Tonight Linda and I saw the latest movie in the Hunger Games series at the Mahoning Theater. The audience consisted mostly of teenage girls.
The rebels in the movie adopt three-fingered salute, which the government forces declare as subversive. Anyone who uses the salute is summarily executed.
Now the government of Thailand, a military dictatorship that came to power last May, has announced that anyone using the three-fingered sign could be arrested. Five students who wore shirts that said “ We don’t want the coup” flashed the sign during a speech by the Prime Minster. The students were arrested and held for “attitude adjustment.”
Another student was detained for silently reading “1984.”
Where is Katniss when we need her?
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