First Video Images Confirm State Violence, Gunfire, in Tehran (see comments section also)
By Al Giordano
Update 1:37 p.m. ET (10:07 p.m. Tehran time): I will shortly be on a long distance flight and out of Internet access for the rest of the day. But keep refreshing the comments section here as Farsi-to-English translator Iraj Omidvar and others will be posting updates here throughout the day and evening. Also stay tuned to the Twitter #IranElection feed, to Andrew Sullivan's tireless live blogging, and to Nico Pitney at the Huffington Post for breaking news and videos in English.
Among the most significant news items of this day comes in the words of opposition leader Mousavi, who made public statements in defiance of a gag order against him: "I am ready for martyrdom. If they arrest me, go on strike."
In Iran, it is now the night hour of the thunderous rooftop shouts of "Allah O Akbar" as the resistance regroups from today's repression, disinformation and censorship, and seeks to break the information blockade. It is likely that over the next hours more videos, photos and eye-witness reports will escape from behind the censors' nets. Stay tuned, and use the comments section to add updates of your own...
From BBC Persian. Likely filmed by citizen journalists.
Update: Iran News Agency report (translated from the original Farsi for The Field by Iraj Omidvar):
A demonstration of several thousand people has formed and is moving from Enghelab to Azadi Square. Beatings on and insults to people are intense. Around Tehran University each person is stopped and beaten.
Around 4 PM from Enghelab Square a very large crowd moved towards the Azadi Square. The atmosphere is tense and prepared for crackdown. From below the Special Anit-Riot Unit and security agents and especially the plain-clothed are controlling the people with intensity. From above helicopters are observing and controlling. Communication has been cut and to make contact one has to step outside. What is important is that people's demonstration has begun to move.
Analysis: What seems to be the government strategy is to have set a wide perimeter of various blocks in each direction around Enghalab Square where demonstrators were to begin their march to Freedom Square. There are also multiple Twitter reports of university students being intercepted and beaten if they leave the campus toward the demonstration route.
If this is what is happening, it is intended to prevent a critical mass of demonstrators from forming all in one place. Together with the house arrest of reporters and ban on images, the police strategy is a media strategy: to avoid the photograph or video that shows the magnitude of the protest: footage of scattershot crowds trying to get through - or running from the shots of - the police blockades simply do not have the emotional weight of images of a unified march.
Often in these situations (see: Oaxaca, Mexico, June 14, 2006) scattered demonstrators eventually find a place to regroup and begin marching en masse. We'll see...
Also: According Iran News Agency, the Health Ministry has issued a memo to the effect that ambulances must take those injured in the protest to the Sepah (Guard) Hospital (translation Omidvar).
The intent behind that would clearly be to have the option of arresting and interrogating wounded citizens for the high crime of assaulting riot police batons with their noses.
And: Twitterer Omid007 seems to have good sources on the ground. He's posted multiple reports in recent minutes about what is happening in various locations of Tehran.
Update II: This video, from today, shows Basiji militia retreating from demonstrators throwing rocks and advancing.
Maybe the conflict in the streets isn't as dominated by state power as the first videos released suggest.
Connecting the dots: I recall a couple days ago reports opposition leader Mousavi would reportedly seek refuge in the Khomeini mausoleum shrine if the state attempted to arrest him. In that context, the state media reported bomb blast at that shrine, if true, would more likely have been on the part of forces against him than those for his cause.
Update III: A short goodbye note on Balatarin with around 700 signed votes for the post. All for; one vote against.
Tomorrow is a big day, perhaps I will get killed!
Tomorrow I will participate in demonstrations. Perhaps the protests will meet with violence. Perhaps I am one of those who is supposed to be killed. I am listening again to all the beautiful songs I have heard in my life. I even want to play some LA songs and dance. I always wanted to thin my eyebrows as much as I can. Tomorrow before I go to the hairdresser I will see some super films at Hamoon. I have to take a look at my library. Forugh and Shamloo are worth reading again. I will sit and look at my family album. My friends, I should call them and say goodbye. I have only two bookcases in the world which I asked my family whom they should give the books to. I have two more units left to get my bachelors but to hell with a degree. My mind is seriously distraught. I wrote these thoughts for the next generation to know that we were not manipulated by the atmosphere or just emotional. So that they know for bettering their lives we have done everything we could. So that they know if our ancestors surrendered to Arab and Mongolian invasions, we did not surrender to despotism. This note is dedicated to tomorrow's children. . . .
