The Chinese have been given a real lesson in how to suppress dissidents by the most efficient cops in the world!

VHeadline's Washington DC-based commentarist Chris Herz writes: Both US political parties ended their conventions last week ... and thanks to the good God in his Heaven, we do NOT have to endure this charade for another four years. Everything that happened inside these events was carefully scripted, amplified by the corporate media and designed to persuade the sucker vote to support one or another of the respective candidates ... but the real story was outside.

The Chinese have been given a real lesson in how to suppress dissidents by the US authorities: The most efficient cops in the world.

Where only a few dozen activists were arrested and (we hope) temporarily imprisoned in Beijing during the late Olymipic Games no less than 150 were arrested in Denver during the Democrat Convention and 800 in Saint Paul during the Republican. Especially in the latter instance, extensive use was without provocation made by the Secret State Police of physical repression, beatings, gassings etc. even before the nasty convention began.

From what I could see, the behavior of the Chinese government forces was rather more restrained ... and certainly more responsible ... than was that of the US authorities. If there were public beatings and gassing in Beijing, arrests of journalists, etc., for the most part these things seem to have been carried out in the shadows where they belong.

In Denver, this anti-social behavior on the part of the Secret State Police was glaringly evident to all who cared to see, openly presented as an object lesson to those who would publicly dissent: Our Fascist government displaying to all, yet again, its disdain for real law and order. Additionally, at least eight persons from Saint Paul will face lengthy prison terms due to our "anti-terrorism" laws.

So far as I am aware, only two Chinese citizens are in a like condition by reason of their actions during the late Olympic Games.

China, pound sand! USA still number one!

Now all we have to do is to somehow ignore all the hoopla and hype which will be inflicted upon us by the corporate media between now and the election in early November. Folks in Venezuela, and elsewhere in the world, should always remember that anywhere between one-half and two-thirds (depending on what part of our country you look at) of US citizens will do just that -- boycott the election.

• In other anti-democratic countries, such results -- a mass abstention from the mock elections must be obtained by very tedious, difficult, even dangerous actions on the part of dissident activists.

Here it is the entirely spontaneous result of decades of experience: Whomsoever the establishment vets as a suitable candidate means degradation at home and war abroad to the mass of our ordinary voters. And give our commons that much time, even they do, really do learn.

When the Obama or McCain government are explaining to the Venezuelan government why their oil must be given to the Empire below production costs, and paid for in depreciating US dollars -- and if these arguments are NOT persuasive, there is always the US Marine Corps -- I pray you will remember this US regime could never have been, and never was democratically elected by its own population.

From the imperial capital:

Chris Herz
cdherz44@yahoo.com

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