Big Brother is watching...

[reality_hammer]

in China!

For all the whining done by the likes of the ACLU and Amnesia International, you'd think we lived in a police state.

No, that is when you live in a place like China:
SHANGHAI, China (AP) - Authorities have ordered all China-based Web sites and blogs to register or be closed down, in the latest effort by the communist government to

Comments

[astralweeks]

It's funny that you are attacking AI just because they said something you didn't like. They address injustices around the WORLD, and yes, every once in a while, we get caught too. And the ACLU is the "American" Civil Liberties Union, so why would they address something happening in China?

[tomcatshanger]

I don't care for Amnesty international based on their lack of good faith. The do not report on actual atrocity around the world, instead focusing on First World Countries going on about issues like Gitmo, or the lack of AC in prisons in some US states, instead of things like the treatment of Cubans by the Communist Cuban Government, or the treatment of prisoners by the Mexican Government, or even the reality that good old Communist China ordered over a dozen mobile Execution Chambers last year, most likely to execute drug offenders and other "Enemies of the State" as the Maoist Chinese government sees fit.

Frankly, if they are more concerned with pandering to a political party then doing what they say they are supposed to do, I have no use for them.

I'd lay odd's Reality Hammer's reasoning is along similar lines.

As for the ACLU, he didn't say they should have a statement about China, just that they often quip that we live in a police state here in the USA. Reading comprehension is your friend.

[moonchylde]

Might I point out that there is far more access available to both discover and fix problems occurring in 'First World' countries (gah, I hate those designations...)

They are victims of the popularity game just like any other group. They are far more likely to be able to report a successful change in American jails than in Mexican jails.

You are correct, though, in that that doesn't alleviate them from trying. They should. We should. You should, too. :)

Now if we can just get everyone that is really upset about these things, and they ALL help out EVERYONE, then nothing would be wrong! hehehe

[tomcatshanger]

It's odd how a task becomes the right task because it is the easier task.

Their energy's spent on their reports are not such that they preclude their undertaking reports about area's they have little control over. That they don't even spend the effort to report on the problems shows a major flaw in their core beliefs.

Grin. My cause is personal freedom within the sphere I can influence. Natural rights closely follow what was spelled out in the Bill of Rights. Outside of that, very little is a natural right. Pretty much everything AI bitch's about concern privileges or odd socialist plans that have nothing to do with actual cause and effect, natural OR human rights. Their fight is not mine.

And if everyone would just die, we would never have war again. Unfortunately, we have human nature to go with our natural rights.