(Translation from the original Farsi for The Field by Iraj Omidvar.)
Update IV: News briefs from Peyknet (translated by Omidvar):
Commander Raadaan in the News Network is threatening everybody, people and politicians and journalists.
Protests in the form of fight and flight in the northern streets and parallel to Enghelab to Azadi, including Sattar Khan. According to rumors, one person was killed on Sattar Khan.
Immediate: One person on Enghelab, Valiasr Intersection, was killed by shots from the Anti-Riot Unit and security forces threw him in a car took with them.
About 5 hours ago, something was mentioned on this site about an announcement from Mir Hossein in a few hours, but no news has appeared. Has something happened to Mir Hossein? Anything happening to Mir Hossein will be on the shoulder of Ali Khamenei.
Update V: Cyrus News reports (translation Omidvar):
According to received reports until this hour, one person in Valiasr Square has been killed by putschists.
Anti-Riot Units in Enghelab Street have lined up along Enghalab Streeto to Azadi Square. It seems all forces of the regime are concentrated in Tehran. About 2000 have been able to reach the Enghelab Stree. Basiji suppression forces and plain-clothed clubwielders are in side streets of Enghelab Street. Sound of repeated gun sots can be hears. Anti-riot units shoot tear gas to disperse the protesters. Conflicts from Behboodi Street to Engelab has been reported. The government television has given news of 2 large explosions in Tehran. These explosions have taken place in Toopkhane Square and in the South of Tehran in Mosallah. People have opened their door to the people. Latest news are about at least one killed and some injured. From alleys around Tehran University to the middle of Azadi Street, skirmishes with the Guard and other agents are being reportd. They use shots, gas, water canons, clubs, …. To disperse the people.
According to received reports, many skirmishes in the alleyways and streets between Enghelab and Azadi. On Jamalzadeh, Khosh, and . . . . squares and Azadi Street in the hands of government. But side streets are full of groups of people. Shots in Azadi Street. Beatings and conflicts have intensified. Suppression forces shoot in the air. Another report: I come from Enghelab. All the anti-riot units of Tehran (or Iran?!), is stationed from Enghelab to Azadi. Slogans of "Death to Khamenei" are being chanted. People throw stones at agents. Strong possibility that agents will retreat from Khosh.
Update VI: From Ghalam News (translation Omidvar): Mir Hossein Mousavi in a letter to the Guardian Council has said, by describing some of the electoral violations, these violations make it necessary to cancel the elections across the country.
Part of the Introduction to Mousavi's Letter:
The Social Passion and Intelligence of the Iranian People with Its Historical Memory Will not Believe this Injustice and Lawlessness.
. . . I will continue my activities for shedding light on these truths and for realizing the rights of the honorable people of Iran in the framework of the Constitution and current laws.
. . . Now I will explain a part of the violations that took place during the 10th presidential election. It is obvious that that this is only a part of the facts about violations and in the future not only me but the people and history of Iran will register and report with much greater detail with the addition of other facts. These violations and the planning for these despicable actions were made months ago.
Update VII: Here is Mousavi's latest statement, translated: http://iranfacts.blogspot.com/
And also, from Peyk Iran (translation Iraj Omidvar):
Today around noon, news arrived of the suicide of a person in front of the Shiraz Friday Prayer offices. This person who is said to have had a side arm explained his action as protest against the treatment of the people by the government. Authorities are suppressing this news and have not permitted its publication.
The Basij base in Navvaab has been burned down.
The plain-clothed agents visit hospitals to collect statistics and identities of the injured. Be careful.
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Regarding that explosion again
Submitted June 20, 2009 - 8:44 am by Kat (not verified)The Daily Dish makes the point, brought up by Ann Curry at NBC, that the explosion has only been reported by state media. Do we have any independent confirmation that it actually happened?
What is the endgame of the
Submitted June 20, 2009 - 9:29 am by Sebastian (not verified)What is the endgame of the government? Do they sit in their palaces murmuring "Let it go away, let it just go away!"?
