A Real Peasants' Revolt. They're rioting in China.

The Weekly Standard ^ | 01/30/2006 | Jennifer Chou

[Larry Lucido]

[dr_lew]

Uniforms made in USA ?

[Jack Hammer]

Is it just me, or do these guys look a little gay? Like maybe... uh... one from column A and two from column B.

[Interesting Times]

Not to worry. Microsoft and Google will help keep things under control...

[Jack Hammer]

Difficult to put down a riot in China, since two hours later you want to riot again.

Rimshot!

Thank you, thank you; I gotta million of em'...

[adamsjas]

Don't waste any nukes on China. The citizens will, in dribs and drabs OR all at once, one day, do the job of neutering the ChinCom philosophy w/o incurring an enormous number of deaths.

Same thought occured to me while reading the story.

I hope you are correct, but as long as we have agents of the west, like Google agreeing to assist in keeping the communist myth alive that day will be delayed. The only positive aspect of that is very few chinese have access to the net anyway.

We should, instead, be flooding the airwaves with broadcasts of these events. The VOA should be beaming broadcasts into that country from every corner of the earth. China is too vast to jam everywhere.

Sadly, I don't think our government is up to it.

[Rain-maker]

Dec 6th?...Walmart army already crushed the insurrection, go back to sleep.

[Don Joe]

that guy's just a little too enthusiastic. i wonder what their dont ask dont tell policy is like?

The recruiters ask, "You like to goose-step?"

[Don Joe]

It will be interesting to see how it plays out. If it goes as many seem to think, China will implode on it's own. I'm not banking on it.

Or, they can simply send all those "excess males" off to die in some meatgrinder of a "foreign war".

The rest of that scenario is left as an exercise for the reader.

[Emmet Fitzhume]

With a chrome-plated AK-47 and white uniform for each officer, no less.

Question is, when will all of the Chinese peasants say, "enough is enough?"

[Cacique]

for later read.

[Caipirabob]

A very insightful thread, including thoughts on "Winky" here...

[ClaireSolt]

Masses of illiterte peasants have NEVER revolted as expected by Marx. They just suffer.

[TXnMA]

Vulcan fodder...

[TXnMA]

And how 'bout that white tights-clad twirly-girlieman -- with his chrome-decorated AK?

All show... (AKA "Paper Tigers")...

I understand that "Paper Tiger" is an insult. Good.

[ovrtaxt]

that guy's just a little too enthusiastic. i wonder what their dont ask dont tell policy is like?

In all seriousness, women are rather rare because of their abortion policy, and when you talk about a billion people, it's staggering. It's a pretty nasty brew just waiting to hatch on the rest of the planet.

[Jackknife]

BTTT

[Hardastarboard]

Where does one find a chrome-plated ceremonial SKS rifle?

[SamAdams76]

Could've said the same thing about the Colonies in 1773. At the time, the Colonists were under the "iron-grip" of the British Continental Army. Other European nations scoffed at the notion that our silly tea parties and tax revolts were going to change matters anytime soon.

[TLI]

Point is that when a nation gets stuck with SO MANY illiterate peasants who become discontented with being illiterate peasants and WITHOUT bothering to become literate, the sequel is potentially more volatile than mercury fulminate.

Substitute peasants with illegal aliens and illiterate with citizens...