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IN the comments on the Coke Huiyuan post one commenter has put up three extremely long articles that are completely unrelated to the topic, causing some of his fellow commenters to complain. Generally speaking, we try to leave the comments section untouched except in cases of profanity, racism, hate speech etc. However, I do agree with some of the comments that posting very long and totally unrelated articles is not really on. That's not to say only related material will be allowed. A link to an unrelated topic (in this case it was about the travails of lawyer Gao Zhisheng, a topic we'll be writing about later in the week, FYI) would be fine. But anything much longer is too much, I think, and will be deleted.

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  • 1

    Sounds good.

  • 2

    All of a sudden, China Blog is accessible from mainland again. Really great.

    I think all comments, no matter how long or short, related or unrelated, insightful of stupid, should be left alone. This is TIME's China Blog, not BBC's Reynolds' China. We don't need moderator, whatever people want to say, let them say.

  • 3

    But I truly believe "conscienceinschina" the FLG should be granted the freedom he cannot enjoy in China, to raise his hinder leg gracefully and to pee wherever he desires.

  • 4

    Let us be a devil's advocate. Suppose conscienceinschina does succeed?
    Falun Gong becomes the government. Wow. What will happen?
    Mandate breathing exercise for everyone. All hospitals will be closed. And Li, a farmer with third grade education, becomes God. It will be more bizarre than the dream that DL the holy idiot, governs an independent Tibet, 5 times the size of France.
    I am falling off my chair laughing. Talking about entertainment.

  • 5

    I disagree with eastbreeze although I can understand the excitement for being set free.

    Take traffic as an example.

    You need rules and sometime police enforcement to direct traffic on the streets. Otherwise, you will put the entire city into a standstill, which is probably the case in many Chinese cities.

    We should all have the freedom to decide which direction we are driving to. But we should all respect the rules about how we are suppose to drive.

    Today's Chinese society looks like a presurred bottle. And how to unlid this bottle without making a big mess equires political wisdom, scientific caculation, and perhaps artistic imagination. We simply can't afford too high a social cost resulting from somebody's political impulse.

  • 6

    "Mandate breathing exercise for everyone."

    Don't be silly. Chinese won't want that, unless it is in a Chinese public washroom. But if Mao, a drop out in junior high school can be great leader of China for decades, I think Chinese will accept any illiterate as leader without too much trouble. Come to think of it, they did. If Mao the monster can govern 1.3 billion people, anyone can govern a land with only a few million.

    But, Chinese like monstrous rulers. The more they kill, they better they are loved. Like Mao, The First Emperor, Qinlong, Hanxi, Han Wu Di..., and Mao's favorite - the First Emperor of the Ming dynasty !!!

  • 7

    Now, correct me if I were wrong, there are always people in any given society whose entire purpose of action is to left behind themselves a big mess.
    These people have no good will or whatsoever in terms of the well-being of the ordinary citizens let along the society as a whole other than expressing their own madness.
    We call these people trash.
    And with trash, traffic rules do not work. You can't civilize trash.
    We should simply dump them to the landfill or as some cities in Japan and Europe have been doing for decades, burn them into ash. That way, at least, they may realize their last remaining value to the human society.

  • 8

    John:
    I had to salute you for being so educated in the school of world politics. I am at a disadvantage here.
    I guess that is why the French is still celebrating the French revolution, which is the most murderous period of French history, and they view Napoleon as a great emperor even though history showed that he was nothing but a murderous thug. After all this, French today call themselves the defender of human right without showing any regret about what happened in their history especially controlling the slave trader in North America for over 100 years.
    The most murderous and glorified monarch is the history of mankind was Queen Victoria. She murdered her own half-sister to secure her throne and managed to embark on a murderous journey around the world for 80 years.
    The same goes to Americans. One who proclaimed that all man are created equal, were slaves owners. They always managed to convince people that they are the defender of liberty and freedom after invading one country after another, i.e. Invasion of Canada in 1821. If Christians managed to fool so many people for over 2000 years that Jesus is the son of God and one day he will come back to engage in the ultimate battle against anti-Christ, certainly, Li can be God. If Christians, Jews and Islam can manage to murder each other in the last 1500 years and still convince the rest of the world that they were following their God's wishes, certainly, DL the Holy Idiot should be able to pull off the greatest stunt of all to rule the so-called Greater Tibet. (Curiously, both religions are worshipping the same God.) When you think of it, anything is possible, after all this. Only time will tell.

