Trampling on Human Rights is not China's Prerogative Alone (Sadly) !

In the United States, as playpenaly mismanaged and perverted by bushbaby and his playmates:

Think Progress » Blog Archive » ABC Report: Bush’s ‘Principal’ Advisers OK’d Torture:

ABC News reported tonight that President Bush’s most senior and trusted advisers met in “dozens of top-secret talks and meetings in the White House” beginning in 2002 to approve the use of “combined” interrogation techniques (the joint use of harsh interrogation techniques). Those tactics included whether detainees “would be slapped, pushed, deprived of sleep or subjected to simulated drowning, called waterboarding.”

And in Egypt, where they also can be very kind to people not so well off but of persuasions the government dislikes:

Egypt jails five 'homosexuals' for three years

CAIRO (AFP) — A Cairo court on Wednesday jailed five men, four of them HIV positive, for three years on charges of "debauchery" linked to homosexuality, the latest example of what rights groups call a "witch hunt."
The men were arrested three weeks ago in a central Cairo restaurant following an argument after which a client accused them of practising homosexuality, in what rights groups say is becoming a familiar pattern of persecution.
A police doctor carried out anal inspections on the men "which confirmed their homosexuality," the court official said. Human Rights Watch said such examinations constitute torture and are medically spurious.

Man can think and should be prepared to stand up for that right to think and live and be. The above are two examples of the opposite and of efforts to prevent thought and the freedom necessary to sustain it.

Freedom is really more than just another word for nothing left to lose!