If people no longer expect objectivity from their political and legal systems, then all justice will be reduced to a power struggle between conflicting and irreconcilable perspectives, a struggle in which the most dominant and pervasive bias will replace fair and impartial process as the character of justice. But if objectivity in law and politics is everywhere supplanted by conflict between subjective interests, then the side of economic privilege and established authority will always retain dominance. A society in which people no longer expect representatives of its major institutions even to attempt to render objectivity in their professional demeanours is a society whose major institutions are in a crisis of ethical legitimacy. In such a society, there is wide spread cynicism regarding the possibility of fair political process because it seems impossible that impartial, unbiased dispositions could exist to enact such processes.

Robert Nicholls

Language and Logic

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Chinese occupying forces crackdown on Uyghurs

Since 1949 East Turkestan has been occupied by chinese communist troops.
The region which the chinese government has renamed xinjiang is rich in oil and natural resources. Like in Tibet, the chinese government has been bringing chinese people in to the region to settle while eliminating the idiginous population so as to eventualy absorb the region as as another part of china's modern day Authoritarian Empire.