| WJS: Another ridiculous piece....arguing back and forth about whether Grace Wang is naive or not. That's a minor issue. Where is the outrage, the shame, that a woman who tried to mediate or settle a dispute BECAME THE TARGET OF DEATH THREATS....by an enraged mob culture, provoked and abetted by the organs of the state? Why is this not discussed? Instead the focus is 'Western media bias' or 'everything's OK because the GDP is going up'? Have you all lost your minds? Rat in the Hat (now there's an appropriate name!) : "...pretending to be a victim of Chinese mobism." Pretending? So you are claiming that the death threats, putting her family into hiding, actions against her parents' home, and her family's ID being plastered across the media....you're claiming this didn't happen? There's a huge difference between CCTV and CNN. If you can't tell the difference between slips of detail and outright, government-intervened fabrication, then, well, I feel sorry for you. And so you're aware; remember that coverage of Grace Wang and the thuggish Chinese government and your Olympics coverups have also been reported by Al-Jazeera. Surely you can't claim that Al-Jazeera is a tool of the American government? And I also don't like the use of the euphemism "GFW"...you make it sound like it's some sort of computer malfunction or software. IT IS YOUR GOVERNMENT. If you don't see any problem with saying, "I've had to be careful with what is said because the government blocks my blog", you need to open your eyes a LOT wider. "Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action" Goethe "A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves" Edward R. Murrow "In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one to mobilize us." Thich Nhat Hanh |
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