[PEN-L:7744] Re: RE: Re: Mao

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Jim Craven wrote (inter alia):

>I for one was thoroughly pissed when I saw those so-called "freedom
>fighters" in Tienanmien Square parading a model "Statue of Liberty" implying
>that "freedom" in China meant becoming more like the US.....Those "little
>Emporers/Empresses" in Tienanmien Square, in my opinion, disgraced the whole
>concept of real freedom and desecrated the sacred causes of the many victims
>of US imperialism when parading around that phony statue and all the ugly
>implications that went with it.

Some facts.  The "Goddess of Democracy" statue  differs from "Liberty" in
that the torch was in the *left*, not *right* hand--an obviously
intentional symbolism.  "Liberty,"  in any case is a *French* symbol,
deriving from the Great Revolution, presented as a gift to the American
people.  And, if Mr. Craven had ever listened to the frequent radio
reportages from Tiananmen, he would have heard only one song, constantly
repeated, in the background--no, not the "Starspangledbanner," the
*Internationale*.

Shane Mage

"Thunderbolt steers all things."   Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64