Today marks the 20th anniversary of the violent Communist crushing of the peaceful demonstration for freedom being held in Tiananmen Square. Tiananmen Square, along with the crushing of Prague Spring, the Hungarian Revolution, and Polish Solidarity, remains one of the most visible examples of the freedom crushing nature of centralized government.
In the years since the Tiananmen Square massacre, China remains a slave state. Its people cannot speak or work as they choose, cannot affect the direction or composition of their government, and cannot foresee a future for themselves where this will change. Fundamentally, China is North Korea with more lightbulbs.
The Chinese Statist government that controls all economic activity takes in billions of dollars from the United States, but instead of improving the lives of the Chinese people, it purchases American debt, American companies, and other production and transportation world wide. Communist China is not doing this to provide freedom and innovation to the United States or elsewhere. These are acts of control by a Communist government obsessed with control.
The control obsessed Communists are this very day blocking off access to Tiananmen Square, lest there be an expression of political freedom in that country. The Communists have shut down the Internet and social gathering within China lest freedom-minded citizens discuss the fact that they are still slaves to a corrupt, illegitimate, oppressive government.
The people of China have a dream. Their dream is the American Dream: the right as individuals to pursue their own happiness. The recognition by a government, which has the consent of the governed as the source of its legitimacy, that all people are endowed by their Creator with unalienable rights that provide individuals with the freedom to control their own destinies, own their own homestead, keep the fruits of their own labor, and choose their own way forward without being dictated to by a government. The American Dream is the freedom to choose -- what you buy, what you eat, who you employ, who you purchase goods and services from, and how you spend your own money. The American Dream also the dream of China’s people.
Freedom of the individual to choose his or her own way is the only path that provides productive innovation and economic prosperity. No central government can ever direct innovation or prosperity into existence. Statism always leads to repression.
It sickens me that in the 20 years since the Tiananmen Square uprising, China still has a repressive internal security service, no freedom of thought or speech or political expression, no sense or hope of a representative government. The Communist Statists in China’s dictatorial government show no more inclination towards freedom than their predecessors. The moment has been lost, and the United States is enabling the further subjugation of the Chinese people by sending our money there.
But it sickens me far more greatly that in the same time period, our own nation has moved away from the dream of China’s people and our national dream: we are less free to choose and seem destined to become even less so. How long will it be before the United States will require its own Tiananmen Square?
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