Posted on 06/04/2022 3:57:59 PM PDT by Faith Presses On
Hong Kong authorities on Saturday detained several people as they pounced on any attempt at public commemoration of the 33rd anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown, while around the world tributes were paid to the victims of the bloody event.
As night fell, candles appeared in the windows of several foreign countries' missions to Hong Kong -- in defiance of a warning not to do so -- and on various street corners around the city.
Discussion of the events of 1989, when China set troops and tanks on peaceful protestors, is all but forbidden on the mainland.
Semi-autonomous Hong Kong had been the one place in China where large-scale remembrance was still tolerated -- until two years ago when Beijing imposed a national security law to snuff out dissent after widespread pro-democracy protests in 2019.
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Tiananmen 1989, and thousands of other examples of why the people need to have the right-to-bear-arms. It’s the only way that government can fear the people, instead of people fearing the government. If government was supposed to work for the people and the people were the government, events like Tiananmen 1989 would not have occurred.
Skid marks of tanks and ither memes necessary
Titinanium a sqaure root proff some stuff. The start began.
Thanks. This was another good one:
The Chinese government is definitely pro-gun control and wants to “help” us go in the “right” direction, too.
https://thenewamerican.com/china-advises-the-united-states-to-adopt-stricter-gun-control/
This too:
“Former US officials want to put a copy of a Tiananmen Square memorial sculpture across the street from China’s embassy in DC”
I can’t argue with you there. Their default doesn’t seem to be to think in terms of the world, or foreign affairs—unless it somehow has application to domestic politics, like “Russia.”
Putin also said that the US has too many firearms in civilian hands. Obviously KGB Putin would say that, it’s very hard to have a private firearm in Russia; the law dates back to Soviet times and remains unchanged.
10,000 killed in Tiananmen Square according to British intelligence sources.
An atrocity.
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