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.
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Wow, they really are anti-protest!
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.
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?
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
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.
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.
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.