From Non-violent Resistance blog:
The Forestry Ministry has been forced to suspend its proposed auction of “hunting rights” for some of the country’s most protected and endangered animals. This is probably the hottest domestic debate now; ever since the news came out two days ago, criticism against the ministry has never stopped.
This is yet another perfect example of an unbelievably stupid government policy getting ripped into pieces by the Internet masses and on popular media, with the mandarins backing down shame-faced in the end. The difference is, this time around the skepticism and criticism is almost unanimous: At this very moment, CCTV is running an interactive news commentary program, “discussing” but mostly condemning it. Indeed, it’s almost a textbook case of bureaucratic incompetence with factors offensive to every actively outspoken group on the Internet:
To environmentalists and animal rights sympathizers: putting up some of our rarest animals to be gunned down, for a price? Are you f****** kidding me? And to be done by the Ministry of Forestry, the governent agency supposed to be protecting them? What kind of a world am I living in?
To nationalists:… [Full Text]
See also previous post via CDT.
