Nobel Prize Joke

[sandinista]

I'm totally against the death penalty. But it's got nothing to do with peace.
It's not surprising in a backward country. Even in advanced countries, there is often a majority of the public in favour of the death penalty. So you could argue that China is more democratic in this respect than "democratic" countries.

There are plenty of human rights violations happening in China. There would be plenty, if it was democratic. Probably a lot more, if nationalism caused a breakup of the state, following full democracy. There's lots of room for improvement, but there's also a huge capacity for things to get much worse.
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Bullshit. You can't get much worse than a law forbidding opposition to the Ruling Power.

You can't? I can think of lots worse:

A law forbidding oppostion to the ruling skin colour?
A law forbidding opposition to the ruling religion?
A law saying Jews must be rounded up and branded?
A fucking great apartheid wall stopping you from moving round the country of your ancestors?
Being blown to bits by cruise missiles?
A foreign government imposing a puppet regime so that they can rob you?
Being strapped to a board, and nearly drowned repeatedly?
Being held captive in a tiny reservation, while a religous state starves your kids?

You obviously haven't even tried to think of anything.
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Think? The Mad Hatter? Asking a little much. Funny though how he would be so opposed to a "law" forbidding opposition to the Ruling Power. It's against the "law" to oppose the ruling power of a lot of countries, including the US and canaduh. Anyone, anywhere that threatens, truly threatens, the ruling elite (I mean, face it, political "parties" in neo-liberal capitalist systems are simply different names to the same agenda and policy) will be met with force in the form of riot squads, prison, and an overall rough go of it. Look at the Black Panthers and A.I.M.

[Coito ergo sum]

LOL - and the Nobel Peace President ups troop levels! http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... TopStories

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