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*** 23-Dec-17 World View -- Tanzania and China pass new laws to send government critics to jail

This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
  • New Tanzania law makes it 'sedition' to reference a statistic the government doesn't like
  • New China law 'protects the honor' of Chinese heroes
  • How to confront a Chinese troll

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**** New Tanzania law makes it 'sedition' to reference a statistic the government doesn't like
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Outspoken Tanzania MP Zitto Kabwe arrested for 'sedition' (East African)

Lots of countries these days have laws that make it a criminal
activity to criticize the government. Dictators and other
psychopathic leaders use these laws to control the political
opposition, since anyone who criticizes the leaders can be beaten,
tortured, raped and jailed. So with Christmas approaching, it's
worthwhile to note that two countries are implementing new laws to
jail government critics.

On October 29, police in Dar es Salaam, the capital city of Tanzania,
arrested parliament member Zitto Kabwe on charges of "sedition."

His crime? At a campaign rally, he said that the national economic
growth for the second quarter was a 5.7%, when the National Bureau of
Statistics (NBS) said that their figure was 7.8%.

According to police commander Lazaro Mambosasa, "The MP was later
transferred to Central Police Station for further interrogation
related to seditious words uttered on the material day."

Tanzania's president John Magufuli is apparently clamping down on
criticism. According to his opponents, 400 have been arrested and
questioned in the past two years. Politicians in the opposition
Chadema party have been specifically targeted, although journalists
and artists have also been arrested. MP Tundu Lissu has been arrested
multiple times, once for revealing that Canada had seized a commercial aircraft
for non-payment, and once when he was charged with "hate speech" after
calling Magufuli a "dictator."

Magufuli now wants to clamp down harder. Last week, he instructed the
National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) to fine or jail any individuals,
institutions and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) accused of
airing or publishing false statistics. Magufuli said that the minimum
sentence should be three years in jail.

What this reminds me of is the Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward in
1958-59. Mao wanted to turn China into a Socialist powerhouse.

500,000,000 million peasants were taken out of their individual homes
and put into communes, creating a massive human work force. The
family unit was dismantled. Communes were completely segregated, with
children, wives and husbands all living in separate barracks and
working in separate battalions. Communal living was emphasized by
eating, sleeping, and working in teams. Husbands and wives were
allowed to be alone only at certain times of the month and only for
brief periods.

Mao dismantled the Central Statistical Bureau, the organization
responsible for keeping track of all the economic activity going on in
the country. As a result, China's leadership had no real idea whether
the Great Leap Forward was meeting its objectives or not. As a
result, corruption and fraud became rampant, and no one knew what was
going on. Farms lied about crop harvests, and there was no way to
verify them. By the time the problems were discovered, tens of
millions of people died of starvation, and Mao was disgraced.

John Magufuli should keep that historical example in mind. By jailing
people who tell him what he doesn't want to hear, there may be a
national disaster in the making. Tanzania Daily News and East African (Kenya, 31-Oct) and All Africa (1-Nov)
and East African (26-Aug)

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**** New China law 'protects the honor' of Chinese heroes
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Chinese souvenir badge with pictures of Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Xi Jinping, and Hu Jintao (AFP)

A 19-year-old Chinese man living in Inner Mongolia, identified only by
his surname Luo, has been arrested for "stomping and insulting" a
portrait of Genghis Khan. A video of the act went viral, and police
received complaints that the video had caused a disruption to society.

Genghis Khan is definitely not revered by many Han Chinese, especially
in the areas that he conquered and ravaged during the Mongol invasion
of China, a generational crisis war that climaxed in 1206. However,
he is revered by ethnic Mongols, including Mongols who are Chinese
citizens. Luo was sentenced to one year in prison for desecrating a
portrait of Genghis Khan.

Now China is considering a new law that criminalizes anyone deemed to
have smeared the “reputation and honor” of the ruling Chinese
Communist Party’s canon of heroes and martyrs.

The draft law bans the illicit appropriation of land and facilities
near memorials of heroes and martyrs, as well as any damage or
contamination of such memorials. "Those who appropriate, damage or
contaminate memorials, and insult or slander heroes and martyrs, may
receive administrative penalties from public security or even criminal
sanctions." Xinhua and South China Morning Post and Xinhua
and Radio Free Asia

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**** How to confront a Chinese troll
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Getting attacked by trolls is a constant fact of life for people who
post articles about other countries. I've been attacked by trolls
from Russia, Syria, China, Burma, Azerbaijan, Zimbabwe, Burundi, and
other countries, when they didn't like my article because the facts
embarrassed their country or country leader.

In several recent articles,
I've
compared China's "Socialism with Chinese characteristics" to Nazi
Germany's "National Socialism," and noted that they were very similar.
I said the same thing in a recent article on China's military buildup
on Bhutan's Doklam Plateau.

A Chinese troll named "J Y" started attacking me, saying that India
was much worse than China. After a few exchanges, I wrote:

<QUOTE>"I could send you links to a thousand Indian media
articles that criticize Narendra Modi. You can't post a single
link to a Chinese media article that criticizes Xi
Jinping."<END QUOTE>


What followed was really bizarre. I kept demanding that he post a link
to any article that criticizes Xi Jinping. He repeatedly evaded this
question, and posted links to left-wing web sites criticizing India.

Finally, I wrote:

<QUOTE>"Really, this is hilarious. You know, at first I
thought you might come up with some article that maybe criticized
Xi Jinping in some minor way, maybe the way he combs his hair or
something.

But now I realize that if some article like that even existed,
then you couldn't link to it, because then you would be
criticizing Xi Jinping, and you would be abducted and thrown into
jail by the Chinese Communist Nazis. So you don't dare do
anything like that, and all you can do is evade the whole issue.

China is a country where you can't even post a picture of Winnie
the Pooh, because the cartoon character looks too much like Xi
Jinping!!!!"<END QUOTE>


So this turned out to be a very interesting situation. Dear Reader,
if you ever confront a Chinese troll online, just keep demanding that
he say anything to criticize Xi Jinping, or link to a Chinese media
article criticizing Xi Jinping, and he won't have an answer.

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KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Tanzania, John Magufuli, Zitto Kabwe,
Lazaro Mambosasa, Tundu Lissu
National Bureau of Statistics, NBS,
China, Mao Zedong, Great Leap Forward, Central Statistical Bureau,
Inner Mongolia, Luo, Genghis Khan

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