- By Bahram Maskanian - December 25, 1987 - Edited, - March 27, 2004

Why A Silent Non-Violent Tranquil Evolution Will Succeed

Much wonderful research has been done regarding humankind’s emotional volatility. Our emotional state fluctuates in reaction to our surrounding environment, events and circumstances to which we have no control over. Our emotional states rang from happy, or intense euphoria, to sad, or extreme sorrow, and excessive madness, to aggression and violent behavior. When we are under stress, even the most sane, rational and psychologically stable people react with aggression and violent behavior due to feelings of fear and insecurity in any given threatening condition.

The crowd-control guards, security forces, police and military personnel are no exception to the rule, they are people too.

We all know very well that power is addictive. Power bestowed by the state upon the security forces separates the members of the public, from the members of security forces, thus creating a wall of distrust between the public and the security force’s personnel that is supposed to protect the public. To remove this wall of distrust, we, the people must use non-threatening, kind and respectful behavior, a non-violent way of bringing the public and the security force’s personnel to work together as one, towards a common cause, a peaceful prosperous change for the entire nation.

Even the best trained and civilized security force when feeling threatened, will react violently with force to protect itself. Try to imagine for a moment if you are standing guard while crowds of thousands, or hundreds of thousands of protesters are approaching towards you or are walking right by you. The protesting crowd’s intense energy, mixed with fear generated by its size and potential danger it represents is best understood and observed as a non-threatening act and a positive energy if the protesters kept a safe distant from the security forces while marching by, making friendly eye contact, smiling and waving at them.

A Non-Violent Tranquil Evolution is where people conduct social and political protests demanding peaceful political change, free from commotion or disturbance, composed of all inclusive messages of peace, prosperity and hope presented in a calm, free from any negative messages, anxiety, tension, and or restlessness. A Non-Violent Tranquil Evolution will transform the crowd-control guards from the adversary, an opponent to the social and political uprising into a concerned and sympathetic compatriot.

A Non-Violent Tranquil Evolution must be planned carefully and organized very well to prevent any unrest and probable planted troublemakers. The security force guards can easy decipher between isolated planted troublemakers and the rest of the peaceful protesting crowds.

Evolution is a process of evolving into a more complex and a better form of existence with enhanced range of abilities. Evolution is a historical and gradual developmental progression leading to a higher and more sophisticated level of growth. Ranging from mental cognitive expansion, to analytical and intellectual advancement, thereby making social and political evolution possible.

Silence creates an environment conducive to rational thinking and reasoning. Silence prevents the usual attacks and disruption brought upon the protesters who wish to share their peaceful message with others. Silence encourages and increases the level of concentration and the absorption of messages for peaceful change by the bystanders and the security forces. Power of Silence enforces and galvanizes peaceful assembly and demonstration.

Silent mass public demonstration elevates the respectability level of the marching crowds, to higher than that of the crowd-control police or guards. The spirit of calm mass uprising automatically generates respect and elevates the crowd to a higher position of importance, over and above the security forces. Calm mass uprising will encourage the crowd-control police not to act with force but rather with respect towards the protesting calm crowds.

Massive Non-Violence, Complete Calm and Absolute Silent Uprising is the remedy for the liberation of the Iranian / Persian people from the shackles of the Islamic regime. It would shake the mullah’s regime to its core. It would destroy the crumbling foundation of the Islamic Republic of Iran and pulverize the mullahs’ tyrannical rule. The overwhelming and powerful sight of a Massive Non-Violence, Complete Calm and Absolute Silent Uprising would put the fear of judgment in the heartless mullahs.

Failure or success of any massive uprising for peaceful change rests upon the behavior and presentation of the message of change. The message and its delivery system must be unambiguous and clear. The opposing forces of any such change will do whatever they can to disrupt and derail such uprising. The only way that a righteous uprising can succeed in a tyrannical ruling system is by silently communicating their messages of hope, peace and prosperity for all.

