Friedman: You know what’s kind of cool? Dictatorship!

Hot Air ^ | September 9, 2009 | Ed Morrissey

[Lou Budvis]

One normally expects to see paeans to one-party rule and dictatorships in fringe publications sponsored by International ANSWER or World Can’t Wait. Usually, the New York Times offers those sentiments in more subtle terms than it does in today’s Thomas Friedman column. Friedman extols the Chinese form of government while deriding the fact that political opposition keeps Obama from imposing the policies Friedman likes:

[Daveinyork]

“In “The Prince” our friend Niccolo outlines the skills that would be necessary to run what amounts to a Dictatorship. Benevolence is not one of those skills: in fact, it could get the dictator killed dead.”

Which is why Heinlein said that benevolent dictatorships were as rare as efficient democracies.

[andy58-in-nh]

There are many more such pictures from China available on the Internet, most far too graphic to post here. Obama is just the latest US President to ignore the brutality of the Chinese regime in exchange for their willingness to sell us cheap goods and loan us money. I believe we will live to regret our willful blindness.

For his part, Thomas Friedman ought to hang his head in shame, but as a Liberal Fascist, he will instead soldier on in the service of the "common good", whose ultimate expression is found in the picture I chose to post.

[Ann Archy]

He’s ashort little man and has a Napoleon Complex.

[CGVet58]

mornin’ Andy -

am in the midst of an email exchange with friends discussing Friedman’s article - came back here to Freep for reference, and re-discovered your posted pic. Can you send some links on where I can get more examples of this? They make my case (to not be as the Chinese...) very powerfully.

thanks,

JG

[andy58-in-nh]

Sure - I'll round up a few examples and send them your way. Not pretty stuff to look at, but perhaps they might help you reach some of the China apologists. If you are interested, I've also got a great link to pictures of the horrific pollution damage the Chinese Communists are doing to their own land and people (with nary a word from the UN, which proposes to destroy Western economies through emissions caps and taxes).

Regards,

Andy

[Texas resident]

Right with you. friedman is another media moron that thinks that they are part of the government. He has no clue of history. When dictatorships come into power, the press is one of the first groups of people who are targeted. The commies call them “useful idiots”.

[andy58-in-nh]

As promised:

Chinese pollution: http://www.chinahush.com/2009/10/21/amazing-pictures-pollution-in-china

Chinese political repression (WARNING: SOME GRAPHIC IMAGES)

http://www.henryjacksonsociety.org/thescoop.asp?pageid=106&poid=591

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2005/220905dehumanization.htm

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/03/12/1047431092598.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8356095.stm

http://www.euroweeklynews.com/2009111167142/news/international/china-hasty-executions-highlight-unfair-xinjiang-trials.html

Chinese execution photos (WARNING: SOME VERY GRAPHIC AND DISTURBING IMAGES):

http://www.boxun.com/hero/picshock/5_1.shtml

http://www.boxun.com/hero/picshock/3_1.shtml

http://www.boxun.com/hero/picshock/14_1.shtml

http://www.boxun.com/hero/picshock/1_1.shtml

http://www.boxun.com/hero/picshock/9_1.shtml

[CGVet58]

Thanks Andy,

very sobering, indeed.

I’ve sent some along with a link to my friends. I suspect there will likely be some silence (a few are libs) by way of response.

But maybe, just maybe, the fire of Patriotism and awakening to how precious it is to be American will begin to stir within them.

Thanks again, God Bless always

South of ya in Fairfield Cty, CT. If you’re ever down these parts, drop me a line & we’ll knock back a couple of black’n’tans with a good single Malt on the side.

JG

[andy58-in-nh]

You're very welcome.

I would not be surprised to hear silence either, as it is the most common response of liberals to tyranny by the forces of Progress. Honesty, at least, would demand something more.

I'd love to take you up on your generous offer. ;-) I have a very good friend who lives in Trumbull, if that's anywhere near your vicinity. I owe him a visit one of these days, too.

[CGVet58]

Trumbull is exactly where I live, fellow Freeper. This would be a welcome event!

JG