With the opening of the Beijing Olympics, the Communist Party wants the image of Tianamen Square, the Gates of Heavenly Peace, to be remembered not as a place of brutal repressive murder, but of a new openness.
However, the Communist Party, rarely mentioned in news reports in favor of mentioning China and its people, has never fully acknowledged its culpability in the murder of student protestors.
If it were truly open, it would acknowledge to its citizens and to the world the ugly naked horror that was that night attack on students.
The most famous image of Tianamen Square is of the young man with a white shirt and briefcase standing and blocking the line of tanks rolling into the Square. This image smacks the face of those Chinese who think that the brutal view of Tianamen is merely a foreign image.
Ask those related to the students who never came home that night, whose bodies were helicoptered quickly at night in mass bundles to be deposited somewhere in mass graves, if the brutality of Tianamen Square is a foreign image!
Amid the glitz of orchestrated euphoria and celebration, let us remember the thousands of young people who sculpted a Lady Liberty and wrote on banners the words of Thomas Jefferson - that All Men are endowed by their Creator with certain Unalienable Rights of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
All men and women yearn to breathe free, unless you're one of the millions of urbane, Communist free who value security of the People over freedom of the Individual.
Repressive regimes are always about mass graves, secrecy and buried truth.
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No one puts on a party like a totalitarian regime! Where is the international outrage that factories were closed down weeks ahead of the Olympics in order to clean up the air? What happens to all those factory workers? Will they eat in the coming weeks? How will they support themselves?
How will China pay for the EXTRAVAGANT opening ceremonies? My guess, is on the backs of the people. Where are all the bleeding hearts who constantly beat the human rights drum. Oh, I forgot, they only beat it when it suits their political purposes. I'm talking about our illustrious mass media - can anyone say "CNN the most mistrusted name in news"?
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