les carnets de clarisse

Pourquoi s’arrêter là ? Jusqu’où autoriser l’accès à l’autonomie du citoyen isolé ?
L’enjeu de l’accès aux communications, à la communication active et interactive est certainement une des prochaines étapes – au grand effroi de certains gouvernements, et à l’incrédulité de certains autres.

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Iran : le pouvoir brouille les communications

Le pouvoir iranien engage un blocage total des communications. Téléphones mobiles, SMS, Internet, télévisions et satellites sont brouillés, muets.
Mais la télévision d’État se prend elle-même les pieds dans le tapis:

• lecture (Mother Jones)

« Mobile communications switched off throughout the day – when there is a demonstration beginning, and turned back on about an hour ago about midnight here. So no texting.
Last night on Iranian state TV in an interview with the Guardian Council representative viewers where asked via ticker on the bottom of the screen to send in comments by text message. Someone called and said, « no text service is possible» . The message was removed.» 

• réponse et conclusion (The Yorkshire Ranter)

Le pouvoir iranien a parfaitement ciblé le brouillage des satellites étrangers. Mais pourquoi certains (Inmarsat, Thuraya, Iridium et Globalstar) auraient-ils échappé au silence forcé?

Parce qu’ils sont stratégiques au pouvoir en place, qui est dépourvu de satellites propres, et servent au trading du pétrole, aux transactions financières et aux communications militaires…

I believe everything we dream can come to pass through our union…

Alors comment l’Occident peut-il aider ceux qui vivent sous la censure ou la tyrannie à accéder à la liberté d’inter-communication?

« Obviously, it’s got to be a radio solution, and it’s got to be a satellite one. I find it hard to imagine trying to spread Inmarsat or Hughes devices, although a major market for them is the Middle East. It would, however, be a cool idea to have a satellite or two dedicated to open communications. The world is increasingly full of satellite antennas.

If Brazilian radio hams can use old US Navy satellites, there ought to be a small constellation of civilian open relay sats – the uplink cost would protect it against spam, after all. Now that’s what I call cyber war – it is, after all, what everyone who actually thinks expects of us.» 

La notion de satellite « ouvert»  est-elle concevable – et réaliste?

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… mais aussi l’image icônique de sa propre légitimité

La répression brutale des manifestations a eu d’autres répercussions, son onde de choc traversant même les murs recouverts de livres saints de la ville de Qom, d’où les murmures choqués et désapprobateurs d’une partie du clergé commencent à filtrer, voire même sont exprimés très clairement.

« As the Iranian government crisis enters its 19th day, fissures among the clerics are gradually becoming deeper and more visible. These differences between hard-liners and leftists go back to 1988, but what has been surprising is the reaction of moderate clerics and the silence of clerical hard-liners.

The importance of the emerging fissures in the ranks of the clerics is not that the leftist clerics are supporting Mir Hossein Mousavi in his confrontation with the hard-liners, but that the fissures are developing even among the ranks of the conservative ayatollahs and influential clerics who were usually supportive of Ayatollah Khamenei — or at least silent in order to present a seemingly united front against the leftist faction, as well as the reformist and democratic groups.« 

Car ce n’est pas seulement le pouvoir terrestre qui a été atteint, mais bien son essence divine, bafouée par son gardien officiel, le Supreme leader, l’Ayatollah Khamenei:

« The clerics who support the unification of church and state — those who support the concept of Velaayat-e Faghih [the governance of the Islamic jurist, the Supreme Leader or the Faghih], the backbone of Iran’s power structure — see that by coming down most definitively on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s side, Ayatollah Khamenei may no longer be considered to be above the fray, or even feign impartiality. He has now become just another politician subject to criticism.» 

We can turn the world around

Et les conséquences politiques en sont peut-être déjà incalculables:

« This is damaging, not only to the concept of Velaayat-e Faghih, but also to the whole concept of Mahdi, the hidden 12th Imam, who is supposed to come back some day to save the world from injustice, corruption and chaos. How can the “deputy” of the hidden Imam be as fallible as the next politician?

Given all the developments listed above, one thing is for sure: Iranian politics will never be the same. Since the run up to the election, many lines have been crossed, many taboos broken, and the position of the Supreme Leader has fallen to earth. It is no longer a Godly position, as the hard-liners have always claimed. That, in the long run, can only be a positive development for Iran.» 

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Même sans satellite, la ligne directe avec le ciel reste ouverte

Les citoyens qui manifestent ont tous un point commun: aucun n’attaque la religion, ne remet en cause la légitimité du clergé dans son ensemble, ou bien encore ne réclame la libération de la tutelle de l’islam.

« One thing Mousavi has asked people to do however is to turn up on their rooftops at 10 pm and shout “Allah o Akbar” [God is Great]. And this does take place. It takes place in full force from about 10 to 10:30 or 10:45 every night. No matter what neighborhood you’re in Tehran, you will hear this.» 

C’est bien là un point de levier qui pourrait faire basculer le pouvoir vers la chute.

Dès lors que les citoyens s’en remettent directement à Allah, défiant celui qui est censé être son représentant sur terre, le pouvoir a non seulement perdu sa légitimité politique terrestre, mais aussi son entière légitimité religieuse spirituelle –et c’est une perte létale.

« I am Ali from Mashhad addressing Mr. Khamenei. I was one of your devotees, but in recent years and recent days in particular, not only me but hundreds of others have turned their backs on you. I wonder how you would confront the people on Judgment Day, claiming your faith in this religion.» 

We can turn the earth’s revolution

Vaclav Havel, interrogé sur les événements iraniens:

« – You are well-known and highly respected by many people in Iran. What would you like to say to Iranians directly?

– I sympathize with them, I’m keeping my fingers crossed for them and I would advise them not to fall prey to skepticism if they do not achieve immediate results in spite of their efforts.
These efforts are important in and of themselves because there is virtue in working for a good cause. And these efforts can pay off later, God knows when, God knows how. But you cannot time it. That, at least, is our experience.» 

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People have the power

I was dreaming in my dreaming
of an aspect bright and fair
and my sleeping it was broken
but my dream it lingered near
in the form of shining valleys
where the pure air recognized
and my senses newly opened
I awakened to the cry
that the people / have the power
to redeem / the work of fools
upon the meek / the graces shower
it’s decreed / the people rule

The people have the power
The people have the power
The people have the power
The people have the power

Vengeful aspects became suspect
and bending low as if to hear
and the armies ceased advancing
because the people had their ear
and the shepherds and the soldiers
lay beneath the stars
exchanging visions
and laying arms
to waste / in the dust
in the form of / shining valleys
where the pure air / recognized
and my senses / newly opened
I awakened / to the cry

Where there were deserts
I saw fountains
like cream the waters rise
and we strolled there together
with none to laugh or criticize
and the leopard
and the lamb
lay together truly bound
I was hoping in my hoping
to recall what I had found
I was dreaming in my dreaming
god knows / a purer view
as I surrender to my sleeping
I commit my dream to you

The power to dream / to rule
to wrestle the world from fools
it’s decreed the people rule
it’s decreed the people rule
LISTEN
I believe everything we dream
can come to pass through our union
we can turn the world around
we can turn the earth’s revolution
we have the power
People have the power …

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RFE/RL – Havel expresses solidarity with Iranian demonstrators
RFE/RL – Iran Election Diary

Tehran Bureau – Iran updates
Tehran Bureau – Widening divide

The Yorkshire Ranter – Satellites gone way up to mars
Mother Jones – Tehran’s war satellite dishes

Dessin : The Boston Globe