Story here.
ht: World Tribune (Check it out; it looks very good as a source for serious international news)
Yang Jianli, an academic and fellow at Harvard University's Committee on Human Rights Studies, praised the 303 academics, lawyers, businesspeople and some government officials who first signed Charter 08, the statement issued in December calling for democracy, rule of law and other basic freedoms in China. Mr. Yang signed the document within days of its release.
"Not since 1989 have the forces for democracy so visibly formed inside China," Mr. Yang said.
(He also blasts US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's cavalier attitude towards human rights in China.)
Mr. Yang said Charter 08 is significant because the authors are widely known and respected Chinese who risked their jobs and freedom by signing it.
Additionally, the charter provides a clear and detailed road map for affecting a peaceful transition to democracy in China.
The document states that "the Chinese people, who have endured human rights disasters and uncountable struggles, now see clearly that freedom, equality and human rights are universal values of humankind and that democracy and constitutional government are the fundamental framework for protecting these values."
By ignoring these values, the Beijing government's modernization program had "disastrous" consequences, the charter states, because "it has stripped people of their rights, destroyed their dignity and corrupted normal human intercourse."
Heh... I might've chosen a different word than "intercourse", but who am I to nitpick? :)
Like I've said many times before, notwithstanding what the Communists say and do, reform is inevitable. Resistance on the part of the Communists is futile. There will indeed be freedom, democracy, the rule of democratically-originated law and human rights in China.
Granted, the Big Corporate Media hasn't been telling us much about the human rights movement in China, as the BCM doesn't want to anger the Communists, who have lots of money and are in a position to enrich, at least indirectly, the owners and controllers of the BCM, as long as they please the regime.
But a lot has been happening, as I've previously reported herein.
Pity the BCM has dropped the ball of relevancy and others, like myself, have picked it up... no wonder the BCM is going bankrupt now, what with their customers leaving them for online information and current events sources, which are, for the most part, free.
Isn't it great to know what's happening in your country and in the world? Isn't it great to have alternative and free sources for truth which isn't being imparted by the money-is-priority Big Corporate Media?
