Comments by "bohemianwriter1" (@bohemianwriter1) on "Tiananmen Square Protests 1989: Chinese Soldiers Open Fire on Civilians" video.

  1. I wonder how many of the young generation of Chinese are aware of this historical event. What is ironic, is that my mother went to China on a business trip and I went to USA as an exchange student the same year...
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  2. +Samuel Stace I might as well throw most western governments in the same pot. I think of the draconian and undemocratic drug laws that has been enforced with violence. Literary destroying millions of lives. But what I have learned is that even one thinks one are alone, one can always ride in the backs of courage displayed by the pioneers. And courage is infectous. It spreads and grows like a muscle when practiced enough. That's why the Chinese government want to bury that part of history. If one man can show sucdh courage, after might take after him. Ever read H.L.Mencen?
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  3. +Samuel Stace The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable. H. L. Mencken
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  4. +Samuel Stace I will admit however that UK have a more convenient HC system than in Norway. At least you won't get billed if you need to see a doctor. And prescription drugs are heavily subsidised. But they do suffer from more paranoia in UK overall.
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  5. +finn todd How is conformity being enforced in China besides from politics? Since capitalism arrived in China, it has become a country of bling, factories and huge amounts of smog.... (Tale my description not literally, but as an ironic remark on how a one party dictatorship can be perfectly married to Capitalism and still dare to call themselves Communists... To me, it's a mixture of the worst of both worlds. And just like in good old US of A, they silence any dissence or real opposition...
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  6. +finn todd Sounds like something that RWers in USA wants to impose. Nationalism mixed with the worship of the religions of Capitalism and Christianity - respect for authority and never question them or their motives.
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  7. +Samuel Stace Apparently independent thinkers are frowned upon whichever regime one live under...
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  8. +Samuel Stace It even applies to voluntery governments. I like to use....UK and USA in this context as well....
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  9. +Samuel Stace Libertarians were originally leftists who were suppressed by conservative governments. Conservative governments are very often authoritarian. China has for instance never practiced what they preach. They still practice Confusianism under a new label. Other than their name "communists" they have little if anything with what Marx was writing about. Putting him next to Mao is an insult to Marx and everything he stood for. Today's "libertarians" as the ones that are touted by the likes of Alex Jones are not libertarians. They are radical RWers who are abusing the term "libertarian" without knowing the history behind it. Emma Goldman was a libertarian. I live in a Scandinavian social democracy. After having lived and worked in 5 countries around Europe the last ten years, I have found that the one I grew upn in has been the best so far. However, my own country is not without flaws. Nor its people. In fact there are things abroad that I find better than home. And as a freethinker, I have met and spoken with what many considers our future prime minister exactly what I think of the drug laws imposed the last 50 years, and urged him to remove them from any penal code. At least I wasn¨t arrested for voicing my opinion, with the statement "I will STILL smoke my tokes regardless of your draconian laws!"
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