Posted on 09/30/2009 6:46:21 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
NEW YORK – Red and yellow lights shone from the top of the Empire State Building at dusk Wednesday, a tribute to communist China's 60th anniversary that protesters labeled "blatant approval" of totalitarianism and criticized as inappropriate for an icon in the land of the free.
The building is routinely lit with different to mark holidays and big events, but opponents questioned whether it's right to commemorate a sensitive political issue, particularly when China has such a poor human rights record.
About 20 supporters of Tibet, which China has ruled since shortly after communists took over in 1949, protested outside the building during a ceremonial lighting of a scale model inside the lobby. They chanted "No to China's empire; free Tibet now," and held signs reading, "Empire State Building celebrating 60 years of China's oppression."
Lhadon Tethong, executive director of Students for a Free Tibet, called the lighting "outright, blatant approval for a communist totalitarian system."
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Whose idea was this?
The left likes to champion human rights causes, but this is a slap in the face to those Chinese facing human and religious persecution.
Doesn’t communist china own half of NY? That explains it!
Obama voters. About 10.5 out of 9 in NYC.
Something out of a bad alternate history movie.
For a good many years after that event 60 years ago, one of the primary foreign policy questions around Washington was: “Who lost China?” And they meant, who lost China to the communists? And it was an accusation.
I guess many no longer care that China is communist, or maybe they just pretend it’s not, or don’t even know that it is, or don’t even know what communism is.
God Bless America...when are the liberals going to wake up and see their freedoms are going fast...they wont be able to speak without a gun in their back....
Freedom never came free, came with a price...they will find this out
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