It will take more than a clumsy law, violently incompetent police and a handful of caged teenagers to put that right.
This was written before the latest unrest — and I'm sure that the magazine Caijing is wary of having it associated with the Xinjiang uprising — so treat it as a separate dispatch, full of broader insights: "Inept officials and clumsy law enforcement can fuel trouble when people are upset, as we've seen with regret over the past year".
(Communism? Bratz dolls?) The immediate concerns about the briefing are that it seems to be providing instruction in intolerance, that it draws a crude stereotype of Muslims, and that it will lead not only to harassment but to clumsy, unproductive law enforcement.
Speaking to Shihoko again, I learned that all this is perfectly legal under Japan's clumsy child pornography laws.
Referring to himself as "a clumsy ape," Mr. Law communicates both the primal and poetic impulses raging within Mat, a lively talker who clearly thinks with his fists even when wearing a suit.
But a clumsy apartheid-era law, the Aliens Control Act, has prevented this, as have a suspicious attitude towards foreigners and an impossibly bureaucratic immigration process.Look at what happened to Matshiyakwakhiwe Dlada.
In the face of the threat from these doddery, incessantly growling and rather clumsy invaders, martial law has been declared in the city, and the place is mercifully free of politicians, investment bankers and journalists on the make (well, mostly).
Campaigners, including Evan Harris of the Liberal Democrats, claim the current law is clumsy and unable to accommodate vastly differing circumstances, with the same blanket law of murder applying to Myra Hindley and the Kay Gilderdales of this world.
This approach has succeeded in making drug trafficking more lucrative for the millions of criminals that escape the long and often tragically clumsy arm of the law.
So I believe that the administration's request to expand these powers with the rationale given that the present laws are too clumsy and slow is wrong and demonstrates another attempt at accruing power in the Executive Branch at the expense of our civil liberties.
