Does this article really surprise anyone?

No Permits, No Protests in Beijing's Special 'Pens'

I'm pretty naive but even I could see from a thousand miles away that they were going to use the protest registrations against the applicants. Grrrrr

I'm so angry with China, my anger is being fuiled by the fact that I'm reading Red China Blues by Jan Wong. I'm at the part where she's describing her first hand account of the Tienanmen Square Massacre and it's aftermath.

These are things my (former) students will never learn about.