T
hinking
about tomorrow’s election reminds me of the Chinese citizen Liu Xiaobo who
recently won the Nobel Prize for Peace. For expressing diverse political
opinions in speech and writing, Mr. Xiaobo is now serving an eleven-year prison
sentence which began in December of 2009. This “gentle subversive”,
who still remains optimistic about the growing strength of freedom and
democracy throughout the world, has lost his voice. This man of peace is
silenced: a punishment we Americans cannot begin to fathom. I cannot be
silenced, I can speak out for my beliefs without fear of repercussion
and…most important of all, I can vote!
mc
