When Will We Learn

China is among the worlds worst culprits with regard to civil rights oppression. I recall thinking after the Tiananmen Square massacre that we had to take some kind of forceful action to rein in China.

Still we appease them and send boatloads of American dollars into their coffers that are used to buy weapons that they hope will one day make them a rival.

We have to stop kissing their collective asses because they can make cheap items that Target sells for low prices.

Here's another example of repression:

Three lawyers who travelled this week to help a blind social activist confined in his village after exposing forced abortions and sterilisations were attacked and beaten, along with the man they hoped to protect.

The Beijing lawyers - Xu Zhiyong, Li Subin and Li Fangping - travelled to Yinan county, in the Linyi region of Shandong province, in eastern China, on Tuesday to provide legal assistance to the activist.

Chen Guangcheng, 34, a blind self-taught law student, exposed a drive in Linyi earlier this year to enforce the one-child-per-family policy in which officials aborted babies as late as two days before their due date, and forcibly sterilised about 7000 people.

Mr Chen was abducted from a Beijing flat on September 6 and taken back to his home at Dongshigu village, where a cordon of officials and police have held him incommunicado and threatened him with espionage charges for talking to foreign journalists.

What will it take for us on the right to smack China when they deserve it? They have a government policy in place that destroys a child when that child is a viable human. This man is fighting against that policy.