What Color Is Revolution?

There is the Green Revolution; the issues of saving the planet from itself. And then there was the Orange revolution--the democracy protests of the Ukraine. And now with all the problems in Myanmar and the protests, pro democracy protests, led by the Buddhist monks; it is being called the Saffron revolution, named for the color of the robes worn by the monks.

So I ask again what color is revolution? Or yet why a color at all? What part of the violence that accompanies these "revolutions" lends it to a color other than red? You know the same color as the blood that is almost always spilled.

Maybe it is make it seem a bit more appealing, if it has one of these shades of color. You know kinda like the switch from jungle to rain forest, it made the jungle more palatable to people. I mean not many people would help save a place like a jungle with all the animal violence and such, but a serene rain forest they will save. People, they are the same thing!

Adding a color to the violence of a revolution is making it more palatable to the people that are listening or reading or whatever they are doing to get any news. I do not want it sugar coated for me. Call it what it is--people killing people in the name of politics. Stop trying to take realism and turn it into some kid's story book. The only color of a revolution, any revolution, is red--THE COLOR OF BLOOD!

CHUQ