What is Neda’s Fourth of July Message?
Submitted by Amil Imani on Sat, 07/04/2009 - 06:00
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Neda, the young and beautiful freedom-loving Iranian student was slain in cold-blood by the current Islamic regime in Iran. Almost instantly, Neda became, not only the divine call of the Iranian uprising, but, she symbolized the call for liberty around the globe. Here's the video of Richard Roth's report which contained the image of Neda.
If either President Ronald Reagan or President John F. Kennedy were alive today, they would stand in solidarity with the Iranian people. In fact, they would declare “Today we all are Iranians." It appears the Iranian people are showing the world what a revolution looks like and some Americans have started paying close attention and taking notes.
Neda knew the value of freedom. She died for it. Her blood was not wasted and she did not die in vain. Headlines have heralded the young woman as a martyr and some even dubbed her Iran's Joan of Arc. Not only has she become a "symbol of goodness" battling against her brutal oppressor, her story has laid open a much larger issue, freedom and liberty. There is a site dedicated to Neda proclaiming, “We are all Neda.”
Each year, on the fourth of July, we celebrate America’s birth and independence. This is a day that the heart of every American must glow with pride and appreciation. On this special occasion, the Iranian martyr, Neda, has a special message for all freedom-loving Americans: “Do not take your liberty for granted” “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure," said Thomas Jefferson. I think Neda would have said, “I have given my blood for the cause of liberty for my country and I hope you don’t have to give yours once again.”
We are going through some troubled times in America. We Americans need to wake up and realize that our liberties and freedoms that we are taking for granted are slowly and inexorably being taken from us. Once we lose it, it is very hard to get it back. Let the blood of the Persian freedom-fighter, Neda, inspires all of us to cherish our liberty. “We are fighting and dying on the streets of Tehran to have what you have had for more than two centuries. You, America, have been an inspiration to millions of us in Iran to become free, free to roam, free to grow, and free to bloom” Neda would have said.
As we celebrate the 4th of July, it is my hope that all freedom-loving Americans remain mindful of how precious that day is to our country's storied history. On July 4, 1776, America declared its independence from England, the old white grandfather across the sea. The miracle of America happened, and its dynamic birth rapidly changed the entire world. Neda would have wished her blood would cause the Iranians to gain their freedom and our two countries once again become the staunchest friends.
America is a nation and an ideal, birthed by a group of visionaries that gave it the constitution to nurture it and protect it. What makes America, “America the Beautiful,” more than just a blessed land is your legacy, the constitution. Sadly, the constitution also makes for “America the vulnerable” by enshrining freedom that enables the malevolent to subvert and destroy America from within. You are the guardian of the constitution. You and only you determine the health and survival of America.
Democracy, by its accommodating and benign nature is susceptible to corruption and even destruction by forces from within and from without. With this realization in mind, the founding fathers of your country enshrined the constitution to safeguard and protect the rule of the people.
America is defined by the last phrase of our national anthem: The land of the free and the home of the brave. Freedom, in all its forms, is our greatest legacy, for which our nation has bravely fought many wars on many fronts to preserve against the unceasing assaults of totalitarianism of all stripes. Time and again, the flowers of our nation bravely sacrificed their lives to protect freedom and liberty.
I am reminded by the words of our great President Abraham Lincoln when he, in 1863, described our nation as "a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.” Is this still the case, or how much government stealing from us? In 1776, our Founders stood up, put their lives and fortunes on the line and declared their freedom and independence from the chains and shackles of the King of England. I hope all Americans once again, unite for the love of freedom and are willing to stand up and declare their Freedom and Independence, not from the King of Britain, but from the chains and shackles of our own government and their lackeys.
First things first. Our highest priority is the preservation of this nation of the free. We have done what it took in the past and we must do what it takes now and in the future to safeguard our precious liberty. America is not perfect. Yet, it is the very best hope for a humanity struggling to find its humanness. America is worth defending.
