Here in this nation of banksters and their middle men (the politicians), politics is a simple enough equation: Money = Democracy. People here willingly give up the very freedoms that people in countries like Burma are literally DYING for. Unlike this country, where religious leaders (especially televangelists, the guiltiest of the guilty) willingly spread the gospel according to The Party, in Burma, Buddhist monks urge the people to: "Abandon your fear." "People must die" for freedom, someone says at one point. And then the monks lead by example, walking at the forefront of protesting crowds marching into the gunsights of the government goons. The crowd is dispersed by rifle fire and we see the murder of a Japanese photographer. It brought to mind something I saw as a kid, on the telenews (this was back before the news channels were all co-opted and corrupted): a Buddhist monk immolating himself to protest the Vietnam war. The monks in Burma fared no better: we see video smuggled out of the country showing the bullet-riddled corpse of a monk floating face down in a river. There are others. There will be more.