Even if they succeed today, the next demonstrations are going to be even bigger and more violent. And as you and Booman mentioned the martyr thing correctly, every dead protester makes the opposition stronger. I mean, these guys are Shias, shouldn't they know their own culture?
Follow Fisk...
Submitted June 20, 2009 - 9:53 am by Joel WiensRobert Fisk continues his unmatched (from the west) on the ground reporting, backed by decades of intimate knowledge of the region. He's as authentic a journalist as I've come across in the Middle East.
Mousavi's FB page
Submitted June 20, 2009 - 11:00 am by Lisa in Oregon (not verified)posted a video showing streets packed with thousands of protesters in what looks like mid-day sun. Just posted a few minutes ago but is that image from today? Or previous days? Seems very peaceful compared with other reports/videos from today....
Al, thanks for your
Submitted June 20, 2009 - 11:12 am by Bill (not verified)Al, thanks for your excellent articles. Here is a good twitter account you should be following, if you are not already - http://twitter.com/persiankiwi - he has been consistently pumping out reliable info hours before it is confirmed. Recently, he has stated that Mousavi has performed the ritual bathing for martyrdom, and that he has called the nation to an indefinite strike should he be arrested.
'Mousavi - tehran TODAY'
Submitted June 20, 2009 - 11:20 am by Bill ConroyVideo.... from tweeter inside Iran, 5 minutes ago, noticed:
GREAT VIDEO: RT: Mousavi - tehran TODAY
Same tweeter, posted:
Mousavi among protesters: "If they arrested me, go on a strike stop going to work." #iranelection
Maybe I don't understand this...
Submitted June 20, 2009 - 11:56 am by Rob "Jurgan" Dukes (not verified)but it seems like some of this is counterproductive. I thought the idea was that this should be viewed as a non-violent protest, since violence would give the state an excuse to crackdown harder. So how does:
Another report: I come from Enghelab. All the anti-riot units of Tehran (or Iran?!), is stationed from Enghelab to Azadi. Slogans of "Death to Khamenei" are being chanted. People throw stones at agents. Strong possibility that agents will retreat from Khosh.
square with the stated aim of non-violence?
Street justice happens in the absence of police [honest police]
Submitted June 20, 2009 - 4:41 pm by Bill Conroy@Rob The stones were being thrown at paramilitaries in the video above, not legit law enforcement. The paras were there to beat the crap out of people outside the color of law -- thugs, gang violence. The role of the police is to protect the people, not the thugs, right? If they don't, then do you simply accept getting beat bloody by thugs?
And the repression is already happening, regardless of what's being shouted by protestors -- and their shouting is likely related to videos like the one below [warning extremely graphic and sad] of a woman, shot, on the street, and not looking like she's going to make it.
RT Oh my god, disturbing video of a girl shot during the rallyhttp://bit.ly/11ehfT #IranElection *warning this is graphic*
And more footage, today, [note correction from Woodrow below] of a lawless state acting against its people: Raw Footage - Basijis Attack Protestors and Break into their homes
But at the end of the day, I think we'll find the marchers outnumbered the state on this day, as some video evidence already suggests.
... Even as they shoot people [video, again, graphic scene], the people are out in numbers.
@Bill Conroy
Submitted June 20, 2009 - 12:35 pm by Lisa in Oregon (not verified)A sad thanks for posting that video. When I tried the link from
Omid007's Twitter page, it kept kicking me back to my Facebook page (??). Now there is buzz about the 2007 intention of the CIA to foment exactly this. Interesting mixed feelings about that for me.
Non-Violence
Submitted June 20, 2009 - 12:51 pm by Erik SiegristRob, AP also has a video (CNN's running it right now) of people *protecting* a dismounted Basij cyclist from retribution from the crowd as he kneels begging for mercy.
If I can find it online I'll post it... the heart of this movement is still the people's faith, rooted in peace and justice.
http://singcitychronicles.blogspot.com
Prey vs. predator
Submitted June 20, 2009 - 2:23 pm by Bill ConroyI agree with Eric on the core of the movement, and the desire of the mass of the people, but in the moment, we are all human -- and our better angels do not always prevail. That's why [haven't seen the video] some of the protestors had to protect the Basij para from others who would do harm to him.
