The Mark of Zorro

I used to love watching Zorro as a little girl. To hell with feminism, I used to fantasise about being saved by a great swordsman in a black eye mask, cape and Sevillano hat – actually I still do.

The Power and Rathbone fight is probably the best fencing scene in a Hollywood movie but my favourite Zorro is the original, Douglas Fairbanks, his acrobatics and agility put the rest to shame.

Douglas Fairbanks, The Mark of Zorro, 1920

Tyrone Power & Basil Rathbone, The Mark of Zorro, 1940

Iran and Propaganda

The British state run BBC and American state run VOA both broadcast in Farsi. These supposed Farsi services pump anti Iranian government propaganda into Iran round the clock, their purpose is to sow discord, incite violence and ethnic tensions, and spread disinformation. The Western media as been at the heart of the failed fascist coup against the Islamic Republic of Iran.

General Ali Fazli,

Earlier the BBC reported that the Islamic Revolution Guard commander, General Ali Fazli, had been removed for refusing to obey the orders issued by the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei.

General Ali Fazli categorically refuted the false claims. He said that he is always ready to follow orders issued by the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, adding that “Whenever the Islamic nation achieves a victory, the global arrogance will attempt to spoil the epic.”

Iranian nation football team

The Head of the Iranian parliament’s Sports Committee Jalal Yahya-zade also categorically rejected the false reports from CNN that four Iranian football players were banned for wearing green wrist bands in the Iran-South Korea match to display of political support’ for the defeated presidential candidate Mir Hussein Mousavi.  Yahya-zade pointed out that the Iranian parliament doesn’t even have the authority to “impose such a ban.”

It’s also been widely reported in the Western media that Iran has imposed restrictions on Iranian newspapers publishing reports about the recent riots unrest but Deputy Culture Minister Ali-Reza Malekian, categorically rejects that accusation calling them “sheer lies”, and pointing out that certain “Foreign media aim at provoking the chaos in Iran by turning a blind eye to the media ethics and by publishing fake news.”

Eight members of the Basij have been killed during the riots and another 300 wounded defending Tehran from the insurgents. All eight Basiji were killed by gunfire, i.e. some of the insurgents were gunmen firing from the crowd. None of this is being given coverage in the western media or the fact that 200 or so insurgents are fascists not democrats.

Violence and Morality

Martin Luther King Jr called violence immoral, which just goes to prove what a lying hypocritical old fraud he was. He paid taxes to the American state that uses violence to enforce it’s laws, protect its citizens and pursue wars. Pacifism for all it’s claim to a higher moral principle is self-indulgent hypocrisy and cowardice. Anyone who tells you they don’t believe in violence is a liar because if they really believed violence was immoral, they would believe that resisting rape or punishing the rapist is immoral. If you don’t believe in violence, you don’t believe in jail.

We all believe in violence to some degree, even pacifists — Martin Luther King Jr was a woman beater, Gandhi was a warmonger, and the Dalai Lama is sadistic, terrorist and mass-murderer — every civilisation since the dawn of man has been founded on violence and the human capacity for violence has stopped us going the way of the dodos.  So why the bullshit pretence that violence is immoral or undesirable?

Over the years, I’ve killed, maimed and wounded, and I’ve made a pretty decent crust doing it. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t go around hurting people for the fun of it, but if someone tries to hurt me or mine, what else am I’m going to do?

There is nothing immoral in inflicting violence on those who would inflict violence on you. And anyone who tells you violence solves nothing doesn’t know what they’re talking about. Violence solves quite a lot.