Lets not judge Iran quite yet

Peace, there is little doubt that if you are reading this you have read or heard or are in some way familiar with the events taking place in Iran. I am not going to pretend to shed any light on this situation or to act like I have some sort of knowledge that others don't. I have never been to Iran, and will leave the political evaluation up to those better suited. I have however lived in the United States all my life, and spent a considerable amount of my education studying the history of our country. Given this I feel like there is something missing in our discussion of the current Iranian situation. It seems that in all our commentary and disgust (which, I think is often the appropriate emotion) we forget that we are less than a year removed from robocops patrolling downtown St. Paul, from our own assault on basic rights like dissent, just ask the RNC 8. We also have our own fraud issues just ask Al Gore or any non-white in Florida, or for that case non-whites anywhere. Now I am not trying to justify what is taking place in Iran, all I am saying is that before we allow President Obama to claim a position of authority on allowing the freedom of speech etc. we hold ourselves to the same standard. Professor Chomsky calls it the principal of universality... if we wouldn't want it done to us don't do it to anybody else and vice versa... Jesus called it the golden rule, but I think doing the right thing will do. So yes, be upset, be outraged, demand a more see through process, demand rights be observed, do this all for Iran and the Iranians, but don't leave out America and Americans.