These two Q-tips, Wu and Wang (with the hat) are pissed that the Communist Chinese government did not pay them enough for their homes. Both residences were knocked down to make way for redevelopment projects like the Olympics. This, according to The New York Times, is becoming a common complaint among "common folk" as the Communists ride the pseudo capitalist train to world dominance. Wu and Wang, applied for a permit to demonstrate and then the Beijing cops "sentenced" both to 1-year of "reeducation through labor." Both are protester wanna-bees. One is partially blind and both have trouble walking without canes. Even if they could, they never even got to hold up signs. It was the thought to and the subsequent the filing of the applications to protest that got them in hot water. The Communists are scared to death that the rest of the world will see two 70+year old ladies saying any negative about the government during their precious "perfect" Olympics. It's not enough to censor the press, the Internet, its own citizens. No, even these two elderly women are deemed enemies of the state and are subsequently shut-up. There is a designated "protest" area near the Olympic site, but guess what? No one seems to be using it. Whoever the leaders of ruling party of Communist China are, they have no back bone. They lack confidence. They are small minded. They don't have a clue as to how stupid this makes them look. They rule over billions of people, who think they are free. But they're not. And no matter how wonderful the Chinese think their Olympics is, in the back of everyone else's mind around the world, China is a second-rate evil country, despite all of its recent economic prosperity. And I ask, how long will it be before the revolution of the "I thought I was free, but I really wasn't?" occurs. For more information and to the read the NYT article please go to http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/21/sports/olympics/21protest.html?pagewanted=1&hp to rest The New York Times story. The photo credit is Hg Nan Guan of the Associated Press.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Enemies of the state...
These two Q-tips, Wu and Wang (with the hat) are pissed that the Communist Chinese government did not pay them enough for their homes. Both residences were knocked down to make way for redevelopment projects like the Olympics. This, according to The New York Times, is becoming a common complaint among "common folk" as the Communists ride the pseudo capitalist train to world dominance. Wu and Wang, applied for a permit to demonstrate and then the Beijing cops "sentenced" both to 1-year of "reeducation through labor." Both are protester wanna-bees. One is partially blind and both have trouble walking without canes. Even if they could, they never even got to hold up signs. It was the thought to and the subsequent the filing of the applications to protest that got them in hot water. The Communists are scared to death that the rest of the world will see two 70+year old ladies saying any negative about the government during their precious "perfect" Olympics. It's not enough to censor the press, the Internet, its own citizens. No, even these two elderly women are deemed enemies of the state and are subsequently shut-up. There is a designated "protest" area near the Olympic site, but guess what? No one seems to be using it. Whoever the leaders of ruling party of Communist China are, they have no back bone. They lack confidence. They are small minded. They don't have a clue as to how stupid this makes them look. They rule over billions of people, who think they are free. But they're not. And no matter how wonderful the Chinese think their Olympics is, in the back of everyone else's mind around the world, China is a second-rate evil country, despite all of its recent economic prosperity. And I ask, how long will it be before the revolution of the "I thought I was free, but I really wasn't?" occurs. For more information and to the read the NYT article please go to http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/21/sports/olympics/21protest.html?pagewanted=1&hp to rest The New York Times story. The photo credit is Hg Nan Guan of the Associated Press.
