Monday, June 29, 2009

The ongoing threats to Dan-ocracy

On Newsworld's "Our World", the CBC's Adrienne Arsenault reported tonight that the latest tactic of the Iranian regime is to track cell phone calls emanating from protesters to foreign journalists. Almost immediately thereafter, they receive automated threatening messages from the state. (More at this ABCNews blog.)

As Geoff Meeker noted earlier today in the Telegram, things could be worse. At least in Iran the threatening calls from the regime are automated...

More on the despots in Iran, here. And on the despot in our own backyard, here and here.

Despotism sucks. Anywhere.

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