Another Tyranny, Another Dustbin

China defended its decision to murder pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square the day after the death of a Communist Party official who, at the time, spoke out against the Chinese government's actions:

"The political disturbance and the problem of Zhao himself has already passed. What happened in 1989 has reached its conclusion," Kong Quan, the Foreign Ministry spokesman, said at a regular briefing. Citing the rapid growth of the Chinese economy since the Tiananmen massacre, he added: "The past 15 years have shown China's decision was correct."

Passed? You mean suppressed to the ground with a big stick. One tends to be a little hesitant to demonstrate their opposition after watching their own army open fire on them. Why don't you ask the thousands of Chinese who escaped your tyranny, that live right here in San Francisco, what they think has "passed?" Well, I have, and most of them would have very naughty things to say about you and your so called "conclusion."

And if you think the last, and selective, 15 years mean anything, look to last 60 years; the world (except for Barbara Boxer & Co.) has seen, in that time, that even the most barbarous of regimes are one step away from being tossed into the dustbin of history. Hitler and Stalin both improved their respective economies in the short-term, but their gluttony (just like yours), in the long-run, would reveal the rot within their tyranny. It wouldn't be long before what they built through fear and trembling, would come tumbling down in the face of the imperfect, but free, world. Put your 15 years of short-term economic growth up against the long-reaching freedom that, in the last 3 years, has birthed in Afghanistan and the Ukraine, and soon to be Iraq, and you'll eventually, and painfully, see how the end never justifies the means.