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A collection of real-world libertarian, individualist and laissez-faire rants on law, economics, politics, culture and other current events
by an average, everyday lawyer & investment banker and part-time pop scholar.

"China is Still a Dictatorship" Fact of the Day
(Why aren't you reading this at the new website?)

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"China is a country with religious freedom and respects every religion."
--"Beijing 2008" Propaganda Website

You already know about China's oppressive and uncivilized "one child rule."

Guess what else you're only allowed one of in China:
For the sake of maintaining social safety, the frontier inspection station has the right to check all the luggage brought into China.

Old and waste materials, food, micro-organisms, biological products, portions of human body, blood or its products, or animals that may spread infectious diseases among humans are forbidden to enter. Any printed material, film, tapes that are 'detrimental to China's politics, economy, culture and ethics' are also forbidden to bring into China.

Note: Each travel[er] is recommended to take no more than one Bible into China.
Apparently "Market Communism" does not include a market for Bibles (which, incidentally, is a state-run monopoly in China).

And I of course shudder to think what constitutes "detrimental" to China's Communists (besides my blog of course).

More on China's farcical "religious freedom" here and here.

(Via Religion Clause.)
Posted by Kip on 12 November 2007


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