Ok, I figured out it his name was Mario Savio, whom I didn’t really know about until just now. The FBI apparently harassed him for about 10 years just for making a few speeches like this.
Welshman
October 13, 2011 1:07 pm
The establishment alway worries when someone can unsettle the shepple. This was a long time ago and Mario was fingered as a trouble make. What has changed, well they know where we are at all times when we have our cell phones turned on.
Thinker
October 13, 2011 1:57 pm
You know, I’m seriously beginning to think the media is waking up, too — at least part of it.
Is it me, or is the populist movement gaining traction, to the point where the few real journalists left are actually beginning to question the establishment’s spin? We can always hope…
Stucky
October 13, 2011 2:48 pm
Judge Napolitano (sp?) on Fox’s Freedom Watch yesterday did an EXCELLENT job exposing the fake Iranian terror plot.
Stucky
October 13, 2011 2:53 pm
The “Tank Man” may have paid the ultimate price for his actions. Not many have the balls for that … in any country. A true hero.
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from wiki
“There are several conflicting stories about what happened to him after the demonstration. In a speech to the President’s Club in 1999, Bruce Herschensohn, former deputy special assistant to President Richard Nixon, reported that he was executed 14 days later; other sources say he was executed by firing squad a few months after the Tiananmen Square protests.[2] In Red China Blues: My Long March from Mao to Now, Jan Wong writes that the man is still alive and is hiding in mainland China. Other commentary has also insisted that the men who pulled him out of the tanks’ way were not the secret police, but rather concerned civilians.”
Does anyone know who the speaker is?
Ahhh good old Boards of Canada
Ok, I figured out it his name was Mario Savio, whom I didn’t really know about until just now. The FBI apparently harassed him for about 10 years just for making a few speeches like this.
The establishment alway worries when someone can unsettle the shepple. This was a long time ago and Mario was fingered as a trouble make. What has changed, well they know where we are at all times when we have our cell phones turned on.
You know, I’m seriously beginning to think the media is waking up, too — at least part of it.
First example — NYT (yes, the NYT!) offers non-skewed coverage of the OWS movement: A News Story Is Growing With ‘Occupy’ Protests
Second example — CNN starts asking some good questions about the Iran “assassination” plot: Some analysts skeptical of alleged Iranian plot
Is it me, or is the populist movement gaining traction, to the point where the few real journalists left are actually beginning to question the establishment’s spin? We can always hope…
Judge Napolitano (sp?) on Fox’s Freedom Watch yesterday did an EXCELLENT job exposing the fake Iranian terror plot.
The “Tank Man” may have paid the ultimate price for his actions. Not many have the balls for that … in any country. A true hero.
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from wiki
“There are several conflicting stories about what happened to him after the demonstration. In a speech to the President’s Club in 1999, Bruce Herschensohn, former deputy special assistant to President Richard Nixon, reported that he was executed 14 days later; other sources say he was executed by firing squad a few months after the Tiananmen Square protests.[2] In Red China Blues: My Long March from Mao to Now, Jan Wong writes that the man is still alive and is hiding in mainland China. Other commentary has also insisted that the men who pulled him out of the tanks’ way were not the secret police, but rather concerned civilians.”