Gothamist: China Keeps Protesters Despite Pleas to Release Them

NannyState

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 22:01:40 -0500

These garbages are enjoying free meals and accomodations and their friends are bitching? It looks like "Free Tibet" is really just a subterfuge for "Free my pretentious self-martyring friends". At least Buddhist monks set themselves on fire in protest, these weenies could learn a thing or two from them.

sinisterteashop

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:59:44 -0500

#3: Yes, but the U.S. does not require applications for protests. The US government doesn't because it's what's called a bicameral government and not a single party system like China. Most cities in the U.S. do require permits. NYC requires permits which are granted on the discretion of the NYPD. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameral

babyhitler

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:46:20 -0500

anybody else find it ironic that China, the country that is most oppressive, has given us the best Olympics ever while America, the country that's most close to the olympid Ideal gave us that garbage that was the 84, and 96 olympics? Even Seoul was better than Atlanta and that was in 88! Cowboys on Pickup Trucks? London's double decker neon umbrella shit was laughable too.

Rfive

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:12:41 -0500

Powderly doesn't understand what real dissent is. LED throwies? C'mon... that is for 4th graders or idiots from Williamsburgh or Iowa (same thing). His interests were to get his name in the paper, or on this site, which was a success. He was EXPECTING to be arrested to further his brand. They should have held him for the full time that they originally stated. And then allow him back in to make the same mistake again. Next time, shoot him.

babyhitler

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:27:02 -0500

#12- Apparently to you, being forcefully arrested, detained and made to sit in the outskirts of town is not repression. I'd hate to sit at your family dinner table, the stories you'd tell.

TSOL

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:09:47 -0500

"Remember how tolerant The NYPD was of Protesters during the republican convention of 04?" The RNC was the MoveON crowd's wet dream: playing at being heroic dissenters in front of the sympathetic media while being in almost zero danger of actual repression. They get to live out their adolescent fantasies of recreating PBS's idea of the 60's without the nasty firehoses, police dogs, and military draft.

babyhitler

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:56:02 -0500

Yeah. Remember how tolerant The NYPD was of Protesters during the republican convention of 04? That was a whole lot better than China. More beatings. The Chinese didn't even pepper spray any of these fools unlike their US counterparts. China has a lot to learn about pretending to be a free country but actually not being one.

edEx

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:35:31 -0500

...and eager to get back home and that's all? that was his fight for tibet? fucking poser.

eyekantspel

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 14:21:25 -0500

"the detainees... said there were no claims of maltreatment at the hands of Chinese officials" I feel vindicated in not caring about this before.

longacre

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:20:35 -0500

Well said, TSOL. #3: Yes, but the U.S. does not require applications for protests.

Atomische

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:20:03 -0500

Seems to me that China has cooperated nicely in making this an effective political protest. The protesters' images were initially captured and transmitted, and the incarceration ensured that their message gets a longer shelf-life.

TSOL

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:15:51 -0500

"Designated protest areas? Isn't this what the US government set up to keep the Bush protesters out of the public eye? " You're thinking of the holding pens that the Democrats have set up in Denver. Seriously, these tools are far too impressed with their own moral preening and don't understand that governments outside the West are are run by folks who aren't crippled with lefty self-loathing. They're also operating under the delusion that they've experienced oppression in the US.

interlard

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:15:47 -0500

The Olympics are a western invention. Now suck up that spirit of freedom and international cooperation!

edEx

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:10:45 -0500

We are disappointed that China has not used the occasion of the Olympics to demonstrate greater tolerance and openness. Why? Are all countries supposed to bow down to the Western system of democracy?

interlard

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:09:15 -0500

Designated protest areas? Isn't this what the US government set up to keep the Bush protesters out of the public eye? Just as the US copies China on torture, the Chinese copy the US on democracy. Better scramble back up that moral high-ground before you point the finger.

Jen Chung

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:04:43 -0500

It's pretty ridiculous that China has protest areas, but won't allow anyone to protest in them.

longacre

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:54:09 -0500

They broke the law. Why should they be released?