A Usenet persona calling itself BCITORGB wrote:

Scott says:
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You offer anti-capitalist propaganda from Communist China about "income
disparity" as evidence? Are you not aware that this is but thinly
veiled
justification for taking rich Chinese out and putting a bullet in the
back
of their heads because they have presumed to make a profit in a
Communist/Socialist society?

You're going to have to do MUCH better than that.
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I suggest that your reaction to info from China is an over-reaction.

I'm sorry, but it's impossible to over-react to propaganda from China. They
are very, very dangerous, and I don't intend to underestimate them at all.

Any self-respecting communist is turning over in his grave at the sight
of what is happening in China today.

Unless they knew, as the current leaders do, that one can present a surface
appearance of "democratization" without actually allowing it to happen. All
you ever see is what they WANT you to see. What goes on in China out of your
sight is entirely communist.

China may be many things --
totalitarian to start -- but it is hardly communist.

That's what they want you to believe. You're wrong.

It may have
considerable vestiges of communism but they are vanishing at a rapid
rate. The victims of that move are just so much trash to be discarded.
These victims would never know they are in a country that is supposedly
communist. What is happening in China can best be compared to England
in 1850 (and the Chinese peasants are the Irish of the year 2005).

How much time have you spent in China, outside the prescribed
tourist/business areas? None, I bet.


Scott, don't let the name of the country put you off. Right now the
relationship between the capitalists and the government borders on a
love-in.

So they would have us think.


So, fair enough, reject my source re poverty and crime, but please
acquaint yourself with what is going on in China. It is hardly the
"red" Chine of a foregone era.

Are you sure?

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Scott Weiser

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