As pretty much everyone undoubtedly knows, there’s a bit of a problem in Burma. A problem that has existed for 19 years. So why is it that people have only decided to speak out against it (and by “it,” I mean the military junta controlling the country) recently? If it’s been going on for so long, why haven’t people protested before? Well, I suppose that there may have been protests at some point in the past (I would have been mucking around in a sea of amniotic fluid when the junta was established), but if it’s that big of a deal, people should have been protesting non-stop. I mean, do you think people protesting the genocide in Darfur are ever going to let up? They’ll probably wait for a couple years after the genocide has stopped to quit handing out T-shirts and leaflets.
Anyways, this whole deal reminds me of a Maddox post about Christopher Reeve, calling him out for not supporting cures for paraplegia until after he became one. He has a point, however rudely (should there be a c before that?) he presents it. The same, I think, goes for the situation in Burma. It’s been happening for 19 years. But no one noticed until the Burmese government pulled a fast one and raised the price of diesel 500%, which eventually raised the ire of Buddhist monks. When Buddhist monks get pissed, you know something’s going down.
