[IMC-Editorial] Letter to the Editor: Why are the peaceniks not supporting the July 9 strike in Iran?

[The Ayn Rand Institute]

Dear Editor:

Where are they all? The placard-waving throngs of former hippies;
Jesse Jackson pretentiously speechifying to foreign multitudes; Jimmy
Carter pontificating to Larry King--all those peaceniks protesting the
deaths of Iraqi civilians? Where are they now that they are really
needed--to support and defend the Iranians rising up to shake off the
shackles of dictatorship? The Iranian people are oppressed by the
Mullahs like the Iraqis were oppressed by Saddam Hussein. They have
lost their right to free speech, free movement and assembly, freedom
of (or from) religion, and the freedom to live their lives by their own
freely chosen values, not those of their rulers.

Could it be that these alleged peace protestors were really
demonstrating, not for Iraqis and their rights, but against America?
Is that why they are not supporting the Iranian people (or the
Venezuelans or Zimbabweans for that matter)--because the U.S. government
is (albeit timidly) on the side of these freedom yearning people?
Anyone who truly values individual rights should be cheering and
supporting those brave Iranians who want and deserve something very
moral and simple: freedom. 

Sincerely,

Scott McConnell
Ayn Rand Institute

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