Honor China, Not Its Communism (Empire State Building to illuminate red & yellow. OUTRAGEOUS!)

Investors.com ^ | 9/29/2009 | staff

[kellynla]

Public Relations: The Empire State Building this week will illuminate red and yellow, celebrating China's 60 years of communist rule. There are many things to appreciate about China, but communism isn't one of them.

What was the Empire State Building thinking in lighting up in celebration of China's long communist rule?

Amid all the charming reasons the classical 102-story skyscraper colors the Gotham sky at night — the 70th anniversary of "The Wizard of Oz," El Museo del Barrio's reopening, Columbus Day and Gabrielle's Angel Foundation, according to its Web site — China stands as a negative outlier.

Cynics call it recognition that the Chinese, who buy U.S. debt, now own us. But this looks more like a thoughtless confusion of China with its communist government, in perhaps the same impulse that prompts some to set up kitschy eateries bearing photos of Mao.

Recognizing China's regime with bright lights does New York's most visible landmark no honor at all.

China's 6,000-year-old history and civilization are loaded with things to celebrate — from its invention of paper money and fireworks, to its great cuisines, its Taoist philosophy, the daring historic voyages of Sanbao (a possible model for Sinbad), millions of Overseas Chinese, and perhaps the awed arrival of Marco Polo into the Middle Kingdom, which ignited the Age of Exploration.

Much of the story of civilization is rooted in the West's longing to connect with China — and this is not a finished story. In 1989, China saw brave young people stand up to tanks in the name of liberty at Tiananmen Square, an event surely worthy of the Empire State Building's honor as a beacon of freedom.

So it's discordant and jarring to see the tyranny that's plagued China for 60 years now the object of the skyscraper's approbation.

[kellynla]

OUTRAGEOUS! The Chicoms have been responsible for the murder of TENS OF MILLIONS...and continue to murder to this day!

[Psycho_Bunny]

Never bad mouth your biggest creditor.

[Tai_Chung]

Isn’t the building privately owned?

[GonzoGOP]

Why not, they can own the whole country if they ever decide to call in our debt.

[kellynla]

“Isn’t the building privately owned?”

I don’t know... what’s your point?

[precisionshootist]

Is this even serious?

Celebrating communist rule?

you’ve got to be kidding me

[Michael Barnes]

[kellynla]

“Why not, they can own the whole country if they ever decide to call in our debt.”

Don't be silly...
the Chicoms carry approximately a trillion dollars of American debt.

[kellynla]

Nope...it’s been all over tha airwaves today!

[Michael Barnes]

Whoops...Sorry, from this thread from earlier today..

[TurtleUp]

Informed people find Communist China as disgusting as Nazi Germany - and even more brutal. Why are the socialists in our government so much more comfortable honoring China and not its communism than they would be honoring Nazi Germany but not its national socialism? More important, why are so many voters okay with that blindness?

[kellynla]

“Why are the socialists in our government so much more comfortable honoring China and not its communism than they would be honoring Nazi Germany but not its national socialism?”

Because the socialists in our government aka Leftists/Liberals/Progressives are Commies themselves. Just ask Van Jones...

[Thunder90]

Remember these guys also lick the boots of Putin when he shows up...

[Bellflower]

Disgusting beyond words. How can this be happening?

[MonicaG]

I feel the same way.

[Bellflower]

Can we not naturalize our self as a nation someday if we need to? Call back all our territory as our own? We may lose our credit with other countries but it might be worth it if necessary.

[GonzoGOP]

Can we not naturalize our self as a nation someday if we need to? Call back all our territory as our own? We may lose our credit with other countries but it might be worth it if necessary.

Well two factors. (1) It is an act of war. Now if you have as strong enough military that not a problem. If Obama continues to gut ours and China continues to build up theirs it becomes a problem. See the Suez crisis when Egypt nationalized itself and was promptly invaded by England, France and Israel.

(2) You will never be able to borrow again for some time, and your currency will be considered worthless. This is what happened to Zimbabwe after they started seizing private property. Since there is no nation big enough to be our sugar daddy, like the USSR was to Castro, I suspect the second we nationalized we would need to be prepared for balanced government budgets or run away inflation. Since I can't see the government ever having enough self discipline for the former, we are going to have to get used to billion dollar loafs of bread.

[artaxerces]

A smart dog won’t bite the hand that feeds it.

A smart debtor won’t piss off his creditor.