THE DAY THE POLICE WERE NO LONGER NEEDED

On Aug. 19, 1966 Chinese students launched a fight for social justice to fight for the rights of the oppressed in China. It was widely believed that the "patriarchal system" in China had been created by the 1% ..

and held down women, minorities, and the working class. The students cried out for a revolution and change, and consequentially launched the infamous Chinese Cultural Revolution.

Students put a RED BAND around their arm to stand in solidarity with the oppressed and called for change on old ideas that they called the FOUR OLDS. The Four Olds were: Old Custom, Old Culture, Old Habits, & Old Ideas. The movement was supported by the CHINESE MEDIA.

Mass demonstrations & looting by the students ensued. Statues were torn down, Chines architecture was destroyed, classical literature & Chinese paintings were torn apart and burned, and Temples were desecrated.

The Cemetery of Confucius was attacked, the corpse of the 76th generation Duke Yansheng was removed from its grave and hung from a tree. Wealthy homes were attached and destroyed, many families long kept genealogy books were burned to ashes.

All of history, in short, was to be removed & replaced. This was the central meaning of Cultural Revolution: That China was going to destroy every trace of it bourgeois(privileged) past and replace it with a new culture built on the principles of Maoism & Marxism.

Communist leaders like President Liu Shaoqi were taken out of power and replaced with men Mao believed were not critical of his reign. Public leaders who were considered to be oppressive were tried by any mobs & vigilantes.

3 days later, on Aug. 22, 1966, a central directive was issued to stop police intervention. The police were disbanded in the city and the students formed a community solution called the RED GUARDS. The Red Guards policed the communities & punished

anyone who did not agree with their ideas. Even people that supported the movement, but had bad thoughts/wrong thinking could be punished. Though many Christians supported the movement in the beginning, they quickly became the number one Target of the Red Guards

and public trials were held to condemn them to death. Many of those that were on board with the cause of the rebellion, in the beginning, saw that it was not really what they had signed up for, but by then it was too late.

The power that the Red Guard wanted had already been given. More people died during the cultural revolution in China that any war, famine, or natural disaster in the history of man. An estimated 20-30 million people were killed. AMERICA ARE YOU LISTENING

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