Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

TexaCan Loc: Homeward Bound!

My goodness, you are spending an enormous amount of your AWAKE time researching and posting Anti-American propaganda on an American political forum. You are maintaining almost double the amount of posts to any other member in any given 24 hours……..quite an accomplishment for a young man with a full time teaching job and a wife and young daughter!

What’s in this for you? You have declared your approval and acceptance of the atrocious dictator Xi and the CCP and have the audacity to judge America! 🥴😂🤗




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China’s Constitutional Rights: A Grand Illusion

By James A. Dorn

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Although there are numerous rights enumerated in China’s Constitution, all of those rights are negated by Article 51, which states: “When exercising their freedoms and rights, citizens of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) shall not undermine the interests of the state.” Those “interests” are all encompassing, but the most important is maintaining the Chinese C*******t Party’s (CCP’s) monopoly on power. Consequently, China’s constitutional rights are merely “paper rights,” and a grand illusion.

Under paramount leader Xi Jinping, who took over in 2012 as general secretary of the CCP and as president in 2013, the Chinese state’s dominance has been increasing. Article 1 of the PRC’s Constitution, as amended in 2018, explicitly recognizes the dominant role of the CCP: “Leadership by the C*******t Party of China is the defining feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics.” As President Xi declared, echoing Mao Zedong, “Party, government, military, civilian, and academic, north, south, east, west, and center, the Party leads everything.”

A Litany of Paper Rights

The crushing of all human rights under Chairman Mao led to a yearning for liberalization. Two years after his death, the National People’s Congress (NPC) promulgated the 1978 Constitution, which included the “four big rights”: “the right to speak out freely, air … views fully, hold great debates, and write big‐​character posters” (Article 45). However, after protesters began to openly criticize the CCP, those “rights” were quickly revoked in 1980 by the National People’s Congress, and the Democracy Wall movement ended.

When Deng Xiaoping took over as China’s paramount leader, in December 1978, economic liberalization greatly increased living standards. Yet personal freedoms and human rights remained subservient to state control, as clearly seen in the 1989 crackdown in Tiananmen Square.

The most recent version of the PRC Constitution, promulgated by the NPC on March 11, 2018, continues to pay lip service to human rights, while the CCP under Xi Jinping suppresses the free market for ideas.

The litany of constitutional rights and freedoms in the 2018 Constitution include:

“Citizens’ lawful private property is inviolable” (Article 13). 
“The state shall respect and protect human rights” (Article 33).
“Citizens of the People’s Republic of China shall enjoy freedom of speech, the press, assembly, association, procession and demonstration” (Article 35).
“Citizens of the People’s Republic of China shall have the right to criticize and make suggestions regarding any state organ or state employee.… No one shall suppress such complaints, charges or reports or take retaliatory action” (Article 41).
While the rhetoric is noteworthy, none of those rights or freedoms is guaranteed by law. They can be revoked at any time, just as the CCP abolished the “four great rights” in the 1978 Constitution. Article 51 of the 2018 Constitution provides a general defeasance clause that ensures that the CCP maintains its monopoly on power. As Roger Pilon has argued, given the fact that the interests of the state are “boundless in principle, and vague besides, any claims that individuals might have against the state can always be trumped as a matter of constitutional law.”

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

Hi Tex...

I've missed you... Asked Rose and she said you've been busy... Hope everything has been ok...

I'm enjoying my fourth week of semi lockdown... Not much to do.... Kid's in school...Wife's working... I only have fifteen hours of class a week, online ...

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