Comments on: Twenty Years Later, Remembering Tiananmen Square

By: False_True

False_True — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:27:00 +0000

1. You don't know the exact number of those people died. Even Your democratic media didn't know, too.

2. Chinese people's life has improved significantly. I don't know if democracy will make it better, but I just know the Communist and its capitalistic ecomony realize all of these. Are you sure your democracy will achieve this??

3. I know the leaders of the protest abandoned those people sitting on the Tiananmen Square and went to America. And I hear about that the protest was supported by USA, to against China. Is this your democracy?? Deluded people and shameful leader, is this your democracy?

4. Yes China has her own problem, but why do she has to be as democratic as USA? China damage much less than USA in this year's economic crisis. What I want to say is, every country has their own developing model. If you want to say something about this topic, read more and feel the change by yourself. I want her to be better too, but not by your way.

By: False_True

False_True — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:27:00 +0000

By: Kai Carver

Kai Carver — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 06:25:16 +0000

good post!

By: Paul_G_Bens_Jr

Paul_G_Bens_Jr — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 02:18:09 +0000

The events at Tiananmen Square those 20 years ago had a significant impact on me, a pasty white gay guy. I had just turned 25 and I watched as it all unfolded live on television. Like most privileged, young white kids, I didn't think much about politics and I think I'd only ever voted three times in my life at that point. And here were all these people, people my age, younger and older, in China protesting and many ultimately dying for what I had, for that thing which I not only took for granted but hardly even realized I had.

And then the massacre happened. I sat in my living room and cried and then next day, I got up off my couch and I drove to the Chinese consulate here in Los Angeles and joined in the protests there. They were small protests at first but they grew larger and as the officials of the consulate made it clear that they were taking pictures and getting names when they could hear them, we banded together until they shrunk back inside the building. We built our own Goddess of Democracy from papier mache and a store mannequin and we carried it down the street.

We must have protested for a couple of months and those months taught me so much about myself. It was then that I learned not to take things for granted. To exercise the rights I have because I was damn lucky to have them. And I learned to look beyond America and to not be so ignorant about the rest of the world out there. I learned to think. But most of all I learned that there are things and people worth fighting. Even if they're half a world away.