01-04-2013, 01:17 PM
i'm presuming you also use youtube and social media as well. i have to say i'm not a person to follow cause. yeah i sign an odd online request etc but i've never really protested as such apart for once many years ago (apartheid) then it was a physical thing, you marched through townships etc, i know of the chinese artist and his fight, and i do remember something about this guy going to the usa and leaving his family behind and they then locked his wife up. but in general these things don't stick with me. i'm one of those rare breed of idiot whose sole concern is immediate family and friends. i say the usual expected things when i see starvation on the news then i forget it and eat dinner. i do wish there were no political prisoners or starvation but there is. i would and have donated but not out of shame or concern which is the usual reasons, more out of why not. i have a feeling that while we can't really help Liu Xia the world of commerce will. eventually countries with bad pasts seem to be coming more together in their humanity. i'm thinking it will be too late for this woman but i can remember twenty year ago when her plight would have been even worse. i'm also of a mind that sometimes bring a crime of humanity to light can push it deeper into the dark. look at myanmar 10 years ago., 20 years ago. now it' seems to be evolving, though it's still has problems.