Posted on 06/04/2022 8:50:07 AM PDT by AJFavish
[This letter to the editor was first published in the Los Angeles Times on June 10, 1989, part II, at page 9. The letter was in response to the Tian An Men massacre by Communist Chinese troops.]
Dear Editor:
Seeing the televised excerpts of demonstrations at the various communist Chinese embassies and consulates throughout the United States, I noticed that the demonstrators appear to be almost exclusively people of Chinese descent. This disturbs me. Although the fight for freedom in communist China is primarily the responsibility of the Chinese people, it is a fight that should be actively supported by all people who cherish freedom.
Personally, I believe that if freedom-loving Chinese citizens are willing to take a bullet in the back at Tian An Men Square, the least I can do is demonstrate in support of their cause in front of the Chinese consulate on a safe street in Los Angeles.
On June 4th I was one of the relatively few Caucasians at the demonstration in front of the Chinese consulate in Los Angeles. A makeshift memorial was assembled consisting of candles, flowers and a makeshift coffin. As I stood near the coffin, a young man of Chinese descent, wearing a black shirt, approached the memorial. On the back of his shirt was the color photograph that appeared on the front page of the Los Angeles Times showing the Goddess of Democracy statue in Tian An Men Square with the large picture of Mao in the background. After leaving a flower near the candles, the young man placed a small American flag on the coffin and quietly walked away.
My eyes were filled with tears.
Allan J. Favish
The increased deaths from transitory economic issues were tiny compared to the millions deliberately MURDERED by the communist regimes of the USSR and CCP.
True, but by 1989 both the USSR and China had passed beyond the earlier periods of class warfare and revolutionary revenge. Both were attempting to correct the excesses of the past and implement more appropriate governance and economic policies. China clearly chose the more successful path.
That was THE pivotal moment in American history, when GHW Bush sold America down the river. The US easily could have supported the Tianamen freedom fighters, Russia was teetering, Freedom was on the brink of victory. Bush bailed them out, kept the CCP in power as they crushed the patriots. All this, so the Chamber of Commerce and big business could have slave labor to build their products and make them Billionaires instead of just Millionaires.
The Bush dynasty, is the sorriest excuse pre Biden.
I agree.
Elon Musk and the NBA see it differently of course.
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