It's about 630 am and I'm sitting here having coffee with my dog and listening to the BBC World Service about the death of Edmund Hillary. I remember reading about him when I was younger. In pictures he always looked so accomplished, so intrepid. I don't know, maybe all explorers naturally look like that. I always wanted to be an explorer when I was younger. How do you do that, really? I mean do you wake up in the morning and start packing and call together a team? I suppose you'd have to get funding from a rich, risk taking investor. Anyway, as I was listening to the story of Mr. Hillary, I was browsing the CNN website, what trash that site is. It's hard to get non-inflected news sources these days. It's almost as if you can't see the news your self, maybe it hasn't happened or they are lying to you. But one story I did see that made me extremely upset was the beating death of the Chinese blogger 2 days ago, I believe it was.
His name was Wei Wenhua, and this happened in the central Chinese province of Hubei. I think its important to actually name people so that their death is not in vain. He was beaten by "municipal workers" for filming them overstepping their authority. The disturbing side of this story is that it was not simply 2 or 3 men that beat him, but as many as 50 workers attacked him fo 5 minutes. Words don't express the outrage I felt when I heard about this. As well as the concern that this could happen here eventually. Who knows who your words might offend? In any event, the death of Wei Wenhua has not gone unnoticed to me..
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