Whistle-Blowers in Chinese City Sent to Mental Hospital

[BeatleBoot]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/09/world/asia/09china.html?_r=1&th&emc=th


BEIJING — Local officials in Shandong Province have apparently found a cost-effective way to deal with gadflies, whistle-blowers and all manner of muckraking citizens who dare to challenge the authorities: dispatch them to the local psychiatric hospital.

In an investigative report published Monday by a state-owned newspaper, public security officials in the city of Xintai in Shandong Province were said to have been institutionalizing residents who persist in their personal campaigns to expose corruption or the unfair seizure of their property. Some people said they were committed for up to two years, and several of those interviewed said they were forcibly medicated.

The article, in The Beijing News, said most inmates were released after they agreed to give up their causes.

Sun Fawu, 57, a farmer seeking compensation for land spoiled by a coal-mining operation, said he was seized by local authorities on his way to petition the central government in Beijing and taken to the Xintai Mental Health Center in October.

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[DeepModem Mom]

1. Thanks for posting, BeatleBoot. nt

[RandomThoughts]

2. Yea when Micheal Moore commented

On The Republican that was running for office, Thompson I think was his name, the guy from Law and Order.


This is what the guy said, right after mentioning that he did not like Micheal Moore.

"he is lucky we don't send people to mental health centers like they did in Russia."

I found it odd that he would say such a thing, Maybe he ment Chineese style democracy. Where it seems they also do that. Luckily that stuff don't happen here.

The use of alice makes it easier to facilitate the mental claims. Remember only someone following along would 'get it' So it is easy to make claims of issues, by just sticking with alice, and then getting person to comment on it, since if someone is not following along, its like reading a few words in a sentance, and trying to get the meaning of a book.

[lovuian]

3. sounds like the same tactics of Changeling

terrible and old tactics