CHINESE DISSIDENT HELD FOR CRITICIZING QUAKE RESPONSE

The American media doesn't have the stones to criticize the quake reponse. But this man does. And he's paying the price.

Chinese police have detained a political dissident because of remarks he made about the government's handling of the Sichuan earthquake, according to his family and supporters.

Guo Quan, the founder of the China Democracy party, was seized outside his home by seven or eight police officers four days ago. They searched his house and confiscated his computer.

"They waited outside and caught him as he was taking our child to school," said his wife Li Jing.

The following day, police officers told Li that her husband was being detained for at least 10 days because of false information he posted online.

It was unclear which comments upset the authorities. Guo has written a string of critical articles on the communist one-party political system. He was stripped of his professorial post at Nanjing university last year.

And this is the superpower the world is clamoring for?