I watched a NFB documentry called The Tree That Remembers on TVO. It was about a bunch of Iranian political prisoners from Iran who are now in Canada. They are political activists who were involved in Iranian Revolution. Their side lost and the mullahs took over. They all, all in the documentry, suffered and were jailed, tortured and some were executed.
I am sympathetic for a bunch of well meaning intellectuals. I can idenify with them more readily than the mad mullahs. However they are the Iranian Revolution Trotskyites. If their side had won and the mullahs lost, someone else would have been tortured, someone else would have been the torturer. The revolution reshuffled the deck of Iran and the intellectuals lost again.
I am sympathetic for a bunch of well meaning intellectuals. I can idenify with them more readily than the mad mullahs. However they are the Iranian Revolution Trotskyites. If their side had won and the mullahs lost, someone else would have been tortured, someone else would have been the torturer. The revolution reshuffled the deck of Iran and the intellectuals lost again.
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