Re: Talking Back to Power: China's 'Haves' Stir the 'Have Nots' to Violence

2005-01-02 Thread James A. Donald
The title of this post is misleading: The protest is anti government, and pro property rights. For example: > [...] "People can see how corrupt the government is while they > barely have enough to eat," said Mr. Yu, reflecting on the > uprising that made him an instant proletarian hero If he

Re: Talking Back to Power: China's 'Haves' Stir the 'Have Nots' to Violence

2005-01-02 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 9:37 AM -0600 1/1/05, Neil Johnson wrote: >I'm not really RAH, but I play him on cypherpunks ;-) Except that he doesn't post cryptosocialist luddite leveller blather, except in jest, and at least he puts angle brackets around his links so they don't break, viz, >http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/

Talking Back to Power: China's 'Haves' Stir the 'Have Nots' to Violence

2005-01-01 Thread Neil Johnson
I'm not really RAH, but I play him on cypherpunks ;-) http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/31/international/asia/31china.html? ex=1105532792&ei=1&en=61c003ece2c2eadb The Great Divide | Talking Back to Power: China's 'Haves' Stir the 'Have Nots' to Viole