Iran Tries To Pacify Protesters With Lord of The Rings Marathon

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday June 25, 2009 @05:28AM from the chip-the-glasses-and-crack-the-plates-that's-what-Ahmadinejad-hates dept.

Iranian state television's Channel Two is playing a Lord of the Rings marathon in an attempt to keep people inside watching hobbits and not protesting in the streets. Normally, people in Tehran are treated to one or two Hollywood movies a week, but with recent events the government hopes that sitting through a nine-hour trilogy will take the fight out of most of the protesters. Perhaps this was not the best choice in films if you want your people not to believe that "even the smallest person can change the course of the future."

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Panem et circenses by Itninja · 2009-06-25 05:52 · Score: 0, Troll

Taking a lesson from the American government it looks like. Keep giving people food and entertainment and maybe they forget how their rights are being trampled on.

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Iran is finally learning... by Ummite · 2009-06-25 06:17 · Score: 0, Troll

Doing as Fox news is already doing for years, they will slowly learn how to control the masses with television. Nice work Iran.