"China muzzles dissidents, websites" by Associated Press | June 3, 2009
BEIJING - Ahead of the 20th anniversary of the bloody crackdown on Tiananmen Square this week, Chinese authorities have rounded up dissidents and shipped them out of town. Now, they have even shut down Twitter.
Related: Twitter and Life in the Shitter
You know, I heard the same thing: Turn the Page on Twitter
WTF is with the MSM's obsession with that piece of crap (which is why I do not trust it)?
Along with their usual methods of muzzling dissent, the authorities extended their efforts yesterday to silence social networking sites that might foster discussion of events. The action is a new sign of the government's concern of the potential of such technology in an authoritarian society where information is tightly controlled....
Since when are the Chinese reading the Boston Globe?
The Boston Globe is a Mouthpiece For the Jewish Mafia
Boston Globe Protecting Jewish Mafia
China has the world's largest online population, and Internet communities have proved increasingly influential in spreading word of events to everything from student protests to group shopping excursions....
Pffft!
Numerous blogs maintained by edgy government critics such as avant-garde artist Ai Weiwei have been blocked and the text-messaging service Twitter and photo-sharing site Flickr could not be accessed within China yesterday. Video sharing site YouTube has been blocked within China since March.
Yeah, GOOD THING that NEVER HAPPENS HERE in Amerika!!!!
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BEIJING - Authorities also shut down social networking and image-sharing websites such as Twitter and Flickr....
WhyTF are they SOOOOOOO CONCERNED about THOSE SITES?
--more--""Silence greets anniversary of massacre; Police inundate Tiananmen Sq., block reports" by Ariana Eunjung Cha and K.C. Ng, Washington Post | June 5, 2009
BEIJING - Mainland China remained quiet yesterday on the 20th anniversary of the bloody Tiananmen Square crackdown, while tens of thousands of people staged a protest in Hong Kong.
Yeah, as with Tibet, MSM is sure to notice that anniversary.
On the other hand....
"In 1967, 34 U.S. servicemen were killed when Israeli forces raided the Liberty, a Navy ship stationed in the Mediterranean. (Israel called the attack a tragic mistake)."
Yeah, right, mistake, you damnable NaZionist liars: The road from the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty led to 9/11 and beyond
Beijing, the capital, was on virtual lockdown. Key foreign news websites were blocked, dissidents were placed under house arrest, and police blanketed the vast square where a still-undetermined number of prodemocracy activists were killed in a violent clash with the military on June 4, 1989. Journalists were kept away from the scene.
Oh, TELL ME ABOUT IT!!!!
Several nations called on Beijing this week to revisit its policy of ignoring the crackdown. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said in a statement Wednesday that China "should examine openly the darker events of its past and provide a public accounting of those killed, detained, or missing, both to learn and to heal."
Umm, Hillary: 9/11 Truth
On Tuesday, Congress urged China to agree to a UN-backed inquiry into the crackdown, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat from California, said she had directly petitioned President Hu Jintao to free the estimated 30 people still being held for participating in the protests....
Gee, they are SO ACTIVE when it comes to China and SO IMMOBILE when the conversation turns to PALESTINE!
President Ma Ying-jeou of Taiwan, who has pushed for closer ties with the mainland, said: "This painful chapter in history must be faced. Pretending it never happened is not an option."
The CIA/MOSSAD 9/11 INSIDE JOB, folks!!!
Over the years, Beijing has taken a two-pronged approach to the massacre. Domestically, the event is ignored in history books, and discussion about it is banned to the point that many young people know nothing of what happened.
Unlike China, we give things like the JFK assassination and 9/11 a sentence or two -- OFFICIAL ACCOUNTS ONLY!
In arguments directed to the international community, Beijing has said the crackdown was necessary to ensure social stability....
Wow, does that ever sound like AmeriKa!
In the weeks before the anniversary, authorities erased most traces of the massacre from the capital.
9/11 and WTC STEEL sent to China and MELTED DOWN, folks!
First thing I thought!
Twitter and other Internet services that people could have used to coordinate gatherings were blocked, as were news websites such as CNN and the BBC.
Them and their damn airheaded Twitter!
Foreign newspapers and magazines that had been covering commemorative protests in Hong Kong were delivered with pages ripped out.
Probably a better read.
Writers, activists, and even mothers of victims were put under surveillance or house arrest.
So HOW DOES IT FEEL, tyranny-enabling s***ters?
NOT TOO GOOD, huh?!
Yesterday, the only place on Chinese soil where a large-scale protest took place was Hong Kong, the former British colony that has maintained its own legal system since it reverted to Chinese rule in 1997. Police estimated that 62,800 people, dressed either in white or funereal black, showed up for a vigil in downtown Victoria Park. Organizers put the figure closer to 150,000. Either way....
Yeah, the NUMBERS ARE NOT IMPORTANT -- if you are PART of an AGENDA-PUSHING, NEWSPAPER-APPROVED PROTEST!!!! If you are OPPOSED, then your numbers are downplayed!
The Tiananmen Mothers - a Chinese democracy group led by Ding Zilin, whose teenage son was killed at the square - thanked the people of Hong Kong for their support. In a statement, the group accused the Chinese government of using "the economy to lure and buy people."
Good thing AmeriKa never uses $$$ to get its wa.... oh, never mind, readers.
Lester Lai, 22, a recent university graduate, said he had come to the vigil because "economic progress is never an excuse for a government to kill its people."
Actually, THERE ARE NO EXCUSES EVER (9/11)!
They are SUPPOSED to TAKE CARE OF US NOT KILL US!
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