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Who can shave in the morning - or mask their worry lines - without

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Who can shave in the morning - or mask their worry lines - without seeing their fear, guilt, and a loathing of their trade?Within this fatal trap of mid-20th-century political appeasement, of convenient international diplomacy, a tacit agreement was mumbled into a "thinks" bubble. Pay lip service to the idea of individual human rights but keep pumping the UN Charter which declares that all states have the right to sovereign rule and therefore could, with impunity, conduct their state business like Machiavellian Christians or Muslims or rampant fundamentalists They'll go with that. It sounded like a law for troublemakers, a clarion call to those who think only of revenge. Many crimes are committed in the name of the great cultural revolutions and the icons of their instigation. Neither can the administrators of all repression be free of private thoughts.

"Thou shalt not..." The negative was emphasised like public hygiene, and what we were not told was no concern of ours. The British Empire was still intact, even then, so everything was assumed to be in order.The World then still believed that the state knew best and any claim that we might have rights for simply being born was at best a weird piece of human presumption. The hope that he was still alive was the spur that kept the whole question of Chinese democracy in a state of flux. The difference between Chinese Communism and Chinese culture became apparent to the young Communism offers no personal freedom. Chinese culture offers a wide spectrum of tradition and evolution, and a chance to develop as individuals.The much-maligned philosopher Nietzsche caught the breadth of the world's eternal dilemma in one sentence: "It is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are permanently justified."At the time of its publication, every individual of school age should have had the Articles drummed into them like the Ten Commandments, which we did learn.

Wei Jing Sheng could be regarded as a lethal chink of light, when he was sentenced to 14 years in 1995 for his part in the Tiananmen Square uprising. They remain the lethal chink of light and therefore of hope against a repressive regime. Freedom to think is an uncontrollable private act and even peaceful assembly is innocuous - nobody can keep every human being in the whole world in solitary confinement - but broadcasting thought and acting upon it, oh no!Though Cyberspace may yet find a Noble Destiny, radio and television stations, newspapers, books and printing presses are the first victims of tyranny. Slipping it in neatly between "freedom of thought" (Article 18) and "freedom of peaceful assembly" (Article 20) should have covered the board, but the enemies of democracy are forever busy.

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