Long Yongtu’s comments get pwned on the internet

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Long Yongtu, former official, got a lot of flack for making remarks
at a recent conference saying that the government ought to take a
harder stance towards so called “diao min”, meaning troublesome people.
Most of the essays that we
read seem to take that position with regards
troublemakers like the nail-house couple in Chongqing, it’s not really the people that are at fault,
since the real problem lies with corruption in the government. I know that there seems to be
nothing inherently new or interesting about this particular instance of anger directed against
a former govt official, but i think it does show how, as more of these riots and protests happen
one is reminded of the existence of that seething, unruly, mass of people that are not going
to take this shit lying down, as they say. And i think that there is a growing consensus among Chinese people that there is a reason for speaking out. In this day and age, there are certain things that
are still taboo, and there are still things will get censored and deleted, but I am glad to see that
there are still plenty of people willingly to open call this guy out on the internet, no less.