Originally posted by mikelomYou have to respect a government that sends people to labour camps for 'reeducation' when they dare to ask questions about why so many schools fell down in the earthquake.
Why is there all this dislike for China?
None of you have ever lived or worked there.
Your comments are complete and utter ignorance.
Your bads! ðŸ˜
Please tell me how forced 'reeducation' without leave to appeal is a good thing.
I don't need to have lived and worked in Chile to know that life under Pinochet was oppressive.
Originally posted by huckleberryhoundI will be too! 🙂
What you talking about....Andy Murray's over there 😛
I'm in the synchronised swimming competition.
Tread water drinking a bottle of scotch in each hand.
I've been practising for years and finally made it.
I was in A&E four times whilst practising, cos I drank the pool too and hit my head on the bottom.
This time I'll tread carefully! 😉
Originally posted by leisurelyslothI have two words for you......Guantanamo Bay.
When China starts treating its own people with respect for their basic human rights, stops occupying and oppressing Tibet, and stops threatening war against Taiwan then I'll possibly consider giving them a little respect. Until that day, they will richly deserve all of the scorn that can be heaped upon them. And I think that the IOC deserves every b ...[text shortened]... an oppressive regime. That was an absolute travesty and I will not be watching that spectacle.
Originally posted by mikelomWill they let me into a labour camp?
You ever been to China? Or you just believe all you read?
Please let me know what I'm failing to understand about this story:
"A Chinese teacher has been sent to a labour camp over his internet photographs of schools that collapsed in the Sichuan earthquake, a rights group said on Wednesday.
Liu Shaokun was ordered to serve a year of "re-education through labour", according to Human Rights in China. The system does not require a formal charge or criminal trial and there is no appeal."