On Jun 16, 2009, at 4:02 PM, ravi wrote:
> For #2 to not be a *general* statement about the poor/
> disenfranchised, #5 has to be significant i.e., Y > X. But given
> that Ahmadinejad...runs up huge numbers...That makes it highly
> unlikely that those who support Mousavi from that community (the
> subset Y) is anywhere close in number to those who support
> Ahmadinejad (subset X).
But since almost all Iranians are poor, and all but the mullahs and their minions are disenfranchised, and given that a winning candidate's sponsors have no reason blatantly to falsify the actual vote the way they have in fact done--it is clear that this argument is completely false.
Shane Mage
> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos