Posted on 12/10/2010 3:51:16 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Beijing lashes out as dissident gets Nobel
By Keith B. Richburg
Washington Post Foreign Service
Friday, December 10, 2010; A01
BEIJING - Chinese authorities displayed growing frustration Thursday with the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to imprisoned intellectual Liu Xiaobo, tightening their grip on activists and blocking some Web sites and broadcasts.
China has prohibited Liu and his family members from leaving China to attend Friday's ceremony in Oslo. Nobel committee organizers said he would be represented by an empty chair - the first time the award will not be presented to a laureate in person since 1936, when Carl von Ossietzky, a German pacifist jailed by the Nazi regime, was prevented from attending the ceremony.
As Chinese officials intensified their denunciations of prize organizers, police summoned restaurant and bar owners to local police stations and warned against allowing large gatherings on Friday. Some lawyers, writers and academics have been stopped at airports and blocked from boarding their flights; others have been forcibly taken to the countryside. Known activists are under house arrest. And Thursday, several foreign media Web sites and television stations were blocked.
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0bama shows solidarity with
Mr Liu by saying and doing nothing
This is a little bit off topic, but how much do you want to bet that wikileaker Assange (sp?) gets a Nobel prize? He is a dissident, you know .....
They are so stupid. They should just laugh and if they say anything point to Obama and say, they also gave that clown one of these.
In all this talk about the prize itself, what is being utterly ignored is what the dissident actually wrote, that has driven the Chinese government apoplectic. Here’s an interesting quote:
In a 1988 interview with Hong Kong’s Liberation Monthly (now known as Open Magazine), Liu was asked what it would take for China to realize a true historical transformation.
He replied in this way:
“(It would take) 300 years of colonialism. In 100 years of colonialism, Hong Kong has changed to what we see today.
“With China being so big, of course it would take 300 years of colonialism for it to be able to transform into how Hong Kong is today. I have my doubts as to whether 300 years would be enough.”
“Even today [in 2006], patriotic ‘angry youth’ still frequently use these words to paint me with ‘treason.”
You know, all things considered, if an American had made a quote like that, that it would take 300 years of colonialism by a foreign power to change America, I can see why a lot of Americans would take some issue with that.
If you still support Free Trade with Communist China....you are a Communist.
Would like to see how the Cheerleaders for Communist China spin this one....
This is a little bit off topic, but how much do you want to bet that wikileaker Assange (sp?) gets a Nobel prize? He is a dissident, you know .....
Assange won’t get a Nobel....he outed a lot of Liberals and Liberal Globalists...and his condom broke....that stuff is frowned upon by the Liberal Globalists running the Nobel Prizes
Why would he..they pay his union buddies pensions that the US can no longer afford.
Nobel Peace Prize not Chinese take-out
CONTROL FREAKS
If he were just a petty crank, probably China would have laughed him off and Nobel Prize as well.
Last year they gave the Nobel Peace Prize to an empty suit
This year they gave it to an empty chair
Dona Nobis Pacem
I was channel surfing and got hypnotized by this spectacle for about 3 minutes. Unfortunately, I had to witness them panning to Pelosi as she batted back the tears. I thought it odd she was so moved by Liv Ullmann talking about human rights and free speech when she wants to muzzle right wing radio and news. These people are frauds and scum.
“- the first time the award will not be presented to a laureate in person since 1936, when Carl von Ossietzky, a German pacifist jailed by the Nazi regime, was prevented from attending the ceremony.”
The old Nazi Regime and its reincarnation.
PS Obummer has high hopes for creating a third one here.
PPS The TEA Party is going to make sure Obummer is disappointed.
I don’t think anybody should be imprisoned for free speech or human rights, but this guy is hardly deserving of the Nobel Peace prize imho.
I’m not entirely sure when he switched to human rights activism as his main cause. But a cursory search shows that this guy spent a decade writing about how Western and Japanese colonialism is good for China. He went as far as to say that China should be colonized by the west for 300 years for it’s own good.
I do not see how people from any non-western or developing country can view this in a positive light. And then there is the fact that he was clandestinely paid by the United States...
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2010/10/liu-xiaobo-and-the-300-years-problem/64916/
As usual the Nobel Peace Prize committee can be counted on to nominate the undeserving.
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