Remembering Tiananmen Square, 25 years later
Dispatches from the Ministry of Truth
Branch: CBS News
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We know perfectly well how selective the American media are when it comes to their delicate sensibilities in exposing “tyrants”. While we hear little or nothing about Thailand’s coup masters (our clients), or Egypt’s new brutal henchman (our man in Cairo), or the scores of bastards we support openly or stealthily in Africa and other continents, we know the current dumping on China is not out of principle, but following the official line of antagonizing the greatest rival American oligarchs have in the Far East, and one of the two only possible powers to challenge US global hegemony.
“I’m shocked, shocked!”
If anything, the moral agitation of American journalists is as credible as Casablanca’s Capt. Renault being shocked, shocked! at finding that Rick permitted gambling in his joint.
This is not to excuse China’s sins, but, compared to America the Chinese are still kindergarten kids when it comes to evil global meddling. Next time you bump into one of these self-righteous buffoons, ask them if they know anything about America’s hand in the Indonesian bloodbath half a century ago. One of many indecent crimes engineered by our nation.
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Caveat Emptor: Consume with huge lumps of salt.
|On June 4, 1989, Chinese forces attacked student protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. It’s a day many of us remember well. But as Seth Doane reports, it’s a day the Chinese government wants the world to forget.
