First the Earthquake and Now the Police . . .

by R. Elgin on June 4, 2008

It did not take long for authorities in China to get tough with grieving parents from the earthquake. So “splitism” is also losing your children to poor construction.

{ 7 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Benicio74 June 4, 2008 at 10:01 am: Wow, they really are anti-protest!
2 Benicio74 June 4, 2008 at 10:08 am: Anway, the headline made me think Sting, Stewart, & Andy were putting on a show in China.

“Don’t stand so close to me”

I like to sing that while I’m at the urinal here in Korea.
3 Sonagi June 4, 2008 at 10:44 am: A few token local officials’ heads will roll, and then it’ll be business as usual. When will the Chinese government learn that its kill-the-chicken-scare-the-monkey approach to corruption isn’t working?
4 Benicio74 June 4, 2008 at 10:49 am: As long as there’s huge piles of money to be made, there will always be corruption in politics and construction!
Everywhere in the world
5 madar June 4, 2008 at 10:55 am: You have a government enforced one child policy, parents feeling their children were killed by government corruption or mismanagement, and further feeling that their need for justice is not being met by that same government. If I was one of those parents I suspect I would be pretty close to getting a sniper rifle and popping off government officials from roof tops. China is going hard to “clean things up for the Olympics”. I’d love to see it explode in their totalitarian faces.
6 R. Elgin June 4, 2008 at 11:37 am: Additionally, the CCP is suspending licenses to lawyers who have offered to defend Tibetan protesters. Regardless of how one thinks about Tibet, this sort of blatant manipulation of justice is bad for all Chinese.
7 Ex aedibus June 4, 2008 at 10:03 pm: The Chinese government loves stability. The thing that they fear more than anything is any threat to stability. Hu Jintao has not been championing the ideal of a “Harmonious Society” for nothing.