Posted on 10/09/2010 10:31:44 AM PDT by Justaham
The world's newest Nobel Peace Prize winner remained unreachable in a Chinese prison Saturday, while his wife's mobile phone was cut off and the authoritarian government continued to censor reports about democracy campaigner Liu Xiaobo's honor.
Police kept reporters away from the prison where Liu is serving an 11-year sentence for subversion, and his lawyer said that Liu's wife — who had been hoping to visit him Saturday and tell him the news of the award — has "disappeared" and he is worried she may be in police custody.
Chinese authorities, who called Liu a criminal shortly after his award Friday and said his winning "desecrates the prize," sank Saturday into official silence.
Only an editorial in the state-run Global Times newspaper spoke out Saturday, saying in English, "Obviously, the Nobel Peace Prize this year is meant to irritate China, but it will not succeed. On the contrary, the committee disgraced itself."
The paper's Chinese-language edition called the award "an arrogant showcase of Western ideology" and said it disrespected the Chinese people.
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“it disrespected the Chinese people.”
The Chinese government is bringing shame on China with this and making it look like a bunch of thugs.
LOL
Photoshop is your friend.
But of course it would be a terrible disaster if we stopped trading with them.
Just terrible.
“The Chinese government is bringing shame on China with this and making it look like a bunch of thugs.”
That’s because they are a bunch of thugs. Reagan was right about the ‘evil empire’, but it doesn’t just apply to the USSR. Communism/socialism always wind up like this, and always will. They are stupid philosophies formed by and propagated by angry self-interested delusional people (a description that fits Marx to a T).
They're Communists.
Did you not get that?
Hey, we just have to look at her. He has to sleep with her. I say let her stay.
The Chinese people get the government they selected. They selected Communists, so people will die and it is their own damned fault for selecting a form of government notorious for killing people.
Rosalynn or Tipper?
Yeah and remember who gave them that most favored nation status.
Same here, I thought it meant The Wookie took a hike!
We can only dream.
Looks like she moved in with Molly Norris.
But if we stop trading with China we could not get our toys so cheap! WE NEED MORE PLASTIC CRAP, DAMMIT!
I never understood the most favored trading status for China, and I believe it was backed up by Republicans, the supposed conservative party.
If the Chinese want to beat up a Nobel Peace Prize winner, I can suggest another medalist, and this one hasn’t actually done anything to earn the award...
Al Gore and Barack 0bama desecrate the Nobel Peace Prize, not Liu Xiaobo.
When the prize was announced, I said he was going to be the brunt of their anger. Either the wife being missing is part of their displeasure with the prize or she wised up and got the heck outta Dodge. Hope it is the latter, but fear it’s the first.
Uhmmmm, I think that ship sailed with 60 million chinese murdered by Mao. Thug is what they do, and do quite well.
Believe me, I do.
That charming little family from Connect-, uh, Texas really has it out for the Americans. They did us no favors.
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