Bruce, one datum that vindicates my point of view and not yours: the demonstrators are shouting, "Give us freedom! Give us freedom!"
Can't get a free social order nowadays without a democratic government. You've never understood that a less-than-democracy is not the logical nor likely free choice of any people but something imposed on them by force organized well enough to carry the day -- which frankly amounts to bigoted thinking, to imagine they wouldn't choose democracy. You're not a bigot -- I think... Can I be certain?
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YANGON, Myanmar - Soldiers with automatic rifles fired into crowds of anti-government demonstrators Thursday, killing at least nine people in the bloodiest day in more than a month of protests demanding an end to military rule.
Bloody sandals lay scattered on some streets as protesters fled shouting "Give us freedom, give us freedom!"
On the second day of a brutal crackdown, truckloads of troops in riot gear also raided Buddhist monasteries on the outskirts of Yangon, beating and arresting dozens of monks, witnesses and Western diplomats said. Japan protested the killing of a Japanese photographer.
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