Comments | tehuatzi: Dui Hua

tehuatzi

Dui Hua

Apr 20, 2006 08:53

On the way to work this morning, I heard this segment on NPR's Morning Edition, about John Kamm, former businessman turned human rights activist.

( The text of the story on the website includes... )

Comments 8

darceyrene April 20 2006, 14:14:42 UTC

The first thought that came to my mind was that you would be a good replacement for Mr. Kamm when he retires. Your (God-given) passion + your (God-given) brains = someone the Lord uses in these types of jobs.

tehuatzi April 21 2006, 14:05:16 UTC

Well, that would be a dream come true, to someday grow to such a level of effectiveness. Thanks.

slightlyjillian April 20 2006, 16:06:05 UTC

Thanks for sharing that. I know I have friends who have 'issues' with God because they don't see him doing things to help the world (in broad contexts)... seems to me that they don't see it because God's part in the work doesn't often get the headlines.

meganquinlan April 21 2006, 17:05:10 UTC

I heard that yesterday - did you see the Frontline episode about Tiananmen last week?

tehuatzi April 21 2006, 23:04:19 UTC

Nope, didn't. I did hear somewhere, though, that the last Tiananmen prisoner was just released recently, something like that?

meganquinlan April 22 2006, 19:11:04 UTC

The Frontline episode was actually titled "The Tank Man" and it gave the story of Tiananmen, then asked what became of the man who stood in front of the tanks. Some said that he was carried off by Chinese authorities who were all around the square, but others say that if he had been, the government would likely have made a spectacle of his capture and execution, since they did this with other prisoners who were less well-known. Their theory is that it was supporters of the uprising, or friends of his, that carried him off so that he wouldn't be caught and whisked him into hiding and now, if he's still alive, he lives a life of anonymity. Nobody knows who he is.

shimmin April 21 2006, 23:40:26 UTC

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tehuatzi April 21 2006, 23:50:45 UTC

Ha! You presume to put down the pulchritude of our Peorian piston-driven power producing products, do you? I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon, see if I don't!