I watched a short documentary today showing a few examples of the brutality and freedom suppressing bullshit the Chinese communist regime routinely hands out to its own people.
The sight of weeping middle-aged women and frail old men desperately pressing their paper petitions into the hands of a helpless reporter was very moving. Many Chinese travel thousands of miles to Beiijing with these petitions, seeking redress for their grievances through the only officially sanctioned means available to them. Once they arrive, they are met with cold bureaucratic silence, imprisonment, or violence.
The institutionalised contempt of the Communist leadership is staggering, it is also depressingly normal behavior for this odious institution. The opinions of ordinary people mean nothing and it is illegal to organize any kind of opposition to wrongful treatment. No dissent (however mild), is tolerated. Active protest or resistance is simply crushed into silence. It’s a genuinely disgusting joke, but sadly, it’s one that our own corrupt governments are happy continuing to laugh along with.
