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Beijing strikes at dissidents
Michael Gillard and Mark Olden
London Observer
Sunday, January 4, 2009
China has launched a tough countrywide crackdown on a new network of political activists, writers and lawyers who have supported a bold new manifesto that presses for the end of one-party rule.
The group of 300 or so people had all signed Charter 08, which called for democracy and the rule of law in China and was named after the famous Charter 77 dissident group formed in cold war Czechoslovakia.
Charter 08 has been hailed as the most significant act of public dissent against China’s Communist party since the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests were brutally crushed in 1989. It was posted online on 10 December, the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It condemned recent economic modernisation efforts as having “stripped people of their rights”, and called for political reform and a new liberal, democratic constitution.
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However, Beijing has reacted by jailing some of Charter 08’s public supporters. At least 70 of the original signatories have been summoned or interrogated by the police. Prominent dissident Liu Xiaobo has been put under house arrest. The writer Wen Kejian has been detained in the resort city of Hangzhou, close to Shanghai. Police have also ransacked the Beijing home of Zhang Zuhua, one of the main authors of the charter, confiscating his passport as well as his computers, books and notebooks.
Professor Xu Youyu, a leading philosopher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, has been told by police to retract his signature.
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January 4th, 2009 at 5:35 am
http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=EcvaSnmqZ40
January 4th, 2009 at 7:25 am
watch this closely what’s happening in china, because the same is coming to amerika !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....annel_page
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January 4th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
The enemies of humanity, the enemies of freedom, the enemies of love and peace can all be found in Governments worldwide.
I hope that the evil, disgusting, cowardly Chinese Government and all the scumbags who work for them are damned to hell.
TRUTH SHALL PREVAIL
DEATH TO THE NEW WORLD ORDER
DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER
January 4th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
The similar strategy like the counter-revolutionary policy in China is already adopted to the US government. I guess some people are bribed. Imagine who paid the Homeland Security members in San Jose, CA while I was accused by the SJSU university police officers and Dr. J.A. English-Lueck, who is an expert of Chinese culture. The US Olympic team must learned how to behave in China as they stayed in SJSU before the traveling to China.
I met another cultural anthropologist expert in Chinese culture at El Camino Hospital. Dr. Rau and Jennifer, Honkongese American occupational therapist, are gang stalking members. Guess how many organized stalkers are acting as if in a communist country. Whoever behind of so called organized stalking, they are adopting fascist/communist strategies to oppress free thoughts and freedoms.
January 4th, 2009 at 10:12 pm
Looks like they’re getting a little Homeland Security democracy.
January 5th, 2009 at 3:50 am
INFORMATION IS THE BEST WEAPON TO USE AGAINST THESE NEO-SCUM BASTARDS !!
IT’S TIME FOR ALL INFOWARRIORS TO STEP UP, STEP FORWARD, AND POLLUTE THE
WORLD WITH OUR COLLECTIVE KNOWLEDGE OF CONSCIOUSNESS. 1 LOVE !!!!!!!!!!!
TIME TO GIVE POWER BACK 2 THE PEOPLE, GIVEN BY THE PEOPLE, & GIVEN 4 THE PEOPLE
AND SO BEGINS THE REVOLUTION …………………………. VIVA LA CHARTER 08
………”RON PAUL”……………………….”ALEX JONES”………………………….”DAVID ICKE”……….
…..FOR PRESIDENT…………….FOR VICE-PRESIDENT………….FOR SECRETARY-OF-STATE……
January 5th, 2009 at 7:06 am
If only people would look at the past historic events then we’d be aware of this. Instead teenagers are being brainwashed at home by watching the useless and goofed up tube.
Brainwashed students at every single high-school. Only the richest of the richest reach that point in life. You’ll never see a homeless person make it into a private college anytime soon with the way things are going.
January 5th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
China continues to undermine itself, and cause it’s own implosion.
How unfortunate. Credit them for hanging on this long with overt military rule.
The problem is the only chance their elites had at defeating the european/american Cabal was to give the people democracy, or at least our illusion thereof.
I almost wish I could sit with their leaders and let them know that the new ‘mao’ teachers be laughed out of communities, as per what Ive read from countless chinese.
Dear Chinese govt: It isnt 198 ad anymore. Cao Cao isnt running things. Continue as you are and you will annihilate yourself.