This is what real and true government oppression looks like..

[Virginia Dare]

this is what it does to people, something that Americans don't know about yet, perhaps it's coming, but we're not there yet..


http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/08/20/china.miners.ap/index.html

XINTAI, China (AP) -- A quick outburst of violence by relatives of 172 miners trapped in a flooded coal mine brought a tearful promise of Chinese government action Monday, even as state media said the miners' chances for survival were dwindling.

Several mines in the hilly eastern China area said worries about flooding caused them to shut down Friday morning, raising questions about why the Huayuan Mining Co. continued to operate. A dike collapsed later that day, flooding the Huayuan mine and stranded the 172, as well as nine others in a smaller mine run by another company.

Water levels fell slightly in the 2,800-foot deep Huayuan mine Monday as industrial pumps began pulling off water, an expert involved in the effort said. Even so, the government's Xinhua News Agency said hopes of finding survivors were fading.

Already high tempers among the miner's families boiled over Monday, after spending four anxious days without word from the privately owned Huayuan or government officials about the rescue efforts.

Two brothers of a missing miner and his grown son, frustrated that an earlier request for a briefing had not been met, and two other men smashed a reception window and display cases at company offices with wooden sticks. They then rushed around the corner into the sprawling Huayuan compound, followed by five other relatives.