China's Human Rights Report.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by DaShi
Everything in the report they wrote about America is already well known. Hell, even America's own media makes it available.

But no one in the MSM puts it all together. Sure, we socialists do, but you never listen to us, even when facts prove us correct (as they always do).

As for TASERs, the fact that they hurt isn't why police use them. They are exceedingly effective at putting someone under control, and the police use them frequenly in situations where it isn't necessary immediately or where a suspect might have been talked down. A number of people have died as a result of TASERing, but if I had a choice between being TASERed, clubbed, or shot, I'll go for TASERing. Of course, I'm not gonna fcuk with the police, so hopefully they won't TASER me before they ask me to comply.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
Shi: Given the posting habits of UR and the like here, are you really suprised that people (che, kid, and aggie) would engage in a bit of "Look at what the US is doing!" no matter how sad it makes them look?

Because this thead isn't about China's HR record. Only UR tries to defend China, and given that he's in China, which has a nightmarish HR record, it's unconscionable of you to try and get him to put his life at risk agreeing with you.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Only UR tries to defend China, and given that he's in China, which has a nightmarish HR record, it's unconscionable of you to try and get him to put his life at risk agreeing with you.

/me points to mindseye

[chequita guevara]

As an American, he has a bit more leeway than a Chinese citizen.

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Shi Huangdi
Laugh if you like, but I don't really find it funny efforts by totalitarian regimes to distract people from their own situation, one in China in which there is no democracy, no freedom of the press, no freedom of religion, no fair court system, persecution of ethnic minorities, an extreme anti-labor government, etc.

Is it funny when the US does it?

[Az]

This is really hillarious.

[St Leo]

On Jul. 21, 2004 Chinese citizen Zhao Yan was handcuffed and severely beaten while she was in the United States on a normal business trip. She suffered injuries in many parts of her body and serious mental harm.

I can't find a reference to this. OTOH, I can find references to China's imprisonment of a male Zhao Yan. He is being held for prematurely reporting the retirement of Jiang Zemin.

Sexual harassment and encroachment are common in jails in the Unite States. The New York Times reported last October that at least 13 percent of inmates in the country are sexually assaulted in prison (Ex-Inmate's Suit Offers View Into Sexual Slavery in Prisons, The New York Times, Oct. 12, 2004). In jails of seven central and western US states, 21 percent of the inmates suffer sexual abuse at least once after being put in prison. The ratio is higher among women inmates, with nearly one fourth of them sexually assaulted by jail guards.

Ugh. Seriously, Americans, ugh.

If Airplane came out today, the pilot would have asked the little boy if he had ever been in an American prison.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Originally posted by Kidicious


Is it funny when the US does it?

Has the US distracted or prevented the 'free media' from bringing these issues to light (ad nauseum in many cases)?