"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
China Steps Up Crackdown on Dissidents With Jailing of Xu
Submitted by Emmett Harris on Tue, 2014-01-28 00:00
“Xu, the most prominent activist jailed since Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo in 2009, was sentenced by a Beijing court yesterday to four years in prison on charges of gathering a crowd to disturb public order.” An example of a government doing what governments do.
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