Yesterday John Hinderaker at Power Line posted a story about the Obama Administration's efforts to encourage China to treat its citizens more humanely. Needless to say, the administration is treading carefully because we need China's support on a number of difficult issues--Iran going nuclear, North Korea getting more aggressive, climate change rules, etc. However, when you consider the fact that China routinely harvests organs from murdered political prisoners, I think there may be some room for improvement in their human rights policies. Well, they think we have some problems too.
The article points out:
"Assistant Secretary of State Michael] Posner said in addition to talks on freedom of religion and expression, labor rights and rule of law, officials also discussed Chinese complaints about problems with U.S. human rights, which have included crime, poverty, homelessness and racial discrimination.
"He said U.S. officials did not whitewash the American record and in fact raised on its [sic] own a new immigration law in Arizona that requires police to ask about a person's immigration status if there is suspicion the person is in the country illegally."
I have a few questions. What is China's policy on illegal immigrants? Is there poverty in China? What about China's one-child per family policy and the murder of girl babies that results from that policy? What about freedom of religion in China?
If our government can't see a difference between harvesting organs from political prisoners and closing our borders to illegal immigration, I think it's time to elect a new government.
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