China's internet squad

Ezra Levant is curious about some of the comments he's been getting in response to blog entries about Tibet and China.

If the Chinese government does indeed have people posting angry comments to weblogs whenever people criticize the wisdom of the Communist Party, they're doing an hilariously bad job of hiding it. In response to this entry, some guy calling himself "Shi Che Cheng" basically says I should be jailed for misinformation. (Ooh! Scary!)

You're rhetoric is decades out of date. I work with Chinese nationals and have for years, so do many Canadians. They are a damn sight less socialist than you, Damian, and could care less about politics. They are killing us in engineering and science while we graduate BAs in liberal arts.

Taxes are much lower in China, and Marxist thought with respect to family and society is orders of magnitude less egregious than right here in Canada. Nobody is losing their job in China over their opposition to gay marriage. Criminals get punished in China and the state protects the people from predators, unlike Canada. Crime is also much lower.

Best of all, in China they would jail a blogger with a seven year record of getting the facts wrong on a daily basis, and be entirely justified in doing so. Society needs to be protected from radicals who agitate in bad faith on behalf of foreign states. [emphasis added]

He didn't say my family should receive a bill for the bullets, so I guess that makes Mr. Cheng some kind of moderate.

Damian P.

Posted by damian at April 1, 2008 09:10 AM