--- "Gary L. Nunn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Unfortunately, China may be right. We (the US) make > a big deal about > other countries abuse of human rights, but we tend > to overlook the > abuses in the US because we are used to them. > Certainly the US is not > doing the same type of abuse, but there is plenty of > human rights abuse > that is probably unique to America.
First - why do you think this is genuine? His credibility is not helped by the fact that the one point of American law he mentions (that INS grounds are not part of American soil) he gets quite wrong, and no lawyer would tell him that. So I'm skeptical. Not that the INS doesn't have an atrocious record with such things, to be fair. Second, what on earth does this have to do with China being right? Our record is by no means perfect. When we have concentration camps, sell the organs of executed prisoners, use slave labor, and torture to suppress internal dissent, and maintain a police state, then China might be right. Until then, treating the "human rights" protestations of the Chinese government with anything except withering contempt gives the single most murderous government in the world still in existence (and, quite possibly, that ever has existed) a bit more credibility than it deserves, don't you think? I honestly think that this attitude does more harm to the rights of people around the world than any other belief held by people in the West. The Chinese government writes things like that _precisely_ to get the reaction that it just got from you - oh, we've done some things wrong, let's focus on that. In so doing, it takes the spotlight off its astonishing misdeeds. _Every time_ someone reacts the way you just did, Gary, the pressure on China gets a little weaker. They know, though, that there are enough people in the West who will react that way to make it worth their time. Let's not _ever_ dignify the propaganda of mass murderers with the response that they might have a point. They aren't even worth listening to. Even if what this guy says is true, the only things that will correct the abuses he describes are quintessentially American traits that the Chinese government not only does not understand - they are traits it uses terror, murder, and torture to eradicate. We should not ever play their game. Gautam __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
