Revolution Devours Its Young
It looks like February 11th will be the most violent confrontation to date. The regime is taking unusual measures to put down the promised demonstrations. In many ways it resembles the “Chinese solution.” First, an unprecedented mobilization: 120 trains and something like a thousand buses have been deployed from as far away as 250 kilometers from the capital. They will be used by the Revolutionary Guards and Basij to bring tens of thousands of paid “volunteers” to Tehran. These will consist of entire families (dependent on the regime) to counter the Green Wave. Each family gets $80 for the day, plus free food. The regime is aiming at 300,000 thugs in the streets. The Greens don’t think the numbers will be that high, and in any event they expect ten times that number of protesters, upwards of three million increasingly angry people, demanding freedom and justice.
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nomdeblog Says:
In The Road to Serfdom, Hayek says that the “statesman who sets out to plan economic life will soon be confronted with the alternative of either assuming dictatorial powers or abandoning his plans.”
The whole region, composed of countries formed after WWII by lines in the sand, has an enormous population now. These countries, many are just pretend countries, have been artificially propped up by a combination of Western oil funding and technology that permits more infants to survive. Thus their former methods of governance need a total shake up to manage these new massive populations. They cannot function within their ancient tribal ways that had a village mentality. That can work in small populations of nomadic cultures, but no more.
With India having dropped its central planning ways in 1991 and adopting democratic capitalism, it has started to grow a middle class reaching 300 million. Iraq has been a success although still not exactly Denmark yet. Iran’s Mad Mullahs will soon be following Hayek’s prediction and have to abandon its “plans”.
Posted on February 7th, 2010 at 9:02 am