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HEART BREAKER: Video Of Iranian Woman Shot In Heart Captures Hearts Around The World
As the Iranian people continue to protest oppression and persecution by taking to the streets, the tools of the digital age (small video cameras, twitter, etc) have become their most potent weapons. Stopping their use has become one of the government’s primary goals.
After getting out of a cab, a beautiful young woman named Neda, who was engaged to be married, was shot in the heart and quickly died in the street. Her last moments were caught on tape by a protestor and it is soon apparent after watching it why the Iranian government wants to crackdown on any images or descriptions of its actions getting out of Iran – such communication exposes the evil of the regime and does them great damage in the eyes of the world.
Jim Jacobson, founder of Christian Freedom International absolutely knows the power of imagery and shining light on oppressive regimes. He and his group also saw what happens when an oppressive government successfully shields the evil it perpetrates against its people, as was the case after the Myanmar cyclones in 2008. “Many people don’t realize,” says Jacobson, “that the death toll in Myanmar was as bad, if not worse, than the Tsunami of 2004. The difference was that countless videos of the Tsunami were in abundance while the oppressive Junta in Myanmar prevented the brutal truth from being shown.”
Jacobson has seen persecution all over the world and maintains that imagery like the video of Neda’s last moments is extremely powerful and can galvanize peace loving people all over the world. In some cases, such images become timeless, as was the case in Tiananmen Square, when one image of a man standing in front of a tank makes an entire time come rushing back.
Click here to view the very disturbing video of Neda’s death. **WARNING – EXTREMELY GRAPHIC** http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0db_1245519048
ABOUT YOUR SPEAKER
Jim Jacobson
Before CFI, Mr. Jacobson served as a policy analyst in the Reagan White House, served as political appointee in the administration of George Herbert Walker Bush, and was a senior legislative assistant in the U.S. Senate. He was elected for a four-year term to the Warren County, Virginia, Board of Supervisors.
In his career he has testified before Congress, conducted briefings at the White House, State Department, and the United Nations. Jim has personally brought aid, smuggled Bibles, and provided advocacy to Christians in many countries in the past 10 years. He frequently travels into restricted countries—overtly and covertly—where Christians are severely persecuted for their faith, including active war zones.
Mr. Jacobson is a graduate of the University of Michigan. He and his wife Karen have four children and have been married for more than 20 years.
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