Foreigner playing Majiang in Heng Ji (Wu Gou)

Having just spent 8 days away in the Chinese countryside, I returned to find the world aflame over the cartoons published in Denmark, and to see the articles about that topic at Magic City. Even my own contributing columnist on Muslim affairs (you know, the one some of you say is really me under just another of my many pseudonyms), wrote me about his perceptions of the event.

The fires it seems, are also alight in Israel and Palestine over the recent Hamas Election Victory, and the disgraceful violence that has erupted between the Israeli State and it's Citizens. [Text & Photo links at The Violent Nature of the State of Israel]

Both issues relate to the principles of Democracy and free speech, not to mention the use of political muscle backed up by physical violence.

Meal in XinDi Hong Hu.

After sorting through some 400 + emails, I settled down to see what was new at the TechCentralStation website, and came across this little gem that relates to the penultimate demonstration of the assertion that democracy is now dead.

The Paris Hilton School of Political Science, by Val MacQueen

• Next, we come to public enemies 73-year-old Joe Roberts and his wife Helen, 68, who complained when they saw a table in their local council office displaying homosexual literature.
• ...whereupon the pair asked whether they could at least display some Christian literature on the same table.
• Permission was refused on the grounds that it might give offence to the gay community.
• "Well, what if I'm offended by homosexuality?"
• The next day, two police officers came to call on the elderly couple and spent over an hour grilling them about the 10-minute phone call.

Wedding procession in Dai Shi

Me and my friend $1 at DaiShi

It seems that the only people who still have a democratic right to 'free speech' are those now legislated by government, to have such a right.

If you do not belong to such a particular legislated group, not only do you have no right to redress, but may be victimised, penalised, charged, fined, imprisoned or even under the right circumstances, killed.

It was only just the other day as I was discussing China's future with a university student, that I said that the next 50 years will be China's most dangerous.

The issues of democracy, autonomy and Taiwan are all linked, and if matters are not handled correctly, China will fragment and devolve once again into civil war.

Village of DaiShi and the Journey back to town

Having returned home to read the latest world news, I now wonder if the Western and European countries will not go the same way as China.

History teaches us that when a civilization reaches its' peak, it begins to collapse.

We live in an age where everything happens quickly, and so unlike past history, the collapse of nations and empires today, can be achieved in a very short space of time.

Combining the populations of The Muslim world, India and China, we can see that we white westerners are in the minority, and only the fool cannot see that our 'democratic ideologies' and our 'political correctness' is not the 'norm'.

Our worldview is in the minority, and while in our arrogance we think it the superior world view, we stand on the edge of the abyss so to speak.

That which we hold dear, is being sold down the drain by guilt laden sycophants hell bent on apologising for reaping the benefits of democracy and free enterprise, and by those who see themselves as superior to the rest of us, but who have had the wherewithal to ensure that they have become a legislated 'protected species'.

Views of Dai Shi

In the end, the result is the same. Democracy and free speech are dead.

Personally I think it time that we give up our arrogance and superiority complex, and learn from those 'less than us' nations.

We must learn how to take pride in and to promote our own cultures, and to take measures to ensure that our national and social self image is able to survive the onslaught of the forces which seek to transform us into something that we are not.

If by some miracle there should arise in the west, some future revolution bent on restoring true democracy, free speech and egalitarianism, we can be sure that it will be bloody.

If we are not opposed by those who are now protected and who will fight to keep their superior status, or by those whose constant 'mae culpas' require some form of self flagellation or other punishment, we will be sure to face opposition from those 'others' who will rightly see us following a path sure to make us strong.

This opinion of course, pre-supposes that by that time, we have not already succumbed to a completely and even more sinister form of totalitarian government.

R.P.Bendedek

Email: rpbendedek@hotmail.com

R.P.BenDedek is the pseudonym of the Author of 'The King's Calendar: The Secret of Qumran' (www.kingscalendar.com), and is a guest columnist at Magic City Morning Star News. An Australian, he currently teaches Conversational English in China.

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