they had made their position clear: no one is untouchable.The reappearance of this old rule in a deadly game seems especially apt as we approach August 19th, marking the 75th anniversary of the poet Federico Garcia Lorca's murder at the hands of a fascist death squad in the early, chaotic days of the Spanish Civil War. The two cases are not without contrasts; as impervious to world opinion as the Chinese government may be, it seems it would rather see a solution to the Ai Weiwei problem that didn't end in a well-publicised corpse.
Sadly, Lorca's fate did not trigger international outrage equivalent to that of Weiwei's until it was far too late.
from PopMatters: No One Is Untouchable: Not Federico Garcia Lorca, Not Ai Weiwei
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