主题：【整理】NPR的关于中国黑监狱的一篇 -- 莫问前程

Things have changed for the worse in our country, yes. But when was the last time a political satirist, or someone who simply wrote an editorial criticizing the government, ended up in jail or being tailed by government thugs?

The US is not in the same category as Chine OR Russia when it comes to crushing the voice of the people, and to say we are takes away from the true predicament in those countries.

China's legal system in a nutshell (as described to me in August 2000 by my guide in Beijing) :

If you are arrested, you are presumed guilty. Your "trial" is to hear your side of the story before punishment is pronounced. Once punishment is pronounced, you have the "right" to accept punishment or reject punishment. If you reject punishment, you are treated more harshly than if you accept, as rejection is a criticism of the state and the "justice" you are receiving. Your actual guilt or innocence is a moot point. Of course you are guilty, or you wouldn't have been arrested in the first place. Chinese logic.

China will never attain the superpower status it covets (2 reasons). one, its government is so frightened of its people that it restrains the dynamism of its population. the growing middle class is just beginning to like the taste of freedom and resent the heavyhandedness of security. China does its best to suppress the amount of dissatisfaction its "economic miracle" (remember Japan? the Asian tigers? the Indian miracle?) has created, but it does not work. the nation rots from the inside. the other massive problem China has is its environment. The US did not win the cold war, it outlasted the oppression of the Soviet citizen (it was illegal to have or use a copy machine). Do not be frightened, fellow Americans (I see some below). If this was the way the US operated, we would all be spending a little time in solitary somewhere without our one phonecall. But, it would be the beginning of the end of the American "miracle" if our government began to ignore the Bill of Rights. we'll see

ople said the same of USSR. Look where it is now.

The problem is that China wants to suppress but also wants to grow, which are fully opposed. Recently, they've been choosing to grow and, thanks to that, are seeing more of these issues crop up and, at the same time, more of their dirt being shown to the world.

They may not have to give up their one-party rule as is, but they'll have to decide whether to eventually lose the battle over critique or shut themselves down in order to establish the suppression they desire.

If the choose the former, they'll be a superpower, perhaps to rival the US. If the later, they'll look good for a time but will be forced to see their star fall from the world stage like many others who have taken that same path.

There's a reason why every distopian 'big brother' story has the region falling apart at the seams, and it's not out of artistic fantasy.

I've been severely underemployed since the recession started in 2008 and I often feel frustrated by my inability to find work. However, my struggles are quite minor by comparison to what Li Yufang has endured over the past decade. Thank you NPR for putting my personal frustration into a global perspective. Yufang's spirt and resolve to fight against the injustice she faces gives me inspiration to continue my relatively mundane search for work.

The problem with the religion of racism (that all Whites are racists) is that it ties the hands of good people.

We can't say a thing about Chinese brutality because we fear the trump card, racism.

We should boycott China by avoiding Chinese products when we have an easy choice.

"You must be racists."

That dampens the boycott.

Guess who suffers?

Each and every Chinese individual.

The evil Chinese political philosophy that the state is more important than the individual cheapens every individual.

Boycott China when you have an easy alternative, they notice.

Good thing that guy who made the video slamming Islam and Mohammed did that here in the US instead of China, because we have the right to Free Speech. If he were in China they would have arrested him and held him in jail even to this day...

Oh wait...