{"id":23708,"date":"2011-06-05T00:00:49","date_gmt":"2011-06-05T04:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=23708"},"modified":"2011-06-05T00:00:49","modified_gmt":"2011-06-05T04:00:49","slug":"the-tank-man-of-tienanmen-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2011\/06\/05\/the-tank-man-of-tienanmen-square\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tank Man of Tiananmen Square"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qq8zFLIftGk\">httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qq8zFLIftGk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Unknown_Rebel\" target=\"_blank\">Tank Man<\/a>,&#8221; otherwise known as as &#8220;Unknown Rebel,&#8221; single-handedly on this date in 1989 brought to a halt a line of tanks the day after the deadly forcible removal of student protesters from Beijing&#8217;s Tiananmen\u00a0Square. Given that these soldiers had likely assisted in the mass murder of as many as thousands of young peaceful protesters, the stubborn bravery of this still unidentified man is inspiring.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese do not allow access to this clip on Google. Virtually no one under the age of thirty even knows about it.<\/p>\n<p>Frye in Notebook 50:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>June 1989. The massacre of the students in Tiananmen Square and the utter complacency of the senility squad\u00a0about it, their confidence that all they have to do is to keep repeating the big lie, has definitely established Marxism, from Lenin on, as what Blake calls the\u00a0Synagogue\u00a0of Satan. Nobody can support a Marxist political movement anywhere now without being, on the Burke principle, not just a mistaken man but a bad man. 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