Lessons of Tiananmen

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

Twenty-five years ago today, Communist China murdered an unknown number of its people who were peacefully demonstrating in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. They were killed for seeking political reforms symbolized by a statue the crowd had fashioned that looked a lot like our Lady Liberty.

In crushing in its infancy the so-called “democracy movement,” China’s rulers not only perpetuated the totalitarian system Mao Tse Tung imposed at a cost of, by some estimates, one hundred million lives.

They set the stage for what the world faces today: A China with immense resources and growing military power, increasingly capable of using nationalism and foreign aggression as safety valves for continuing, widespread, and growing, popular discontent.

We must never forget that a country that brutalizes its own people is unlikely to treat others any better.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at Secure Freedom.org.