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'Apologizng" for DelaraTo repeat the last words of my post below

"To continually evaluate one's own country's government's misdeeds solely in comparison with those of foreign powers, implicitly denies the Iranian people their capacity for autonomy and agency,  and is an inverted, internalized neo-Colonialism of the soull.".

Send 120 white roses to Obama

The recent U.S. bombing in Afghanistan killed about 100 civilians there, including many women and children (not to be mistaken with all the other U.S. bombings which have killed Afghan civilians). Does "Stop Child Executions" campaign against the killing of Afghan children by U.S. bombs? After all, these are bombs that we are paying for with our taxes.

The White Rose

The White Rose (die Weisse Rose) was an intensive  leafleting campaign against the Third Reich initiated solely by five young university students in Munich with the aid of one of their university professors between 1942 and 1943. It was one of the only coordinated popular resistance movements in Nazi Germany during its thirteen year existencce. One of the five students was a young woman named Sophie Scholl who, shortly before her twenty second birthday, along with the other five, was beheaded by guillotine..

Sophie Scholl has captured the imagination of the German populace until this day. In 2003, in a major competiton,  she was voted the fourth most influential German of all time along with her brother, over Bach, Goethe, Einstein and Bismarck. Among those under the age of 40, she ranked first. In a similar competition among young women, she was voted the greatest woman of the twentieth century.

There is no comparison between sSophie Scholl's bravery in her chosen role in the fight against the evil of a brutal regime, and Delara Darabi's involuntary imprisonment due to her complicitousness in a murder. But in her CHOICE throughout her imprisonment to articulate through her art and poetry the struggle for freedom for ALL the oppressed there is. As is there in what she represents because of the way she was brutally used as a toy in IRI power games, and in the vile circumstances surrounding her death.  

No one needs saints. what is needed are fighters.The question is, will Delara be fossillized into a dead icon in the church of people's minds, between netflix and moccachinos. Or will her words, despite, and in some ways because of, her cxomplicitousness, live on, for a generation which has yet to come to terms in unity with its own complicitousness in the so-called "Revolution" of 1979, as fighting words? This is a matter of individual choice and remains an open question.

I hve no idea, no idea, how that fight should be fought when  IRI has just brazenly declared that had there been no international  attention,, Delara could've been spared. But I do have an answer for those who reply, but what about Iraq, what about Gaza, in the name of anti-colonialism.  My answer is that to continually evaluate one's own country's government's misdeeds solely in comparison with those of foreign powers, implicitly denies the Iranian people their capacity for autonomy and agency,  and is an inverted, internalized neo-Colonialism of the soul,  .

Freedom!?….Never being entrapped is meaningless!

Oh People! Let us rip the chains of our thoughts

and not be captivated by freedom

for …that itself is our "captive

                    -written in prison by Delara Darabi