Applaud noble people standing up to Chinese, Iranian and Russian tyrants

• Published date: 01 December 2022
• Publication title: Israel National News (Israel)

But privileged folks in the West have always, well, enjoyed the privilege of debating this obvious fact. Not so in places like China, Iran and Russia. That's what makes recent weeks in these totalitarian regimes so uplifting and laudable

Tens of thousands of people are showing up across those autocratic nations to oppose oppression and, ideally, demand its downfall.

Living in a free place like America where performative cowards fake being handcuffed by polite police to gain attention, we do not realize how grave the stakes are in rogue foreign lands.

Iran's national soccer team members, eliminated Tuesday by the U.S. in the World Cup, boldly refused to sing the national anthem in solidarity with those protesting the Islamist regime's killing of a young woman for having her hijab out of place. Now these athletes and their families could face serious retribution that no coddled anti-war or "social justice" protestor in the west can imagine.

Protesters — mostly young people, and not spoiled brats in Manhattan, Los Angeles or an insular college town — remain defiant...

In China, murderous, anti-science lockdown policies have sparked a nascent revolution. First-hand accounts explain the dangers and horrors of opposing the Communist thugs.

In Russia, where dictator Vladimir Putin is improbably losing a war against his smaller neighbor, the regime imposes grandiose fines upon those who espouse anti-war sentiment. If you can't pay, you are arrested.

Yet protesters — mostly young people, and not spoiled brats in Manhattan, Los Angeles or an insular college town — remain defiant, shouting "Death to the dictator!" or in China, they hold up blank papers...