Comments on: State Insecurity.

State Insecurity.

jacquilynne — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 07:56:26 -0800

A sad story of self-interest and political naivete. A Washington Post feature about a small group of Chinese students and the government reaction to their political discussion group.

By: kenaman

kenaman — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 08:07:04 -0800

I was initially going to say, that their treatment seemed crazy and was going to put it down to cultural differences and even ask what Japaneese might see as 'crazy' in western society. Then I thought those poeple were idiots for going to Iraq as they were told not to and that their being idiots had not reversed but highlighted by their kidnap....idiots all of them..

By: kenaman

kenaman — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 08:24:23 -0800

I commented on the wrong link. Duh!

By: Gyan

Gyan — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 08:42:14 -0800

The benefits and drawbacks of peer pressure.

By: haqspan

haqspan — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 13:59:20 -0800

Funny how repressive regimes deal with dissidents. Not funny ha-ha, funny sad.

By: Loudmax

Loudmax — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 14:03:25 -0800

jacquilynne: for future reference, please try to post links that don't require a password-protected login in order to read the article. Based on your post, I'm interested in the article, but I don't want to give my email address to the Washington Post.

By: jacquilynne

jacquilynne — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 14:39:42 -0800

WashPost requires log-ins these days? Sorry. I read it through the customization option, and have been logged in for several years now. Thus, I didn't realize that their front page had gone to a log-in format.

By: jacquilynne

jacquilynne — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 14:46:36 -0800

I believe this is the same article, though I'm not positive it's the whole thing. I don't believe it requires a log-in, though, again, with persistent cookies, who knows anymore.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 17:06:11 -0800

That one worked, and you're right: boy, is that a sad story. Thanks for posting it.

By: rafter

rafter — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 17:13:34 -0800

Or try any of these log ins. (i.e. mefi@metafilter.com/mefi) Thanks for the post, jacquilynne.

By: halonine

halonine — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 20:11:36 -0800

And this is the country hosting the 2008 Summer Olympics.

By: jb

jb — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 22:28:07 -0800

The sad/ironic/stupid thing is that it was just these kinds of youth groups that were the basis for the CCP and the PRC. The old men in charge fear they will overthrow - because they did it themselves.