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To: Ron Bower who wrote (8270)	3/12/1999 1:10:00 PM
From: Liatris Spicata	Read Replies (3) of 9980

Ron- <<The rest of the world recognizes the progress China has made in recent years.>> I'd be interested in knowing to what "progress" you refer. I gather respect for human rights is not an area in which they have "progressed". Not that the vast majority of "the rest of the world" cares a flip about that. The butchers of Tienamen- or their heirs- are still in power and China remains a police state. The barest glimmerings of an independent judiciary are evident. Civilized people would not enrich the tyrants in Beijing or aid in their oppression of those who disagree with said tyrants [Hint: that means not trading with the thugs]. <<it smells of McCarthyism and possibly racism.>> Perhaps you could be a bit more explicit here, rather than simply bandying about fashionable buzzwords. May I ask where you find racism? Or "McCarthyism", for that matter. I understand the essence of "McCarthyism" to be the branding and harassment of people for their political views and personal associations, not their actions. How does that unfortunate tendency relate to the question at hand? As an aside, the Clinton administration's policy toward China has been a security disaster and a human rights debacle. I will speak more on this issue in due course. Am I the only one to remember how candidate Clinton so castigated George Bush for capitulating on the human rights of Chinese people? Clinton had then the integrity for which he has become justly famous. This administration's China policy has been little more than kowtowing to totalitarian dictators. Allow me to remind you that those willing to sell classified information caused enormous and irreparable harm to the forces of relative freedom during the Cold War with the forces of evil. People holding security clearances accept a grave responsibility for the security of the information they possess. There are well-defined mechanisms for handling the information. Improper handling of such information is itself a serious breech, and is often an indicator of more serious activity. McCarthy, for all his sins- and I suspect they were significant- fought a valiant fight against the most powerful enemy of the human spirit ever to infest the earth. Quite possibly neither his methods nor his motives were exemplary. But I wonder which side you were on during this century's titanic struggle between the forces of slavery and freedom. Larry

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