So I tend not to apply textbook philosophies to the street; we are bound to see some examples of protestors employing violence. My key dividing line is whether it is "violence" as self-defense, or, as in the case of the state this day, violence in the aim of aggression and the exercise of ruthless power.
A mouse will bite a cat, but it is clearly the prey, not the predator.
A video just posted that seems to demonstrate just that principle as protestors force a gang of paras to retreat by in the street, here.
ANOTHER VIDEO: WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: one person killed in gun shooting in tehran, iran, 20th june
Some photos from today, just out:
The CW
Submitted June 20, 2009 - 1:29 pm by valdivia (not verified)Though I knwo that what matters today is the fate of the protesters on the streets and the fate of the movement in Iran I wanted to ask what Al and the otehrs thought about the covnentional wisdom now embraced by the usual suspects in the media that Obama is failing this. I know, ridiculous, but you all know how it is when the media just take on a meme. CNN was showing a rally in front of the white house syaing it was to rebuke Obama for supporting Ahmadinejad (!) and not the protesters. WTH???
So any thoughts in general about this and how it might play out given all the sunday shows are full of republicans tomorrow? Does this matter or am I just being a worry wart?
Correction
Submitted June 20, 2009 - 2:19 pm by Woodrow "asim" Jarvis Hill (not verified)@Bill Conroy: Just FYI, that Raw footage of home attacks is actually from a few days ago.
From an Iranian blogger
Submitted June 20, 2009 - 2:46 pm by Bill ConroyFrom an Iranian blogger still tracking events:
10:40
WHOLE city is shaking with very loud screams from rooftops.
10:42
Hospitals in Tehran are NOT safe ppl disappearing from them basijis there, take injured to embassies
10:40
shouts of Death to khamene'i & Death to Dictator in holy city of Mashhad,Tehran,Isfahan,Ahwaz,Kermanshah,Shiraz ... "explosive" -- loudest it has ever been
10:48
People reportedly push back militia in Gisha
11:00
Many people Wounded At Haft Hooz SQ, No Clinic Is Open!
11:30
Canadians, call your foreign office. It's confirmed Canadian Embassy rejects injured protesters
11:40
Hospital close to the scene in Tehran: 30-40 dead thus far as of 11pm and 200 injured. Police taking names of incoming injured
11:50
Chants and gunshots can be heard on the roofs
11:52
Azadi St., Sanati Sharif University indicate that more that 10 helicopters landed inside the university
11:53
unloaded massive amounts of guns for more than 500 basijies whom had been sent there several hours earlier to confront the demonstrators
""According to same private listserv source, "People from all around Tehran are gathering to march into the city later at night""
12:00
Security Forces attacked Khomeini Hospital to arrest injured protesters, it is said at least 30 injured are there...
Basij base burned by protesters at Navab St. (South Tehran)
12:02
another person dead in Azarabayjan ST in Tehran
12:05
young protester killed with bullet through the head on Navab street
12:06
Conf'd Iran Fatemiyeh Hospital Tehran: 30-40 dead as of 11pm; 200 injured. Police taking names of incoming injured
12:15
Haft Hooz SQ. is on fire, Protesters are so angry and try to push back Bassij with Coctel Molotov...
12:17 ""people planning to march into centre Tehran tonight as darkness falls""
12:18 plain clothes police are at hospitals taking names
It is now Sunday, 12:33 am in Tehran.
ANOTHER VIDEO FROM EARLIER TODAY PER CITIZEN JOURNALIST IRANIAN TWEETER: iran - tehran - emrooz azadi SQ.
Power to the People
Submitted June 20, 2009 - 3:52 pm by Bill ConroyYou can't kill an idea:
ANOTHER NEW VIDEO JUST OUT: Protests in Iran against election's fraud
Obama echoes King
Submitted June 20, 2009 - 5:15 pm by Bill ConroyTHE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
_______________________________________________________________
For Immediate Release June 20, 2009
Statement from the President on Iran
The Iranian government must understand that the world is watching. We mourn each and every innocent life that is lost. We call on the Iranian government to stop all violent and unjust actions against its own people. The universal rights to assembly and free speech must be respected, and the United States stands with all who seek to exercise those rights.
As I said in Cairo, suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away. The Iranian people will ultimately judge the actions of their own government. If the Iranian government seeks the respect of the international community, it must respect the dignity of its own people and govern through consent, not coercion.
