[Ill_ban_myself]

I'm not angry. As they say in America, "I have no dog in this fight."

It does not bother me in any way that the government in China gets to decide whether and where people can travel or work or live.

I'm glad they don't do it where I live, but I am sure the average Chinese citizen is glad they don't have to suffer many indignities and strange quirks of western life.

I cannot, for instance, let my child play with a water gun at the public park for fear he will be shot and killed by a police officer. I do not need to pretend that's unquestionably good. It is certainly not the way I would prefer to live. It is just a fact of life.