For the past 30 years, an illegitimate government of the Islamic Republic has been waging a brutal war against the entire population of Iran. For 30 years Iranians have been fighting for individual and religious freedom. Iranians, have suffered so much, and they are risking their lives and ready to die so that the next Iranian generation does not have to live in the nightmare of a backward Islamic barbarity.
As Iranians have started the fight for their freedom and liberty, we must strive to keep ours. We must put aside our minor differences that have divided us in the past and unite as one strong political force to restore our fading Freedom and Liberty. “The history of liberty is a history of resistance.”
In conclusion, I would like to thank all Americans who wrote songs and poems in remembrance of a freedom-loving Iranian patriot, Neda. My special thanks goes out to United States Senator McCain who spoke on the floor of the U.S. Senate, remembering the champion of freedom, Neda, and to the honorable congressman McCotter’s beautiful eulogy about Neda’s assassination by the direct order of the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. I am eternally grateful for millions of people who have kept Neda’s memory alive. Regrettably, President Obama has stated he wants to make a deal with Neda’s murderers. America, now it is up to you to object to any negotiations with those who murdered our freedom-loving and innocent human being, Neda.
Happy Independence Day, America!
Shame on you Obama for
Shame on you Obama for dealing with the Hitler of our time, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad! It's like he's another Neville Chamberlain with his tendencies towards appeasement. I find it quite unfortunate that the left has made an unholy alliance with Islamofacists. Liberals are supposed to be in favour of feminism and homosexuality, two things which are the very antithesis of shariah law. Then again, radical leftists tend to be Marxist and totalitarian just like the Islamists.
We cannot let Neda's martyrdom go in vain. We must support the Green Revolution with hopes of democracy and secularism in Iran, no matter how much Ayatollah Khamanei and all the mullahs try to subvert it. Iran was great before Islam and Islamic civilisation had reached its pinnacle due to the contributions of Persians in the medieval period. There is no need for an Islamic Republic; the very phrase is an oxymoron. In 1953, Mossadeq was overthrown for the selfish interests of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. America, you can make up for it in 2009 by making a useful intervention - one that gives us a truly democratic Iran.
Thx, Amil. I was shocked by
Thx, Amil. I was shocked by the Neda video. I feel great sympathy for her family and fellow freedom fighters.
It's hard to believe when you look at today's Iranian regime, but Persia has a long and illustrious history as a great civilization, and as a great center of Jewish learning and culture stretching back to ancient times.
Neda's death symbolizes the tragedy of what has happened to Iran since it fell to the Arabs so many centuries ago. Islam marks the death of civilization.
If the Iranians can rise up and cast off their yoke, Neda's life will have the meaning it deserves.
Asif, there are many Hitlers
Asif, there are many Hitlers today, not just Ahmadinejad and our Democrats just love 'hugging thugs'. Our people keep voting this sort of ilk back into office too. They openly 'hug thugs' and so many just think it is 'cool'.
jewdog, yeah I got to agree with you. We see that if we do only a tiny bit of studying of what islam has brought to countries. Look at Lebanon as just one tiny example - once a thriving Democracy, free, the 'Riviera of the Middle East' and now it is a pig sty of Muslim violence and persecution of Christians and Jews.
We think that Iraq will be ok since we rebuilt almost all of it. While we leave and they wouldn't have what they have now if it were not for us - they celebrated that we left. Instead they should have wept because it is just a matter of time before it becomes what it was before - another pigsty of Muslim violence. And no other Muslim country will help them like we have helped them because the other Muslim countries don't care just as long as it is under sharia laws. A pig sty of violence doesn't concern them. Just as long as they can get their Jihadists trained to do some more killing - that is what other Muslim countries support - jihadist training and the families of Jihadists.
Wait. Something confuse me
Wait. Something confuse me here. Iranians are muslim, right? Why they don't like the law which imposed on them. That's sharia law, the holiest of the holiest law that ever exist (in muslim mind). Freedom is not an option, because freedom came from the infidel west. I'm totally confuse here, in the other hand this iranians want their heaven (islamic of course), but they don't like to be controlled (to reach that heaven). Islam is all about control and obeying your quran.