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To: Paul Ross

Thanks for the ping!


15 posted on 04/10/2006 9:31:59 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Alamo-Girl
You're welcome.

Had someone...likely from the PRC...with broken english trying to dissuade me from the essential truth of the CCP's brutality and totaliarism. He cited a skeptical article from Australia...which nonetheless concluded:

Excerpt from Mike Stetee "The Price is Rights", The Australian.

"It is well established that China conducts so-called organ harvesting, including among the 5000 to 12,000 people sentenced to death each year, and not necessarily with their permission or that of their families. It is a lucrative trade, with overseas patients flying to China for transplants.

What is also clear is that China has a terrible human rights record, including in its repression of Falun Gong. According to the recently released US State Department report on human rights for 2005, the trend in China is towards increased harassment and imprisonment of those perceived as threatening government authority.

It estimates there are tens of thousands of political prisoners and about 300,000 people in "re-education through labour" camps, including thousands of Falun Gong adherents. The report quotes overseas estimates that up to 2000 of its members have died in custody and cites accounts of torture, rape and treatment in psychiatric hospitals.

Why is China so worried about people who practise meditation and exercise programs to improve the body and mind but have no history of violence? In short, religion and fanaticism. Members share beliefs that include elements of Confucianism, Buddhism and the supernatural. The sect's prolific publications run a strongly anti-Communist line and, as the Sujiatun example suggests, it is quite willing to match the Chinese Government when it comes to propaganda.

While many in China have renounced their beliefs under duress, others have refused to do so, even at the cost of torture or death. Beijing regards Falun Gong as a threat precisely because it is beyond its control and China has a history of religious movements overthrowing dynasties.

The admin moderator already banned the guys' account. Did he visit your mailbox too?

16 posted on 04/11/2006 12:01:04 PM PDT by Paul Ross (Hitting bullets with bullets successfully for 35 years!)
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