"The White Tigers Free China!" That’s the headline I want to read on the front pages of newspapers and hear on news broadcasts worldwide! By the time we view that breaking news story, the "White Tigers" will be more famous than the Viet Cong or Al Qaeda. They’re the Chinese Free Resistance. They waved to us at Tiananmen Square in 1989, remember?

A nation of the most adorable Pandas suddenly became White Tigers, especially the one who stood bravely before a Maoist tank and brought it to heel. The "tank man" blocked the advance of the tanks for 30 minutes before an onlooker came over and pulled him away. Despite efforts, to this day Western media sources are unable to identify that solitary figure.

The reason they’re tigers and not lions is because the Chinese recall the Flying Tigers of World War II, those volunteer American pilots who made fools out of the attacking Japanese air force. The kill rate for Flying Tiger aces was like something out of Milton Caniff’s comic strip Terry and the Pirates. The Flying Tigers will make the French Resistance, the Viet Cong and Al Qaeda look ineffectual by comparison.

I am taking a leap of faith here, the same kind of kamikaze risk that abolitionist John Brown took when he attacked Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. I’m not going to storm the Forbidden City, mind you, and "cuff" the President and Premier of a Maoist tyranny for crimes against humanity. We’d all like to see them in jail, along with their rabid pit bull, Kim Jong Il of North Korea, but it doesn’t work that way.

Poor John Brown made a foolish bet. He was certain that the African slaves, when hearing of Harpers Ferry, would rise up and free themselves. Instead, they either fled to Canada or stayed in shackles; and when the "Massa" came asking if they knew anything about John Brown, they most likely said, "He that crazy white man, ain’t he? No, Massa, we don’t know no John Brown."

"Well, keep it that way," said Simon Legree or Murder Legendre or Hammond Maxwell.

A few hundred remained in the North to join the Union Army and distinguished themselves as a regiment. The entire heroic act is recalled in Ed Zwick’s exceptional film Glory, starring Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman. However, it took Abraham Lincoln and the lives of 600,000 mostly white Americans to tell the world that the United States lives up to its Declaration of Independence.

With 10 regiments of White Tigers in provinces like Szechwan, not only will China’s president Hu Jintao and premier Wen Jiabao be wetting their pants, but their newly announced ally, Vladimir Putin of Russia, will be looking over his own shoulder at a very angry populace that, since Perestroika, has come up for air and is not returning underground.

Yes, with the White Tigers inspired by the Flying Tigers, an entire worldwide civil war could erupt.

A Sino-Canadian couple in Calgary helps run the café in one of that cowtown’s best hotels. The husband told me, "Michael, once the Chinese taste freedom, they’ll never go back to Mao."

God willing, we will soon read on the front pages of USA Today: "The White Tigers Free China!"