Chinese Authorities Arrest Over 100 Human Rights Activists and Lawyers in Desperate Crackdown on Dissent, by Michael Krieger

Like Europe, the facade is crumbling in China, and repression is how scared governments react. From Michael Krieger at libertyblitzkrieg.com:

More than 100 people were swept up in an unprecedented police crackdown on mainland human rights advocates on the weekend, with six – including four lawyers – criminally detained in what state media said was a nationwide operation to smash a “criminal gang”.

It said “the criminal gang” comprised Zhou, Wang Yu, Wang Quanzhang, Huang as well as Liu, Bao and high-profile activist Wu Gan, who masterminded many plots in the name of “rights defence, justice and public interest”. It accused them of “colluding with petitioners to disturb social order and to reach their goals with ulterior motives”.

Sophie Richardson, China director at Human Rights Watch, said the action showed the Ministry of Public Security’s interpretation of “disturbing public order” was ever-expanding. “That these lawyers are a ‘major criminal gang’ is a new and serious allegation, one that demonstrates the authorities’ willingness to warp the law beyond all recognition,” she said.

– From the South China Morning Post article: Chinese Police Detain More than 100 Lawyers and Activists in Weekend Sweep

Essentially, every single nation on earth today is run by a thieving, corrupt oligarchy wielding control through undemocratic and centralized means. These governments intentionally rig their economies in order to enrich a few “insiders,” and their bought and paid for politicians, at the expense of everyone else. Such systems ultimately reach a breaking point in which the respective economies start to implode under their own fraudulent weight, and the people get restless. Every single country on earth is dealing with this as we speak, albeit at different stages of the process.

When “the people” get a little too uppity, the status quo gets scared and then the velvet gloves come off. I touched on this earlier today in the post: The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves – Spain Officially Becomes a Police State. The same sort of thing is also happening in Greece, which is far and away the furtherest along amongst Western nations in this whole process. The Greeks actually went ahead and voted for one outcome in a referendum, only to be told by their masters in Brussels they will get something else. So the illusion of democracy is now dead and buried. The Greeks are now staring at a much more violent and dangerous outcome in the years ahead, coupled with a surge in popularity of truly radical political parties, if the latest “deal” is implemented. This would be a very sad and unnecessary outcome.
While China doesn’t have any illusion of democracy to begin with, that doesn’t make the situation any less significant. While media attention has been focused on the popping of China’s stock market bubble, what has been far more interesting is the government’s terrified response. It has simply put, entered full on panic mode. Freezing trading in a large percentage of listed equities, and even threatening to arrest so-called “malicious short sellers.”

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