China arrests yet another earthquake critic

Our best business partners ever. As Western leaders prepare to hold hands with the communist leaders in Beijing for the Olympic opening ceremony, they are all kind enough to avoid any embarrassing discussions related to such gross violations of human rights. To be fair to the Chinese government, it's really not fair - not socially acceptable - to ask questions about shoddy construction that contributed to the death of thousands of children. So far the Chinese government has been fair and avoided criticism of the parents who were only too happy to sponge the use of government buildings when it suited them and now are complaining because thousands needlessly died. There's only so much good will the government can provide before it has no alternative but to fight back.

Asking such questions may not reflect the proper glorious respect for the communist party who may have mistakenly accepted a few envelopes of yuan to overlook building regulations. To ask questions is to threaten the state and we can't have that. Then where would we build our disposable society crap? Then who would buy our piles of debt?