by Ben Bartee
We’ve got a lot going on in the Western hemisphere to keep our attention — a looming midterm election, Congressional leaders’ spouses getting assaulted with hammers under dubious circumstances, the non-stop transing of the children, etc.
But it’s worth taking a look at the authoritarian hellscape that is China — if for no other purpose than as a case study of how far an unconstrained government will encroach on human dignity if given the opportunity.
Here’s a brief survey of what’s been going on in the Orient and why it should matter to U.S. civil libertarians.