Try to imagine the captivating powerful sight and silent energy of hundreds of thousands of people, shoulder-to-shoulder, determined and silently marching to communicate their messages of change and hope for better life for all. As far as the eye can see, people are carrying signs full of messages of peace and tranquility. The demonstrators are walking silently while communicating their message. All you can hear is the quiet hum of arms brushing against each other, the whistling of the wind blowing through the signs, the rustling of the demonstrators’ bodies, the rumbling sounds of footsteps of hundreds of thousands of people, cutting through the utter silence. The silent determination and its energy, underlying messages of love and hope would put the fear of supreme power of truth and judgment in the hearts of the misguided, and shall places love and hope of a better life for all in the hearts of the righteous.

Massive Non-Violence, Complete Calm and Absolute Silent Uprising, is a non-threatening and yet silently powerful means of delivering messages of peace and hope. It does not agitate and it does not give the enemy ammunition to attack and violate people’s rights. Subconsciously it generates enormous amount of respect and a natural reaction of backing off and stepping down by the security forces and the regime itself.

Any other form of protest may cause disruption and acts of violence due to the nature of communication. The messages of traditional forms of political, social protest are usually carried out by loud chanting, political rhetoric, symbolic slogans, arm waving and other bodily gestures, all of which may be perceived as violent moves on behalf of the protesters. Those who witness such demonstrations can easily become distracted and lose track of what the nature of messages are due to the noise and physical activity. The message becomes muddled, misunderstood and is eventually lost to the public.

Consequently, in addition to the loss of message, the protest would turn into a disorderly conduct and be perceived by the public as violent civil disorder. Those in charge of peacekeeping are easily agitated by the noise and provoked into using force against the protesters. As a result, the protest turns into a riot, a criminal activity and the meaning gets lost.

There are two different kinds of violence, one is unintended and the other is caused by planted individuals who provoke and cause violent behavior within the crowd. While demonstrating in a Massive Non-Violence, Complete Calm and Absolute Silent Uprising environment it would be easy to root out the agitating individuals planted by the enemy. When amongst calmly marching people, any person or persons shouting propaganda, causing disturbance, breaking shop windows and burning people’s cars, which provides the necessary excuse for the authorities to attack the demonstrating public. The protesting public should peacefully identify and root out the enemy elements, quickly create a circle around the hoodlums and keep a safe distance.

For every one person participating in a massive uprising, there are thousands who are agreeing and watching before taking action themselves. I like to call them the silent majority. This silent majority needs to stay focused and understand clearly what types of messages of hope and change they are hearing.

We must have freedom from fear to become a proud and confident nation who can vote its hopes and inspirations, not its fears.

The Next Step, How Can We Achieve Absolute Silent Uprising?

One should not have any fear while in pursuit of a noble cause, making it possible for millions of our fellow Persians / Iranians and others to live their lives fear-free. To be free is to imagine, free from fear or coercion, and to laugh and learn without fear in one’s heart.

Revolutionary chaotic changes, and violence induced governments promising democracy, which is founded by fire, bullets, murder, bloodshed and destruction could also be easily toppled and destroyed by bloodshed and bullets. We should not forget that those who live by the sword, shall also be killed by the sword.

I firmly believe democracies, which are truly founded by the people for the people shall not parish as so long as the soul of the public is the driving force behind it. True and stable democracy can only be achieved through a calm non-violent and respectful popular uprising. That is what I would like to promote and encourage.

I am absolutely positive there are thousands or even millions of Persians / Iranians in Iran and the rest of the world who are willing to give up their fortune and lives to abolish mullahs’ tyrannical dictatorship. That is exactly what the mullahs would want to happen. They would love an endless opportunity to shoot and kill the opposing progressive thinkers, labeling them - - terrorists - - and under the banner of law enforcement and social instability, put an end to the whole idea of democracy. This does not propagate democracy. It will kill it.

