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To: TobagoJack who wrote (17260)	4/16/2007 9:18:34 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218621

An isolated incident with victims numbered in the hundreds, distorted by you into an attack on ovreall American policy. I grew up with a kid back in my hometown whose father was a prisoner of the Chinese army during the Korean war. He had sticks pushed up under his finernails - a bit more cruel torture than having panties put on ones head - and it wasn't an isolated incident. But enough of history - lets go to today: Korea: Member of Parliament Calls for Investigation of Organ Harvesting in China On the morning of May 16th, Korean parliament member Park Jae Wan spoke to the media regarding organ harvesting in China. On the morning of May 16th, a press conference was held in the Korean Parliament regarding the recently exposed atrocities of harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners. Reporters from a number of media outlets attended the conference, and parliament member Park Jae Wan gave a speech regarding the atrocities. He said: "We must immediately start to investigate organ harvesting in Chinese labour camps and organ trafficking in Korea." He also called upon the Korean Government to raise the organ harvesting issue to the UN Human Rights Commission. Park said: "The international community should investigate the Chinese Communist regime's atrocities of harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners detained in labour camps and concentration camps. To clarify the confusion fabricated by the regime, international organisations and media should investigate all of the 36 concentration camps pinpointed by oversea media. In the meantime, they should also investigate Chinese organ transplant teams. He said: "In March 2006, media in the United States, United Kingdom and France reported that the Chinese Communist regime removed livers and kidneys from detainees without anesthesia and then cremated the remains. On March 31st, AFP, one of the five largest media groups, reported that an underground concentration camp in Sujiatun had detained more than 6000 people and 75% of them had had their organs removed and were then killed and cremated." Park mentioned that he had contacted the the newspaper that first exposed the organ harvesting - The Epoch Times. He talked with Peter (also known as Jinzhou), one of the two witnesses who revealed the Sujiatun atrocities, by phone. He said that Peter was threatened by the Chinese Communist regime after he later exposed the crimes in Sujiatun, and that his testimony was very shocking. In his testimony, the witness said that, "Going to China for organ transplants is equivalent to helping the Chinese Communist regime in killing. Such deeds violate morality and are very dangerous." He hopes that Korea patients can judge the situation wisely. Park also requested the Korean government to close 14 websites in Korea which seduce Koreans into go to China for organ transplants. In addition, he requested the government to conduct an official investigation of the atrocities. He stressed that the Korean government should perform a meaningful investigation and raise requests to the Chinese regime to prevent such human rights atrocities from happening again. In the end, Park said: "During World War II, the international community and media didn't pay enough attention to the testimonies of Jewish survivors of Nazi concentration camps. Consequently, several million Jews lost their lives and we should remember this lesson for good." Concluding his speech, Park made an emotional plea to the media and international community to pay close attention to this important issue. clearharmony.net Ailing Americans seek Chinese organs There are 90,000 people waiting for organs in the United States. Many of them will die before they ever get close to a transplant. Eric DeLeon of San Mateo, California, did not want to be one of them. Eric was diagnosed with liver cancer last year. Because he had nine tumors, he was taken off the U.S. transplant list. Doctors considered him a poor candidate for survival. "I just knew that cancer was going to grow and spread throughout my body and I thought I would be another statistic," Eric told me recently. So Eric and his wife Lori searched the Internet to check out other transplant options. He found a transplant service in China that promised to find him a healthy liver in a matter of weeks. Eric mortgaged his home and paid $110,000 for a new liver. Two weeks later, he arrived in Shanghai. A couple weeks after that, he had his new liver. Eric is not alone in looking to China for a new organ. We're told that tens of thousands of foreigners are paying for transplant surgery in China. The problem is those organs may be cut from an executed death row prisoner without consent. That's not all. Some organs are said to have been removed before the prisoner took his last breath in order to keep the organs as fresh as possible. "I can still hear the sounds of those people shouting when they're having their organs harvested while they are still alive," one former prisoner told me. You're probably asking yourself by now: How is this allowed to happen? Well, China executes more prisoners than all other nations combined. More than 4,700 men and women were executed in the last two years, according to Amnesty International. People there can be executed even for white collar crimes like tax fraud, embezzlement and bribery. The harvesting method is cold and calculating: A single shot to the head if chest organs are needed; a shot to the body if the brain or eyes are needed. Recently, China started using "death vans" where lethal injection is administered on the road so all of the organs can be harvested. Congressman Chris Smith, a New Jersey Republican, has written a letter to the President of China calling on him to put an end to this practice. "That smacks of Nazism, when people were reduced to mere commodities that were wanted only for the organs they could provide," Smith told me. China's deputy health minister acknowledges the organs are harvested from prisoners. But he says they are only harvested from those who give consent. What constitutes consent? In the United States, death row prisoners are not allowed to donate organs because the government believes they can't freely give consent behind bars. New York transplant surgeon Thomas Diflo calls what's happening in China a gross violation of human rights. He is refusing to treat people who have had surgery in China. He remembers the first time he heard about this from a patient. "I said, 'Where did you get your organ?' And she said, 'I got it from an executed prisoner.'" The Chinese government refused our request for an interview, but issued a statement: "The reports about China's random transplant of organs from executed criminals are untrue and a malicious slander against [the] Chinese Judiciary System. ... In China, it is very prudent to use organs from death penalty criminals." The government promises to change its transplant law July 1 by banning the sale of organs and limiting organ transplants. Critics doubt it will change much of anything for Chinese prisoners. Posted By Randi Kaye, CNN Correspondent: 7:01 PM ET cnn.com Here is a "dangerous criminal" being led to her execution. Check out the black SS-style uniforms. theage.com.au

To: TobagoJack who wrote (17260)	4/16/2007 10:21:26 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218621

TJ, your policy of shooting unarmed children fleeing the depredations of China from Tibet, in the back, is not even justified by a war being on, with potential threat from said refugees. <But Muccio's letter to Dean Rusk, then an assistant secretary of state, says unambiguously that "decisions made" at a high-level U.S.-South Korean meeting in Taegu, South Korea, on July 25, 1950, included a policy of shooting approaching refugees. The reason: U.S. commanders feared that disguised North Korean troops were infiltrating their lines via refugee groups. "If refugees do appear from north of US lines they will receive warning shots, and if they then persist in advancing they will be shot," the ambassador told Rusk, cautioning that these shootings might cause "repercussions in the United States." Deliberately attacking noncombatants is a war crime. > That catastrophic panty sniffing is even worse. How about that evil Falun Gong tai chi stuff? You'd better harvest their body parts before they decompose. You can't have people doing tai chi in Tienanmen Square. That would be catastrophic and worth killing them. I watched a martial arts security guy practising his kung fu kicks while he killed time waiting to kill people. There were quite a few of them with nothing to do but wait for the next defiant individuals to move a muscle. Mqurice