Last week it was about Yemen with The Reluctant Revolutionary. One smooth tourist guide, one half-exploitative journalist and a sit-down revolution camping in the streets.
It is amazing to watch.
There's a lot of talk about freedom in libertarian ideology. But here we see how it's like to be beaten by hired thugs or even just the police for requesting a change of regime. The martyr syndrome unfolds - each beating makes people more angry, each casualty is a proof of how callous the rulers are. It is brutality, weapons and bullets against the sheer force of the people.
I'm happy I'm donating to Amnesty, although they were surprisingly quiet during the whole thing. Maybe revolutions just aren't their thing.
