12-6-4-2-5 Authorial argument, database judgment, institutional comparison, policy and law, and applications for public communication CHAPTER 13 Post-Totalitarian Social Control Stability-Maintenance Repression, Information Blockade, Organizational Suffocation, and the Hollowing Out of Law (1978–2012) CORE ARGUMENT OF THIS CHAPTER. This chapter examines how the CCP, during the reform period and even as it opened the economy, tore off its disguise and built a more concealed yet more massive apparatus of post-totalitarian control and violent stability maintenance. Stability-maintenance politics and law; the petitioning (xinfang) system, with its cycle of petitioning and interception of petitioners (which spawned a criminal interception industry); internet censorship; the control of social organizations; religious suppression; ethnic repression; household registration (hukou); and administrative licensing together treated citizens' rights defense as a risk, independent organizations as enemies, and the law as a selective tool; the democratic parties were reduced to flower vases, while rights-defense lawyers and journalists were suppressed. Statutes may multiply, but when the Party can intervene in the courts at will, blockade information, and criminalize speech as “rumor,” the rule of law is only an empty shell—isolated appeals for help are permitted, but the joining together of citizens is not. CONCRETE ENTRY POINT. Petitioners are intercepted and sent back at train stations, lawyers are pressured for the cases they take on, websites are shut down over a single sentence, and religious groups and associations are required to accept the Party's leadership; isolated appeals for help are allowed, but the joining together of citizens is not. SCOPE AND CLASSIFICATION BOUNDARY. This chapter includes only material directly related to “Post-Totalitarian Social Control: Stability-Maintenance Repression, Information Blockade, Organizational Suffocation, and the Hollowing Out of Law (1978–2012)” — its ideas, institutions, events, implementation, victims, and lines of responsibility. Terms used in the catalog such as “evil, terror, plunder, enslavement, deception, and crime” are openly stated value judgments or characterizations of mechanism; they must be supported by verifiable fact, and every major figure must be recorded with its source, its basis of counting, and its range. Sharpness does not mean lowering the standard; it means refusing to use neutral language to conceal concrete harm　Folder · PG-E

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