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Thanks for the ping Billie.
Good day HighRoadToChina
and thanks for the good work that you do.
{{jwfiv}} Isn't HighRoad cool? Beautiful Panda picture.
It's harder to find pictures of Chinese sweatshops online: they don't like photos of those taken, I bet.
Thank you Billie and FreeTheHostages! You ladies did a wonderful job, if I may say so myself! Thank you!
Just today I got a very interesting email on where the infamous "One-Child" policy came from with which Communist China uses to murder millions of babies in the name of Communism and human progress.
This is a rather long post, so bear with me. First what I have wrote on this grusome subject (take from a speech that I gave on 12-7-02 that can be found at
http://www.kusumi.com/chinasupport.net/topbuzz13.htm). Then the very interesting email that I got today on where this policy came from.
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FORCED ABORTIONS
In America today, there is a war going on between those who are for abortion and those for who are against it. Whether you are pro-choice or pro-life, let us consider the situation in Communist China today.
In Red China, the so-called government has a policy called the “One-Child Policy.” Basically, what this policy says is that families may only have one child. In the rural parts, they may have more than one child under certain circumstances.
Well, you ask what happens if one has more than one child or how do they enforce such a draconian policy? Through forced abortion and other hideous tactics such as forced sterilization.
[Read “Court Refuses Asylum for Chinese Couple Claiming Abortion Threats” from The Associated Press, December 6, 2002]
…Li and Yu, an unmarried couple, fled China in 1998 after officials gave Li a forced pregnancy exam. At the exam, she was held down while a doctor examined her “private parts,” Li, then 19, said according to court records.
As she yelled, kicked and demanded they release her, she was told she would receive similar tests in the future, and if found pregnant, would be subject to an abortion, Li said. Her boyfriend, Yu, then 21, could also be sterilized, she said the officials told her.
“I was so scared. I was yelling. I was making noises,” Li said, according to court documents, adding that officials threatened her, “For the rest of your life you cannot have child.”
Her exam came after the two were observed spending time together until early hours of the morning, and a man in their village told Li her relationship with Yu was “shameful,” she said. Li told him to stop interfering, and that she planned to have many babies with her boyfriend.
After the exam, the couple went to the village's family planning department and applied for a marriage certificate, but were told they did not meet the minimum marriage age requirements -- 20 for females, 22 for males.
Li and Yu decided to marry anyway, but a few months later heard there was an order for their arrest. They fled to San Francisco, where they claimed they were United States citizens. They later admitted they were citizens of China.
The Immigration and Naturalization Service sought to send them back to China, but Li and Yu applied for asylum. Karr [Li’s lawyer] said Li was persecuted because she resisted a “coercive population control program” by the Chinese government….
[Read “Chinese Woman Refusing Sterilization Beaten to Death” from AFP, May 19, 2001]
A 34-year-old woman in southeast China's Fujian province was beaten to death by birth-control officials who wanted to sterilize her against her will, her relatives said on Saturday.
Sun Zhonghua, from a farming family in Xiapu county near the provincial capital of Fuzhou, was taken away by birth-control officials from her home by daybreak on Wednesday, a relative told AFP by telephone.
The officials told Sun, the mother of two boys aged 12 and 13, that she was to be taken to the birth-control clinic for sterilization, a procedure they had previously been pressing her to submit herself to.
She refused vehemently, showing documents obtained from a local hospital in April that the planned operation was not advisable because of a medical condition.
Despite her and her relatives' protests, she was forced into a waiting car and driven away.
In the afternoon of the same day, officials informed Sun's relatives that she had died after jumping from the fourth floor of the building housing the local birth-control administration.
Family members who were allowed to see her body discovered large bruises to her head and different parts of her body.
"There is no way she could have received those injuries from jumping to her death," said the relative…. "We tried to report the incident, but there was no one to report to," said the relative…. Pressure on China's army of family planning workers to meet the birth quota in their jurisdiction have led to widespread excesses.
Family planning workers and local officials resort to beating people, locking them up illegally, confiscating livestock and destroying their homes….
[Read “Defector Tells How She Oversaw Raids, Ordered Sterilization of Women” from The Chicago Tribune, April 18, 2001]
A Chinese defector identified as a former provincial birth control officer told a congressional hearing Wednesday of overseeing forced sterilizations, night-time raids on the homes of pregnant women and forced abortions as late as nine months into pregnancy.
Displaying smuggled identity cards, documents and videotape to bolster her credibility, the defector, Gao Xiao Duan, described a brutal enforcement system for China's strict family planning policy.
