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Originally posted by dgtempe
So, we should all feel like we live in Oz because of whats happening in China?
Originally posted by WyrdeOne
Seekerof
The quoted number struck me as odd, and it took me a while to figure out why. Now I remember.
800k people arrested for political reasons in China
800k children go missing each year in the US alone.
So which is the bigger problem? The latter in my opinion, but it's considered business as usual by the UN and the US.
Don't mean to dillute the point of your thread, I just thought the numerical corrolary was worth mentioning.
Also, your Chinese websites only point to criminals being executed.
Unless, i'am mistaken greatly, the US also commits capital punishment, correct?
Wait, so is this a diversionary tactic to take focus off the US problems?
Maybe we, as American citizens, should pay no attention to the problems our country has because others are worse? Sorry, but there is a serious fault of logic here.
Last time I checked, at least I was capable of denouncing not only the United States' means, but others around the world as well.
Honestly, do you think we should not attempt to resolve the US' problems because there are worse de facto governments in the world?
Dude, just a few years ago the US was averaging 760,000 marijuana related arrests a year. That's just for smoking some weed. I fail to see your point other than demonize a culture you probably have a poor understanding of.
Kind of a misleading thread title. I was expecting the arrest of 800,000 people and find out that was the total for one year.
More than 800,000 people were arrested last year...
What is the arrest total in the United States and how does it relate to this number?
I have lived and worked in both communism and capitalist countries, and as far as I can tell, they are the same.
Originally posted by Seekerof
Your failing to see the point is not amiss with me, twitchy.
How many of those "760,000 marijuana" violators are executed under or for "state security reasons"? Yeah....I thought so. BTW, weren't you one of those that is hemming and hawing over your rights being taken away, deminishing, disappearing, etc.? Been publically deemed a "state security" risk yet? Seen anyone? And how many of those have been executed?
Originally posted by Seekerof
Really?
Did you translate the page(s)?
They were of Tibetians. Now whether they were criminals or not is a matter of the state and its own determinations of what "criminals" are, eh?
Yep, we publically execute them too, right?
We take them out and and shoot them and bury them in holes in the gorund, also?
Originally posted by Seekerof
Jamuhn
Wait, so is this a diversionary tactic to take focus off the US problems?
To you, Jamuhn, anything brought up that does not revolve around criticism of the US is seen or percieved as "diversionary tactics," correct?
Originally posted by Seekerof
And lastly, WARNING: Link contains graphic, offensive, and shocking pictures: (and in Chinese)
Set One
Set Two
seekerof
Originally posted by DrHoracid
Faced with a truely tragic issue of Chinese tyranny libs can still only revile and "hate-monger" america.
Its' an illness I tell you, liberlisim is an illness based on self-hate and loathing. Guilt for being born or something.........
China is "purging" any possible challenge to its absolute control and power, tyranny of the first order. Stalin and Pol Pot would be proud not to mention Saddam.
Originally posted by DrHoracid
Faced with a truely tragic issue of Chinese tyranny libs can still only revile and "hate-monger" america.
Its' an illness I tell you, liberlisim is an illness based on self-hate and loathing. Guilt for being born or something.........
China is "purging" any possible challenge to its absolute control and power, tyranny of the first order. Stalin and Pol Pot would be proud not to mention Saddam.
Originally posted by rapier28
Read my post above.
The women executed is a normal criminal, not a political dissident.
~snip~
[edit on 11-3-2005 by rapier28]
Originally posted by Seekerof
Nothing from the UN on this.
Originally posted by SeekerofTibetan monks and Xinjiang Muslims in northwest China who advocate independence are often targeted by Chinese authorities as terrorists, separatists or religious extremists.
State-sanctioned public executions. A condemned man is paraded before thousands who turn up to watch as he and a dozen others are executed with a bullet to the head.
Opposition to China's communist leadership is growing though, as a stark lack of economic opportunities among the country's 800 million rural dwellers becomes increasingly evident, raising fears of social unrest and turmoil.
Originally posted by Seekerof
But please, lets continue to focus on how screwed America is and how our freedoms and rights are disappearing, being taken away, etc. or how America has such a dismal Human Rights record, etc., k?!
Originally posted by Seekerof
*shakes head*
Originally posted by WyrdeOne
800k children go missing each year in the US alone.
Originally posted by smallpeeps
1: Why does the government need to do it in public? The only logical answer is that they wish to instill fear into those who are watching or who read it in the newspaper.
Source Merriam webster
a]theory advocating elimination of private property b]: a system in which goods are owned in common and are available to all as needed.
Originally posted by smallpeeps
American citizens wouldn't allow this, right?
Originally posted by 00PS
Hmm Chinese police are too busy dealing with real criminals that they aren't out there looking for the 'social dissenters'. They have special divisions of the CIB or whatever they call it to do that.
The whole division and subsequent debates regarding the bigt topics, religion, politics, and the entertainment industry is an environment that encourages personal expression.