Just like in North Korea, people are terrified of the government.
Whether it’s coming from the government or bands of armed criminals, terror is the same.
Come to think of it, I felt terrified of armed criminals every single day of my stay in New York.
I visited the Uighur neighborhood in Shanghai and some young Uighurs didn’t feel scared of the government. They openly smoked something illegal. Whether it’s smart or not, it’s another matter.
Very often, ‘government by fear’ is the only method that works for the greater good, as has been proven in the ME region. Actually I often think we could use a bit of it here too.
Have you ever watched it? I’d guess the answer to that is a great big ‘no’.
Never mind. The guy has limited vocabulary.
It’s a modern version of “fear of the Lord,” I suppose.
Government is not to be feared, but is always to be questioned for its behavior, if you ask me. What’s happening to Uighurs today can happen to us tomorrow.
Saddam Hussein ruled by fear and look what’s happened to Iraq since he was topped?
In fact, Hussein, Mubarak, Gadaffi and Assad all held things in better shape than they are since western interventions to remove them. They also protected Christians in their countries and they gave no quarters to Islamic extremists.
Yep, everything is fine for the majority until we get involved, then it all falls apart. Same old, same old?
Why should it happen to us? We just pootle along not causing any trouble and strife, and live and let live. They don’t, they flaunt their difference to provoke?
As much of it as I could stomach.
It’s conspiracy nut bullshit.
Freedom is messy and it takes time for savages to learn to live together in peace.
It is already happening to us. Amber Rudd (Home Secretary at the time) said that people who absorb too much anti-establishment propaganda (such as possibly hanging around PB too much) should be constrained in some way.
I can’t remember the actual phrasing, but it was along the lines of “thou shalt only read government approved material”.
Chinese Doctor Discusses a Possible Case of Forced Organ Harvesting
‘a possible case’? Was it, or wasn’t it?
In your own words “FFS!” Read! Read more!
I don’t need to read the story - if the headline is equivocal then the story is also bound to be.
Muppet!
The story is a recount of some testament by a doctor who was concerned about things that he perceived and changed his line of work as a result.
He was brave (or stupid) to state that he even suspected wrong-doing by the CCP. That alone is enough to get him into the Gulag.
In that case it sounds more like a non-story to me. How could he have only perceived it, or suspect wrong-doing, but not have enough tangible evidence to expose it?
It’s a communist country, getting proof out is worth your life even for the attempt.