Regards, Ivan
Posted on 04/20/2006 3:49:47 PM PDT by MadIvan
CHINA’S President suffered the embarrassment of being heckled for more than a minute on the White House lawn yesterday by a protester who accused him of persecution.
The arrival ceremony for Hu Jintao was interrupted by a woman from the banned Falun Gong religious movement. She began shouting from the top of a camera stand directly in front of President Bush and his guest.
“President Bush, stop him from killing,” she shouted. “Stop persecuting the Falun Gong. . .President Hu, your days are numbered. No more time for China’s ruling party.” The incident occurred immediately after Mr Bush urged President Hu to allow Chinese to “speak freely”.
The Chinese leader, unaccustomed to such public protests, stopped speaking briefly until Mr Bush lent over and reassured him.
In China, television screens are said to have been blanked out when the protests became audible. Falun Gong was also out in force in demonstrations across Washington yesterday. Supporters held banners proclaiming messages about victims of torture and human organ harvesting.
Iting Lin, 33, said she had travelled from Taiwan to protest against President Hu’s visit. Others had flown in from Australia, Japan, and South Korea to join American protesters.
Mounted police separated demonstrators in front of the White House from tourists, Chinese folk dancers and supporters of President Hu.
Mr Bush said that the United States and China “intend to deepen our co-operation in addressing threats to global security, including the nuclear ambitions of Iran; the genocide in Darfur, Sudan; the violence unleashed by terrorists and extremists, and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction...I’ll continue to discuss with President Hu the importance of respecting human rights and the freedoms of the Chinese people,” including the right to “assemble, speak freely and to worship”.
President Hu promised help to ease nuclear tensions with North Korea and Iran.
At a White House press conference, the two sought to narrow differences over trade.
Mr Hu, aware of the growing US impatience with America’s record $202 billion trade deficit with China, said: “We have taken measures and will continue to take steps to resolve the issue.”
Mr Bush praised China for attempting to strengthen the yuan, which the US regards as being undervalued.
Regards, Ivan
Ping!
Oh if she'd only said, "President Hu, no chance survive make your time."
I laugh at all the people that say we can fix the world with diplomacy!
I'm really glad that security didn't put the protestors into free speech zones so far away from Hu that he couldn't see or hear them. He needs to get used to the idea of hearing different views.
"The incident occurred immediately after Mr Bush urged President Hu to allow Chinese to 'speak freely'."
But not too freely, huh? At least not in the UK and on American college campuses (they have a "speech code", remember???)
Well I'm afraid the protestor was silenced - she's in jail and been charged with threatening a foreign personage.
Regards, Ivan
If she hadn't said that, she probably would have been given a ticket and sent on her way.
GEE... he did something wrong??
What about the guy who told the policeman that he had a homosexual horse?
So was Reagan saying the Soviets would collapse under the weight of their own immorality a person threat to the safety of Yuri Andropov? That is a ridiculous argument.
This murdering little bastard needs to hear it from the people he gleefully terrorizes, and for Bush to throw this woman in jail after the hypocrite Hu was up there bragging about "greater dialogues" is an embarrassment (when the protestor yelled "you suck" at Clinton, we blamed Clinton, not the SS, and this is no different).
Now the voice of freedom sits in jail while a tyrant gets treated like a king at the white house. Just how much more can Bush alienate us?
"personal threat" that is.
This is the same law that applies to those high school students who say "someone should get rid of Bush" or people who made verbal comments that sounded threatening to Clinton.
Since 1963, the law has been very strict about this. No one is making a special example of this woman. I will agree that the law may be too stringent, but it is what it is.
A.This is a serious international incident with two opposing interests involved. One is advocating freedom and a cesation to torture and political murder. The other sells cheap crap at Wal-Mart and arms our enemies. Bush apologized to the representative of the later interest.
B. The woman did not threaten the safety of Hu. She threatened his government's future political viability. There is no other way for a rational person to interpret her "threat". BTW, "you suck" is not a threat either: it is an expression of discontent- you know, per the First Amendment?
She must be released immediately.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that was disturbed by that photo. .. .
Rubbing shoulders with chicomms is NOT what I want to see my president doing.
I'm sure he is as aware as we are of the fact that any modern president of the USA would have been "protected" from any similar "free speech."
BTTT
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