Posted on 03/19/2023 6:21:11 AM PDT by Libloather
Chinese authorities arrested two men who possessed a children’s book that officials labeled "seditious."
Police and customs officers arrested the men, aged 38 and 50, on Mar. 13 after searching their homes and finding multiple copies of the book, which describes sheep holding back wolves from the village. The wolves want to take over a village and eat the sheep, pushing the sheep to fight back against them.
Authorities have interpreted the book as referring to Hong Kong and Beijing. Officers relied on a colonial-era law to justify sending the men to prison, according to QZ.
Both men were released on bail but must report to the police next month, the BBC reported. Police seized several copies of the books during their search.
The book, one of three in a series called Yangcun, caused an uproar last year when a government-nominated judge ruled it constituted "seditious intention" and jailed five speech therapists to 19 months in prison for publishing it.
The court stressed that the punishment was for the "harm or risk of harm to the minds of children" and the potential to sow seeds of "instability," according to The Independent.
"What the defendants have done to the children aged four and above was in fact a brainwashing exercise with a view to guiding the very young children to accept their views and values," the judge said.
The arrests this week would be the first for simply owning the book, which critics argue represents a serious deterioration of freedoms in the country.
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I assume the three little pigs are next in defending their their house from the big bad wolf warrior and Goldie Locks from stealing from the proletariat.
The only thinking allowed, is Chinese Communist Party approved thinking.
Coming to America.
(The wolves want to take over a village and eat the sheep)
Sounds like whats happening in some U.S. libraries with ‘story hour ‘.....
The godless will go after the Bible.
Guaranteed. The goats do the work of the principalities and powers / spirit of antichrist.
✝️🙏🛐
On the other hand, America could do with a law punishing those poisoning the minds of our children.
Coming to America.
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Already here.
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