From Global Voices Online:
In China, there’s more precedent for blogging getting people in trouble with the police than there is for blogging in itself getting one getting fired. So what happens to cops who blog? Check out Hubei-based Soho Xiaobao blogger Wu Youming’s (Âê¥ÂπºÊòé) most recent post, ‘Confessions of a canned cop’, dated March 16:
…That I would be dismissed by the Huangshi Municipal Public Security BureauÔºàȪÑÁü≥ÂÖ¨ÂÆâ±ÄÔºâ is a conclusion I’ve anticipated for some time. It’s not that I planned for this to happen, but under the current system, people who dare to speak the truth must be prepared to pay the price. Since the evening of January 5, 2006 when I began to post such articles as “Why do traffic cops love handing out fines so much?”, “Handing out fines as enthusiastically as a tiger is fierce”, “The deceased don’t sell their hukous, and the living can’t get them”, “A word to the National People’s Congress from a grassroots police officer: barring petitioners should be a prohibited government behavior”, I’ve known that today would come….[Full Text]
-Photo of Wu Youming from Google image.
