I know it is so difficult to deal with all these issues. sometimes we should just take things easy.

Hi Parastoo, I am glad to see your new post! :) Sorry to hear you are having trouble sleeping. I know the feeling! So, I send you my best wishes for a good night's sleep and a happy dream.

I heard about Syma Sayyah running for City Council from Niki. I wrote Syma a little note to wish her good luck and she wrote a nice note back to me. I hope she wins! Sorry to hear that your Persian blog is blocked. I guess that freedom of expression is considered a very dangerous thing by some people!

I have followed the news about the Holocaust Denial Conference. Some of my ancestors are Jewish. Although I do not have any close relatives who died in the Holocaust, it was something that I learned about from the time I was about 10 years old. Many people have the idea that the Holocaust was just about the murder of Jews, but about 3 million European Gypsies were killed too along with hundreds of thousands of mentally ill and retarded people. Thousands of Christians who openly opposed Hitler's evil were sent to the death camps as well. The Nazis literally left behind many tons of written documentation and even films about the death camps. It is the best documented genocide in the history of the human race. It can not be denied. And yet, despite the horror of that genocide, there have been others since: Cambodia, Rwanda, and now Sudan and potentially Iraq. There seems to be no end to the potential for evil in the human race!

On a more pleasant note, I like your picture of the castle! You are really lucky, I think, to live in a country with countless old relics of 5000 years of civilization all built by your ancestors! :)

parastoo:
thanks a whole lot, david for your kind comment and for all information about holocaust. I'm happy to have you as a wise friend.

if i were you i wouldn,t start with that I HAD A DREAM stuff or you might end up like martin luther king jr.when it comes to religion and politics you can,t really tell the difference between any of them either the pope or the ku klus klans or even tne fondamentalists.they are all the same shit(pardon my french!!!)but there is one thing i almost agree on with the beloved president and that,s the existance of the holocaust.i saw the pianist the other night and.....come on, for the love of god that was blagh...

Tag! You're it...

parastoo:
hey, you've started an iranian tree for blog-tagging?

Dear Parastoo: your question as to "Why should I be censored?" is easy to answer. You need to look at the roots of depsotism in Iran. This system of total power, tries to " control" everything as it has no real foundations in society. Not now, but a few years ago when I first visited Iran- after 20 years absence- in my way to Shomal, we were stopped in Jajrood, supposedly to check the car. But there was no real check, but just to remind the people that the "Big Brother" is watching you. Another function of this "control" is to spread "fear" otherwise how could they rule?
Best regards

parastoo:
thanks for your words, many thanks.
you are so right. I am very familiar with this kind of "controlling system" but everyone knows that the "big brother" can not watch everyone: we are so many and they do it randomly, I think.
bests,

I agree with you that we are too many, and I have also no doubt that no matter what, the system of total control will eventually prove to be ineffective. Spreading of fear is done to delay this eventuality. But, it will not do, it may take a while, but, it will happen.
Regards

parastoo:
hmm.. I hope so. I really mean it. and thanks again.

Recently I read The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro. Meanwhile I was thinking about the name of the book which was so familiar to me, I wondered where I have seen the name but my mind was totally blank and it was bothering me all the time! Today I found it here. you saved me!

parastoo:
great! that book is great and this is great that you came here!