I can see you don’t like knee-jerk redditors, but your position here is just wrong.

And if that happened, do you think anyone would ever know? The answer of course is we would never know.

Was this guy thrown into a labor camp?

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NO!!!

Why is it that people like you who are obviously sooooooo anti-censorship and pro freedom of speech whip out the “wumao” card at anyone who has an opinion, however reasonable, that doesn’t follow the party line of China is an absolute evil empire?

Why am I asking anyway? You’re probably CIA.

“What? How do you know?”

“Everyone says he raped Cindy.”

“Well, I just checked, and that’s not true.”

“Oh, well, everyone knows he raped Cathy.”

“How do you know that?”

“Because he’s obviously a rapist.”

Not that it ever wasn’t.

This was seen on German TV, not in China. Even Anthony had translate this from “Das News”.

What I think is important to recognize is that this is not the central party secret police. They exist and hand out brutal punishment, no doubt. They disappear people and torture them and really whatever the fuck they feel like doing. I mean, who is going to stop them?

However, these are local forces. They can do this stuff because they are empowered by what they see around them. Everyone else is doing it, so we can too! However this is not really the most common task they carry out, in my estimation. So you might ask yourself, how detailed and specific are the rules about what and how the police can or should do. And even if you had nice clear rules, what’s the chance those men knew and obeyed them? Answer, not bloody likely.

I mean, the local thugs beat that actor, Bale, with a videocamera running a year or so ago, angering Shaun Rein. You think they know from PR?

Also, I agree with the above comment from Little larry that they want us to know, they want people to be afraid. So they won’t hide these tactics.

Obvious there is nothing to see here.

A few hours later it was revealed that that same news agency that filmed his capture was reporting he was released hours later.

It is true that China’s PR is awful, but I don’t think all the fault lies with them. I’d say Americans too are all too eager to jump on this bandwagon of China being an all-encompassing police state, as evidenced with how they just rolled with this story. I have a lot of speculation as to why this is the case, but I don’t want to get into it here. I may blog about it later, though.