and the bloggers shall inherit the Earth!

I'm sure that if you pay attention to any kind of print or television media you've seen the violence and bloodshed in Burma/Myanmar.
Pro-Democratic monks are marching against a military Junta (Spanish for committee) and in doing so are being gunned down by soldiers. This happened before, 19 years ago on August 8th 1988 (known as the 8888 revolution) resulting in the deaths of thousands of people, but almost no one had heard of the country let alone the march.
Things changed this year. Monks marched again and were gunned down again but there was something different. People heard. People saw. People reacted.
It turns out that some of the marchers had cameras and internet connections and that can be more deadly than any gun.
Images and videos of the protests and the accompanying violence spread around the world and the internet population recoiled in horror.
To date, a single internet social site, Facebook has over 400 different groups with one of them reaching as high as 135,000 (it should be noted that only several hours ago when i first checked it was numbered at 133,000)
This explosion of care could only have come from the increasingly small world and the impact of technology and globalization.
Just several days ago George Bush in his address to the United Nations cited the violence in issues that needed to be solved. The government of Myanmar went so far as to shut off internet access in the whole country for over a day.
We've seen the power of the internet, lets see what happens when it's combined with the power of the human heart.


UPDATE: It appears that the Burmese/Myanmar military Junta has shut off the internet once again. It's now been disconnected for at least 3 days.

UPDATE #2: As of now (2:20pm 3rd October) the facebook group (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=24957770200&ref=nf) numbers more than 290,000