Keeping Neda real....

[tumbleweed41]

Neda Soltani has become the face of resistance in Iran, and around the world.

To the Iranians, she has become a martyr, a very powerful force to Shia Muslims.
The video of her tragic death has made an almost instantaneous worldwide impact.

But to understand the true tragedy, we must look behind the instant myths, and see who Neda really was.

Neda was a 26 year old philosophy student and part time travel agent. She was not a demonstrator for regime change, but, according to her fiance, Caspian Makan, a young lady who ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time.
According to Makan, Neda had been in a car in central Tehran with her music teacher when they were caught in a traffic jam. He said the pair had left the car to escape the heat. It was when she was walking down the street, talking on her cell phone, that the shot rang out.
The shot may have been random, or she may have been targeted because she was on a cell phone, one of the oppositions major weapons in regime change.
A nearby onlooker filmed the killing on his cell phone, then sent it to a friend in the Netherlands. Once the video was posted on Facebook and YouTube, it spread like wildfire through the internet.


Her fiance told reporters, "Neda's aim was not Mousavi or Ahmadinejad, her target was her country,"


While rumors and myths fly about Neda, turning her into a leader of the protests, or an outspoken critic of Ahmadinejad, the truth is more tragic .


Neda was an innocent, caught up in the violence, and killed without cause.


Remember Neda, and all the innocents killed by violence.


Peace,
tumbleweed

[Saint Tigeress]

I don't believe any of us in other countries could ever understand what these people live with. Thanks to the internet and other technologies now we have little glimpses here and there, but that's all it is.

[3.14]

post the kill vid , i seen the ending and the commentary but have yet to find a vid of it actualy happening.
but realy though shooting woman's is never ok no matter what affiliation she had

[Saint Tigeress]

I think this is graphic enough

Michelle Malkin » They killed Neda, but not her voice

[gnomon]

You cannot possibly know how many U.S. citizens I wish were Neda right now. Then that way the worthless attention of so many of my fellow Americans wouldn't be wasted.

[Saint Tigeress]

I take it you're ticked off cause everyone is talking about it and doing nothing about it?

[gnomon]

Originally Posted by Saint Tigeress

I take it you're ticked off cause everyone is talking about it and doing nothing about it?

No.

Although the inability as an individual to do something about it such situations and tragedies is assuredly frustrating.

I'm thinking more like we need to keep Oscar Grant real and Lynette Gayle Jackson real type of thing here in the States, where we can do much about it, before we proclaim our moral outrage over something we can do very little about.

While certainly some would argue we can do both it's that the lack of concern shown here in the States over egregious abuses of power and the erosion of the rights we try to proclaim for the whole world in the face of enormous media attention given to the other that is truly so damn frustrating.

[3.14]

didn't "the king of pop" die?

(its all over the news that the "dude" died)

neda however isn't in the news anymore, funny world ain't it?

[Caladan]

Originally Posted by tumbleweed41

Neda Soltani has become the face of resistance in Iran, and around the world.

To the Iranians, she has become a martyr, a very powerful force to Shia Muslims.
The video of her tragic death has made an almost instantaneous worldwide impact.

But to understand the true tragedy, we must look behind the instant myths, and see who Neda really was.

Neda was a 26 year old philosophy student and part time travel agent. She was not a demonstrator for regime change, but, according to her fiance, Caspian Makan, a young lady who ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time.
According to Makan, Neda had been in a car in central Tehran with her music teacher when they were caught in a traffic jam. He said the pair had left the car to escape the heat. It was when she was walking down the street, talking on her cell phone, that the shot rang out.
The shot may have been random, or she may have been targeted because she was on a cell phone, one of the oppositions major weapons in regime change.
A nearby onlooker filmed the killing on his cell phone, then sent it to a friend in the Netherlands. Once the video was posted on Facebook and YouTube, it spread like wildfire through the internet.


Her fiance told reporters, "Neda's aim was not Mousavi or Ahmadinejad, her target was her country,"


While rumors and myths fly about Neda, turning her into a leader of the protests, or an outspoken critic of Ahmadinejad, the truth is more tragic .


Neda was an innocent, caught up in the violence, and killed without cause.


Remember Neda, and all the innocents killed by violence.


Peace,
tumbleweed

Me and my friend talked about it tonight, both of us served in combat units, and we discussed how inconceivable it is for security forces to shoot their own citizens. we both remember the silk gloves the Israeli security forces wore while evacuating the settlers from the Gaza area, in fact the Israeli soldiers and security personnel were stripped off of fire arms before engaging the Israeli settlers. psychologists and other support were brought for assistance, etc.