Posted on 01/09/2009 4:25:08 AM PST by Dr. Marten
The local police stopped parents who were trying to travel secretly from southwest China to Beijing this week to ask the central government for a full investigation into school collapses that killed their children during the May earthquake, several of the parents said Thursday.
A leader of the grieving parents, Sang Jun, who lost his 11-year-old son, said in a telephone interview that he had been detained overnight and released only after more than 60 other parents gathered at the gates of the town government building to demand his release.
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Now THIS is the kind of government Obama can BELIEVE in.
Change you can beereeve in?
Hate to say it, but I think Obama is going to be a lot tougher on China than what either Bush has been. Bush has basically looked the other way at whatever China has wanted to do for the last 8 years - Starting with April 1, 2001.
He may talk tough, but we are begging too much on the international market for money - especially Chinese and Saudi money. He will not put any pressure on either one of them.
You will probably get flamed by some...but you make a good point.
Everyone forgot how Bush wimped out when Communist China hijacked one of our military planes.
What should scare the GOP more with Obama is if he goes conservative on some issues...instead of going liberal. If he stands up any bit to Communist China...thats being more conservative on the issue than Bush ever was (though in the long run...Obama will be another Nutty Globalist)
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