In this amazing story, Yahoo has been directly implicated in the jailing and prosecution of two Chinese dissidents.

Captain’s Quarters has the scoop…

THE American internet company Yahoo! provided evidence to Chinese police that enabled them to imprison one of its users, according to allegations that came to light yesterday.
The disclosure marked the second time in months that the company had been accused of helping China to put someone in jail. Li Zhi, a civil servant, was imprisoned on charges of trying to subvert state power after he criticised corruption and tried to join the dissident China Democracy Party. …

Yahoo… shades of the SS?

And the Captain asks some good questions…

Have these corporate managers no shame at all? Do they feel proud of their success in China, knowing it comes at the expense of courageous people like Li Zhi and Shi Tao, among others about which we have not yet heard? How long will these companies and their major stockholders continue to sell out freedom and its foot soldiers in order to kiss up to the Chinese government?

Let’s see now… Google, Microsoft, and now Yahoo complicit in trying to suppress the freedom that allowed these companies to be so successful.

This is dangerous behaviour. Their attitude seems to be one of snuffing out the voice of the oppressed so they can line their already fat pockets. Like the so-called mainstream media, for some reason they don’t want the truth to get out; only their propaganda. I wonder who will be next to be snuffed out.

Who needs Yahoo anyway?!

Looks like Republican “My Man Mitch” Daniels, governor of Indianer (as they say in Kennedy’s Boston), can’t figure out why he got elected or to which party he belongs.

Joining forces with the tax and spend Democrats, ol’ Mitch has increased spending by $ 1 billion and increased every tax he can find to pay for his largess.

Now there’s a Ditch Mitch movement afoot because I gather folks are getting fed up with high restaurant taxes, high hotel taxes, high income taxes, high car rental taxes, high sports events taxes and all the other taxes Taxman Mitch has imposed. I guess ol’ Mitch wants folks going to other states for their recreational activities.

Looks like a good ol’ revolt brewing in the midlands.