Free Tibet flags -- Made in China

from The BBC:

Police in southern China have discovered a factory manufacturing Free Tibet flags, media reports say.

The factory in Guangdong had been completing overseas orders for the flag of the Tibetan government-in-exile.

Workers said they thought they were just making colourful flags and did not realise their meaning.

But then some of them saw TV images of protesters holding the emblem and they alerted the authorities, according to Hong Kong's Ming Pao newspaper.

The factory owner reportedly told police the emblems had been ordered from outside China, and he did not know that they stood for an independent Tibet.

Workers who had grown suspicious checked the meaning of the flag by going online.

Thousands of flags had already been packed for shipping.

Police believe that some may already have been sent overseas, and could appear in Hong Kong during the Olympic torch relay there this week.

Walkin' In Memphis

Commemorations are being held across the country today to mark the 40th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The Civil Rights Leader and Peace Activist was gunned down on April 4th 1968 at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was just 39 years old.


"We've got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn't matter to me now. Because I've been to the mountain top. Like anybody I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And he has allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen The Promised Land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight, that we as a people will get to The Promised Land. So I'm happy tonight, I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man -- Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord." -- Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. April 3, 1968.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, I'm only going to talk to you for a minute or so this evening, because I have some very sad news for all of you and I think sad news for all of our fellow citizens, and people who love peace all over the world and that is that Martin Luther King was shot and killed tonight in Memphis, Tennessee." -- Robert F. Kennedy April 4, 1968

... Kennedy would be assassinated himself just two months later.