Monday, July 6, 2009

This is why you don't encourage protesters . . .

unless you intend to back them up.

"Thousands of people swarmed Tegucigalpa's airport Sunday in a raucous and sometimes violent cry to demand the return of toppled President Manuel Zelaya, whose homecoming was postponed when authorities here refused to let his plane land. . . . Outside the airport, soldiers and police in riot gear formed a human shield around the runway and the military used tear gas to break up rock-throwing protesters. One man who tried to scale the security fence was shot in the head."

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1128726.html

Talk is cheap and easy. But, in foreign countries, the protesters we encourage get killed. If we're not going to back them up, we need to shut up.

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