An Atheist Government on the Move

With the Chinese Olympics now a dim memory at only three weeks past, the CCP is mobilizing against its critics, dissidents, and plain citizens asking for what they were promised. According to an article in the Wall Street Journal’s wsj.com, the massive force that was put together putatively to protect the Olympics is now being refocused. Using the recently acquired state of the art anti-riot gear and other techno-armament booty left over from the Olympics, the CCP is ready for action against its own people:

“In a televised conference earlier this week, a high-ranking member of the Xinjiang CCP Committee, Zhu Hailun, indicated that the authorities would step up their "military struggle" against the "three evil forces" of separatism, terrorism and religious extremism. "We must use iron-fisted methods to hit out at the disruptive activities [of separatists]," said Mr. Zhu, who is responsible for law and order in the restive region. "We shall take the initiative in attacking [the evil forces], hit them wherever they show up, and launch pre-emptive strikes against them."”

And this,

“…from a just-released article by the President of the Supreme People's Court, Wang Shengjun. Writing in this week's edition of the official Seeking Truth journal, Mr. Wang said: "We must pay more attention to maintaining state security and social stability. . . We must boost our consciousness of [safeguarding] the power of the regime . . . and fully develop our functions as a department for [proletarian] dictatorship."

During the Olympics a place for demonstrations was set aside by the CCP located at a remote park. Potential demonstrators were required to receive permits to demonstrate; none were given. However, two did apply for permits:

“two Beijing petitioners, Wu Dianyuan and Wang Xiuying, ...were last week sentenced to a one-year term of "re-education through labor."

The Chinese apparatchiks are apparently unable to comprehend the idea of human rights. As Atheist totalitarians with no moral qualms about any human issues, their need for control exceeds even their need for acceptance by the outside world that they seem to crave.

The Olympic Committee is not without a certain degree of culpability for the fawning of the world press over the Chinese during the Olympiad followed immediately by total media silence during the ensuing abuses of human rights. To place the Olympics in such a place is unconscionable and one suspects that the financial position of the Olympic Committee might have prospered immeasurably by making such a decision. Apparently there is no oversight for such things. There should be.

Meanwhile the mainstream media is blathering non-stop about a pregnant teenager. What else would we expect of what passes for journalism in the western world?