Wednesday, June 4, was the 36th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing. Tens of thousands of unhappy Chinese gathered there on April 15, 1989, initially to protest government corruption and threats to social security. Over the next 19 days it expanded to demands for American-style democracy. They even put up a statue of liberty. On June 4 the tanks rolled in. Some of us vividly remember bag-toting man facing down the line of tanks. Thousands died; more were executed.
Those people wanted, desperately enough to risk death, what we so take for granted that we seem willing to throw it away. If we do throw it away, we will fare no better than the Chinese at trying to recover it.
Bill Gillmore
Columbus
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