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The CCP regime's imprisonment of Liu Xiaobo is retaliation for his having publicly called for the end of one-party authoritarian rule and the establishment of an accountable government constrained by the rule of law and having normal elections for the national-level rulers. The Party oligarchs wish to intimidate anybody who dares go public with such ideas. The main precedent of a regime that imprisoned a Nobel Peace Laureate for years on end and didn't allow the laureate to go to Scandinavia and pick up the prize was Nazi-ruled Germany during the 1930s.
Jun 12, 2013 10:38 AM
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