[roywiggins]

There was (is?) a whole thing where local governments would kidnap people trying to petition the central government to crack down on some local government wrongdoing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/08/world/asia/chinese-petiti...

[krainboltgreene]

It's weird to read pieces like this from the NY Times when I watched it happen in Portland and the same media basically brushed it off.