The ruling brutal and criminal dictators and their cronies will not surrender their power and control of all the command mechanisms in Iran through elections. Persian / Iranian people cannot fight two different fronts: the terrorist mullahs on one side and the foreign interventionist forces, on the other at the same time. Persian / Iranian people can easily initiate and undertake the necessary democratic changes through the upcoming non-violent referendum in Iran, so long as the United States of Nation-Less Corporations, and Europe Union of Nation-Less Corporations stop interfering and stop supporting the terrorist mullahs’ regime in Iran. We must ask of our fellow freedom loving American & European people to join us, and demand for an immediate halt of all governmental and corporate support to the mullahs’ regime in Iran and freeze of all their bank accounts.

The next objective is to organize, organize and organize. It takes a relatively small group of talented, committed and caring individuals to organize millions. Progressive thinking Persians / Iranians are a fragmented but patriotic groups with lots of good ideas but sadly, with no organization that is cohesive and far reaching enough to bring them around the round table for a democratic exchange and discussion. I believe it is our duty to create such a think tank organization dedicated to this task.

We must create our own Bill of Rights and Deceleration of Independence for our fellow Iranians / Persians to rally around, as a center of gravity, a common unifying initiative, and offer a new alternative form of government to the current regime in Iran. I have taken the liberty of writing a model Constitution and Bill of Rights, for our fellow Iranians / Persians citizens to review, make suggestions, vote upon to ratify. * Download Complete New Bill of Rights And Model Constitution.

We need to raise funds for massive advertising campaigns in Europe and the US to capture the Iranian / Persian, American and European public’s attention in order to invite them to get involved and contribute financially, intellectually and or otherwise.

Massive Non-Violence, Complete Calm and Absolute Silent Uprising must be tested and demonstrated in the United States and Europe. I am positive that our fellow peace-loving Americans, Europeans and Persians in a show of solidarity with the shackled people of Iran would demonstrate with us in the Absolute Silent Uprising manner in the streets of United States and Europe to illustrate its power and effectiveness to the world and to the ruling mullahs.

We must also finalize and print a model Constitution in Persian and English, which is essentially a platform based on which we can all agree to organize a temporary government. Once we have a large assembly of people approving and signing the model Constitution and Bill of Rights we can all gather around it and form a strong, unified, one voice opposition to the current mullah’s regime.

This opposition shall have the legitimacy, strength and enough signatures to provide the ability to negotiate with good faith with foreign dignitaries and governments to stop the flow of help to the mullahs and facilitate a free, democratic and non-interventionist referendum by the Iranians.

The long-reaching arm of Internet is a wonderful tool for the dissemination of information. But forming an organization requires face-to-face discussion and planning. Once we can manage to successfully create one such organizational entity in the United States, we can replicate and duplicate the same concept in all other major cities to be used as a unifying center of gravity for all people particularly Persians / Iranians.

Since the inception of the criminal regime in Iran, I have researched a variety of different ideas, political, social, and economical. History proves that one cannot set up any system of government based on past traditions and customs. Government should be established based on present social, economic and political conditions.

Government must match the criteria and spirit of the society, which it rules, therefore, obviously any regime that relies upon a one-man system as a king or Prime Minister or President is a recipe for disaster. I think I have dealt with the issue in the model Constitution.

The era of religious, tribal wars and any other kind of silly territorial war is over. We have pushed the envelope deep and far enough to know that it is stupid and wrong. We have made marvelous advancements in killing each other in mass quantities. Now it’s time to turn our brilliant ingenuity and creativity into repairing our damaged living environment, Planet Earth. We must invent new ways, customs and traditions that fit in today’s social, economic and political conditions to govern ourselves and heal the wounds of past behavior.

Please do not hesitate to write with your comments and suggestions, declare your readiness and join us to participate in the next plan of action.

- - The Things That Will Destroy Us Are:
Politics Without Principle;
Pleasure Without Conscience;
Wealth Without Work;
Knowledge Without Character;
Business Without Morality;
Science Without Humanity;
And Worship Without Sacrifice. - - Mahatma Gandhi - (1869-1948)

Price of Liberty is The Everlasting Eternal Vigilance