Who decided that? Did you just make it up?
--- Fred Bauder <fredbaud(a)ctelco.net> wrote:
The criteria are control of the press, repression of
political speech,
imprisonment of those who atempt to organize an
opposing political party or
a union, etc.
Fred
From: Vicki Rosenzweig <vr(a)redbird.org>
Reply-To: wikien-l(a)wikipedia.org
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 19:31:58 -0400
To: wikien-l(a)wikipedia.org
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Classification of China?
At 05:16 PM 4/25/03 -0600, Fred Bauder wrote:
> I intend to speak truth. China (and the Catholic
church, for another
> example) are authoritarian. \ It is not
merely a
matter of the opinion of
> vague critics. There are objective criteria
which
if met constitute an
authoritarian government.
This concerns me, not because I disagree, but
because I don't know
what objective criteria Fred is using, and
because
almost anyone who
promotes a point of view sincerely believes that
he or she is speaking
truth.
The determination to speak truth, while admirable,
is not the same as
> NPOV, which is our policy.
>
>
>> Fred
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