s choice-maker to need Freedom as for a gold-fish to
    require water.
    My choicemaker-based civics workbook (Gr. 5-8)won numerous
    awards in the ’60’s and was placed in the Eisenhower Presiden-
    tial Library, Abilene, KS, by “Ike,” himself.
    Isn’t it time for a universal “Season of Generation-Choice-
    maker” to flower world-wide and bear fruit? Cyrus the Great
    and Mr. Jefferson would both choose to agree. I trust you and
    others will also choose to agree. Please take part in placing
    this concept before our nations and before your neighbors for
    the youth of Iran.
    Always Faithful
    Jim Baxter
    Santa Maria, CA
    For the complete statement, see:
    “What is man…?” Earth’s Choicemaker
    http://www.geocities.com/James-Baxter/
    Peace is not a Cause — it is the Effect….
    * * * *

  4. Jim Baxter Avatar
    Jim Baxter

    CONTEMPORARY COMMENTS
    “I should think that if there is one thing that man has
    learned about himself it is that he is a creature of
    choice.” Richard M. Weaver
    “Man is a being capable of subduing his emotions and
    impulses; he can rationalize his behavior. He arranges
    his wishes into a scale, he chooses; in short, he acts.
    What distinguishes man from beasts is precisely that he
    adjusts his behavior deliberately.” Ludwig von Mises
    “To make any sense of the idea of morality, it must be
    presumed that the human being is responsible for his
    actions and responsibility cannot be understood apart
    from the presumption of freedom of choice.”
    John Chamberlain
    “The advocate of liberty believes that it is complemen-
    tary of the orderly laws of cause and effect, of
    probability and of chance, of which man is not completely
    informed. It is complementary of them because it rests in
    part upon the faith that each individual is endowed by
    his Creator with the power of individual choice.”
    Wendell J. Brown
    “Our Founding Fathers believed that we live in an ordered
    universe. They believed themselves to be a part of the
    universal order of things. Stated another way, they
    believed in God. They believed that every man must find
    his own place in a world where a place has been made for
    him. They sought independence for their nation but, more
    importantly, they sought freedom for individuals to think
    and act for themselves. They established a republic
    dedicated to one purpose above all others – the preserva-
    tion of individual liberty…” Ralph W. Husted
    “We have the gift of an inner liberty so far-reaching
    that we can choose either to accept or reject the God
    who gave it to us, and it would seem to follow that the
    Author of a liberty so radical wills that we should be
    equally free in our relationships with other men.
    Spiritual liberty logically demands conditions of outer
    and social freedom for its completion.” Edmund A. Opitz
    “Above all I see an ability to choose the better from the
    worse that has made possible life’s progress.”
    Charles Lindbergh
    “Freedom is the Right to Choose, the Right to create for
    oneself the alternatives of Choice. Without the possibil-
    ity of Choice, and the exercise of Choice, a man is not
    a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.”
    Thomas Jefferson