Fraud, Freedom and Truth

The Iranian revolution is much more powerful than Obama understands…

The ongoing Iranian revolution is profound; it is stirring hearts around the world for the sheer human drama of it all; it is wrenching hearts around the world as the brutality of tyrannical authority is displayed once again; it is warming hearts around the world as web-based technologies are completely bypassing all attempts by state-run media (including the US Pravda media) to filter and spin and control and manipulate the story.

The story itself is so powerful—and a tremendous tribute to the vision of President George W. Bush and the rightness of his heartfelt belief in the universal human yearning for freedom. The freedom of choice offered the Iranians in their presidential election of June 12 was so small as to be almost illusory (the two candidates were hand-picked by the mullahs and are controlled by the mullahs), yet the people latched onto it as the opportunity to express their hatred of the entire regime. When even this tiniest hint of freedom turned out in the eyes of the Iranian people to be a fraud, they went ballistic. Whether and when some semblance of order will be restored is not known at this writing, but we’d venture a guess that Iran is in the midst of a major change toward freedom and away from the rule of religious fundamentalists. This is fabulously good news for freedom-loving people around the world, though it seems a source of bewilderment to Obama.

The Iranian revolution is a vivid display of the power of truth and freedom to combat and ultimately win against fraud.

The core fraud of radical Islamist philosophy is that its rightness cannot and need not be proven by the voluntary embrace of its teachings, or by the good works that should be the fruit of those teachings if they are right. Belief and obedience at the point of a gun is not legitimate; it is a fraud. A squalid, aimless, destitute and oppressed standard of living in radical Islamist-governed societies is not the fault of those outside the society; it is an indictment of the governing philosophy of that society. What may have started as a hopeful feel following the 1979 Iranian revolution which brought the clerics to power and kicked the corrupt Shah out of power has soured into complete rejection of Islamist authoritarianism.

The overall direction of progress is always found in the trend toward greater human freedom and democracy. Why is this? Because truth exists, and the truth is that all men are created equal and are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, including life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Smug intellectuals want to label this truth as nothing more than nationalistic or provincial—namely, American—opinion. But it’s not opinion; it’s truth. And the advance of the American nation isn’t because of the birthplace or skin color of its citizens; it’s because of the power each and every individual derives from living in a society founded on truth.

This same truth has found a home in Iraq (because of the vision and courage of President Bush), and now its seedlings are spreading to Iran. No matter what the near term result in Iran may be, truth will still be at work, and greater liberation will eventually follow. Islam will likely remain the predominant word used to describe the primary religion of Iranians, but the meaning of that word will be uplifted to something that will accommodate greater freedom for all. With greater freedom, and with belief and obedience to religious teaching not enforced at the point of a gun, there is no reason Iran under Islam cannot make tremendous progress for all its people.

Which brings us back to America. America is a nation founded on truth, and Americans’ birthright of freedom under truth is inalienable and hard-wired into its citizens. From time to time, opportunistic, power-hungry politicians may try to sidestep those freedoms, and deceitful, diabolical politicians and their financiers may try to trample them, but they are ultimately exposed as impotent frauds trying to fight with truth.

Obama committed fraud in the election of 2008, and is pursuing with the help of George Soros a radical agenda that was concealed from the people in 2008 but is hell-bent to trample on freedom and truth in the name of elitist, secular, authoritarian control of humans and their affairs. The American people have sensed this fraud, and they are stirred just like the Iranians were prior to the June 12 election. Americans mildly took to the streets in the tea parties of April; they are likely to again take to the streets on July 4 in another, less mild version of the tea parties. Whether at some point prior to the 2010 election they take to the streets as the Iranians have is going to depend on how determined Obama is to implement this fraud.

Americans do not want socialism in this country. They do not want nationalized healthcare. They do not want a fiscally out-of-control government. They are not on board with sky-is-falling global warming hysterics and their radical command-control remedies. They are sick of seeing their media turned into fawning lapdogs. At some point these factors are going to be plainly at work in the passage of some law or in a decision by the White House that is absolutely in-your-face opposed to the will of the people, and all hell’s going to break loose. Truth will be at work, and Obama will not be able to stop it.

We aren’t rooting or hoping for Iranian street scenes in America, and we’d prefer to see Obama impeached and removed in accordance with the Constitution. But we aren’t going to get to decide these questions. Freedom and truth inevitably confront and defeat fraud on their own terms and in their own way. Just ask the Iranian mullahs.

Paul Gable

Posted June 21, 2009