Posted on 04/25/2006 2:14:59 PM PDT by ovrtaxt
Bush slammed for charging Hu protester
Pastors: Administration 'hypocritical' for throwing book at woman
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
Some Christian leaders are protesting the Bush administration decision to seek up to six months in federal prison for Wenyi Wang, the woman who shouted at the president and Chinese leader Hu Jintao at the White House last week.
At the event, Wang, who got access to the White House grounds as a media representative with a Chinese opposition paper, shouted, "President Bush, stop him (President Hu) from persecuting Falun Gong" and "President Bush, stop him from killing."
In Chinese, the woman shouted, "President Hu, your days are numbered."
Tomorrow morning, representatives from the Christian Defense Coalition and the National Clergy Council will hold a news conferences at Georgetown University that coincides with a conference on religious freedom and tolerance there.
"We are extremely disappointed that the Bush administration is bringing charges against Dr. Wenyi Wang that may result in her spending six months in federal prison," said the Rev. Patrick J. Mahoney, director of the Christian Defense Coalition, in a statement.
"Her crime? Shouting out for President Bush to help stop the killing and religious persecution of Falun Gong. We believe these federal charges are sending a horrible message to the worldwide community concerning America's commitment to protecting religious freedom and liberties.
"It seems extremely hypocritical for the White House to roll out the red carpet for a world leader whose government supports the trampling and crushing of human rights. And, at the same time pursue prison time for a women fighting to end religious persecution and violence. Our message is clear: President Bush, support religious freedom and the First Amendment, and drop all charges against Dr. Wang."
Commented the Rev. Rob Schenck, president of the National Clergy Council: "With all due respect to President Bush, this incident demands leniency. This is an extraordinary case. Wenyi Wang was persecuted by one of the last totalitarian communist regimes left on Earth. Communist China is an enemy of the United States, and Hu Jintao embodies one of the worst, most abusive and morally bankrupt regimes in the history of the human race. Wenyi Wang had proper press credentials to be where she was. Her only crime was to interrupt Chinese President Hu Jintao, the chief of this illegitimate, murderous, repressive and repugnant government.
"The Catholic, Evangelical, Orthodox and Protestant church leaders of the National Clergy Council appeal to President Bush and federal prosecutors to drop these charges. The president should reinforce the inalienable God-give rights of Wenyi Wang, not accommodate the harsh ego of a cruel dictator."
After emerging from a hearing at U.S. district court in Washington Friday, Wang said of her act: "It's not a crime but an act of civil disobedience."
Projection.
You quys are wasting my time. Hopefully the gal will do some hard time and set an example for other people.
Well that's too bad. If you honestly think she was showing any intention of killing Hu (which after all, is what a threat is), then you're just plain delusional. Common sense has left you, if it was ever there.
You're delusional. She's been arrested for breaking the law. You don't like the law? Then write your Congressman.
If the administration is going to be jailing anyone for speaking out during a White House event, it should be NBC's Boy Gregory.
;-)
No, she was arrested for embarassing Bush. Anyone with a modicum of common sense can see that she was not threatening to kill Hu, so therefore the law was not being violated.
How did you get such a strange idea? Bush gets heckled all the time and he doesn't arrest people for it. She was arrested for saying that phrase "Your days are numbered" which was threat on the life of visiting Head of State. Had she not said those words we would not be having this discussion. Actually it is not much of a discussion. You have a dillusional way of looking at this and I simply don't agree with you. Bye.
No. A person is not allowed to threaten the life of a President or a visiting Head of State. There is no absolute freedom of speech. So the lady got busted and rightly so. Now she can make her case in court. It's a matter of law not politics.
In your fevered imagination only. It was a "threat" on his political power. You can go through all kinds of contortions to pretend otherwise, but I don't think even you truly believe it. It's just too obvious what she was talking about.
only bushbots have brains I gather.
Exactly my point at the beginning of this thread. Lib nutcases get a pass under the First Amendment, this woman doesn't.
I guess the President really meant it when he signed McCain/Feingold too, huh? If that's the case, I suppose you're taking a wise position, looking ahead to the day when Freepers are arrested for expressing our opinions too.
Your contention that saying 'your days are numbered' is a threat is stratospherically stupid. She obviously was speaking as a representative of Falun Gong to the Communist regime. It wasn't a personal threat, but a prediction of Communism's failure. You know it and so does the Justice Dept.
Figures a Bush hater would post these kinds of mindless arguments. Big surprise.
Wow! A voice of reason!
I can hardly believe the infantile grasp of this issue the Bush bashers have in this thread.
They think all Govt functions should be open to screaming, yelling masses because that is their definition of "freedom of speech". How childish.
Well I strongly disagree with you. Words mean things. That is except to Clintonians. You like the woman's politics so you wish to give her a pass. She publicly threatened a head of state and was arrested. She'll get her day in court. We do not have absolute freedom of speech.
I'm not only ready for it - I am already part of it. Ever since the advent of ATM cards - I rarely use cash or checks.
I can now do my monthly bill paying online in ten minutes - when it used to take me two hours to write out checks, stuff envelopes and mail them.
I feel much safer not carrying cash around. There is hardly a business around that doesn't accept debit cards and there are ATM machines everywhere if I do need cash.
You make a cashless society sound like a bad thing. I don't think it is.
I suppose if I was worried about secret government agents tracking my every expenditure - then I might worry. However I happen to know that the government is too busy with other things and I doubt that worrying about me buying shitake mushrooms at Krogers is at the top of their priority list.
It is. Do you already have your paycheck auto-deposited into the "bank of your choice"? If you don't, don't worry, it's coming. It will be mandatory. This will help in the monetary changeover from US dollars to something like the "Euro". What a great idea! No more sovereign money...for that matter, no more sovereignty!
I don't know about you, (or maybe I do...you like to pay over the web for everything...your ID or SSI number or your account numbers been attacked yet?)....but I like cash in hand. I'm kind of old fashioned like that.
Oh yeah, wait 'til there's some computer glitch in your electronic banking/payment method. It'll take you weeks/months and perhaps years to correct it, if it ever gets corrected at all .
Like I said, I'm old fashioned. Cash on the barrelhead and no credit cards.
FReegards,
FMCDH(BITS)
Use some common sense. It costs my employer over $7 to print up a paycheck, stuff it into an envelope and mail it to me. It costs them $.50 to transfer the funds into my account. $6.50 doesn't sound like much of a savings - but multiply it by 45,000 employees and my employer just saved over $7.5 MILLION a year. That's money that can be spent on more employees, new computers, etc.
Just like most things - follow the money. It saves companies money to direct deposit. It has nothing to do with any nefarious secret plot by the Trilateral Commision to steal our sovereignity.
The simplest answer is usually the correct answer.
I don't know about you, (or maybe I do...you like to pay over the web for everything...your ID or SSI number or your account numbers been attacked yet?).
And how is it any different for you to physically send YOUR info (ID, SSN or account numbers) through the mail system? Anyone can intercept your envelope and steal your personal information - just the same way someone could steal it through the internet. There isn't any difference.
Sending your personal information through ANY means is risky. There are just as many mail thieves as there are computer hackers. Anytime you transmit personal info - there is a risk. Why people think sending through a modem line is any riskier than sending through a envelope is beyond me. It's the transfer of information that is risky - not the MEANS of the transportation. One route is as good as another. (though one route is very much faster than the other).
Maybe you think we'd be all safer if we went back to the Pony Express.
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