Tiananmen Square stuff.

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Everyone’s talking about Tiananmen Square as if China is the only nation to repress some of its people. As if it’s the only “super power” to do it.

BEIJING – Chinese police aggressively deterred dissent on Thursday’s 20th anniversary of the crackdown on democracy activists in Tiananmen Square, ignoring calls from Hillary Rodham Clinton and even Taiwan’s China-friendly president for Beijing to face up to the 1989 violence…

In Washington, U.S. Secretary of State Clinton said in a statement Wednesday that China, as an emerging global power, ‘should examine openly the darker events of its past and provide a public accounting of those killed, detained or missing, both to learn and to heal.’
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I can totally read China’s mind: “THE US? REALLY? Didn’t ya’ll destroy an indigenous people and crush your own people with your own military and police every chance you found? Aren’t labor strikes without Americans shooting other Americans kinda new over there?”

We do have a few Tiananmen Squares of our own, to be sure.  Read Zinn if you haven’t.  Or maybe you were even there.

Still though, damn. I’m glad to be over here today.

Tackle skaters.

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Why not? A cop in Baltimore did. But, then again, he didn’t get away with it. His fat ass is suspended. Sorry about the fat comment. But. Geez. You should see how skinny the Army made my brother get. And this guy…I mean, I tug my own little gut around everywhere I go, but come on. And he’s supposed to be a cop on foot. Shouldn’t that imply that he could catch a bad guy? It looks like he had trouble taking this kid down. Watch the video for yourself.

This is exactly what we need. With the crime problem in Baltimore, we need asshole cops that pick on little kids. That will solve everything. Skating is, you know, so much more important to stop in this city than drug dealers killing innocent people when they are trying to kill each other. I remember living in Boston, with a much lower murder rate than in Baltimore. The cops there, at least the ones I came into contact with, were just scary. I got yelled at once for cussing loudly in Quincy. Gee, I wonder if the scary cops you wouldn’t even spit in front of and the lower murder rate were related at all. Maybe being afraid of the police is a bad thing. But still, out-of-shape cops picking on teenagers is not exactly going to win the BCPD any respect. I haven’t exactly met a lot of, I don’t, good cops in this city. Some, yes. Mostly not. And I grew up here.

Mayor Dixon has expressed disgust. She’s right. Maybe she’ll shake up the Poh-leece some more.  I hope she does something to this jackass, who is totally making it easier to blame her and her administration for crime, like the local martyr Republicans like to do.  “We just can’t get a Republican Mayor elected in this city.  It ain’t fair.”  Wow, way to complain about DEMOCRACY, dudes.