In order to control, these regimes tend to use fear. Generally, they create a culture of fear where people become afraid of speaking up. This leads to less people speaking out or complaining about anything. The environment of fear is amplified or bolstered when people who do speak out are punished in one way or another.
How The Chinese Communist Party Exerts and Maintains Control
In order to exert its totalitarian control, the CCP must have complete access to personal information. To do business in China, foreign corporations will help the CCP by turning over information from private email accounts, chat room conversations and other information. The CCP will use this information to make an ‘arrest’. The victim disappears either temporarily or permanently. Whether anyone hears what happens next is a dice roll.
The Passing of Liu Zhirong
Why is it that much of the world, despite the excellent documentation, continually fails to recognize this as a major problem? Is it the lure of big business? Is it that China seems too far away to make a difference to us? Hasn’t history adequately demonstrated that what we ignore ends up on our back porch sooner or later?
King Quotes Garner Inspiration
Here are two more Dr. King quotes. “In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends” and “The time is always right to do what is right”.
Auschwitz Death Camp, Lesson Learned?
The famous poet Elie Wiesel, himself an Auschwitz survivor, had this to say, “I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
The Push to Learn Chinese in Our Schools
Here is an example. The traditional Chinese character for the word ‘love’ contains a picture of a heart in it. This makes sense because love is closely associated to the heart. Not so in simplified Chinese. There is no heart in the word ‘love’ in simplified Chinese. One may ponder how you can love without a heart.
The Macro and Micro Worlds of Thea Alexander
Nothing in our modern world completely bears resemblance to the Macro world but it is easy to see how the Chinese Communist Party and other repressive regimes are accurate reflections of the rulers of the micro world.