Prairie Fire Journal

In its latest defense of totalitarian censorship, the Chinese dictatorship claimed that it's protecting China from "information imperialism." This grand prouncement came from the thug regime in Beijing on the heels of Google's announcement earlier this week that it might pull out of China if the government did not relent on its internet censorship rules and stop hacking into Google accounts.

For over 20 years now, Western capitalists and governments have operated in China under the delusion that as the dictatorship opened up its economic markets, it would also open up on issues of human rights as well. That has not happened, and it will not happen as long as the West continues to enable China's tyrants by looking the other way while the totalitarian oppression of the Chinese people continues.

Let's see if Google really pulls out of China, because the thugs in Beijing aren't going to budge an inch. They know that at the end of the day capitalist greed will prevail over the cry for human rights. Nothing short of a massive divestment by Western captialists will change the behavior of China's dictators. And we know that ain't gonna happen anymore than the Red Army staging a coup to establish democracy.

Unfortunately, freedom and democracy are still an unrealized dream for the people of China.