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'People's war of surveillance' ensures China will never be free

JacksinPA

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'People's war of surveillance' ensures China will never be free | TheHill

Advocates of accommodation with China often argue that compromise will aid democracy within China. Even if that were true, a democracy movement needs a supportive civil society. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) unfortunately has killed civil society through its creation of the world’s first truly effective and efficient surveillance state.

Thus, when the CCP rounded up more than 1 million Uyghurs and other ethnic people in the Xinjiang region and sent them to internment camps, there were no protests. Nor were there criticisms of Hong Kong police atrocities against that city’s peaceful protesters this year. Perniciously, this absence of protest is interpreted as support for the Xi Jinping government. In reality, the absence of protest is not because China’s civil society is indifferent, but because the CCP has put in place a most sophisticated surveillance system, creating a true Orwellian state that has erased all space for civil society organizations or, in fact, any dissenting voice.
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Winston Smith in the Orwellian novel 1984
 is an example of where we're all going to wind up as a result of our wars on terrorism & drugs: constant surveillance & resulting control. The CIA & NSA have long been hard at work with facial recognition technology in major cities, photographing license plates on cars at critical traffic points, monitoring cell phone & land line traffic. You can't fight it & you can't stop it but it's already almost here. Look at what China has become. We have a good model to follow.
 
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'People's war of surveillance' ensures China will never be free | TheHill

Advocates of accommodation with China often argue that compromise will aid democracy within China. Even if that were true, a democracy movement needs a supportive civil society. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) unfortunately has killed civil society through its creation of the world’s first truly effective and efficient surveillance state.

Thus, when the CCP rounded up more than 1 million Uyghurs and other ethnic people in the Xinjiang region and sent them to internment camps, there were no protests. Nor were there criticisms of Hong Kong police atrocities against that city’s peaceful protesters this year. Perniciously, this absence of protest is interpreted as support for the Xi Jinping government. In reality, the absence of protest is not because China’s civil society is indifferent, but because the CCP has put in place a most sophisticated surveillance system, creating a true Orwellian state that has erased all space for civil society organizations or, in fact, any dissenting voice.
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Winston Smith in the Orwellian novel 1984
 is an example of where we're all going to wind up as a result of our wars on terrorism & drugs: constant surveillance & resulting control. The CIA & NSA have long been hard at work with facial recognition technology in major cities, photographing license plates on cars at critical traffic points, monitoring cell phone & land line traffic. You can't fight it & you can't stop it but it's already almost here. Look at what China has become. We have a good model to follow.
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How dare you question the American intelligence community! Obviously, anyone who questions anything they do or want is a Russia agent working for Putin. You just ask the Democratic Party. Anyone who questions anything the intelligence community does - any surveillance they do, any wars they want - is a traitor and Russian agent.
 
In Beijing, there is a motto written on the entrance to where the Red leaders live.

Of course, it is in Chinese. Its English translation is: To Serve the People.

Tears literally well up whenever I happen to see a photograph of that entrance on the Web or TV. (Sorry, this computer ignoramus could not post such a photograph to save my life.)


I have read (and believe) that the Reds really did a good job for the first ten years after they seized power. For the first time in China's history, there was peace throughout that vast country, everyone had a job (no matter how humble), everyone finally had enough food to eat, there was at least a basic education for the children, and there was even basic medical care. Many of the Red officials really, really, really were idealists who wanted to "serve the people."

So it heartbreaking to see the Communist party leaders become tyrants, whose only goal is to stay in power. And their treatment of the people in Xinjiang is sickening and disgusting. Even worse is that the so-called West will not take strong action because it does not want to antagonize an economic power like China.
 
JacksinPA said:
'People's war of surveillance' ensures China will never be free | TheHill

Advocates of accommodation with China often argue that compromise will aid democracy within China. Even if that were true, a democracy movement needs a supportive civil society. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) unfortunately has killed civil society through its creation of the world’s first truly effective and efficient surveillance state.

Thus, when the CCP rounded up more than 1 million Uyghurs and other ethnic people in the Xinjiang region and sent them to internment camps, there were no protests. Nor were there criticisms of Hong Kong police atrocities against that city’s peaceful protesters this year. Perniciously, this absence of protest is interpreted as support for the Xi Jinping government. In reality, the absence of protest is not because China’s civil society is indifferent, but because the CCP has put in place a most sophisticated surveillance system, creating a true Orwellian state that has erased all space for civil society organizations or, in fact, any dissenting voice.
=============================================================
Winston Smith in the Orwellian novel 1984
 is an example of where we're all going to wind up as a result of our wars on terrorism & drugs: constant surveillance & resulting control. The CIA & NSA have long been hard at work with facial recognition technology in major cities, photographing license plates on cars at critical traffic points, monitoring cell phone & land line traffic. You can't fight it & you can't stop it but it's already almost here. Look at what China has become. We have a good model to follow.
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I've been looking for a reason to post that below, and this seems as good a place as any - if you don't mind?

(CNN) 'World first' cell phone detection cameras rolled out in Australia
 
Communism with its centrally controlled societies always seems to lead to totalitarianism.
 
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