China Has an Invalid Government

OEM seems confused about the governments impact on society.

about the governments impact on society.

Well, the Hongkong Government uses the same tactics as others used against the Occupy movement.

I don't get what I might have written that I'm an apologist for dictators.

Could you please source it?

(The world is a bit larger than the USA: the Occupy Movement was - and partly still is - active with protests in over 82 countries, not just in USA.)

Rubber bullets were fired at people who remained on West Florissant. One young man, who had his arms aloft in the "hands up – don't shoot" gesture that has come to define these protests, was shot several times. After he fell to the ground, he was pounced on by several officers.

"They hit me on the hand with a teargas bomb," said Tony Giegers, 27. "It exploded on me kind of like buckshot. It sprayed everywhere. It hit me there on my hand and burned my hand. It's burning right now, it's burning up." His friend DeJuan, 19, said he was struck in the right leg.

A highly visible camera crew for al-Jazeera America reporting on the clashes said that they, too, were shot at with rubber bullets. The Guardian watched as a gas canister was fired directly at them as they attempted to record a piece to camera. The crew and their presenter fled.

"The police are responding with force, which you can understand to a certain degree," said Justin, a 29-year-old protester. "But this amount of force was unwarranted. This is an abuse of force. No one is firing guns at them or running at them. This is an overreach.

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Rubber bullets were fired at people who remained on West Florissant. One young man, who had his arms aloft in the "hands up – don't shoot" gesture that has come to define these protests, was shot several times. After he fell to the ground, he was pounced on by several officers.

"They hit me on the hand with a teargas bomb," said Tony Giegers, 27. "It exploded on me kind of like buckshot. It sprayed everywhere. It hit me there on my hand and burned my hand. It's burning right now, it's burning up." His friend DeJuan, 19, said he was struck in the right leg.

A highly visible camera crew for al-Jazeera America reporting on the clashes said that they, too, were shot at with rubber bullets. The Guardian watched as a gas canister was fired directly at them as they attempted to record a piece to camera. The crew and their presenter fled.

"The police are responding with force, which you can understand to a certain degree," said Justin, a 29-year-old protester. "But this amount of force was unwarranted. This is an abuse of force. No one is firing guns at them or running at them. This is an overreach.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/14/ferguson-police-teargas-rubber-bullets-michael-brown

Yes, Brandon.

Thank you for making that point.

People like izzy are just mad at life. Did you know izzy lost his wife? Poor guy, but his hatred will not go unnoticed. You'd think someone who lost someone would spend the rest of their life living a better life.

So izzy sees one bad event from the thousands of good events, just like people call one plane not killing anyone a miracle, while ignoring the other thousand tragic events. Izzy can't help but see the 1% of good, to compensate for the 99% of the bad. The man is on tilt.

Walter Hinteler wrote:

I don't get what I might have written that I'm an apologist for dictators.

Could you please source it?

(The world is a bit larger than the USA: the Occupy Movement was - and partly still is - active with protests in over 82 countries, not just in USA.)

The part of this that isn't irrelevant is that China doesn't allow, and often suppresses brutally, free speech, unsanctioned assembly, and dissent, and in my opinion, that's bad.

Brandon9000 wrote:

Walter Hinteler wrote:

I don't get what I might have written that I'm an apologist for dictators.

Could you please source it?

(The world is a bit larger than the USA: the Occupy Movement was - and partly still is - active with protests in over 82 countries, not just in USA.)

The part of this that isn't irrelevant is that China doesn't allow, and often suppresses brutally, free speech, unsanctioned assembly, and dissent, and in my opinion, that's bad.

Yes, that's bad.

I asked you, however, where I wrote something which made me an apologist for dictators. Although you included it in the quotation within your response, you didn't answer my question,

Well, the Hongkong Government uses the same tactics as others used against the Occupy movement.