BEIJING: China reacted angrily Monday to a United Nations report that says the government tortures political and criminal prisoners, calling its authors biased and driven by a political agenda.
The report, issued Friday by the UN Committee Against Torture, documents widespread abuse in the Chinese legal system, one that often gains convictions through forced confessions.
The report recounts Chinese use of "secret prisons" and the widespread harassment of lawyers who take on human rights cases. It also criticizes the government's extralegal system of punishment, known as re-education through labor, that metes out prison terms to dissidents without judicial review.
It's my assumption that China is going to turn into a powder keg in the next decade. Just last year I remember reading that the Chinese Government hired over 300,000 new riot police. Every day there are more tales of unrest in the outer Provinces. China seems to be just reaching what the United States went through in the early 50's through the 60's...but in a more explosive manner. There is already evidence of various industrial workers forming group protests, and like the age of Jimmy Hoffa and the Teamsters, there is no shortage of organized crime on the Chinese mainland that would allow black market organizing.
The reason I believe it to be a powder keg deals mainly with the fact that a Communist Government (make no mistake...their application is brutal)...and a rights hungering populace cannot co-exist. One will have to fully dominate the other. There will not be compromise, and there will not be mercy.
Democracy has always been an experiment in motion. Limited Democracy is just darn dangerous.
What's that have to do with the UN slapping China's wrist with a strongly worded report? Nothing...the UN is a bunch of anti-semitic and corrupt pansies. I just wanted to vent. Perhaps the love affair with China (read: indirect chastising of the United States through said bond) by the UN and the European Union has reached its tipping point.
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