Uh, did you just miss the entire US presidential election campaign? Millions demonstrated at rallies—thousands at a time—to get Dubya out. Millions. No tanks, no shots of any kind fired. (Actually, not quite true: Republican campaign offices in West Virginia and Florida had shots fired through their windows.)
So in your world, four Vietnam-war protestors killed (over the course of hundreds, if not thousands, of protests) = hundreds (maybe thousands) run over by tanks in T square, with many of the survivors being executed later on TV? (The ChiComs WANTED the world to see what happens to those who challenge them.) The leaders of the student movement were made to kneel in a little chalk circle on the prison grounds. They were shot in the head and then bayoneted. I’ve seen the tape they ran on Chinese state-run TV. Their families were then billed 13 cents for the bullet. Your efforts to cheapen their lives—and their deaths—is disgusting.
The guy in front of the tank represents the universal human desire for freedom of assembly. He was trying to keep people alive who peaceably assembled in the town square. You want to casually dismiss that.
Uh, did you just miss the entire US presidential election campaign? Millions demonstrated at rallies—thousands at a time—to get Dubya out. Millions. No tanks, no shots of any kind fired. (Actually, not quite true: Republican campaign offices in West Virginia and Florida had shots fired through their windows.)
So in your world, four Vietnam-war protestors killed (over the course of hundreds, if not thousands, of protests) = hundreds (maybe thousands) run over by tanks in T square, with many of the survivors being executed later on TV? (The ChiComs WANTED the world to see what happens to those who challenge them.) The leaders of the student movement were made to kneel in a little chalk circle on the prison grounds. They were shot in the head and then bayoneted. I’ve seen the tape they ran on Chinese state-run TV. Their families were then billed 13 cents for the bullet. Your efforts to cheapen their lives—and their deaths—is disgusting.
The guy in front of the tank represents the universal human desire for freedom of assembly. He was trying to keep people alive who peaceably assembled in the town square. You want to casually dismiss that.