Commentary
What a difference a month makes when informed, brave, and bitterly resentful human beings decide to revolt against an oppressive dictator.
As I write this column, in mainland China’s major cities protesters are attacking the regime’s hazmat-suit-clad COVID-19 lockdown enforcers. In Beijing and Chengdu anti-lockdown demonstrations rock China’s premier university campuses.
Why? For the demonstrators, the communist government’s zero-COVID policies have become intolerable acts—literally death sentences when citizens locked in buildings die in fires.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) demands Chinese citizens get a COVID-19 clearance code to buy groceries, use a public restroom, and take a walk until the CCP says otherwise. Protest and go to jail. Or starve. Or die in a fire because the cops won’t let you out….