Crucify this, Mr. Party Secretary

Hundreds of Chinese police scrambled to prevent a planned outdoor service by a "homeless" church today, shoving people into vans and buses in the latest show of the Communist Party's determination to smother dissent and protests. The Shouwang Church, a Protestant group with about 1,000 members, had urged members to gather for the outdoor service after they said official pressure forced the church out of a place of worship it had been renting. But hundreds of police officers covered the area in the Zhongguancun commercial district, where the Shouwang Church had planned to worship, deterring any effort by church members and supporters to gather for the morning service. This blatant and egregious disrespect of human rights is not on. Amy Chua hypothesised in her 2007 bestseller Day of Empire that the great empires and hyperpowers all rose because there was tolerance of ethnic divisions, and if that bad parent is right, then China is likely to fall apart like most of the Arab nations are right now due to this blatant disrespect for religious belief and freedom of peaceable assembly.