Town of Wukan’s revolutionary Chinese democracy experiment has been snuffed out by Communist Party

Riot police have extinguished mainland China’s most famous democratic flame with rubber bullets, tear gas, and an ongoing seige. Thousands of police stormed Wukan, a fishing village in Lufeng county, Guangdong province, China, before dawn Tuesday. During clashes with police, villagers carrying signs and national flags threw rocks and bricks. The police fired back with rubber…