Comments on: ‘Lies and silence’: Zhao Yan case http://www.p2pnet.net/story/9025 p2pnet.net - reader powered Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:46:05 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/9025/comment-page-1#comment-46491 Reader's Write Sun, 11 Jun 2006 18:37:37 +0000 #comment-46491 "charged with 'divulging state secrets', a crime punishable by the death penalty" Whth a contradiction! Cetainly state secrets must be secret. Therefore no one ca know if a given fact is a state secret or not. Then all facts must be presumed to be state secrets for reporters, to be on the safe side? Can you imagine the Chinese (or Pentagon in the USA) publishing a list of secrets that cannot be divulged without being arrested as a spy. Then how can a court sentence anyone without revealing the state secret (or is it a secret kangaroo court?) the was allegedly violated? China (and the USA too) is a dictatorship. “charged with ‘divulging state secrets’, a crime punishable by the death penalty”

Whth a contradiction!

Cetainly state secrets must be secret. Therefore no one ca know if a given fact is a state secret or not. Then all facts must be presumed to be state secrets for reporters, to be on the safe side?

Can you imagine the Chinese (or Pentagon in the USA) publishing a list of secrets that cannot be divulged without being arrested as a spy.

Then how can a court sentence anyone without revealing the state secret (or is it a secret kangaroo court?) the was allegedly violated?

China (and the USA too) is a dictatorship.

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