Tiananmen Square: 20th Anniversary

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Published on June 3, 2009 3:43:18 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN6-9a0SFuk

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A video in honor of the protest for democracy in China, suppressed by military intervention. The Chinese government refuses to acknowledge the sacrifice of those killed by tanks and soldiers and have blocked internet and Twitter use in the days leading to the twentieth anniversary of what is usually referred to as 'The June Event'.
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In this country democracy is almost a dirty word, far too archaic a term for the new enlightened age. I put up this video partially in honor of those who will never see it, but also as a reminder of the lengths some will go, to accomplish all we have in this country, and all we oftentimes seek to destroy. In these images you see starkly two ways of thinking meeting: the individual and the might of the collective. The individual wants a voice, a right to be heard, but once that voice is allocated to a socialist hierarchy it never will be heard again, crushed beneath tank treads. The people who protested at Tiananmen Square fought and even died, most without ever understanding why, for what they believed in: a voice strong enough to stop an army.
Nowadays we laugh away this event and bury it, much as the Chinese government has. But this is an event worth remembering and a bloody example of what happens when what we take for granted is taken from us by force.
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We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal and they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights. Among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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The music is by Graeme Revell