tell your children about tank man

[negator]

It was over in an instant, but the man who stood before a column of tanks near Tiananmen Square on June 5, 1989 has stamped his image on the global memory.
http://news.sbs.com.au/worldnewsaustralia/the_man_who_defied_the_tank_548449

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man
watch frontline online
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tankman/view/

 

[senob44]

Well, I can say that he definitely ranks higher on my list than Tank Girl.

 

[dick van cock]

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[dave_rhino]

Ending up getting shot, didn't he?

Iconic moment in history. I don't need to tell my children about it because it will never fade away.

 

[D-rock]

It's too bad more of his countrymen didn't appreciate what he did more than they did. I guess for a lot of people out there it's easier to live your life being sheep.

 

[nealdrox]

Well, I can say that he definitely ranks higher on my list than Tank Girl.

HAahahha well anything ranks above that. I forgot about Lori Petty(I think thats her name).

Either way to the topic. Its a story more ppl should hear besides children who wont give a damn.

 

[Facetious]

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[Facetious]

It's too bad more of his countrymen didn't appreciate what he did more than they did.

I think they would if they could.

I guess for a lot of people out there it's easier to live your life being sheep.

Put firearms in their southpaws . . A different outcome !





A conscientiously armed populace has the greater ability to rise up and over their oppressors.

Imagine the tyranny in that environs ! Today, they'd likely haul your ass off to a work (and maybe organ harvesting) camp in the event you bring the honorable "tankman" to the forefront.

"Most favored nation status" (?) they tell me ? ! :thefinger

 

[negator]

It's too bad more of his countrymen didn't appreciate what he did more than they did. I guess for a lot of people out there it's easier to live your life being sheep.

imagine if, instead of pulling him to the safety of the crowd, his friends stood with him against the tanks.

i remember, at the time, most people in china had absolutely no idea that anything was happening at all. the news was only available to certain chinese by fax machine from the west. to this day, most people who live around and work in tiananmen square either refuse to remember when questioned about it, fearing reprisal; or truly don't know, victims of orwellian reinformation.

the goddess of democracy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989