She said she used informers to find women who tried to conceal "unauthorized" pregnancies. Gao also said she sometimes ordered homes demolished and family members arrested to retaliate against women who tried to hide from enforced abortions….
…. Gao, a stern-faced woman who testified in a navy blue suit buttoned to the collar. As her testimony went on, her demeanor broke and she began to sob softly.
Gao said she once was present when a woman nine months pregnant was seized at her parents' house, "immediately stuffed into a car" and forced to undergo an abortion.
"In the operating room, I saw how the aborted child's lips were still moving, how its limbs were also moving. The doctor injected poison into its skull, and the child died, and it was thrown into a trash can," Gao said.
"Afterward, the husband was holding his wife in his arms and crying loudly, 'What kind of a husband am I . . . I cannot protect my wife.' "
Gao said abortions routinely were performed on women who did not have permits for pregnancy. She said 10 to 15 abortions were performed monthly in Yonghe, the town she supervised, in coastal Fujian Province.
She said regional family planning officials are under tremendous pressure to reduce population growth in their areas and "will resort to anything to achieve planned-birth goals set by their superiors."
Area women younger than 20 are not allowed to become pregnant nor are unmarried women, she said. Because sons are prized in Chinese culture, married women are given permission for a second child only if their first was a daughter. No third child is allowed, she said.
Women who become pregnant too young or have "extra" children may undergo forced sterilization, she said.
Gao described the case of one woman whose intra-uterine contraceptive device was inserted incorrectly and she became pregnant, then hid while she carried to term a second child.
"I sent a bulldozer to demolish her house and her brother's house. She was then sterilized." Gao said.
Gao said a computer database in her town tracks women of child-bearing age, monitoring marriages, births, abortions and contraceptive status.
She said those women are required to have periodic exams to monitor contraception; they are fined and apprehended if they fail to keep appointments, she said….
Does this sound like Nazi Germany? China today is Nazi China.
Never again…
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Dear Colleague:
Ideas have consequences. With a recent surge in media coverage relating to
China’s one-child policy, it is important to understand the origins of
that barbaric program which I first documented in 1979-80. It all began
with the Club of Rome’s Limits to Growth hoax of the early seventies. A
computer simulation of population growth and ecological collapse convinced
China’s ruling elite to embark on a radical program to cut in half the
number of people in China. The population controllers and their radical
environmentalist sidekicks bear a moral responsibility for the deaths of
hundreds of millions of people in China. The infamous one-child policy is
their baby.
Steven Mosher
President
PRI Weekly Briefing
12 August 2003
Vol. 5/ No. 23
China’s One-Child Policy and Western Population Controllers
By Steve Mosher
Population control was not imposed on China by the West, as it has been
imposed on smaller, weaker countries. Not only did western-funded
organizations like the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the
International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) and others lend China’s
one-child policy enthusiastic support but, as recent research makes clear,
the intellectual impetus for the policy came from the West.(1) Vaporous
Sixties ideas about population growth and resource depletion had explosive
real-world consequences years later and half a world away. The core ideas
underlying the one-child policy, it turns out, came from Western
“science,” and more precisely from the notorious 1974 Club of Rome study
which asserted that we were breeding ourselves to extinction.
The Club of Rome sponsored a computer simulation, carried out by a group
of MIT-based systems engineers, called “The Limits to Growth.” Released
with great fanfare, the study predicted that, if population growth and
resource consumption were allowed to continue unchecked, the world would
come to an end by about 2070.(2) The study was soon shown to be a hoax,
with even the Club of Rome disowning it. Its primary purpose, said the
president of the Club, had been to “jolt” people into taking the
overpopulation problem seriously.
But the stage was set for systems control specialist, Song Jian, who
worked for China’s state-owned defense industry. Visiting Europe in 1978,
Song “happened to learn about the application of systems analysis theory
by European scientists to the study of population problems with a great
success.” According to him, “British scientists contended that Britain’s
population of 56 million had greatly exceeded the sustaining capacity of
ecosystem of the [United] Kingdom. They argued Britain’s population should
be gradually reduced to 30 million, namely, a reduction by nearly 50
percent . . . I was extremely excited about these documents and determined
to try the method of demography.”(3)
When Song Jian returned to China, he regurgitated the simulation’s scary
scenarios of ecological devastation, applying these specifically to China:
“The vegetable cover has been progressively removed so that only about 12
per cent is forested . . . the grass-cover, too, has been shrinking each
year and the deserts have tended to expand . . . These developments are
threatening ultimately to destroy the ecosystem which supports human
life.” Song drew a similar conclusion: “The capacity of the land . . .
