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.