re: #845 pingjockey

Back when I just started college, I was in a school that had a sizable population of Iranians. There were pro-shah and anti-shah students. I was friends with the pro-shah ones. The anti-shah students would protest the shah. At first they walked in a circle with signs with bags over their heads chanting ‘the shah is a fascist butcher, down with the shah’. They said the shah had spies there who would hurt them or their families. Then they ditched the bags and started to enjoy their American-protected freedom to protest. Of course, none of us knew anything about the shah, and I still don’t know for sure if he was good or bad. The American students did join in, of course, and staged a food fight one night to protest the shah. It seemed funny at the time, but then came the hostage situation and things ceased to be humorous.