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http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/11/01/opinion/edecon.php

We encourage African countries to improve democracy and the rule of law, social justice and equality - Prime Minister Wen Jiabao
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There is *some* irony here, I am trying to figure it out since last few hours, would someone help?

:rolleyes:
 
raoul said:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/11/01/opinion/edecon.php

We encourage African countries to improve democracy and the rule of law, social justice and equality - Prime Minister Wen Jiabao
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There is *some* irony here, I am trying to figure it out since last few hours, would someone help?

:rolleyes:
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LOL interesting the irony..... :D

But maybe they do have a point ? A quick definition of the rule of law: politicians are not above the law like the old south africa where the president and his ministers were above the law.

but at cthe moment it certainly looks like some of our ministers are above the law and most definetly telkom is above the law.
 
Now let's see; a country where they arrest and throw bloggers in jail for having an opinion. Sold up the yazoo by yahoo (but that's beside the point.)

Yahoo, Chinese police, and a jailed journalist September 09, 2005
HONG KONG – The role of the US Internet firm Yahoo in helping Chinese security officials to finger a journalist sentenced to 10 years for e-mailing "state secrets" is filtering into mainland China. The revelation reinforces a conviction among many Chinese "netizens" that there is no place security forces can't find them.
Yet if netizen reaction in China is resignation, the story of Yahoo's complicity in the arrest of Shi Tao, a journalist with the Contemporary Trade News in Hunan, brought a spontaneous uproar among Western human rights and business watchdogs.

and another one:

Well-Known Blogger Arrested In China March 21, 2006
The documentary filmmaker and blogger Hao Wu has been arrested and is being detained by Chinese officials for unknown reasons, allegedly in connection with information he has that may be pertinent to the national Communist Party.

Oooh, but I see CANADA arrests bloggers too:

Blogger arrested at Atlantica conference Monday, June 12, 2006
CBC News video of the arrests clearly show two Saint John police officers on top of Leblanc in the lobby of the Saint John Trade and Convention Centre, while he yelled, "I'm a blogger, I'm a blogger. I'm just taking pictures!"

Point: what does China know of "democracy and the rule of law, social justice and equality?"

Um, nothing?! :sick:
 
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