The issue here is accountability. The Chinese Communist government is a monopoly. It survives on coercion, and is accountable to nobody. It has the final word on all the activities of any Chinese citizen. People act only with the consent of the government. This is the essence of dictatorship. It’s the precise opposite of the original American concept of government: Government only acts with the consent of the governed. Free elections are important, but don’t get to the core of what make people free. The reason people are free is because they’re shielded from force — from the force of literal criminals, or the force of legalized criminals, such as the Chinese government. At present, America is moving in the direction of China. If that course does not reverse decisively and soon, we may someday have Occupy Hong Kong, and not Occupy Wall Street, on the streets of Manhattan, Chicago and our other great cities. And we may have a federal government in Washington D.C. every bit as unaccountable as the one presently in Beijing. - Michael Hurd
Posted on: Sat, 04 Oct 2014 04:27:54 +0000
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