Chinese Censors Work to Quash Story on Vast Wealth of Prime Minister’s Relatives

[Teamster Jeff]

Source: International Herald Tribune

HONG KONG — Two attorneys in Beijing have released a statement challenging a story in The New York Times that documents some $2.7 billion in assets held by relatives of Wen Jiabao, the Chinese prime minister.
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China Digital Times, which monitors and reports on the Chinese media, compiled a list of some of the terms that the government has blocked on Sina Weibo in relation to the Times’s story on the Wen-family wealth.



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[David__77]

1. The CPC obviously has to respond.

It was only a decade ago when Jiang Zemin got the CPC to change its constitution to allow capitalist class members to be party members. Now there are high leaders that are capitalists? Wen Jiabao just got through leading a crusade against Bo Xilai for "corruption," and this now comes to light? This could be very destabilizing. Bo Xilai was very likely framed by Wen, and there are more than a few who don't buy it. The New York Times, probably unwittingly, has handed a major weapon to the "leftists" in China.

[NCcoast]

2. China is an oligarchical police state

Where workers earn little, in dangerous working conditions and damage to the environment is completely ignored. In other words, a Republican utopia. It's no wonder they're in bed with the COMMUNIST CHINESE.

That just doesn't get said enough does it? Let's change that.

[freshwest]

3. It was Nixon broke the anti-communist philosophy of the GOP, and capitalism worhipping Libertarians.

Not so's you'd know from the benighted Teahadists calling Obama a communist a million times a year to frighten the not-so-blissfully ignorant. Capitalism knows no political or nationalist restraints. In a way, that is a good thing. But the current model, both here and there, are based on a Randian model of eliminating people and raping the planet for the profits of a few. As our anti-corporatist Founding Fathers said:

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country. ~ Thomas Jefferson

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. ~ Thomas Jefferson

These rulers in China are becoming the new Emperors, just like Romney. The amount of money acquired by these people, over the bodies of others, is called 'Success' and also the definition of 'Freedom and Liberty' according to them. Yes, they are free and have the liberty to do as they please, just like the most brutal kings, warlords or dictators acting on their whims. The world really cannot afford these monsters any longer.

[Blandocyte]

4. Wow. I bet the neo-cons are jealous

that we can't do that sort of thing in the U.S. Yet.

[fasttense]

5. See, Communists destroy society through capitalism just like Americans.n/t