  • 9

    A letter to Simon, and "the China Blog"
    2009-3-23

    Simon, if I have chance to contact you, I think it's appropriate to keep this talk with you in private.

    First of all, I found that “the China Blog” has been available once again for mainland Chinese days ago. Considering the Chinese authorities have recently tightened the control and grip on medias and internet with a series of “housecleaning movements”, the re-opening of your site, which is sometimes involved in the “sensitive topics” , is fairly odd. I hope that your deleting on the comments and things like that are only aiming at me, not the beginning of the implementing of the conditions in exchange for your re-opening. If it were true, you would be another “BBC's James Reynolds' China”, or “the Deutsche Welle(the voice of Germany )”, and we Chinese people would really be sad losing one more place on where we can breathe free a bit. To tell the truth, I am really worrying about that.

    Just as what I have stated before, I admit that my words are sometimes radical, especially when I found those evident lies, purposive misleading and confusing. If I were always talking with the ordinary netizens, no matter westerners or Chinese, I think that keeping rational, patient and tolerant should be easy to me. But, you must know, the “five-jiao-party”, “Wumao”, “professional internet commentator”, no matter what title you like to call, is really a headache for most Chinese netizens who are always longing for more truth. Whenever you open the main websites hosted in China, you will absolutely run into their surrounding and mire sooner, especially on the front pages and after the big news. Since “China has pretty much always been at the center of your life(as your introduction saying)”, I think that a bit more depiction about this unique occupation that can only be found in current China will “insult your intelligence”. To escape the brainwashing and to shake off the entanglement of Wumaos , I refused all the Chinese websites and then arrived in here. Out of my mind, the case here is not much different from those in Chinese. I have to fight with them once again.

    Sometimes I think, that if I should ease to blame the “five-jiaos”? At last I gave up, because even though a modest person just as “Johnsmith” and so on who is always getting used to humorous and implied words, he is inevitably attacked by this gang evermore.

    Now provided that you have begun to houseclean something such as those I cried out for the most miserable family, I suggest that you may also begin to embark on coping with those who have jammed too much junks into your site. Otherwise, that will harm you severely much than those “much longer” ones, I think.

  • 10

    Do you want to know how Canadians and Americans talk to each other. Read this two messages.
    From Canadians: It went like this: http://messages.finance.yahoo.com/Stocks_%28A_to_Z%29/Stocks_R/threadview?m=tm&bn=15497&tid=881994&mid=881994&tof=7&frt=2
    Now, the feeling of Canadians are deeply hurted. We demanded an apology from the Americans.
    Answer from typical American:
    http://messages.finance.yahoo.com/Stocks_%28A_to_Z%29/Stocks_R/threadview?m=tm&bn=15497&tid=881994&mid=882009&tof=7&rt=2&frt=2&off=1
    Civilized country isn't it.

  • 11

    To conscienceinchina FLG

    --- “five-jiao-party” and “Wumao"?
    Show us one single comment without these words which you daily posted here. You are honestly telling us you are the only one hired here, maybe by "one-jiao" or "Yimao", not bad an income for a small towner like you. Your FLG sect leader Li Hongzhi, if not Bush, is generous, since he became a billionaire by collecting money from ignorant peasants like you.
    But if the "five-jiao-party” and “Wumao" were your dad's nickname, I'd admire your filial piety, being so obedient that whatever merit you think you've finally achieved, you mention his name. lol!

  • 12

    To the "democracy-activist" five-jiao "laohong":

    What you are doing here is all for "fighting for democracy" (the "laohong" says)? wow! I admire you for your bold as brass!

