I guess its been far too long since i made a post. I would say its about time I "got off my ass" and did something, but actually I have to "stay on my ass" to actually get it done.

Well, I'll just start by saying that the Chinese government has really pissed me off these past few days. Because of the Tiananmen Square massacre that took place twenty years ago, and its anniversary which was yesterday, the Chinese government has taken great measures to censor almost any possible avenue for the truth of this incident to be known among its own people.

Now, its not that I am taking some moral high ground, because I believe that everyone has their reasons for taking action or non-action or what have you. The biggest problem for me though is that it creates such a pain in the ass to research anything, find anything online, or just watch silly youtube videos that have nothing to do with China.

In fact, I have to use a proxy server almost all the time now--even just to write this blog, because of course, the entire blogspot website network has been blocked. So my personal bone to pick with the government is that I just overall feel hassled.

I don't care so much about the Tiananmen Square Massacre- no real bleeding heart from me, just to be honest. Lately found it hard to pull that emotion out.

However, lets be clear about the nature of hypocrisy, and this goes for any government. So if you want to point fingers at the U.S. government, I'll be happy to hold your hand in the right direction, and most likely will agree with you.

But let's take the Nanjing Massacre for example. Horrific tragedies. Horrific. As if the hatred for Japanese people isn't bad enough, the Chinese government is always up in arms about the Yasukuni shrine having the 14 War Criminals names. The Chinese government has gone to great lengths to keep the anti-Japan attitude in the air.

On the same hand, Tiananmen Square is a giant secret here. The public is grossly misdirected on this matter. No one really seems to know much about it.

Now you could argue that the two incidents are completely different, but in fact, they are only different in premise. But would you rather be raped and stabbed, or would you rather be run over by a tank? or just shot?

Furthermore, couldn't they use tear gas, rubber bullets, or just beat a few people here and there? I mean, was all the violence really necessary?

Like I said, my biggest beef is that it directly hinders my personal freedom. Before you run off and shout "this is China, you should love it or leave it," this is a cop out. This is a fear based ego response that is drawn from ultra patriotism.

There are no natural rights, no God's laws, and countries are molded and formed by the people who have the most power. that doesn't make it morally wrong or right to kill your own people, or to acquire other people into your fold. All i ask is that you at least be honest with yourself if your going to fuck up my day.