hello brian h, your grammar gave you away, frankly.
let's get down to business, shall we?
<<You are correct - an italian can have little insight>>
... Now, come, that wasn't quite what I said, was it? Old habits never die, brian, and putting words in my thoughts is an old habit of yours.
Anyway, I merely pointed out there seems to be little relevancy in what folks say when at such a distance and particularly if they had their mind so made up already by their earlier writings. Am I so wrong? Oops, no, you said I was correct.
<<its like some guy from tobago that was schooled in western colleges and couldn't even speak the language>>
... Now, now, let us not turn to be common and nasty, and untruthful. I speak the language fine, most likely better than you do, but then that fact is understandable, though has little relevancy and is only addressed here because you brought it up.
<<If more had thought that of your grandfather - where would you be today?>>
... I am sure I am not understanding you, perhaps you are just being nasty, but then who cares? Next point. Will you degenerate to making fun of my pet rock as well? Go ahead, show yourself as you really are.
<<I bet you don't fight off the Lice?>>
... Hey, more common denominator? With you as opposition, ala Lee Tung Hui, my heart is at ease ;0)
<<What do you think of Wen and his statement?>>
... I think he is correct.
<<I don't know that I can trust his OBJECTIVITY or that he is going to give me the "correct read?">>
... come on brian, frankly, read back on the matter of "correct read" Message 21809397, exercise your reading skills, please.
<<CHINA: White paper just a big lie, says activists
Dissident Liu Xiaobo blasts official report for glossing over reality of government's failure to protect basic human rights>>
... oh, given that no read satisfies the dissidents who mope around in their disatisfaction with whatever life they have, it goes without saying that they will object to any and everything the officialdom does and doesn't do.
They had long lost objectivity, gave up reality, and so cannot be credible with the more thinking and observant sorts.
Oh, but some folks are in touch with the hard grind of processes and approaches, <<Gao Xinjun, a professor with the China Centre for Comparative Politics and Economics, said China's grass-roots democracy had made significant achievements over the past two decades, but political limitations meant it was moving at a slow pace>> ... instead of mouthing off with mind made up long ago. Oops, I meant like you.
As to ...
<<Pro-democracy activist Lu Banglie , who was beaten by thugs while trying to enter Taishi earlier this month, said the white paper's account of China's grass-roots democracy development was simply a lie.
"The Taishi incident is just a slap on the face of grass-roots democracy because what the villagers tried to do was to recall the chief in accordance with the law," said Mr Lu.>>
... for every Taishi, ruled by local thugs, there are plenty of successfuly villages, and I say that because China is in fact not blowing up.
The Lu Banglie 's of this world has their uses and functions, but astute they are not, and objectivity they are lacking. They do not know what would have happened to them if the clock was turned back by ... oh, 35 years. Let me remind you, the man would never have made it out alive of Taishi or any other city.
So, the improvement is undeniable, the process is on schedule, given the mass of the society, the weight of the population, and the density of the officialdom.
What do you, wise one that you are, suggest as an alternative approach?
The process is long, difficult, but must start, and then must continue.
History is a process, and processes are typically not well dealt with by the sort who always and forever see a snapshot, and an old snapshot at that.
But, such insight on process is precisely what you cannnot accept, becase your mind is already made up, can take in no more, and only enable you to scream at what was, is, and will be.
This screaming is what will entertain on our journey to TeoTwawKi.
Thank you.
Chugs, J |
