VEVAK
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I am sorry but to blame "outside forces" for lack of a responsive government is a cop-out. For sure IRI has been under immense pressure but so are many other countries. Even the US has to deal with "enemies" on a daily basis: narco-trafficking, rising China, nuclear N. Korea, diminishing economic power, etc (these are just as valid a threat as the ones faced by IRI). Did the US abandon it's democratic principals just because it was "fighting" a nuclear armed Soviet Union? When the US expanded the Vietnam war it was the American people's pressure that forced the government to pack-up and leave, defeated and demoralized. The US government did not blame the Soviets for the daily demonstrations in DC and other cities.
Clearly you don't even know much about your own history! AND YES U.S. did lose it's principals in the fight against communism.
When the U.S. was raiding communist party gatherings, seizing communist party assets, and imprisoning anyone who had anything to do with the communist party including actors, lawyers, businessmen.... where were your so called civil rights then? where was the Freedom of Speech, Freedom of assembly,... that should have been guaranteed to communist as well? OR DID THOSE CIVIL RIGHT END AS SOON AS THEY BECAME A CREDIBAL THREAT TO THE U.S. GOVERNMENT?
Do you think the U.S. Media was allowed to give free voice and equal rights to the communist party? HELL NO!
Even till this day U.S. immigration on Citizenship and Legal Residence application ask bluntly if you are now or have you ever been a member of the communist party!!!
So I'm sorry to be the one to tell you but your so called Civil Rights END's as soon as they become a credible threat to the U.S. capitalist government and just because you are brainwashed to think you have certain freedoms it sure as hell doesn't mean you really have them!
U.S. Vietnam war lasted for 20 years! Your BS comments make it sound like the U.S. started a war and within a year the voice of the American people ended it. And that's NOTHIGN BUT A DELUSION!
20 years of war without a clear and decisive victory doesn't mean the American people ended that war and even if we assume that they did it took over a decade of protests and civil unrest to change a single declaration of war and it took decades of protests, civil unrest and violent killings by the government to end segregation in the U.S. and that does not seem very democratic to me at all!
Today you can't show me a single News outlet on Basic cable in the U.S. that shows the Israeli government for what it truly is which is an "Apartheid State" and that is NOT an opinion that is an absolute fact! Yet all major news outlets in the U.S. CNN, MSNBC, FOX.... all of them portray that government to the American People as some kind of Democracy as if well over half the population who happen to be Palestinians who live in the territory US calls Israel somehow don't even exist!
You like to claim you have freedom of press in the U.S. and yet the American people by the % are the fattest and most uninformed people on the planet and that's not meant to be an insult it's just a matter of fact!