China Hates Old People

Some more jack-assery by our newest "friendly economic partner," China.
When the Olympic Games were set to begin, the Chinese totalitarian government decided to create specific "Protest Zones" which would be the only places where protest would be allowed to occur, by the whim of those fascist assholes. Not only were they setting up specific, heavily fortified protest zones, anyone wishing to protest would have to actually file an official request with a specific Chinese government agency, the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau. If this Bureau saw fit to honor your request you would be assigned a date and time to go protest. what a load of SHIT! As if they would not turn down every single protest coming and possibly arrest those seeking to protest for "re-education," which the Chinese do regularly, fucking goddamn assholes.

So, the worst fears have been realized. From the Houston Chronicle,

Two elderly women were sentenced to a year of "re-education through labor"
after they applied for permits to demonstrate during the Olympics, according to
the son of one of the would-be protesters.
Wu Dianyuan, 79, and Wang
Xiuying, 77, went to police five times between Aug. 5 and Aug. 18 to seek
approval to protest against officials who evicted them from their homes in 2001.
The Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau did not approve or deny their
applications during the first three visits. On the fourth visit, the women were
told that they would receive a year's punishment, until July 29, 2009, for
"disturbing the public order."
According to a written order they received, they would not have to immediately go to a re-education labor camp, but their movements would be restricted. If they violated various provisions or regulations, however, they could be sent to a labor camp. Wu and Wang tried to return a fifth time to inquire about their protest application but they were told that their right to apply had been stripped.
"When I first heard about the possibility of being allowed to protest, I was very happy. My issue could be resolved. But it turned out all to be cheating ... I feel stuck in my heart," Wu said by telephone. Li Xuehui said his mother, Wu, and her friend are outraged.
Usually labor re-education is reserved for "prostitutes and thieves," Li
said. "What the two old ladies did is nowhere near that." He pointed out that
Wang is nearly blind.

The full article, written by Ariana Eunjung Cha for the Washington Post, can be read here. It is fucking pathetically stupid.

Here is the "seditious" old lady the Chinese fascist fuckfaces are so scared of that they are willing to make an example of her and sentence her to a forced-labor camp for a year.

Here is their fucking bullshit propaganda spin on this whole issue.

Earlier this week, the official New China News Service
reported that police had received 77 applications but none has been
approved.
Wang Wei, executive vice president of the Beijing Olympic organizing committee, cast the empty protest zones in a positive light, telling reporters Wednesday that the disputes brought by would-be protesters had been resolved.