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To: Ilaine who wrote (82113)10/25/2011 4:18:53 PM
From: Maurice Winn4 Recommendations  Read Replies (2) of 218573
 
CB, there is a difference between USA and China. The police in China, for the most part, don't have their heart in it. They have to pretend to be policemen to keep their pay going and to look the part. But of course they have their evil-doers who I watched in Tienanmen Square and they were hard to the core people [in plain clothes too]. In the USA, the police ARE the system. The USA police are not pretending.

Lurking not far below the taciturn police visage in China is the person. In the USA, it's the reverse. The police are friendly on the surface but hard to the core. The TSA are not even friendly on the surface.

As TJ says, the bosses in Beijing are perhaps aware of that and are fearful of the population, hence keep a repressive crushing force on the slightest misdemeanour. The USA operates in reverse - the bosses don't fear the people because they are the people, changed by election at a whim.

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