The PBS website that accompanies tonight's Frontline special, "The Tank Man," is excellent.

As citizens of planet earth, we should oppose the Chinese government's oppression of its people. Its suppression of the Chinese people's fundamental human right to express themselves. To let their voices be heard. To learn about the 1989 student-led revolution in Tiananmen Square.



Do you know about Hao Wu and why he should be freed? Are you doing anything about it? At a minimum, blog about it and tell others. Ideas and information are powerful things. Why do you think the Chinese government is struggling so hard to control them?

It's because they are scared. And they should be. Because they are going to lose. They may put hundreds and even thousands of more people in prison, and kill untold legions of their citizens, but they will lose.

The information genie is out of the bottle. They can't shut down the Internet. And praise God, they cannot shut me up or you either. We must speak out. And take action.

These are issues worth caring about. They are ideals worth dying for. People have, and they likely will again. Why have they paid the ultimate sacrifice, and why are more still willing to pay that price?

Because they believe in ideals that are greater than themselves. Many of these ideas are embodied in a document adopted by the United Nations in 1948, named The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. These are UNIVERSAL because they apply to everyone.

Morality is not relative. Human rights are for everyone. Are you listening to the global voices writing and talking about these issues and others THAT MATTER? Are you offering your own opinions in this global conversation?

You should be. Because these conversations matter. They are going to change the world.