Re: Bright moon; Virtuous emperor Re: No evidence needed? LT Lee, That's news!!! Now I will call you Li Bai bashing...Re: LT Lee's new interpretation about Li Bai' poem,
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Re: Bright moon; Virtuous emperor Re: No evidence needed? LT Lee, That's news!!! Now I will call you Li Bai bashing...Re: LT Lee's new interpretation about Li Bai' poem,         

Group: soc.culture.hongkong · Group Profile
Author: Jim Walsh
Date: Aug 5, 2008 11:02

On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 07:16:47 +0800, abianchen@my-deja.com wrote
(in article
<5526d766-9a95-45b1-ae56-6454be308322@a70g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>):
> I agree with the following statement:
>
> "In China, you're now allowed to openly criticise local officials for
> corruption, brutality, or mismanagement - for being imperfect servants
> of the Communist system. But you're still not allowed to criticise the
> actual Communist system itself. And you're certainly never allowed to
> criticise the men right at the top - President Hu Jintao and Premier
> Wen Jiabao."
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/jamesreynolds/

The first sentence is NOT true. Those who criticized local officials for
allowing shoddy construction of schools resulting in many deaths are
currently in prison or otherwise shut up.

--
Love, Jim
(I often delete parts of the previous post and I often remove excessive
crossposts.)

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