The Purple Shadeed

The Purple Shadeed

While I am limping about on a busted up ankle, I’ve been thinking and thinking often leads to blogging. For years we have seen “shadeed” or Martyrs promoted by the state and media in the middle east ( who are often the same thing) these Shadeed brought murder, death, and terror.. But a new shaheed has arisen. For years uprisings have been crushed, we have seen the results of the “hama” rules in the middle east over and over again.

While a lot of conservative folks are crediting George Bush and his doctrine, I think we need to get real and give credit where credit is due. I think the credit really does belong to the purple shadeed. While George Bush made their sacrifice and strength possible, I think what is causing this seed change this very paradigm shift was all those purple fingers.

They could ignore the people in Afghanistan because the Taliban was always the C- team. But in Iraq, the heart of tyranny on a truly soviet/Naziesque scale along with the belly of the Wahhabi-al Salaif/Muslim brotherhood beast here we had a perfect storm of every evil thing in the middle east. Every boogey man that has scared generation upon generation of men and women in that part of the world was ready to slay the nascent free Iraq in its sleep.

But they stood up. When the criminals closed down for a short time their polling place, they brought more people there to spite these vile monsters. For the first time, perhaps in the entire history of this early cradle of human civilization the tyrants and their ideological help mates could not use fear. They could not threaten people by even taking their lives. The people were going to stand strong.

All the media, the very media which denounced the occupation and the “puppet” government of the occupation saw this strength. They saw this power that their maker had granted to each and every one of them and they said “why not here?”

In Lebanon a popular former Prime Minister stood ready to with his life campaign for one united cause, a free Lebanon. He gave his life but it seems with it may have went any chance for Syria to build its greater Syria

In the Palestinian authority the game of triangulating the terror death squads to make Israel look like a fool in the international community have stopped. The allegations made by Israel, and implied by the Palestinian authority of Syrian interference would have been welcomed by Arafat now they are rebuked.

In Egypt we see the first cracks that the state of emergency, the virtually Stalinist state of the Mubark regime is starting to crack, and freedom from the police state may be just around the corner.

The UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, and even Saudi Arabia have began to allow more and more of Democracy to happen for their own people.

As our founding fathers stated, these people who have suffered so much now have learned through blood that they have right endowed by their creator, that no man has the right to take from them.

While America carried this torch for them and many others we have failed in the past grievously to light that torch in the hearts of others.

In the 50s and 60s people rose up against communism and we did very little.

In the 80s we let the spirit of democracy be wounded possibly fatally in Tiananmen Square.

But that has changed, that willingness to say “this is our flame, not yours” will no longer be tolerated in Washington.

This flame is a weak flame right now, and we must protect it. Because we failed the people in china, in Iran, in Hungary, in Poland, and in so many other places when the cold wins of those very vile dehumanizing forces destroyed their flames and left a few embers in its wake. We have failed those people, so we cannot fail those who follow the purple Shadeed.

When we talk about prescription drugs, raising the minimum wage, state funded health care… if one dime of that spending prevents us from doing this most moral of duties, then that welfare state is bought with the blood of every future Tiananmen Square. I will not buy my comfort with their blood, and I will not tolerate political leaders who will.

The Purple Shadeed have stood up, now we must stand with them.