Comments on: Answers to this week’s “why”s http://zxq9.com/archives/333 On Government: "There is nothing more useless than doing efficiently that which should not be done at all." Wed, 02 May 2012 12:49:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: zxq9 http://zxq9.com/archives/333#comment-174 zxq9 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:35:49 +0000 http://zxq9.com/archives/333#comment-174 Above I had written that it did not matter much what people on the street had to say as much as it matters what Supreme Leader Khamenei would have to say about things. I was late to the punch. He spoke at a Friday sermon on June 19th. In no uncertain terms he supported Ahmadinejad's electoral victory, forced a "you're with me or against me" situation within the clerical establishment and made a level promise of violence to protesters should they decide to turn out in large numbers again. I was not aware of the speech/sermon until much later because I wasn't paying much attention to things right then and it was very difficult to sort through the flurry of unreliable and unverifiable trash that was so clogging the networks at that time. Above I had written that it did not matter much what people on the street had to say as much as it matters what Supreme Leader Khamenei would have to say about things.

I was late to the punch. He spoke at a Friday sermon on June 19th. In no uncertain terms he supported Ahmadinejad’s electoral victory, forced a “you’re with me or against me” situation within the clerical establishment and made a level promise of violence to protesters should they decide to turn out in large numbers again.

I was not aware of the speech/sermon until much later because I wasn’t paying much attention to things right then and it was very difficult to sort through the flurry of unreliable and unverifiable trash that was so clogging the networks at that time.

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