April 25, 2008 by Kingston
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![]() George Bush should go ahead and let the victims and survivors of Chinese labor camps sue, even if China does threaten to quit shipping their tainted blood thinner. Between 1999 and 2004 big shot Chinese Politburo member, and former Trade Minister, Bo Xilai ,was operating some forced labor camps in the Liaoning province, where adherents of the outlawed Falun Gong religious movement, along with a handful of Catholic priests and Protestants, were subjected to various forms of torture. The camps were able to turn a tidy profit by harvesting the organs of those religious prisoners who were a match with their international transplant customers.Although none of this has yet been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt in a United States Court, it has been established to the satisfaction of the State Department and the United Nations. Nonetheless the Bush administration has asked Judge Richard J. Leon to dismiss the case, filed by some camp survivors under federal statutes which permit victims of foreign torture to sue.They fear the lawsuit will have “a chilling effect on U.S.-China relations.” In court pleadings submitted by the administration it was argued if the lawsuit went forward it would create a “diplomatically undesirable inquiry” into Bo Xilai's “responsibility for alleged torture and extrajudicial killing,” Indeed China’s Foreign Affairs Minister Li Zhaoxing warned Condi Rice of dire financial consequences if the case went forward. Even though the Chinese have become the new Muslims, and it is not socially acceptable to utter a discouraging word about them, and the sad truth is the People's Republic could bring the American economy to its knees if it so desired, we really should take a timid stand, despite the possibility of causing economic disruption to Walmart.The United States thinks economic sanctions work so well in getting bad guys to knuckle under, despite our experience with Cuba and Iran, only because we are such hopeless wimps. There is a law on the books that provides victims of International thugs some legal redress in America. But, our comically deluded president only thinks it should be available when the brutality occurred in a two bit country that doesn't matter. The administration was quite willing to sucker punch a third rate Mesopotamian bully in the name of liberation, but those who have been beaten, suffocated, submerged in sewage, raped, or had their liver plucked out by the government of our favorite payday lender, can't even bring a lawsuit.Land of the meek, and home of the morally bankrupt. ![]() ![]() P.S.— Today, April 25, another human rights issue will be getting some attention. It is the Day of Silence in schools across America:~Becky |
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