"It's one thing to be “voluntold” by one of your pals that you will, for a case of beer, help him move house next weekend and get his giant box spring up a narrow staircase to the third floor; another for you and him and thousands of others to be voluntold to go to a park to demonstrate cheerful support for the Games and the government."And, of course, outsiders will never see beyond the freshly painted facade of this Potemkin village...
"The thing is, as a prosecutor friend of mine wrote me during the ceremony, we don't know, can't know, how much is genuine and how much is not, how happy anyone is, because in a one-party dictatorship, we know only what they want us to know, and one thing we know is they don't want us to know much."At Moonbat Central... CTV called it "the people's night".
"My friend was sick at heart by what he considered the fawning coverage of the opening on the CBC. “China may have a lot of new Ronald McDonald statues and wave a lot of hankies in unison,” he said, “but they still don't let their people think, vote, talk."
"We don't know."
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RELATED: So much for the fabled security
-- BEIJING -- A Chinese man killed a relative of a U.S. men's volleyball coach and injured another family member in a stabbing at a popular tourist spot in Beijing on Saturday.*
“We need further investigation to find out the motive since the man has killed himself. We have no more information to provide for the moment,” a spokesman for the Beijing Public Security Bureau said.