Thanks for the link Hawk. I didn't think it was very convincing though. More of a rearguard action on a situation which has moved past the old cliches.
China doesn't need to force any sterilizations [other than on criminals or other particular situations]. They know now that the global population implosion is on its way, including for China. China's population will go into decline pretty soon, the same as Japan, Italy, Germany etc. Women around the world have got control of their fertility and persuading them to have children is going to be the bossy-britches' problem to maintain the cash flow they are accustomed to.
Forced abortions? Is that really an issue? It must be unusual circumstances. The old strong-arm tactics on sterilization and birth control has had its day. Like so much of government central planning it was probably a day late and a dollar short.
What's wrong with concentration camps for migrant workers who presumably have no other accommodation or source of income? When they write "violent" concentration camps, we all know that any authority controlling swarms of people is violent. That's because there is a certain proportion of people who are aggressive, thieving, anti-social and can only be controlled by force. That's why there are military people. Saddam for example, is a force man.
Los Angeles police, as seen on TV, are plenty violent when the situation is getting out of hand and they let fly. Same for police here and everywhere.
I dare say the religious persecution reference is to Falun Gong, which is not exactly a religious following as a political following. Which is why they feel the need to practise their "religion" in politically sensitive public places. They don't just meet in private at a church, hall or in a quiet park somewhere away from confrontational circumstances.
Look what happened to David Koresh, the women, children and men who were in his base for an example of what happens in the USA. Religious wackoes are dangerous. They need to be kept in check and practise their superstitious habits in private [like homosexuals and other socially unacceptable people - you wouldn't want a homosexual love-in in that big grassy place in the middle of Washington for example, even if they did claim it was just their religious belief that homosexuals have a special place with God and their particular religion required the display of their beliefs right there in everyone's face]. The USA doesn't tolerate things which the community finds intolerable.
I don't know about torture. I'd be surprised if the Chinese police and gaolers aren't very physically aggressive, a bit like I read various USA people in SI recommending some physical aggression for opponents and as has happened to all sorts of people who were handed over to others to do the job which the USA couldn't do. Doing it yourself or getting, or letting, others do it for you is all the same.
All that aside, your point is good that other events have overshadowed what is a continuing concern with a lot of people = let's fight China = Commie, Vietcong and North Korean Axis of Evil supporters who are stealing American jobs and who should get their comeuppance.
Some Moslems in the USA have been a bit concerned that human rights and religious equality have taken a bit of a hammering lately [rightly so in my book - Islam is the worst of the big religions as far as I can tell, with built in Jihad, infidel hatred, misogyny and vicious violence towards blasphemers and other fatwah recipients.
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PS Don't forget the USA in Iraq for violence! That's what you have to be in places like that to control the criminal violent types. It's best to minimize it, but some is going to be necessary. In India, I have watched police whacking a poor guy with a long cane to get him to move away from the train station doors. They don't arrest. They just whack. There's lots of whacking and hitting and the like in India - in two weeks I saw quite a bit of it. That's a democracy. I want to go to China and see what's up for myself. |
