The stasi story was also ~30 years ago too. The point isn't a story of who's bad more than it is a story of unchecked political power. That was my point, not a

The stasi story was also ~30 years ago too. The point isn't a story of who's bad more than it is a story of unchecked political power. That was my point, not a "we do it too so TFA isn't bad." No, it's bad when any state does it. I think one difference is we did have the Church commission so at least there is some amount of accountability although it could have been better whilst in PRC there will be no such inquiry into these sorts of things.