Kamangir (Archer)

I Hate So I Am

Kamangir | November 19, 2006 | Category Iran

The recent event in UCLA brought about new insight into the hidden layers of our e-society.The story began from blogs. Personally, I first heard of the story in Iranian Truth. I was so shocked that I copied the post (which is now modified) in my blog and also in here. Then, I tried to inform more people using Balatarin (an Iranian link dump) and also email. These actions took less than half an hour, after which I was only an observer for over three days, reading people’s comments in YouTube and elsewhere. Amazingly, we all seem to be full of hatred. We just really need a reason to bombard each other.

As any other event, people have been struggling to “prove” they know who should be blamed for the event.

I don’t think it was a case of police brutality, … police would probably have two way to deal with that guy.
1) they would have to drag him to the station, he would have fought them and they would have been accused of excessive brutality
2) use a taser………same result.
don’t forget that UCLA has a reputation as very anti-police, anti-establishment university so often things are not as they seem. (see)

YouTube makes it easy to see a visceral scene without demanding that you know what happened before or after the ’show.’ (see).

Are you people just plain stupid or just pretending to be stupid? He was at the bloody exit when the cop confronted him. (see).

Why didn’t he just leave when requested to? I think this was planned. So do others. CAIR jumped on it pretty quick. The “victim” is probably on their payroll. Iranian indeed.
Taqiyya? (see).

There is no point in changing their so-called training programmes and policy. These cops needs to be sentenced several years in prison for assault with intent to kill. (see).

Then, slowly, people began to accuse each other,

How sad for you. Your level of paranoia is frightning. (see).

And awkward connections were found,

Saying this is staged is like saying the Jews/Zionists/Neo-Cons staged 9/11… it’s disturbing how some people think. (see).

They want to change the middle east to something like this. (see).

Then, some people lost their temper,

“I’ll kill any F*** american police or soldier I can…american people are also responsible..more than 75% of Iranian citizens in america have MA..I ve read a comment sb said he deserved that..You deserve another 9/11 (see).

Still, these are only a few of the comments I have read in my blog and also in here.

Try to imagine what would happen if three people were beaten. What if one of them was killed and there were two contradicting videos from the scene, one showing those three pointing guns at the police, while the other one showed them chatting and laughing with them before the incident. If our reaction to the UCLA incident is so harsh and f-word oriented why on earth do we think there might ever be any peaceful resolution to the Arab-Iranian-Israeli conflict? I am sorry folks, but I am getting to the conclusion that the Internet is only the best source for two types of material, porn and hatred. don’t you think we have inherited both of them from our monkey grand fathers?

This piece is also posted here.