yesterday, this appeared in the associated press:
DUJIANGYAN, China - Chinese police dragged away more than 100 parents Tuesday while
they were protesting the deaths of their children in poorly constructed
schools that collapsed in last month’s earthquake.
couldn’t happen here? maybe not yet (though there were some chilling stories early in the iraq war, where weeping parents were hauled off their freshly delivered cold-boys-in-boxes, when the military suddenly declared their KIA coffin lading area to be off-limits).
but we have gotten to this point:
Thirty-four people were convicted yesterday of misdemeanor charges stemming from a demonstration at the Supreme Court in January in which they decried conditions at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay.
Judge Wendell P. Gardner Jr. said the demonstrators violated the law by protesting at the plaza of the Supreme Court, where such activities are banned. He rejected arguments that they were practicing free speech when they marched to the plaza, despite warnings from police, carrying banners and wearing T-shirts saying “Shut down Guantanamo.”
the U.S. government is only a step or two behind the chinese government in terms of civil rights violations. and gaining a little more ground every day.
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Jackie this is why we cant be asleep at the switch while things continue to move in this direction. We are losing ground on rights when we should be fighting for more protection. People are buying into so many rationalizations for this.
We talk about China and their horrible situation as though our government would never behave this way. Like we never left people stranded on rooftops or bodies in streets… Weve never had poorly built levees? it is tragic, what happened. Should not be that way anywhere.
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