Pink Police State Watch

The offenders were getting younger, forming larger gangs and committing a greater variety of crimes, one academic said. Social change, China's one-child policy and the internet were all partly to blame for the rise, the experts said.

"Crimes committed by youngsters have been causing a growing amount of severe social damage," the China Daily quoted Liu Guiming, deputy secretary-general of the Chinese Society of Juvenile Delinquency Research, as saying. Young offenders were forming gangs and committing crimes "without specific motives, often without forethought", he said.

These included theft, assault and rape, but also 22 new categories of crime linked to fraud and the internet. Part of the problem was the breakdown of families caused by migration, Mr Liu said. In hundreds of thousands of rural families, children are left with elderly relatives or friends while their parents travel to cities in search of work. -- BBC News

China won't grant these delinquents political liberty, much less local political liberty, and the mass delinking of persons within families, towns, and communities will only accelerate as China repeats the process that unfolded in France a few centuries ago: infantile but angry rubes from the sticks, full of passion and ambition, descend upon the Big City to feast their envious and prideful appetites. The result -- more social, sexual, and moral license, increasingly permitted by the state, with more security cameras, undercover enforcers, and law-and-order national police as the bargain. Russia's already leading the way with National Get Laid Day. China's opportunity to be even more progressive involves the great leap forward to state-supplied sexual entertainments in which reproduction is not only not emphasized but strictly prohibited. If I wanted to be deliberately provocative I might suggest that one strategy for control in this department involves tacitly popularizing homosexuality. You heard it here first.

Comments

[JW]

Actually, I think Burgess anticipated that in the Wanting Seed.

[Nora]

Dear PC,
Love your blog and the jaunty cap. Thank you for entertaining and educating me. I love the way you write.
Nora