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First US Homeland Security Secretary, Tom Ridge |
Tom Ridge in his speech to a 100,000-strong audience in Paris on July 9th gathering in support of the Iranian people and its’ resistance, Mr. Tom Ridge said: “In response to the Iranian regime’s brutal crackdown on the 2009 public protest, your beloved Iranian poet and patriot, Simin Behbahani wrote the following: “Stop this extravagance. Stop the reckless throwing of my country to the wind. Stop the screaming, the bloodshed, the mayhem. Stop doing what makes God’s creatures mourn in tears.” [Amid] retaliation for her exercise of what she believed was her civil right and her civic duty to challenge authoritarian evil, she courageously observed the following: “You may wish to have me burned or decide to stone me, but in your hand, match or stone will lose the power to harm me.”
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