(Cross posted from Facebook) An emotionally charged weekend. Twenty five years ago tomorrow, the Berlin Wall came down. I’ve added a post about that day on my freedom-25.ca website. I took a bit of hiatus from writing there… a lot of the memories and recent events were just too painful…
I said on multiple occasions that I am not a proponent of a ‘revolution’ – history has too many examples of what’s wrong with that concept. This article may explain both what’s wrong with revolutions, and why some people think one might be inevitable.
Tomorrow is October 23rd. On that day 24 years ago, my family landed in Canada, after an epic escape from Communist Czechoslovakia 15 months earlier. Earlier this summer, I started a web site that chronicles that journey. You can read it at http://freedom-25.ca/. I had to take a break because…