Comments by "Eli Nope" (@elinope4745) on "Chinese Police Remove Professor During Broadcast of VOA Program" video.

  1. coolspot18 it started with Bush Jr. and then extended by Obama and then Trump. Freedom is being eroded in the US.
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  2. "Human rights" are pushed by neoliberals into cultures in an effort to take control of a foreign countries' resources. This isn't new, it has been happening for over 50 years. They come in preaching human rights, protect the children, protect the women. This quickly turns into providing "education" for the children that goes against the traditional culture and government, and for "liberating" women from the home into the workplace. This cuts the value of wage labor, and increases the price of living for the parents at the same time, destroying family and creating dependency. Then they offer loans from international banks. It is a neoliberal attack, look at the south American countries, look at Africa, this shit is not new. NGO's pushing for human rights are a neoliberal attack on a country. China realizes this. Think freedom of speech is important? Try saying the "N" word on national television. Its not like "human rights" leads to free speech, it doesn't, it just changes what words and ideas are censored.
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  3. Stephen nope, I love freedom of speech. But China does have the right to arrest people who breach thier laws. If that guy wants to speak about China, he should come to the US.
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  4. Currently I am staying in Vietnam, which has massive speech restrictions just like China does. I don't talk about Vietnam politics or politicians, and I would not make any judgements here. Talking bad about the government is illegal here. I imagine it is in China as well. The man broke article 105 of the Chinese criminal law. http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/ce/cgvienna/eng/dbtyw/jdwt/crimelaw/t209043.htm Currently the US mistreats all sorts of peaceful people who use and sell illegal drugs. There are many western laws against the liberty of people who wish to act peacefully, but the things they wish to do are illegal. So would you also consider those countries to be despotic? Secondly, there is a long history of subverting governments using neoliberal tactics, and history shows both speech and drugs being used as weapons, so I think my choice of pointing out drug laws is a pretty apt comparison. Since you are angry that China enforces its laws on citizens who travel abroad, I imagine you also oppose US laws against US citizens exploiting women and children in other countries for sex tourism. If not, then you are just being a hypocrite. People who don't want to live in the countries they live in, should move and repatriate to other countries. The US is not the only country that takes in immigrants, there are many others. I hear that Europe has been taking in a lot of refugees, perhaps they would take him. Lastly, I will point out that you are arguing in favor of neoliberalist tactics. Your argument is that the US should have the right to enforce its will on China, or that Chinese citizens should have the same rights (and the responsibilities that go with those rights) as US citizens have. But you have given no argument as to why that shouldn't be reversed, and China control the US. I hold the position that China should be China, and the US should be the US. If you don't like your country, move to another one.
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  5. Jean-Philippe Martel did you know that the FBI set up a group of idiots to stage a terrorist attack on a bridge so as to disrupt, discredit and end the Occupy Wall street protests in the US? It has been silently released to the public years ago, and should be easy to find using a search engine. The US has the 1st amendment when it comes to protecting protest and political speech, China does not. The US suppresses the speech of its citizens just like China does, but they use secret services and agencies to do it silently, rather than openly. I believe (and you don't have to agree) that the US is a single party system. It is the blue/red neoliberal party, and it poses as two opposing parties to the public. But in reality, all it does it scape goat "the other party" in order to carry out a corporatist agenda that favors powerful business and very rich people who then use that power to wage war against other countries. Did you vote for the war in the middle east? I know I didn't. China is suppressing violence before it escalates. I don't condone this activity, but I also don't condone powerful people attacking other countries. In this instance, I see a well established pattern. People like this man are empowered by neoliberals so as to make an excuse to attack a nation. 5 years ago, I would have agreed with you. But now I have looked too deep into how neocolonialism and neoliberalism work, and the pattern is clear. This man is not happy with his government, there is no government that has 100% of the citizens happy with it. This man is protesting his government, and the government has silenced him. Governments that do not silence their critics allow foreign interests to manipulate their citizenry and overthrow the government. Much more often then not, this leads to the detriment of its citizens and the looting of its resources to the foreign parties. China does not claim to have free speech. And the human rights charter has been used to justify war and economic destability far too much in the past to actually be about human rights. I would go so far as to call it an ideology and a state sponsored religion as well as a globalist tactic for neocolonialism. China is defending itself. Maybe you should look into the history of CIA and other agencies that are used to create and spread propaganda (some truthful, some not) in order to justify war and economic intervention with other cultures and countries. I refuse to support neoliberal bullshit anymore. And this reeks of it.
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  6. "weak", "pathetic", These are shaming words, words meant to control. But your words are apt, they are weak and pathetic, you cannot sway me with those old tactics. I am an independent thinker, your attempts to control me with shame are weak and pathetic.
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  7. Jean-Philippe Martel nothing, I will do nothing. I support your free speech because I am a citizen of the US and not of China.
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  8. James Kim, I AM a classic liberal. And those countries should have the freedom to stay as they are without western interference. If they were acting like Pol Pot I would oppose it, but they aren't. They are arresting a person who is deliberately trying to subvert their government. We brought democracy to Libya, look how good they are doing. We brought democracy and human rights to Iraq, look how good they are doing. Remember those weapons of mass destruction? Seems everywhere we go, we leave destroyed countries, looted resources and consumer ideology. Call me crazy, but if everything we touch turns to shit, I think we should stop touching things.
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  9. I can respect that. What I will say is that your country is in the minority. Most countries that the US interferes with do not turn out so well. I am happy for you, and I am happy that South Koreans are happier. Japan also turned out for the better. But then again, those countries were helped way back in the 19650's and 60's, the US has changed as a country since. Now we are waging perpetual wars under the guise of "humanitarianism".
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