While Woke American Mobs Protested Law Enforcement, Iranians Were Fighting for Their Lives

It’s hard not to notice the sharp contrast we witnessed over the weekend between the anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement protests and the demonstrations taking place in Iran.

Well, maybe it is hard for some.

Here’s DNC Chairman Ken Martin doing his best to squeeze out a comparison between the two events.

“In Iran, brave protestors confront a far-right theocratic regime that crushes dissent and denies basic freedoms,” Martin wrote. “Here at home, tens of thousands are marching after the fatal ICE shooting of Renee Good- demanding justice, transparency, and an end to an unchecked federal force that takes lives and tears families apart.”

This absurd statement was widely mocked on social media.

There’s a sharp distinction between the protests in the U.S. versus what’s happening in Iran. I wanted to say this was “needless to say,” but apparently it must be said with so many Westerners clearly divorced from reality.

On the one hand, you have the obviously brave Iranian protesters who’ve taken to the streets even though their regime has been comfortable jailing and executing dissenters who have committed no other crime other than speaking out in opposition to their rule.

The Iranian mullahs have, according to multiple reports, attempted to violently crack down on the protests engulfing multiple cities across their country.

The number of protesters killed is over 600, according to estimates on Monday afternoon.

Some of the videos and image coming out of Iran right now are remarkable.

Even where protesters are only detained, they are very likely to be executed by a regime noted for jailing and killing religious and political dissenters.

Now, I genuinely don’t know where the Iran protests are going. This could be another moment of false hope. Accurately ascertaining the level of discontent in Iran is difficult given that information in and out of the country is tightly restricted. Not to mention, even if there is a popular turn against the regime, bravery is simply not enough to topple a government committed to staying in power that has mostly monopolized the use of force.

There is no Second Amendment in Iran and little political freedom of any kind to speak of, and it seems the regime is willing to escalate violence to stay in power.

What this means for the U.S. and what President Donald Trump’s response will be is still unclear, but it’s hard not to have sympathy for people putting their lives on the line against tyranny.

It’s a different story here in the U.S., where woke mobs in Minnesota and elsewhere are not just protesting, but actively impeding law enforcement. Unlike the Iranian protesters, they’ve taken to the streets with the absolute support of cultural elites.

The Golden Globes Sunday night was filled with leftist moral preening about standing in solidarity against ICE and the allegedly authoritarian Trump administration (which isn’t doing so good at “dictatorship” if it allows these events to take place on national television without interference).

And isn’t it interesting that the people protesting Israel and the U.S. for apparently being so awful to Palestinians in Gaza have suddenly gone quiet about what’s happening in Iran?

Right now, according to them, it’s the anti-ICE protesters who are oppressed—even though in America they have the right to participate in elections, speak their mind without fear of arrest, and can lawfully protest policies they don’t like.

Yes, you can’t hit a law enforcement officer with a 2,000-pound vehicle without potential consequences. I don’t see that right enshrined in the Constitution.

Some Americans (and perhaps more than a few non-Americans) on the Left have decided that losing an election is intolerable and that a federal government enforcing immigration laws they don’t like is somehow illegitimate.

It hasn’t helped that many prominent Democrat politicians and lawmakers signal it’s fine to impede law enforcement, creating the deadly situation leading to the ICE shooting of Renee Good.

The Left’s activists have essentially, and maybe even unwittingly, courted death or serious harm by attempting to impede border enforcement. In one case that has led to tragic consequences and may lead to more.

This is not meant as a dismissal of the Left’s current freak out. The rhetoric from Democrat politicians and their calls to essentially resist the federal government are dangerous and may have significant consequences. Theater kids larping out their fantasies can do terrible and consequential things sometimes. John Wilkes Booth proved that point.

But comparing their protests to what’s happening in Iran is, for me, a little hard to stomach.

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