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Every Taxi in Beijing Bugged With GPS-Tagging Microphone For Instant Surveillance
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| 9:30 AM on Wed Aug 6 2008
| By John Mahoney
Posted on 08/06/2008 10:28:39 AM PDT by CarrotAndStick
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To: Ouderkirk
You read like a commie commercial
To: Nowhere Man
A good set of wire cutters would be the cure for this.Enjoy the slave labor / re-education camp.
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posted on
08/06/2008 11:53:23 AM PDT
by
Tao Yin
(Hey, this thread is ecumenical)
To: CarrotAndStick
Beijing : Come for the clean air, stay for the totalitarianism.
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posted on
08/06/2008 12:46:25 PM PDT
by
WOBBLY BOB
(Conservatives are to McCain what Charlie Brown is to Lucy.)
To: Ouderkirk
they would never think of robbing a foreignerNot even pickpockets? I've been through the crushing mass of humanity known as the Beijing Central Railway Station. It seems like it would be very easy to have a wallet lifted there.
To: freeplancer
You read like a commie commercialDoesn't matter how it reads. What matters is: Is it true?
To: BGHater
Yea, what a shame that our Western society is so backwards and not more like Communist China.
I consider myself a "Richard Nixon, law and order type," but we must follow due process and make sure that if we take somebody's liberty for the commission of a crime, then we need to make sure he is guilty. Red China doesn't do that. I'll even admit I really don't believe in the death penalty except for heinous crimes like terrorism, treason in wartime or perhaps very heinous crimes against humanity, most other cases, I do wonder if the government would have the ability to take one's life. I'm not with the "free Mumia" crowd or anything, but if we are going to take lives for criminal punishment, at least every "T" should be crossed and "I" dotted. To replace the death penalty, I think maybe a high security prison in the Aleutians would do.
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posted on
08/06/2008 2:36:37 PM PDT
by
Nowhere Man
(Is Barak HUSSEIN Obama an Anti-Christ? - B.O. Stinks! (Robert Riddle))
To: Blood of Tyrants
It was such a good idea to allow the Chicoms to host the Olympics, wasnt it?
They bought someone off, pure and simple.
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posted on
08/06/2008 2:39:19 PM PDT
by
Nowhere Man
(Is Barak HUSSEIN Obama an Anti-Christ? - B.O. Stinks! (Robert Riddle))
To: CarrotAndStick
And we do business with these types of people.
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posted on
08/06/2008 2:43:52 PM PDT
by
CodeToad
To: Tao Yin
Enjoy the slave labor / re-education camp.
I often wonder who many people would get away with it in Red China? I am beginning to wonder if GPS is a good thing, it can be a double edged sword. Well, here is a cartoon below on how they got the symbol for the Peking (I refuse to use Beijing) games:
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posted on
08/06/2008 2:44:11 PM PDT
by
Nowhere Man
(Is Barak HUSSEIN Obama an Anti-Christ? - B.O. Stinks! (Robert Riddle))
To: freeplancer
You read like a commie commercial Not at all. Just stating facts. But keep in mind...would you want to end up in a chinese jail? I didn't think so. Neither do the chinese. Understand that there are police everywhere, and I'm sure secret police too. Part of it is cultural too. The chinese may rob you blind in a business deal, but they consider it shameful to do a stick-up. Face is a big deal in their culture, and getting caught doing a stick-up job is a major loss of face. But I still can get to FR from my hotel room(s) in china. I talk openly about the shortcomings of the chinese governement with my chinese hosts. They have never tried to shush me down about anything I've said and I don't say things under my breath. The first time I went to Mao's tomb and walked out looking across the street at a KFC, and McDonald's I started laughing openly. Told them that Mao must be spinning so fast that they could solve their energy problems by hooking a generator to his corpse. Everybody laughed. The younger chinese who are in their late 20's and early 30's don't identify with Mao at all. He was dead before they were born and they pay little heed to his philosophies. When my chinese coworkers the come to my home here in the US, they like it. They want to live like I do with cars and boats and snowmobiles and several kids, etc. The commies are toast and they know it. They are trying to hang onto power any way they can. But the commies also know that repression of the public will get them killed.
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posted on
08/06/2008 5:25:08 PM PDT
by
Ouderkirk
(I will not vote for Obama not because he is black, but because he is RED)
To: CarrotAndStick
The same technology is sold as an extra feature in the USA.
To: jahp; LilAngel; metmom; EggsAckley; Battle Axe; SweetCaroline; Grizzled Bear; goldfinch; B4Ranch; ..
A ping list dedicated to exposing the quality, safety and security issues of anything Made in China.
Please FReepmail me if you would like to be on or off of the list.
(This can be a high volume ping list.)
To: CarrotAndStick
Has anyone heard the Leftists in this country complaining about the lack of privacy our Olympic athletes and the US media has in Red China? Where are the Congressional hearings? Who from the US is on the Olympic committee that chooses the country? We need to publicly thrash those high paid PCers.
To: Nowhere Man
It was such a good idea to allow the Chicoms to host the Olympics, wasnt it?
They bought someone off, pure and simple.
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You are so right! Where are the Congressional hearings on this? Like that would do any good.
“The People’s Liberation Army welcomes you.”
To: Ouderkirk
How does that jibe with Tienanman (sp? square, the suppression of religion, jailing and murdering of the clergy? What about the block snoops that make certain women aren’t pregnant by counting/checking their personal materials and issuing counted replacements? How about Tibet? A Communist is a Communist. Just because they act friendly, don’t fall for it.
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To: Linden1209
How does that jibe with Tienanman (sp? square, the suppression of religion, jailing and murdering of the clergy? What about the block snoops that make certain women arent pregnant by counting/checking their personal materials and issuing counted replacements? How about Tibet? A Communist is a Communist. Just because they act friendly, dont fall for it.
Although Chairman Mao might not be too happy at the type of economy they have, he would still be very pleased on the political control they have.
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posted on
08/07/2008 8:57:17 AM PDT
by
Nowhere Man
(Is Barak HUSSEIN Obama an Anti-Christ? - B.O. Stinks! (Robert Riddle))
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