Martin Luther King once said - "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." I believe that. The international community believes that. And right now, we are bearing witness to the Iranian peoples’ belief in that truth, and we will continue to bear witness.
____________
More video, just posted, people united: Violent in June 20th rally in Tehran
canadian embassy
Submitted June 20, 2009 - 4:46 pm by rebecca (not verified)"Canadians, call your foreign office. It's confirmed Canadian Embassy rejects injured protesters"
I have contacted the CBC and am calling our foreign affairs minister to get a response to this.
solidarity
Submitted June 20, 2009 - 7:48 pm by MikeD (not verified)good piece by my buddy Nick Rombes. http://professordvd.typepad.com/ As he points out, the woman handing rocks to the protesters is (in my words) the essence of solidarity. And as someone on twitter said today, the shouts of Allahu Akbar from the rooftops give comfort and hope to those being beaten in the streets. If the US, god forbid, ever elects another Bush, I hope we can take inspiration from the battle of Tehran, and do something more than simply writing our Congresspeople.
CNN Complaining...
Submitted June 20, 2009 - 7:58 pm by Pamela Hilliard OwensChritianne (sp) Anapour (sp) and others @CNN "complaining" that "real" reporters can't get "real" news and the other videos and reports are from "social networks" which CNN can't confirm...says she is so "frustrated"...
And her point is...?
waterprise2 AKA Pam
Liberal with a Capital L!
@Pam
Submitted June 20, 2009 - 8:05 pm by David B. BrionesIt isn't so nice when the government isn't dishing out the news for you, is it, CNN? Wow, they're even preventing you from getting information!! Who would have ever thought a government would do that?
Yeah... big realization for CNN here. The truly funny part is that it took them this long to start complaing.
Unfortunately, most in the commercial media have long forgotten what the true meaning of journalism is.
@David
Submitted June 20, 2009 - 8:15 pm by Pamela Hilliard OwensThat is EXACTLY what my husband, who is an award-winning "real" journalist, just said!
He said so many of the "real" journalists got lazy--not our Al, of course--and that's why new real journalists are emerging...
waterprise2 AKA Pam
Liberal with a Capital L!
Tweet: 'Today was the worst day in my life'
Submitted June 20, 2009 - 9:35 pm by Bill ConroyThis isn't about the journalists or some chest-puffing contest over who's reporting prize is bigger.
This is about humanity. Every unjust act subtracts from it, from all of us.
... From a tweeter on the front lines, referring to the young woman murdered earlier today in the protests:
her name was "NEDA"
Only click on that link if your heart is already broken.
It's now 7:29 am in Tehran, the sun has been up approaching two hours.
Stay tuned....
Neda
Submitted June 20, 2009 - 10:11 pm by David B. BrionesWritten by the person who yesterday wrote about being ready to die today (Update III from this post). It is clearly a reference to Neda, the woman killed today whose face is covered in blood. The extraordinarily wide distribution of such images has the potential of creating an all-consuming fire in Iran.
Translated by Iraj Omidvar, link found from Balatarin.com.
http://hanaa54.blogfa.com/post-1.aspx
Obama echoes King echoes Parker
Submitted June 20, 2009 - 9:55 pm by momfrommaine (not verified)I was very moved by President Obama's statement today especially when he invoked King's words "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice". These words, however go back long before Dr. King and have a connection with our American Revolution and the abolition movement.
The Unitarian minister Theodore Parker delivered these words in a sermon in 1835.
"I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice."
Parker's father John led the minutemen at the battle of Lexington. Here is a link to a salon article with more information about this subject.
http://open.salon.com/blog/arthur_howe/2009/01/18/the_arc_of_the_univers...
Journalism
Submitted June 20, 2009 - 10:36 pm by Erik SiegristIt's funny, Pam... some people seem to still be managing to do some 'real' reporting from Tehran...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21/opinion/21tehran.html
http://singcitychronicles.blogspot.com
Truth is like that
Submitted June 20, 2009 - 11:19 pm by Bill ConroyRemember this, with respect to the arc of the moral universe?
Strangely, it seems he could be speaking to what is happening in Iran today as well, no?
Truth is like that.
Neda=Tiananmen Square "Tank Man?"
