Posted on Saturday, July 23, 2005 9:27 AM
#central kindom
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literally, ma-lie-lao-tai means Marxist-Leninist Old Ladies, which refer to those old ladies in 1970s' china who stubbornly stick to an ideologies without any clue how to fit them into the real ánd changing world.
what china's public security bureau mainly does is to prevent and punish crimes like everywhere in the rest of the world, just like 99% of american troops' daily job is not to abuse POWs at their hands.
chinese ma-lie-lao-tai in 1970s kept doubtful eyes on everything from the US since that country did something wrong in somewhere of this planet during some periods of the histroy, and i still remembered how to convince those ma-lie-lao-tai that american jeans are not the privileges enjoyed by abandoned american capitalists - american jeans are actually the dresses of american laboring class, the cow boys!
chinese public security bureau is evil? give me a break! chinese porn sites are much more evil than PSB because these sites consume a lot of time and energy of chinese young guys who otherwise will spend time to talk about democracy and freedom on the web. how familiar these american ma-lie-lao-tai mentalities are!
equipped with facilities imported, chinese PSB could do a better job in preventing crimes or hunting criminals, which leads to a safer envorionment for people to live, to work and ... to develop china into a civil society. compared with these that will benefit hunderds of millions of chinese people, filtering the information on the web that only a few hundred (or nobody) try to access seems to me a less pressing issue. what american ma-lie-lao-tai mentalities suggest is to throw away the dirty bathing water as well as the baby.
too bad that the mainstreams of american society are still dominated by such ma-lie-lao-tai mentalities when it comes to issues about china.