”Fascism in the People’s Republic of China”

Liu Xiabo is nominated to ”Nobels fredspris”. Last December he was sentenced to 11 years in jail for ”stretching the right of free expression too far”. See http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/uriks/article3509316.ece

This reminds me of Carl von Ossietzky who won the Peace Prize of Alfred Nobel for 1935 in 1936. The Nazis in Germany denied him to go to Norway and he died in jail in 1938. See http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_von_Ossietzky

Conservative organizations, newspapers were against Ossietzky winning the Peace Prize, and even the Norwegian King Haakon decided not to be present at the ceremony in December 1936.

The Nazis in Germany/The communists in China, albeit different ideologies, seem to behave in much the same way. There is one word for this: FASCISM.

Hopefully the Nobel Committee of Norway will show the same courage as they did in 1936 and give the prize to Liu Xiabo.