Submitted June 20, 2009 - 11:59 pm by bonkers (not verified)I was still concerned that a brutal enough crackdown, and support from the "Kentucky-like" areas of Iran would be enough to in fact put the cat back in the bag for the time being, and at least scare people into submission for another decade or two.
However, personalized stories can move entire countries to act like nothing else, and Neda sadly may in fact be the unlikely martyr to topple the oppressors once and for all.
And as is pointed out here often, we only know about Neda and her death because of all these new channels of information sharing. Being able to see her death will only strengthen her story for so many. Unlike the "Tank Man" where the Chinese dictators were able to suppress the story so much that most Chinese people don't even know about it to this day, Neda will inspire resolve in this current movement, and perhaps inspire Iranian resistance for generations.
We all must work to preserve and stengthen all these New Media outlets every day. Viva Neda!
A Very Important Larijani Statement
Submitted June 21, 2009 - 12:07 am by Iraj OmidvarBoth PressTV and Khabar Online report that Ali Larijani, the speaker of Majlis and the former head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), has stated in an interview with Channel 2 that "The views of a significant [could be read as "chief"] portion of the population differs from the official version. These views should be respected and not mixed with those of people who are creating instability." In another part of the interview, he states, "Even though members of the Guardian Council are pious, I wished some had not entered the [political] scene on behalf of a certain candidate." He also criticizes the official media for provoking the people and suggests that the media should give airtime to critics. The statements from Larijani can possibly be interpreted to mean that he believes a majority of the people disagree with the government's account of the election, especially since in another part of the interview, he is quoted as having said that "security services and the Basij should be kind to people" because "the account of the people who create instability is separate from the majority of the people." But both sentences about the people are phrases vaguely enough to leave room for a different interpretation. At any rate, this is a very significant development. Larijani is a tremendously influential figure in government, especially in the media establishment. And he has the ear of the Leader.
general strike
Submitted June 21, 2009 - 7:19 am by Laura M. Poyneerhttp://twitter.com/persiankiwi/status/2264956671
MOUSAVI - We need advice and help to organize a National Strike Plan - if u can help post on his facebook - #Iranelection RT RT RT
http://twitter.com/persiankiwi/status/2264975232
Mousavi - any person with Project Management ability or mobilization experence contact Mousavi on facebook -
http://twitter.com/persiankiwi/status/2264985641
http://www.facebook.com/mousavi?v=feed&story_fbid=107481508472 - MOUSAVI Facebook #Iranelection RT RT RT
(facebook says) We are(Independently) working on a gerneral Strike Plan. Please help us with your ideas if you have expertise on this issue, send plans to our email adress and write ideas as comments below.
http://twitter.com/persiankiwi/status/2265038751
ppl prepare - soon Iran will be cripple with strikes - already petrol shortages being reported - #Iranelection
Mousavi asking for help developing strike
Submitted June 21, 2009 - 7:33 am by Woodrow "asim" Jarvis Hill (not verified)This below post comes right off Mousavi's confirmed Facebook page, which has been posting critical information for days now:
We are(Independently) working on a gerneral Strike Plan. Please help us with your ideas if you have expertise on this issue, send plans to our email adress and write ideas as comments below.
I recommend people w/knowlege of Direct Action and Community Organizing go comment there and/or email them now. The comments section is, of course, already filling up with people who have no clue, but wish to bloivate and make it about their "awesome" ideas.
Neda is already the face of the protest
Submitted June 21, 2009 - 7:41 am by Erik SiegristYesterday in New York people demonstrating outside the UN were holding up images of her instead of signs or slogans.
http://singcitychronicles.blogspot.com
@ Bill Conroy: Truth is...
Submitted June 21, 2009 - 9:19 am by Lorie Cavinlike that. I have been thinking about parallels with the Obama campaign and the people of Iran. The brief clip of Obama on the trail, reminds me of the heavy load that Obama and We the People have to bear at this time in our history.
I linked to your comment over at OFA, after Obama's Father's Day message.
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/obamaforamerica/gGGG3R/com...
@ David B. Briones: Neda
Thanks for your comment. It was my last view before bed. I have not been able to watch any of the violence.
As her brother so lovingly states, "Your last look is burning in my soul."
Me too.
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