Clarification: The #CrimesAgainstHumanity perpetrated by the #CCP against these groups are ALL a long time in the making. My comment about #Tibet above is that we as "enlightened" societies knew full well back in 1998 the horrors that the #CCP is capable of & still opened...
...our markets wide open to the #CCP, and grew it from a small dictatorship engaged in #CrimesAgainstHumanity to a large, aggressive dictatorship engaged in the same. They started their plan to "eradicate" #FalunGong in 1999 & using #Tibetans & #Uyghurs & other "undesirable"...
...groups to develop & apply technological tools of cancellation & repression frankly much more "Orwellian" than George Orwell himself imagined in his work. And now, the #CCP exports plug-&-play techno-authoritarianism worldwide, wherever it is convenient:
I've been listening to a reading of @AI_Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago. This book is so powerful, so timeless, so important, with some much intellectual fodder for today.
Many have heard, "The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being," but...
2/ what does that actually mean? Only into the 4th chapter, "The Bluecaps," of the Abridged edition (which, incidentally, should be required reading on its own), I'm being blown away, again, about how important this powerful meditation on what humans are capable of, & how/why...
3/ I'll use this thread to post some passages that really grab my attention (& this will take a while, certainly). In case you're wondering this is exactly what I'm listening to, the authorized Abridgment by Edward E. Ericson, Jr. harpercollins.com/products/the-gโฆ
1/n "The circumstances & events are eerily reminiscent of what happened with #Smartmatic software electronically changing votes in the 2013 presidential election in Venezuela."
โWhistleblower documented in sworn affidavit obtained by @SidneyPowell1, on why he came forward.
2/n "I am alarmed because of what is occurring in plain sight during this #2020election for President of the United Statesโฆ What happened in the United States was that the vote counting was abruptly stopped in five states using Dominion software."
3/n "I want to point out that the software and fundamental design of the electronic electoral system and software of #Dominion and other election tabulating companies relies upon software that is a descendant of the #Smartmatic Electoral Management System."
It's amazing to me that anyone even discusses whether the #CCP will live up to its promises on anything. How many examples of disingenuous agreements/promises do you need?
The only way the CCP ever complies is if you have the leverage to force it to (or it has one over on you).
This is so predictable that we might call it "Mao's Law." 1st draft, anyone care to edit?
"The #CCP's compliance w/ any agreement is independent of the nature or details of that agreement; happens only when 1) you have powerful leverage or 2) it's fleecing you & you can't tell"
Another version of, or perhaps a corollary to, "Mao's Law":
"Any promise or agreement the #CCP makes, it will break, and if you take issue with this you will find yourself in jail, bankrupt, or 'hurting the feelings of the Chinese people.'"
๐จ I've decided to put together a THREAD of prominent voices for #HongKong from around the word. Start with U.S. politicians. Note how @RepGregSteube is saying (as I read it) the newly-revealed #HK#NationalSecurityLaw will "threaten democracy around the world." ๐๐๐
[3/n] @RepJimBanks highlights how the #HongKong#NationalSecurityLaw "prohibits 'collusion' w/ foreign govs or institutions, which could target those who've lobbied the U.S. Congress for sanctions."