    The dirty mouth is you five-jiao's feature.

    Since you and your fellows are flooding everywhere, the Chinese netizen must face your confusing and misleading and cheating every day. How can we normally surfer on internet before debunking your lies?

    As for the "FLG" you mentioned, I will respond you with the words which have been used to despond your fellows' attack----

    Thank you for flattering me with "Falon Gong". It's my honour to have chance to be praised as a member of them. They have been fighting the dictator and the evil with peaceful ways for many years, and a large number of them have been detained, tortured, persecuted and butchered by your masters, but they are still persisting in doing that. I am verily unable to have enough condition and volition to become one of them, so, don't apple-polish me once again, please!

    Comparing the five-jiaos who are the lowest-ranking animals just as you, they are saints!

  • 13

    To the “democracy-activist” five-jiao “laohong”:

    You “was fighting for democracy some 30 years ago in China” allegedly. That's not impossible. The problem is, when did you surrender to the “State Security Bureau”? How many your former fellows were betrayed by you? I would like to send you a Chinese idiom “selecting the never boiled one among a large pile of kettles with boiled water (哪壶不开提哪壶)”. You may pretend any role but the “democracy activist”!

    Greeting another one's mother is you Wumaos' habit, just as your comrade “sing666” committed on John smith.

    Your presence here is just for flaunting your age? Time can add one's age and wrinkles, but can not always promote his (her) conscience, morality, breeding and wisdom.

    "‘Warriors or dissidents' are only a small bunch of human gabbages”(“laohong” says). ---I do agree with your some words. So, we Chinese are much cherishing them due to their rarity, instead of hating, vilifying and attacking them just as you doing. They are the only hope for the future of the miserable Chinese. Without them, without tomorrow!

    “what you consider as ‘ideal' is nothing new to millions of Chinese intellectuals”(“laohong” says). ---Right! Chinese people have been seeking it for a long long time, whereas your masters tell us “democracy is poison” and then do everything they can do to snuff out the “liberalized thought”, “capitalist poisoned seedling ”.

    “They (Chinese people) prefer to sacrifice the ideal for the moment for a stronger China”(“laohong” says).---Ha-ha-ha-ha! That's just your master CCP and you jackals' dream, which is apparently showing you hoof! We “sacrifice the ideal” so that you can maintain your “Chinese characteristic socialism” which can offers you doing everything you want.

    At the end, I want to send you a sentence: One thousand sentences of delicate lies can not win one simple truth!

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    laohong Says:
    Sunday, March 22, 2009 at 7:25 am

    To conscienceinchina son,
    --"warriors are still insisting on their ideal...Democracy will never be stopped by the tyranny"?

    You know what? When I was fighting for democracy some 30 years ago in China, your mother was still a virgin in the country village waiting to be lifted up from poverty-line by CCP. I just wonder how ridicular "democracy' sounds from an low IQ and psycomplex like you, when the word become a cheap luxury. You are too dense to know what you called "warriors or dissidents" are only a small bunch of human gabbages consist of only 0.001% of Chinese population and what you consider as "ideal" is nothing new to millions of Chinese intellectuals. The difference is they prefer to sacrifice the ideal for the moment for a stronger China while your type including Gao Zhisheng are willing to sell your lubed azz to US neo-cons who never stop dreaming to keep CHina weak in their geopolitical agenda.
    As to your calling me and everybody here as a "50-cent", I repeat it again--In a dog's eyes, all human being you are barking at look the same.

  • 14

    The "laohong" says: "I was fighting for democracy some 30 years ago in China", "'warriors or dissidents'" are only a small bunch of human gabbages(garbages? maybe.)"...

    ---Is he saying "I was ever a human garbage some 30 year ago", or "I am still a garbage now"? Humoristic!!

  • 15

    Reminding:

    Simon, seems only one day to go this week.

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    Attached:

    "A link to an unrelated topic (in this case it was about the travails of lawyer Gao Zhisheng, a topic we'll be writing about later in the week, FYI) would be fine"(Monday, March 23, by simon)

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