25 years ago today, the butchers of Beijing slaughtered students demanding human rights and freedom

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The Goddess of Democracy, erected by artists to symbolize the student movement in Tiananmen Square.

Amnesty International estimates 1,000 civilians were killed in the massacre by the totalitarian rulers.





But thanks to the wonders of corporate free trade and our bought-and-paid-for politicians, no one in the U.S. has to remember, and we can buy all the cheap Chinese junk (likely made with prison labor) at Walmart.







June 4, 1989 - sadly, the world has already forgotten.

-- Meanwhile, we still have to embargo Cuba, because "Freedumb and stuff."