Understanding the Surveillance State

For a good article on surveillance by Chinese government entities, read the Reuters From laboratory in far west, China's surveillance State spreads quietly.  I have been studying this for so long, I forget that surveillance is oppression of the worst kind.  This article puts that in perspective because the examples are not Muslim terrorists or gang members.  These are the business people who work and travel in the Uighur areas of the North-west.  Apparently, the Chinese liked the results of the clamp down on the Uighur that they are applying the same principles in other parts of the country, putting anyone travelling to that area under intense scrutiny.  In China, there is no privacy.  What the average person gets in exchange for giving up their privacy is something called "harmony", the peacefulness that comes from knowing your government is watching you - and everybody else too.