Posted on 04/20/2006 1:12:25 PM PDT by Lunatic Fringe
They locked her up? Our government is out of control. Dangerously so.
I sleep better knowing that the Secret Service and Homeland Security are on the job screening potential protesters.
>Ignoring proticals, manners, civility, the goals of the
>President and the Administration in regards to China,
You forgot "not following the line of Communist Party" and "being American spy"..
>>President Bush has expressed regret to China's president for a protester at the White House welcoming ceremony.<<
And I regret voting for him, after seeing him kiss up to Vicente Fox so much.
We've always played footsie with the bolsheviks. Reagan was perhaps the only POTUS who didn't bear hug a Soviet Secretary of Gulag.
Who stole W's balls? Please, return!
Does post 32 change your mind?
Where would we be now - seriously - if this "protester" had been armed with a semi-automatic pistol instead of just her big fat mouth?
There is Free Speech and then there inappropriate behavior, which this performance was.
What she did was what was necessary to get something said where it actually would be heard. The Feds hermetically sealed off the area where Hu was from any taint of what the protesters were saying. So, there would be protests where none actually would be heard. Granted this wasn't the most polite move, but our reaction is to arrest and charge her? How then are we different from what Hu does to his dissidents, pray tell? I would remove her, as she couldn't just take over the event; however, I would then let her go, as she speaks to truth. Heck, they let Cindy Sheehan go when they hauled her out of the State of the Union speech she was attempting to disrupt. Puts us in the same category as Hu if we jail an innocent old lady who was a doctor in China before she got out, and has seen the worst of Chinese government behaviour. This kind of makes me sick.
Wonder how "intimidating foreign official" translates into Chinese.
Just because we happen to agree with her, does not give her the right to do it dishonestly and against protocol. It's called civility.
"I must say that Bush has displayed more class in this regard than other world leaders. How many apologies has Bush received from world leaders when he shows up in Europ or S.America?"
Arresting someone exercising their rights of free speech is "class"??!
Other leaders of free & open societies owe Bush no apologies for the demonstrations of their citizenry.
This is America, you know.
It took them a bit to let Cindy go. What if this woman had been armed?
This woman has every right to say what she did and she could even do it under false pretenses.But none of us should be surprised that she still has to face the consequences because of it.
Yeah, tell that to chinese political prisoners..
Hu still doesn't get the State Dinner. The protester is being questioned and released. Some order and decorum is required at formal functions. Assembly to peaceably petition for redress of grievances is allowed, but it must be peaceable.
>Where would we be now - seriously - if this "protester" >had been armed with a semi-automatic pistol instead of >just her big fat mouth?
Then she would be an officer of GRU or ChiCom intel or Al Qaeda.
Jimmuh Cahtah kissed Leonid Brezhnev rather passionately at the Moscow Airport following some summit or other.
Brezhnev didn't return the favor.
I could never stomach Jimmuh after that.
>Wonder how "intimidating foreign official" translates >into Chinese.
I think Saddam is pretty "intimidated" right now..
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