That image/footage of the student standing before the tanks - and getting run over - was one of THE most powerful things I’ms ever seen.
I was 10 years old (almost 11) when this happened, and I barely understood it all then. I only grasped that China wasn’t like the USA, and that they didn’t enjoy what we take for granted...
Now at the ripe ol’ age of 28 (almost 29), I understand the politics then and now better, but the pure unadulterated courage behind what that student did still shocks and amazes me.
Had it not been for students like him, what happened that day might never have been know around the world to the extent it was. The image of one lone person standing their ground before a tank and allowing himself to get run over, crushed and killed, sparked a certain flame. It awoke a lot of people.
Sadly, alot of people then proceeded to go back to sleep... |
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Scott Jacobs
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China has modernized it’s economy by adopting Capitalist economic theory. That has set them on the path to prosperity. Unfortunately they still are a dictatorial totalitarian government. The moment China’s modernization threatens the Communist party, the hammer will fall crushing any opposition real or imagined. |
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James E. Fish
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That image/footage of the student standing before the tanks - and getting run over - was one of THE most powerful things I’ms ever seen.
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Had it not been for students like him, what happened that day might never have been know around the world to the extent it was. The image of one lone person standing their ground before a tank and allowing himself to get run over, crushed and killed, sparked a certain flame. It awoke a lot of people. I feel awkward about saying so, but he wasn’t run over; he was pulled into the crowd by other Chinese. We can speculate about what happened to him after he left the scene; some think he went into hiding, some think he was arrested and/or killed shortly thereafter. |
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Bryan Pick
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Scott, Bryan beat me to alerting you to the fact that the guy who defied the tank wasn’t killed — at least not by that tank at that time — thanks, I would think, to many many eyes on him at that particular, unforgettable moment.
Here’s the video (from the Gateway Pundit link).
At the time of the Tiananmen Square protests, I was working at a place where we’d been trying for several weeks to help a few Chinese medical students get visas to come to the US for a few months. Their government had us jumping one ridiculous hurdle after another — way more nonsense than any other country any of us had ever dealt with. The boss was on the verge of abandoning the effort and telling the commies to shove it when the protests started up and saved us any further trouble. Apparently all the students in that whole country had their leashes shortened drastically overnight. Nobody we’d been working with got permission from their side to come see us — not for months and months as I recall. |
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Linda Morgan
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I swear I remmeber seeing footage of a student being made into roadkill... |
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Scott Jacobs
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Yeah, the guy didn’t get run over. The Army pulled in people from other provinces in the next few days. Such hesitation didn’t happen again.
I’m more interested in what happened to the soldiers that didn’t run him over. |
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jpm100
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