Bravo! I just had this kind of conversation with some of my adult students conserning democracy the possibilty of it in China and other human rights issues.
some used the arguement of China being less developed
as a reason for many of her lapses in this area. While many said that that was no excuse. That countries much poorer than China where at least going in the direction of more freedom and more responsiblity. I was shocked at how intense feelings ran on both sides. I might add that these were hightl educated people. Many say they take English classes so that they can speak freely about whats on thier minds. One woman, a doctor said that "our development cannot be simply judged by whats in our wallets our how many fancy western style cars or buildings we have but by our ability to govern our selves and to choose our government.."
Some people on this site think than can brow everyonr into a party line. Well let me mis quote Lincoln again for DB and Fish you can fool some of the people some of the time........Hey fellas the genie is out of the bottle and you can't put it back!!!!!!!!!!!! thus always to tyrants!!!!!!!!