Downright Scary

Here is a video on Chinese black jails.


Surprisingly this video comes from Al Jazeera.

Source: Foreign Policy Passport

Worst Idea of Yesterday

You're kidding me right?

Source: Instapundit

A True Protest

5 lawmakers were arrested today protesting Sudan's Omar al-Bashir.

A spokesman for Rep. Donna Edwards, D-Md., told The Hill that the five and organizers of the protest from the Save Darfur Coalition crossed a Secret Service perimeter around the embassy and ignored three warnings to leave the property. They were expected to be fined for a misdemeanor and released.

Members of Congress arrested were Edwards; Jim McGovern, D-Mass.; John Lewis, D-Ga., a veteran of the civil rights movement in the 1960s; Keith Ellison, D-Minn., the only Muslim member of Congress, and Lynn Woolsey, D-Calif.

Also arrested were Jerry Fowler, coalition president; John Prendergast, co-founder of the Enough Project, and Rabbi David Saperstein, director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism.

A dignified protest, without any rocks or Molotovs.

Socialism for Breakfast

Hit and Run's Michael Moynihan takes apart The Daily Show's soft glove representation of Swedish Socialism.

Not a particularly funny bit, considering the available material, but a few points about the total awesomeness of Swedish social democracy and the show's but-we're-only-joking case for the Swedish model. (They are, after all, making a serious political point in an unserious way.) Cenac's interview with ex-Abba frontman Björn Ulvaeus, during which he attempts to get him to admit that the song "Money, Money, Money" is a paean to American capitalism, leaves one with the impression that the millionaire songwriter is rather pleased with his country's glorious socialist history. Well, no.

While I agree on many points made by Moynihan, you got to admit the way Sweden reached its Socialism is preferable than say Venezuela. Socialism is fine if the people want it, as long as it doesn't come with the curbing of democracy, individual rights, isolation and an overarching State. The Swedish model is preferable to the Chavez model. That being said, I don't want either model.