When I saw the following over at Gates of Vienna (thanks to my Vigilant Freedom Newsletter — if you haven’t already joined other infidels in the 910 Group, do it), I stopped in my tracks. Then I checked the date. Can someone calculate the odds for me that the very same day (August 29th) that I mentioned Regime Change Iran being in my broken links, Gates of Vienna received the following appeal from — Regime Change Iran?
I am writing you with this urgent appeal because you have contributed to our work in support of the Iranian pro-democracy movement in the past.
Our website has been shut down due to lack of funds.
As you know, our website suspended its reports several months ago in order to regroup, with hopes of coming back bigger and better than ever. Even without posting new articles our site has been regularly receiving thousands of visitors seeking our “hard to find reports”.
Until we can pay our past due expenses of over $1,000 the website will remain closed.
There has never been a time when the Iranian pro-democracy movement needed our support more with help getting its message out to the western world.
Over the past few months, we have been working on redesigning our website with hopes of launching a major new internet campaign in support of the pro-democracy forces inside of Iran. If we receive sufficient funding we will implement the redesigns and resume our reports.
But unfortunately, without your financial support this will not be possible.
We need the help of you, our supporters, in order to keep our website up and running.
If you can once again help us through this emergency it would be greatly appreciated.
Gary Metz aka DoctorZin
It should additionally be noted that variants on the above URL are also refusing connection, such as http://regimechangeiniran.com.
Now, either this is the real DoctorZin making this appeal and this is all just a huge coincidence (or DoctorZin reads the Anvil!), or something or someone else is at work here. I certainly hope the appeal is genuine. DocZin: Feel free to email me so that I may verify it is you.
If any readers feel like donating to Regime Change Iran, more information may be found over at Gates of Vienna. However, one commenter over at Gates makes a very good point that came to my own mind:
Why don’t you forward this message to the U.S. State Dept.? A thousand bucks to keep a dissident web site going? They could take it out of their lunch money…
This is what makes me sick about U.S. foreign affairs. We can drop bombs and put boots on the ground but, winning the propaganda war? No can do or, we will be getting to that shortly… In a nut shell, the U.S. State Dept. is a total failure.
The Bush Administration as a whole has had a very disappointing second term, as far as I’m concerned.
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I agree!