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To: brian h who wrote (44348)	1/6/2004 9:59:30 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Brian, it's the same old deal for power, money, girls, wearing silly hats and having a great big mausoleum. I went to check out that Mao really is dead yesterday and not hiding out with Elvis or Osama somewhere. I couldn't tell, but if it is his remains there, it's not a lot different from any old Egyptian Pharoah with an eternal, great and glorious tomb. The beggars were swept from the proletarian-revolution streets so the great and glorious 50th celebrations could be untainted by the travails of those at the bottom of the heap. I'd have thought the beggars should be put central to the tableau to show how few of them there were remaining and that the leaders of China should have bowed to them in abject apology for failing to deliver a political system which would free them from their sufferings where little hope remains and few choices are available. No, the revolution has dissolved into the eons-old seeking of gaudy consumer baubles, power, privilege, unbounded greed and self-aggrandizement. Those at the bottom of the heap will be run over by the bosses and wives of bosses in their BMWs if they dare to get in the way. What an embarrassment for Mao to be monumentalized in such a grandiose affair, having been, purportedly, for the underclass. The insult to the workers is that they are not even allowed to think or express their opinions politically. They can't compete with those who have power by forming a political party with different ideas. Even cyberspace is monitored to prevent any unapproved thinking. I sit here clicking away and all too often my screen goes into paralyzed mode as Big Brother stops what I want to do. Front the front lines of freedom, Mqurice