Nineteen years ago today, the man in the white shirt stopped a line of tanks heading to Tiananmen Square in Beijing. He didn’t stop the eventual massacre [1], but he did take a stand, and he helped focus the attention of the world on what was happening.
Of course, our plight in Oregon is not comparable, but sometimes I imagine free-market, limited government types here being the man in the white shirt. The tanks represent the current political establishment. Something to think about”¦.
Steve Buckstein [2] is Senior Policy Analyst and founder of Cascade Policy Institute [3], a Portland-based think tank.