Lee’s Summit – May 17, 2010. I sat here reading over and over the words spoken by the assistant secretary of state of the United States of America conceding that the US has no grounds to stand up to China over Human Rights and I was stunned.
“We brought it up early and often. It was mentioned in the first session and as a troubling trend in our society, and an indication that we have to deal with issues of discrimination or potential discrimination. And these are issues very much being debated in our own society,” Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy Human Rights and Labor Michael Posner, who led the US delegation to the talks, told reporters on Friday.” (read the full article here)
Where does it end? Every country has things that are imperfect but the lunacy of constant apology and America bashing has to stop. The United States has some of the most tolerant laws on immigration.
I travel to China often and I’m the first to admire what they are doing moving towards a more open society and towards capitalism. All good things, but to compare China 2010 to the United States 2010 is a very large stretch in logic leaps.
I’m no politician, nor do I care to be one. I’m a very much a fiscal conservative citizen but it does not add up. If someone does something it has to have some goal in mind. What is the goal of the Obama administration to undermine itself by the constant apologizing?
Has China apologized for Tiananmen Square?
Has China apologized for the need for its citizens to request permission to move from one city to another and be considered a denizen of that city?
Has China apologized for restricting the Internet?
Has China apologized for limiting the information its denizens can receive?
Has China apologized for the theft of opportunity of its denizens for so many years, and the world from its potential innovations that would have helped all live better lives?
I’m not picking on China, look at all the countries we’ve apologized to, with no acknowledgment of all the things America’s economic engine has provided to the world? What about the work done to stabilize Europe and Japan? What about the open market that the US shares with the world? You may think it’s not fully open, but I dare you to export and see what your costs are after you land the products in other countries.
Are we going to apologize for the success of the United States?
Are we going to apologize for the technological advances that have given birth to industries all over the world?
Are we going to apologize for bringing the opportunity for countries around the world to generate real wealth?
I just don’t get it: do you?
This administration is doing more harm than good.
Disappointed.
Respectfully submitted,
The Lee’s Summit Conservative
May 17, 2010 at 11:51 pm
Moral equivalency is a tired liberal tactic and the offspring of misplaced liberal guilt. The thought process is that we, “the enlightened” (The USA) are held to a higher standard, so our humanitarian baseline should exceed theirs. Faulty thinking.
The Asian civilizations have existed long before ours. They have had centuries upon centuries to improve human rights, but they don't – why? What is their method of population control?
Take their religion — Buddha teaches that life is pain and that our unhappiness is created by our desires. What a perfect tool to keep the masses quiet. In order to attain nirvana, the pain they are suffering, and the lessons learned is needed for the soul’s development and final journey past rebirth.
A child of five knows better than that. A child will put their hand in the flame and yank it out – lesson learned; don’t touch fire. But under the Buddhist model, holding your hand in the flames without complaint will earn you eternal peace.
These are people that have systematically had their sense of individual worth bred out of them – almost literally. When China could not sustain their booming population, they made life expendable. Because their culture dictates that a son will take care of their parents in old age, most couples wanted sons, and they gender selection came into play.
Over time, there have been those that have attempted to rise up against this oppression, but they have been killed, both sending a message to others with similar ideas, and removing from the gene pool the brave and courageous.
I could go on for quite a while about the sociological and psychological impact that the Chinese governing model has had on its people, but there’s no need – the story is there for all to see. This is a society who as a whole has had their fist caught in the monkey trap for centuries, but has refused in large part to the things mentioned above to break themselves free.
And this is the society that our own leaders are comparing us to? This is the moral equivalent of the United States? Are you kidding me?
Liberal’s say that conservatives with their money worship and power mongering have fallen out of touch with the average American. The salt-of-the-Earth types from the Midwest. How in touch with these simple, true-blue American folks are the liberals? With their convoluted and twisted morality that focuses on the little that could be considered negative within our society and compares it to a downtrodden, nihilistic, genocidal society like China’s?
Are they kidding?
Here’s the punch-line killer, folks. This is what we have allowed to take over our government. These types are what we have allowed to assume the driver’s seat. This is the rhetoric and general mentality that we have allowed to infest our educational system, where liberal guilt manifests in self-destructive dogma hell bent on stripping America of its pride and sense of self worth. Liberal thinking that devalues our basic humanity by making human life disposable and without intrinsic value. (Abortion on demand) Liberal morality that makes prosperity something to be ashamed of. (Socialism/Welfare)
Now think … think slowly and deeply on this. What brought China to it’s current straights?
“A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.” – Will Durant
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