Remembering those brave Libyans who are fighting tyranny and tanks with stones

Today, the Iranian government jailed Mir Hossein Mousavi, a former presidential candidate and opposition leader, for advocating democracy

With the call for freedom and democracy sweeping the Middle East, the Iranian government is running scared and today ordered the immediate imprisonment of Mousavi and his wife, without trial. The above video shows the street support for Mousavi in June 2009.

While the Iranian theocracy try to suppress its people through fear and murder, in the long run, Iranians are eventually going to rise up and throw off the shackles of control. Just as the Libyans are doing right now.

My heart is with these people, including their LGBT ones who carry the additional burden of fighting ignorance, bigotry, and prejudice.

Insight into the protests sweeping the Middle East

Yesterday, when a Libyan protester was asked by a New York Times reporter why he was rising up after 42 years under Colonel Qaddafi, he said, “When you have been pushed, pushed, pushed, and then suddenly you just explode.”

Telling. The human spirit can only endure so much.

This is what freedom feels like to Libyans

Libyans continue to protest despite the violence