does not permit excessive increases in population. This is quite
obvious.”(4) He reinforced his rhetoric with eye-catching charts showing
China’s population remaining low for 4,000 years, then spiking up
terrifyingly to 1 billion by 1980.(5) No mention was made of dramatic
declines in the birth rate in the seventies.(6)
Other Chinese experts jumped into the debate, arguing that not only
China’s ecology but also its economy was collapsing under the weight of
its gargantuan population. Nothing less was at stake than the country’s
drive for wealth and global power, warned Vice Premier Chen Muhua in the
pages of the People’s Daily: “In order to realize the Four Modernizations,
we must control population growth in a planned way.”(7)
Once the Chinese leadership had been, to use Club of Rome terminology,
“jolted” into accepting the idea that population growth was sabotaging the
nation’s modernization, they were ripe for a radical solution. It was Song
Jian, armed with a computer simulation right out of the pages of The
Limits to Growth, who offered one.
The computer simulation presented by the Song group to Chinese
leaders—perhaps the first they had ever seen—was met with awe. Scientific
and technological modernization, named by Paramount Leader Deng Xiaoping
the most important of his Four Modernizations, was now paying off. China’s
communist leadership had few qualms about regulating the fertility of its
subjects, and Song’s insistence that Western “science” left them “no other
choice” made their decision easy. When Song’s study was later published in
the People’s Daily on 7 March 1980, it was edited to read that allowing
more than one child per family would be “disadvantageous to our country’s
four modernizations . . . and to the raising of the people’s standard of
living.” The one-child-per-couple policy, which would shrink the
population over time, was described as “a comparatively ideal scheme for
solving our country’s population problem.”(8)
Publication in the official party organ, the People’s Daily, meant that
the policy had received the imprimatur of the Communist Party, and was
therefore beyond further discussion. Six months later, in mid-September
1980, the one-child policy was formally ratified by the National People’s
Congress. Since then it has been set in stone. On this terrible altar
hundreds of millions of mothers and children have suffered and died,
sacrificed to a scientific fraud.
The Party, for its part, was happy to blame China’s “overlarge population”
for all of China’s problems and backwardness, since this helped distract
the people from its own errors of the preceding three decades. Population
growth became an all-purpose villain in the official press, blamed for
everything from declines in labor productivity to sagging economic growth.
If only you wouldn’t have so many children, the Communist Party continues
to chide the people even today, we could achieve wealth, power and glory
for China in a few years.
The population controllers claim to be proud of what China’s one-child
policy has “accomplished.” They should be. It is their baby.
ENDNOTES
1. “Demography in China: From Zero to Now,” Yuan H. Tien, Population Index
47(4):683-710; “China’s Strategic Development Initiative,” Tien, Praeger:
New York, 1991.
2. “The Limits to Growth: A Report for the Club of Rome’s Project on the
Predicament of Mankind,” D.H. Meadows et al., Universe Books: New York,
1972.
3. “Systems Science and China’s Economic Reforms,” Song Jian, in “Control
Science and Technology Development,” Yang Jiachi, ed., Pergamon: Oxford,
1986; Pp. 1-8.
4. “Population Development: Goals and Plans,” Song Jian, in “China’s
Population: Problems and Prospects,” Liu Zhen, Song Jian et al., eds. New
World Press: Beijing, 1981; Pp. 25-31.
5. Song, 1981; p.26.
6. Chinese figures of the time showed that the years 1971-79 saw the
natural increase rate fall by half, from 23.4 to 11.7, and the crude birth
rate decline by almost as much, from 30.7 to 17.9. Tien, p. 683.
7. “In Order to Realize the Four Modernizations, We Must Control
Population Growth in a Planned Way,” Chun Muhua, People’s Daily (Renmin
Ribao), 11 August 1979, p. 2.
8. “Concerning the Issue of Our Country’s Objective in Population
Development,” Song Jian, Tain Xueyuan, Li Guangyuan and Yu Jingyuan,
People’s Daily (Renmin Ribao), 7 March 1980, p. 5.
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Thank you for the post. These things are happening. We have to be aware of it.
Good afternoon, Quix. Thank you for your very nice post! FreeTheHostages and I teamed up for this effort - she writes 'em, I puts 'em together! :)
