Some Things Have Changed Since China’s Bloody Crackdown On Demonstrators In 1989, Including The Dreams Of Democracy
BEIJING, May 31, 2009(CBS) Twenty years ago this week, the Chinese government used deadly force to break up a democracy demonstration in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. Much has changed in the two decades since, but some things haven’t. When asked for comment on this story, the Chinese Embassy in Washington not only declined, but asked us NOT to air the report. Here it is, from Barry Petersen:
Looking for democracy in China? You can find it by millions voting on their cell phones in a Chinese version of “American Idol,” choosing to ignore the paradox that the citizens of the world’s most populous nation are free to vote for a singer … but not for their own leaders.
How distant from 20 years ago when students took over the heart of their nation’s capital, Tiananmen Square, demanding reforms of all kinds, under the gaze of a statue they called the Goddess of Democracy.
Attracting support from millions in all walks of life gave students the bravery to go face-to-face with their leaders, thinking their cause could bring change.
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Return To Tiananmen Square, 20 Years Later
Sunday, May 31st, 2009Democracy in Islamic world enables Islamo-Fascism
Sunday, May 3rd, 2009This article is spot on. Caroline Glick rightly points out that when there are free elections in Muslim countries, Islamists win. This clearly shows that confrontation with non Muslims is popular in these nations.
On June 7 Hizbullah will likely take over Lebanon and formally bring the oldest Arab democracy into the Iranian axis.
Iran’s stalking horse will not become the ruler of the largely pro-Western, non-Shi’ite majority country through a violent revolution. Lebanon will become yet another Iranian vassal state through ballots, not bullets. On June 7, Hizbullah and its allied parties are set to win a smashing popular victory in Lebanon’s parliamentary elections.
Hizbullah’s projected victory in these elections is of course not an isolated event. It is part of an Islamist electoral sweep in democratic elections throughout the region. Indeed, Islamists have won every free or partially free election in the region for the past six years.
This is another of Bush’s failed legacies, his insistence on democracy in the Muslim world has enabled our enemies. If there is any doubt the intentions of Islam just look at election results from these nations. No matter how much Obama apologizes, it doesn’t matter. When given a chance to vote Muslims vote for Islamo-Fascists and not secularists. The West is naive and blind, Islam is not peaceful it is an Arabic Imperialistic cult.
Israelis To Parade Through Israeli Town With Israeli Flags; Israeli-Arabs Protest & Threaten Violence
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009Israelis have received the proper authorization from the Government to parade with Israeli flags through Northern Israeli towns. Although they got no resistance from any other towns they are going to march through, the supposedly loyal Arab-Israeli citizens and leadership of the Israeli town of Umm El-Fahmof are mobilizing to block the march, protesting, and threatening violence.
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(IsraelNN.com) Leaders of the Arab population in Israel are calling upon masses of Arabs to show up in Umm El-Fahm Tuesday in order to block the planned march by 100 Jews in the northern Israeli city. The marchers will hold Israeli national flags.
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[Member of Knesset] Ben-Ari noted: “We are just going to march with Israeli flags, not enemy flags. This is the country where the residents of Umm El-Fahm live, and it gives them stipends and a budget for their municipality.”
Ben-Ari’s mentor, the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, led a march into Umm El-Fahm in 1984. The marchers managed to make a small advance into the town but encountered a mass of rock-throwing Arabs and eventually had to retreat.
When the route of the proposed march was discussed in court, the police asked for it to pass on the outskirts of the Arab city, (ed- Israeli Jews cannot safely walk though an Israeli-Arab city IN Israel?) but the court accepted the organizers’ requests and insisted that it pass inside the city. Police have worked out a route for Tuesday’s march with Ben-Gvir and Marzel, but Ben-Gvir said that although the organizers have agreed to the route proposed by police, he is not happy with it and thinks that it “bodes ill.” The number of participants in the march was limited by the court to 100.
Amir Mahoul, head of the Subcommittee for Liberties in the Higher Monitoring Committee of Israeli Arabs, published an announcement Sunday in which he called upon the public to show up in the greatest possible numbers in order to physically block entry by the marchers. He also asked that human rights activists and Arab lawyers show up to document the events.
Mahoul said the Israel police “is not a neutral side and is not trying to maintain public order. It is a mechanism for depriving our public of the right to organize and oppose the aggression against it.” (ed-Israelis marching with Israeli flags in an Israeli city is “‘aggression”?)
MK Hana Sweid (ed-Arab-Israeli MK from “Hadash” the Communist Arab Party) said the planned visit to Umm El-Fahm was “an act of pure provocation” and warned that it could turn into a confrontation.
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The above is not unique behavior for the Israeli-Arabs against Israeli-Jews. On election day this year, the so-called loyal Israeli Arabs threatened, and assaulted Jewish Member of Knesset Aryeh Eldad while he was acting as an election monitor at Polling Place #12 in the city’s Arzi neighborhood.
MK Eldad replaced another Jewish election monitor who was prevented by police from entering the city altogether because of threats on his life. While MK Eldad was performing his duties, an Israeli-Arab mob began rioting and threatening him outside of the polling station. Rocks were thrown at security forces, and shouts of “Death to the Jews!” could be heard. (Video)
This was not in the “occupied territories”, or Gaza, and these were not the actions of Hamas, “palestinians”, Fatah, or Hiz’b'allah. These are Israeli-Arab citizens in an Israeli town well within Israel’s borders…and they consider citizens walking through their streets with their own national flag to be “aggression” and “provocation”!
Can we question their loyalty yet?
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