Bush chides Beijing over rights
There was something tragically ironic about Bush chiding China for it's record regarding human rights, it's almost as if he has no idea how much damage his administration has done to the US as a champion of human rights everywhere.
"The US believes the people of China deserve the fundamental liberty that is the natural right of all human beings," he said in the Thai capital Bangkok.
It's simply surreal. He obviously has no idea that he is the last person on Earth who has any right to tell any other nation how people should be treated. The images of orange track suited prisoners at Guantanamo, the dreadful pictures of torture and abuse at Abu Ghraib, are all too fresh in our minds for this man to be able to lecture anyone on this subject.
Previous presidents could get away with this because America was felt to occupy the moral high ground, to be setting an example of how nations should behave.
That this ridiculous little war criminal can possibly imagine that he is in a position to lecture others on human rights shows that he simply has no idea of the damage which he has done to America's reputation.
"We speak out for a free press, freedom of assembly and labour rights not to antagonise China's leaders but because trusting its people with greater freedom is the only way for China to develop its full potential.
"And we press for openness and justice not to impose our beliefs, but to allow the Chinese people to express theirs."
When the New York Times reported on his government's spying on it's own people they were labelled "traitors", freedom of assembly has been reduced to cages in which one might offer one's protest; I could go on and on but I'm sure you get the point.
Bush blatantly doesn't get it. The only way to be taken seriously on this subject is to lead by example. And Bush's example has been a simply dreadful one.
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This is nothing more than pressuring China to allow western corporations access to their markets. Its not freedom, its not democracy its just the U.S wants a base in Tibet and first access to the Chinese audience to sell its bells and whistles.
It's Bush indulging in spectacular hypocrisy. He's in no position to lecture anyone on how people should be treated. That's the real price of the illegal acts he has indulged in.
It will be interesting to see the real-world application of Bush's belief in freedom of speech and right to dissent here in Minnesota at the upcoming Convention.
Interesting, that is, in the appalling hypocrisy it will show.
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