San Jose Mercury News: “The Chinese sometimes display a remarkable tolerance for those who cut in line but such forbearance apparently has its limits when queue-jumpers are government officials.
Thousands of people threw water bottles and blocked traffic at a popular nature preserve in northeastern China on Sunday after word spread that the arrival of top Communist Party leaders was causing an hours-long wait to visit a scenic lake. It was one of a string of brash confrontations in recent months between the authorities and Chinese citizens.
The infuriated crowd surrounded the vehicles carrying the government entourage and refused to let them pass, according to scores of microblog posts sent out by those waiting to ascend Changbai Mountain in Jilin Province. The three-hour standoff drew police officers and soldiers, some of whom reportedly beat recalcitrant protesters.
According to one witness, thousands of people chanted for a refund of the $20 entry tickets and later demanded that the officials leave their besieged vehicles and apologize. “Fight privilege!” the witness wrote.
The accounts, posted on Sina Weibo, a Twitter-like service, were later deleted by the company’s in-house censors but many postings were saved and reposted on overseas websites like Ministry of Tofu and China Digital Times whose servers cannot be reached by Chinese censors.”
via In China, wait leads to standoff with officials – San Jose Mercury News.
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