Red Ken Compares Tiananmen Square to Trafalgar Square
Charles Johnson
Mon Apr 10, 2006 at 8:00 am PDT • Views: 225
The moonbat mayor of London, “Red Ken” Livingstone, is at it again—in China this time: Livingstone compares poll tax riots to China massacre. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)
Ken Livingstone began a tour of China yesterday by comparing the Tiananmen Square massacre to London’s 1990 poll tax riot.
Looking out over the Beijing square from the steps of the National Museum of Revolutionary History, the Mayor of London said the 1989 massacre, in which -hundreds of protesters died, was part of the city’s “interesting history”, like London’s.
“In the same way that Trafalgar Square has had an interesting history, not always a peaceful one, there’s a very clear parallel,” he said.
“We’ve had some interesting riots in Trafalgar Square - I mean, only 20 years ago, the poll tax riots, and flames licking up.” Mr Livingstone is spending a week in Beijing and Shanghai discussing Olympic planning and promoting London businesses in the world’s fastest growing major economy. …
What did he feel about being at the site of the Tiananmen Square massacre? he was asked.
After commenting on the square’s size and scale, he went on to make the comparison with Trafalgar Square. When it was pointed out that the Metropolitan Police had not shot or killed anyone during the poll tax riot in London in March 1990, he suggested the comparison should be put into a longer context.
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