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"Fall of Communism" Update:
China
Begins Rounding Up Internet Critics
by Christopher A. Ferrara
 This column
inaugurates a new feature to go along with the regular “conversion of
Russia” updates. As we know, the Fatima revisionists promote not only the
fiction of Russia’s conversion but also the “fall of communism.”
Somehow they overlook the continued enslavement of a billion Chinese by a
communist dictatorship which forces women to have abortions–which is not
to mention the continued domination of Russia itself by
“ex-communists” who have done little more than change the name they
call themselves.
On April 25,
2001, the Associated Press reported that “authorities have detained two
men for posting articles on the Internet promoting political reform in China, a
Hong Kong-based human rights group said Thursday.” One of the unfortunate
two had posted articles on the Internet which promoted democracy and provided
evidence of human rights abuses by the Red Chinese regime. The AP notes that
“in a separate case, authorities secretly tried an economist April 3 in
the northern city of Cangzhou for posting articles and writing editorials for
foreign news websites.”
These are not
isolated cases. According to the AP, “government experts monitor the
Internet and block sites deemed subversive. Internet service providers are
warned they will be held responsible for any anti-government content.” So
much for the “flowering of democracy” in still-very-Red China. But
then conditions are not dramatically better in Russia, where Vladimir Putin is
finishing up the details on seizure of independent television stations and
newspapers.
We have been
hearing about the “death” and the “fall” of communism ever
since Vladimir Lenin usurped the Kerensky government and imposed communist
dictatorship for the first time in “that poor nation” back in 1917.
The useful idiots of the West have been duped by “thaws” and
“openings” and détentes for the past 84 years, glasnost and
perestroika being only the latest names for a very old shell game. But
underneath the packaging, how much different is the regime of Vladimir Putin
from that of Vladimir Lenin? Oh yes, there are these differences: In Leninist
Russia there were never 3.5 million abortions a year, and there were also far
more Catholics, Catholic priests and Catholic parishes in Lenin’s Russia
than in Putin’s.
Every time
communism “dies” it seems to rise from the coffin in the middle of
the funeral service, in better condition than before it “died.” The
errors of Russia, it seems, will not just vanish one day–not until we do
what Heaven prescribed for the pandemic known as communism. So, when the Fatima
revisionists speak of “the fall of communism” in 2001, think of those
Internet dissidents who were just whisked off to jail. And think of the
“underground” Catholic bishop and priests arrested in China only this
week. Will they ever be seen again?
Stay tuned as we
monitor the “conversion of Russia” and “the fall of
communism” here at fatima.org. Here we are not averse to reporting on a
subject much neglected in Fatima revisionist circles: the subject of reality.
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