TightWind is written by Kyle Baxter. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Seems telling the PRC is so afraid of thus far puny protests in China:

Near Shanghai’s People’s Square, uniformed police blew whistles nonstop and shouted at people to keep moving, though about 200 people – a combination of onlookers and quiet sympathizers who formed a larger crowd than a week ago – braved the shrill noise. In Beijing, trucks normally used to water the streets drove repeatedly up the busy commercial shopping district spraying water and keeping crowds pressed to the edges.

Foreign journalists met with tighter police controls. In Shanghai, authorities called foreign reporters Sunday indirectly warning them to stay away from the protest sites, while police in Beijing followed some reporters and blocked those with cameras from entering the Wangfujing shopping street where protests were called. Plainclothes police struck a Bloomberg News television reporter, who was then taken away for questioning.

Dictatorships, no matter how successful their means of control and economic policies are, are never completely stable. Something as simple and natural as the people publicly speaking their minds can cut through all the fear and strength they have projected to protect their regime in days.

The Arabs have shown the rest of the world just how much power the people have. If they choose, their repressive governments will fall.