In another time this week's massacre in China of farmers protesting the taking of their land for development might have been the main news item of the day:

A small group of villagers was chosen to complain to the authorities about the plant in August, but the members were arrested, infuriating residents and leading others to join the protests. The police made more arrests on Tuesday while villagers were staging a sit-in. In response, many people came out into the streets, where they obstructed several officers. Hundreds of law enforcement officers were rushed in. "Everybody, young and old, went out to watch," said one man who said his cousin had been fatally shot in the forehead by the police during the protest. "We didn't expect they were so evil. The farmers had no means to resist them." The earliest accounts coming from the village said the police had opened fire only after villagers began throwing homemade bombs and other missiles. But villagers reached by telephone on Friday denied those accounts, saying that a few farmers had launched ordinary fireworks at the police as part of their protest.

There is no point in wondering whether putting this story about what happened in Dongzhou on one's website would attract the attention of the Chinese government's trolling web bots. It will. I would encourage you all to post that word, the name of that village where you post on the web as witness. And remember. Remember what my favorite guy did, too.