Posted on 02/14/2020 9:39:53 PM PST by blueplum
The defiant lyrics to the classic Les Misérables track are reverberating through uprisings in Hong Kong and China
I t has soared during an airport sit-in, united street protests and drowned out the Chinese national anthem at a school assembly. Do You Hear the People Sing?, the defiant chorus from the musical Les Misérables, has become a song of protest in Hong Kong and, more recently, mainland China. Explicit references to Li Wenliang, the Wuhan doctor censured for his warnings about the coronavirus outbreak, and to Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement, are stamped upon – but lines from the song slip through the net on China’s social networks Weibo and WeChat, fostering a community of covert opposition. You may hear the people sing on China’s streets, but not on its streaming platforms – the authorities have responded to the song’s incendiary impulse by removing it as an individual number and scrubbing it from the soundtrack albums. “Do you hear the people of Hong Kong?” wrote Herbert Kretzmer, author of the English lyrics, last summer. “At 93, I can only be with them in spirit. But my words are on their lips – and I am singing with them, too.”
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Gotta get glasses. I thought it said “The Guardian” for a second.
I don’t get how Chris Matthews and The Guardian and some other lefist outlets and commentators put a distinction between communism and what the dems running for office want.
Anyway, people fight back and protesting in some of these countries risk EVERYTHING.
communists don’t believe at stopping with killing the protester. The family and all the belongings usually follow.
I’m afraid we have as yet seen very little of what the Chinese communists are willing to do to keep their power.
...many Hong Kong citizens feel that, in a crisis, they are unable to rely on a supportive, competent government: local leaders have kept dithering, half closing the border, then closing it a little more, while being unable to even guarantee a steady supply of face masks and toilet paper. Throughout, they wait for guidance from Beijing on how to act...The sight of hospital workers on strike while a public health emergency is unfolding might be shocking, but it is proof of the depth of mistrust Hong Kong has towards the authorities, both here and in Beijing. After all, the territory was one of the main victims of the Sars epidemic – which originated in Guangdong in November 2002, but was kept mostly secret by the Chinese government until February 2003. China’s cover-up continued well into April; meanwhile, 299 people in Hong Kong lost their lives....
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/13/coronavirus-hong-kong-hostility-beijing-street-protests
I don’t disagree. But change is on the wind. And socialism, Marxism, Maoism, the more brutal they become, the faster they will join the dinosaurs in history.
That will only be true in lands where the people are armed. Oh wait; where is that? Just one place. Lock and load.
It’s been my ring tone Since Trump came down that escalator.
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing the songs of angry men?
It is the music of the people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes!
Will you join in our crusade?
Who will be strong and stand with me?
Somewhere beyond the barricade
Is there a world you long to see?
Then join in the fight
That will give you the right to be free!
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing the songs of angry men?
It is the music of the people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes!
Will you give all you can give
So that our banner may advance
Some will fall and some will live
Will…
Music is a great motivator and I’m touched that this song is in their hearts and minds.
But I think it’s important to remember that if they truly want their liberty, they’re going to have to fight for it.
And, unfortunately, they’re going to have to desire it enough to kill and to die for it if/when the time comes.
We would do well to have the same mindset.
Xi gets desperate as he sees the possibility of losing the Mandate of Heaven. That is still a governing concept in China. Xi is a direct descendant of the Emperors going back at least three millennia, perhaps four. Xi is merely the Emperor of the Communist Dynasty. Reading history, and a concise overview of that is The Chinese Military Classics. the character of the Emperors and the system of rule has not changed since Shih Huang Di.
Chinese Communism which is simply the Emperor in new clothes will not change. The dynasty will change but total one man rule, the Emperor will remain with chaos sometimes in some of the interdynastic interregna.
Not so, since that is in the history books.
were the colonists armed? The first Deplorables had pitchforks and flintlocks against cannon, horse and sword - we won.
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