18 years ago today the Communist Chinese crushed the pro-democracy movement’s demonstrations in Tienamen Square. Gateway Pundit has pictures and links.

On the surface we see China as a country that makes cheap goods for us to buy at WalMart. And while that isn’t a bad thing, we still need to remember that their government is is a repressive regime and no friend to Liberty.

Read this interview with Tao Jun, Student Leader of Tiananmen Square Democratic Movement

The fire for freedom and democracy is always burning within Tao’s heart. In 2000 he established Maihua Net during his spare time to make public his articles, poems, and commentaries. However, one of his articles entitled, “Who Will Supervise the General Secretary,” touched the sensitive nerve of the authorities. In April 2001, he was put in a criminal detention in Shekou. Not long after being placed in detention that the authorities sentenced him to three years imprisonment for “crimes of inciting subversion of the state power and of overthrowing the socialist system.” Consequently, he spent three miserable years in Futian Detention Center and Shaoguan Prison.

Hat Tip to Michelle Malkin