From: xic@utkvx2.utk.edu 
Subject: Re: Demonstrate on Foreign Land Against Their Country
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Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 17:24:00 GMT

In article <BxFFy6.46D@cs.psu.edu>, anthony@phys.psu.edu (Mai Haigiu) writes...
> 
>I guess you got it totally wrong here. The CCP plays the majority rule pretty
>well. CCP's decision was never made by just one person. Rather, the majority
>rule works. Take the '89 student movement as the example. It is not untill
>that the central bureau of politics ruled out Mr. Zhao Zhiyang's decision by
>a 3 over 2 majority poll that the Secretary General be defeated.
> 
>Another example: The notorous Adolf Hitler was democratically elected as the
>president of Deutchland by the majority of his people. And I guess he ran his
>presidency much better than Mr. Bush did: reduce the unemployment of Germany
>to zero percent and made homeless people disappear from the streets. So, should
>the German people support their elected president Hitler and not against any of
>the decisions his government made, especially the decisions of wars?
> 
>People, be aware of one thing: There's only one step between the democracy and
>dictatorship. This is the word from the one who originated the "Democracy
>Formula" one year ago and who know democracy much better than any D-Fighters.
> 
>---HAMLET
> 

I can hardly agree with you on this.  As a matter of fact, CCP's decisions were
always made by just a few top officials, or even  by just one person.
We do not want to go back to Mao's period, Deng was totally responsibile
to what happened in 6.4.  In my opinion, Li Peng  as well as the political
bureau could never make this kind of the decision without the agreement of
Deng.   If all the decisions were made by the majority of CCP, not only Zhao
but all of the political bureau should be responsible for the student
movement.

If we go further, we have learned for a long time that there is a rule in
China saying minority should follow the majority, but it has never been
implemented.  Study the Chinese Consttution     , you can think about what
is called the leadership of CCP.   CCP is a party, a political group.
It was not elected by the people in the country, but it has legal right to
rule the country.  Many mistakes or even criminal cases were conducted
by CCP, but people has no even right to criticize the party.  Sometimes,
CCP figured out some extreme wrong doings and correct them, people has to 
say CCP is great and they can not pointed out who was responsible to
the wrong doing.  In fact, the Chinese Constitution granted the rule of
minority over majority, right?

It was true that Hitler was democratically elected as the President in 
German, and he did a series wrong doings.  The difference was that all 
German people was responsible to what he did, including the war 
compensation and public apologies and so on.  German people would not
complain for any kind of the penalty.   But, in China, should Chinese 
people be responsible for the Culture Revolution or Anti-Right movement?
They have right to complain, but they can not.  It is funny and sad
that Chinese people have to be grateful for the CCP who stopped the
Culture Revolution, but in fact, CCP started it.


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