Death of 'Neda' May Echo for Weeks in Iran

"You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs" - that's all fine and dandy unless your one of the eggs being broken...

I think Neda deserves a better quote, such as Thomas Jefferson's "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants..." And note especially that Jefferson said, "from time to time." That is the nature of liberty: it must be maintained. That means here, too. Don't think it couldn't happen here. The women in Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan have had lots more freedom in recent decades than they have now, and our interference has specifically helped various despots and fundamentalists to put them back under the veil. The idea that we "helped" Iraqis, or that the Afghanis and Iranians only need to “learn” about our ways in order to finally "move forward" is a statement exhibiting ignorant hubris. It’s not the Iranians who need a “lesson” about their own struggle. What the death of this brave young woman does is help give the world what it needs to care about the struggle the women in these oppressive regimes have been fighting long before ignorant "news blips" readers decided to comment on what "they” needed. Not only did our own Iranian-American journalist recently escape from a prison term there, after she'd been documenting the work women in Iran have been doing but there are now two American journalists imprisoned in North Korea, for documenting the human trafficking scourge. Women have been fighting their own enslavement, and dying and getting imprisoned for it long before the youtube generation noticed. But thanks to this shocking footage of one such tragedy, now maybe a few more neanderthals will realize that no, women do not "choose" to remain shackled under cloth tents, or not allowed out without the escort of male relatives. Maybe Neda's death will spur our wet-behind-the-ears president to realize that it's not the "freedom" to wear the veil that concerns women in oppressive regimes. The same people who shot Neda have long been the enforcers of their clothing and conduct codes. Now do you get it? Neda was not the first. Do you think the always real possibility of getting shot might have something to do with how much women "choose" these things out of "cultural differences" as all the ignorant posters here were saying over France's correct move to ban the vile burqa?

You've got be kidding