More Brutality!

If this had happened in Los Angeles or NYC, the biased media would have had a field day! We would hear no end of police brutality. But its ok in Islamic Republic, the police brutality can be justified by being “anti-Bush” or perhaps, they think Iranians love to be beaten up and humiliated in public.:))

Below is what an Iranian blogger, Bardia, thinks of the underlying reason for recent wave of crack downs and intensifying suppression: see the translation below.

Bardia:
عزیز جان نمی دانم تا چه اندازه از دوره قبل انقلاب خبر دارید ولی گمان می کنم که آگاه هستید به اینکه این رژیم از بستر همین اوباش و اراذل پدید آمد. در آنزمان اوباش از شرایط هرج و مرج سواستفاده کرده و به هیکل نمایی و یکه تازی پرداختند تا جاییکه نه مردم و نه دولت، هیچکدام امنیت نداشتند و این شد که افسار جامعه بدست این اوباش کمیته ای افتاد. حال همین اوباش دیروز که دولتمردان امروز هستند رفتار پیشین خویش را در هیبت دوباره نمایان شده اوباش امروزی می بینند و سخت در هراسند که اگر حرکتی کوچک در توده مردم رخ دهد همین اوباش نسخه رژیم را خواهند پیچید. پس این طرح امنیت برای پیشگیری از هرگونه اقدام براندازی مشابه دوره انقلاب است

Translation:
Bardia from Iran: Dear, I don't know how much you know about the period before the revolution but I don't think you're aware that this regime rose or (was created) from the bed of these criminals and thugs. At that time during the chaos of revolution, the criminals took advantage of the lawlessness and turmoil and started to brutalize (in a totalitarian manner) to where that neither the people nor the government had saftey. And that was the reason that the rein of society fell into the hands of this Committee of mob (Komiteh). Now the same criminals and rabbles of the past have become current statesmen and government officials. And they see their own past conduct in the criminals of today and are extremely alarmed that if a tiny uprising occurs, the same criminals are going to give them the taste of their own medicine. Therefore, this so-called new "Saftey and Security Operation" is to prevent any uprising similar to what happened during the revolution.--End Translation

I think Bardia's comments are pretty much spot on given the harsh treatment and unpercedent call for their executions. Tehran Friday's Sermon Imam, Ahmad Khatami, has called for the execution of some.

Video Courtesy of Kamangir.