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To: JDN who wrote (9139)	7/12/2006 11:35:35 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 14758

Charges Against Dr. Wenyi Wang Will Be Dropped The Epoch Times ^ \| June 26, 2006 \| Brian Marple & Du Won Kang Doctor who spoke out against China's organ-harvesting will not be prosecuted WASHINGTON — Dr. Wenyi Wang reached an agreement with prosecutors in which all charges against her will be dropped, she said on June 14. Dr. Wang protested at the White House during a visit by Hu Jintao, head of the Chinese communist regime, on April 20. Under the deal, charges against Dr. Wang will be postponed until April 2007. If she does not commit any crimes during that time period—including confronting foreign officials—the charges will then be dropped. On April 20, after Hu began speaking, Wang, 47, stood up on the camera platform, unfurled a banner, and shouted in protest. Wang was charged with "willfully intimidating, coercing, threatening and harassing a foreign official," a federal misdemeanor with penalties up to six months in jail and a $5,000 fine. "I can assure you that he did not feel threatened at all," she said in a statement. "What he really felt was fear of the truth." She maintained that her action is not a crime, and wanted to be completely exonerated. Dr. Wang is a pathologist with experience in organ transplant research, and she was assigned to follow the story for The Epoch Times on large scale organ harvesting by the Chinese communist regime. "[We] obtained information regarding large-scale organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners between 2001 and 2003 in major labor camps that detained Falun Gong practitioners…. Some doctors who know the overall picture of the live organ harvesting scheme told us the cruelty and inhumanity is unthinkable, unspeakable and far beyond what has been reported in The Epoch Times ," she said in a written statement on April. Dr. Wang said, "I feel it is a wise decision that the American government decided to drop the charges against me. I have said from the very start that I'm not afraid of going to trial, because through the trial, the American people and Chinese people may take a good look at what kind of persecution Falun Gong practitioners have been suffering in the past several years. The American people may understand that they should not only engage China economically, but also put human rights issues into effect, and care about the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners," according to VOA's report on June 21. She continued: "It will be shameful if human beings remain silent about the torture and killing of Falun Gong practitioners in China. We all should act to save innocent lives." Dr. Wang was trained in China as a medical doctor, holds a Ph.D. in pharmacology from the University of Chicago, and completed her residency at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.

To: JDN who wrote (9139)	7/12/2006 1:01:10 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 14758

Paying North Korea to Laugh at Us(Us meaning South Korea) North Korean Senior Cabinet Counselor Kwon Ho-ung on Wednesday told a stunned South Korean delegation at ministerial talks in Busan that his country’s Songun or military-first policy “helps the security of South Korea too, and a vast majority of South Korean citizens have benefited from it.” North Korea's missile launches and nuclear weapons program are apparently a boon to us. The least we can do in return, Kwon indicated, is let our delegations visit “sacred places” in the North like Kim Il-sung’s embalmed cadaver, suspend Korea-U.S. joint military exercises, and abolish the National Security Law. Oh, and deliver the 500,000 tons of rice and light industry raw materials we promised. The seven missiles the North fired last week included two to four Scuds with ranges of 300-500 km capable of hitting anywhere in the South, whose security, pace Kwon, they nonetheless improve. Words fail to describe the preposterousness of North Korea’s demands. But it is equally absurd that our government continues to listen to this rubbish. The foreign and defense ministers originally wanted the talks cancelled, saying it is time for a firm response, but the president backed the unification minister’s call to go ahead, saying it makes no sense to demand a solution through dialogue while canceling dialogue. Didn’t the government anticipate what the North would do at the talks? If it didn't, it is incompetent; if it did but agreed to hold the talks regardless, it has betrayed the people. Kwon's claims for the Songun policy, as it happens, echo the argument of some pro-Pyongyang organizations in the South who say North Korea's missiles and nuclear weapons will eventually be ours too. The government has guaranteed that members of these organizations can visit North Korea and tried to prevent their arrest under the National Security Law. The economic cooperation funds the South provided to the North since the 2000 inter-Korean summit amount to W3.233 trillion (US$=949), 1.3 times North Korea’s entire budget last year. There is a high chance that some of the money went into development of the North's nuclear weapons and missiles, but the government has maintained there is nothing it can do about it. In the context of its “one nation” rhetoric, the North now assures us that the money was well spent on protecting our security. And so it goes on. Despite doing everything for dialogue with Pyongyang and pouring so much aid into the North, the government never hears anything it wants to hear in return. These meetings simply provide the North with an ever-ready propaganda platform, from where it can laugh at us. english.chosun.com

To: JDN who wrote (9139)	7/12/2006 6:03:50 PM
From: GROUND ZERO™	Respond to of 14758

Absolutely, Israel should finish them off once and for all... how long will the phoney palestinians continue with their phoney claims? GZ

To: JDN who wrote (9139)	7/13/2006 8:33:33 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14758

But releasing hundreds of palis for a few soldiers is entirely "proportionate"?!?! France Says Israeli War Acts "Disproportionate" AlterNet ^ \| 07/13/2006 \| Reuters PARIS, July 13 (Reuters) - Israel's strikes in Lebanon, including the bombardment of Beirut airport, were "a disproportionate act of war", French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy said on Thursday. Israeli aircraft attacked Beirut airport and killed 22 civilians in strikes in south Lebanon on Thursday, widening its reprisals after Lebanese Hizbollah guerrillas captured two soldiers in a border clash on Wednesday. "For several hours, there has been a bombardment of an airport of an entirely sovereign country, a friend of France ... this is a disproportionate act of war," Douste-Blazy told Europe 1 radio station. Douste-Blazy also condemned Hizbollah's firing of rockets into northern Israel and the kidnapping of the soldiers, saying these were "irresponsible acts". "The only solution is a return to reason by both sides," he said. "We are calling for a lowering of tensions," he said. France supported "Lebanon's demand for a referral to the United Nations Security Council as soon as possible", he said, adding the risk of a regional war "absolutely" existed.