there might be a terrorist across the street

"there might be a terrorist a across the street"

well yesterday sept 7th was officially the longest day ive ever experienced. my day was 38 hours long thanks to some maneuvering over the dateline along with some assistance from air plane or two. I got to experience two sunrises and two sunsets on sept 7 2010 if that is fathomable to anyone. for ten of these hours i was confined to the international terminal of the beijing airport. its a nice terminal big clean and open. tons of natural lighting and options for food even if they were a little pricier than what i was looking for. however more compatible with my level of thrift was the free internet stations provided for passenger use. quickly i rushed through the process of gaining my login code and password, via passport scan, and time killing browsing and lurking here i came. just one problem. i was in china. the powers that be in china deem it unnecessary for me to view some of my favorite sites. and upon further investigation many sites fall under this undesirable category, deemed as a corrupting source to their ever growing; dare i say too large population (really that refers to the entire human population). after my initial frustration passed i was then stuck staring at the screen rather perplexed and aggravated by the inconvenience of what i would then fill my time with. capitalism seemed to be the most open of venues to pursue. I was able to look at apple's new gadgets and toys. nike's shoe line. ebay. all saints fashion. ect. what was not allowed were sites that allowed uninhibited thoughts and ideas. social networking and blogging. wiki-sites. even the more corporate controlled things like cnn news and cbs were blocked. the idea that china so vigorously protects and prohibits its citizens from browsing the web seems archaic to me. i thought book burning was done (unless of course burning of books is no longer necessary since arguably books no longer hold the same significance today as they once did; some other time). but censorship is alive and thriving quite well i might add in a country that houses at least 1/6th the worlds human population. yet they are allowed to desire the all the consumer goods of the western world that way they have a goal to work towards. consumer fulfillment. new shoes, new stereo, new tires, better clothes, but this consumer fulfillment will not treat them well if it ever does come. it will leave them feeling the same middle class guilt and feeling that the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. and corporations will take the governments role of controlling what is said. censorship i guess will continue to occur no matter what country you are in some more aggressively than others. i would like to congratulate an old acquaintance Will for expressing his freedom of speech the other day in auburn and bringing out the absurdity of claims that our current president is indeed,  A NAZI.