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Loading ...Paul Walsh is reporting that Wei Wenhua, a 41 year old construction company executive, was beaten to death recently because he had the gall to videotape them for his video blog.
The government had detained 24 officials and is investigating another 100 over the incident.
I’ve never understood China. And I hate their government. It’s great that they are investigating this, but it seems odd that they’re somehow investigating well over 100 people for this incident.
Walsh’s blog, Segala, has been banned in China as a result of his reporting this incident. So Walsh simply set it up on a proxy server. HA.
Like I said, I hate the Chinese government.
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Don’t understand China but you hate their government? Might be worth trying to understand, in that case, so you’ll at least know why you hate them. In this case it’d be worth noting that it was municipal officials acting on their own accord, hardly representative of the Central government, and with over 50 of them turning on the poor guy, investigating more than 100 seems pretty reasonable. Also nowhere in the CNN article or anywhere else that I’ve seen online yet has it been mentioned that this guy is actually a blogger, so please tell me where you got the video blog reference, because I must have missed it. I suggest reading Christine Lu’s post on the matter: http://christinelu.com/index.php/The-Importance-Of-Scratching-The-Surface.html
Cheers
Not to be nit picky, but rather than Walsh setting up his site on a proxy server, he quoted me as mentioning that I could only view his site through a proxy service, a vital necessity for those of us behind the Great Firewall of China.
While the Chinese government certainly engages in activities that are to be condemned, I would hesitate to single them out as particularly evil. Notably, most of its unsavory activities are carried out against its own people, none of whom are particularly trusting of their own government, which is gradually leading to an increase in human rights. This in contrast to certain countries I could name who actively support all manner of injustices on a worldwide scale, yet whose populaces are under the illusion that their government “promotes democracy” and “brings justice” to the world, while their own civil liberties are stripped away one by one.
You have to appreciate the irony.
@Shaan The link above shows the story by Paul Walsh, identifying the man as a video blogger. I’m not sure if you need any more evidence. Do you?
The reason I thought is was odd was because it seems 24 or 100 people is a large amount of people to beat one man.
@+modOk+ I’m not singularly picking them out as evil. This story took place in China, no? It doesn’t make sense to rail on Canada, Chile, Cameroon, or the Czech Republic. Or the United States for that matter. Because I wrote about this story, doesn’t mean I support what the current U.S. administration is doing. I am under no allusions.
To both of you, while I don’t see the central government having role in this, I nevertheless I view the current Chinese government as being more oppressive. Seems the both of you are very quick to defend them first.