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Less Than

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As people, it is very easy to fall into the trap of ‘less than.’ No matter how poor you are, you can always find someone poorer. No matter how little education you have, you can always find someone with less. The problem comes when you begin to see someone with a different education,  economic level, or different set of beliefs as ‘less than.’ It’s easy to overvalue yourself and consider others as somehow inferior.  Slavery is an example of the outcome of a ‘less than’ mentality. Slavery still exists in cultures with a ‘less than’ mentality. The atrocities committed by the Muslims against the Israelis on October 7th were the result of a ‘less than’ mentality. If you don’t see your fellow humans as having the same value you have, you have no problem mistreating them or doing horrific things to them. That is one of the concerning things about the number of Islamists that have come into America in recent years. In Islam, infidels (anyone who is not Muslim) are ‘less than.’ Infidel women can be sexually assaulted, people can be made slaves, and people can be killed for being infidels. The concept of ‘less than’ is also relevant to our relationship with China.

Tyrannical governments sometimes encourage the ‘less than’ mentality. When people are taught to look at certain groups as ‘less than,’ they can be trained not to care what happens to the people in those groups. We saw that principle in Nazi Germany. We are currently seeing that principle in China.

In China, first the Falun Gong and then the Uyghurs began to be considered ‘less than’ by the Chinese government and eventually the Chinese people. People who practiced Falun Gong or were Uyghurs were put in prisons. According to author Jan Jekielek in his book KILLED TO ORDER, published this year, many of those prisoners are used as involuntary organ donors. The fees charged to the recipients of these organs are paying for China’s healthcare program. A cornea transplant costs about $30,000 and a liver-kidney transplant costs about $180,000. The book gives one example of a person waiting for a heart transplant (years of waiting in America because of the unique circumstances of obtaining a donated heart) who was able to get a heart transplant in China in two weeks. Because the person was more focused on getting a new heart than the details, he did not totally research the procedure beforehand. I can’t imagine how he felt when he realized how the heart was obtained. Many of the people receiving the organs are told that the organs come from prisoners who have received the death penalty. The numbers do not bear that out. THE SLAUGHTER written by Ethan Gutmann after interviews with refugees, medical staff, and officials, estimates 65,000 deaths of Falun Gong members for organ transplants between 2000 and 2008.

Israel has blocked its medical insurance programs from funding Chinese organ transplants for Israelis. I think America needs to block American health insurance companies from paying for Chinese organ transplants.

In March 2025, H.R.2114 – Block Organ Transplant Purchases from China Act of 2025 was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives. It was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. It has been there ever since. This is one bill that I think all Americans could probably agree on—harvesting organs from live humans is barbaric.

Where are the Human Rights Commissions of the United Nations and the World Court on this matter? Where is the World Health Organization? Why is H.R. 2114 still in committee after more than a year?

The only way to put these barbarians out of business is for every country in the world to ban their citizens from receiving organ transplants in China. Otherwise, the practice will continue. This is worse than anything the Nazis in Germany ever imagined.

Most of the information for this article came from KILLED TO ORDER by Jan Jekielek.

It’s Long Past Time To Reconsider Our Relationship With China

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The Daily Wire recently posted an article about organ donations in China.

The article reports:

Dr. Enver Tohti, a former physician in China, remembers the day with horror. The whistleblower said his chief surgeon approached him and asked, “Do you want to do something wild?” The surgeon then took Dr. Tohti and other medical professionals to the site of a public execution, pointed to one of the criminals, and told him, “As quick as possible, remove the liver and two kidneys.” 

“Then, I saw he was alive,” Dr. Tohti, who is now an Uber driver in London, recently told Vice TV. 

Stories of China harvesting organs from live “donors” have proliferated for decades, but a new and credible scholarly article has exposed concrete evidence that China has engaged in the gruesome practice. Researchers Matthew P. Robertson of Australia and Jacob Lavee of Israel combed through 2,838 papers on Chinese organ transplantation published in medical journals, covering prisoner organ donations between 1980 and 2015. They published their findings on April 4 in an article titled “Execution by organ procurement: Breaching the dead donor rule in China,” in the American Journal of Transplantation, a peer-reviewed journal.

The article continues:

Robertson told me it is important that the media not misreport their data about live organ transplants. “It’s not that there were only 71 of this sort,” he said. “It’s 71 that we found.” 

He and his co-author are almost certainly undercounting the incidences when CCP officials killed prisoners by removing their beating hearts, because they counted only those officially documented in medical journals. “We don’t know how many transplants actually end up in a medical paper,” said Robertson. “It could be one in 100; it could be one in 1,000; it could be 1 in 10.” 

Hard numbers are difficult to come by, but estimates abound — and none of the numbers add up. In 2019, the China Tribunal found that Chinese physicians likely performed 60,000 to 90,000 organ transplants a year from 2000 to 2014, but the number of eligible organ donors registered in 2017 numbered only 5,146. Another estimate places the number of organs taken from Falun Gong practitioners at 41,500 over a five-year period. For his part, Robertson said once Chinese Communist Party officials perfected the process, they employed this form of organ removal “probably with all heart transplants” in the nation.

The article concludes:

These allegations also illustrate the legacy media’s perpetually favorable coverage of the People’s Republic of China. “China used to harvest organs from prisoners. Under pressure, that practice is finally ending,” The Washington Post told its readers in 2017. “China vows to battle corruption in organ harvesting,” reported the Associated Press a year earlier. But human rights attorney Hamid Sabi told the UN Human Rights Council in 2019 that forced organ harvesting in China “continues today.” 

Such silence makes it all the more important for Western media outlets to cover these atrocities. “China and their advocates will do everything they can to belittle or discredit” such findings, said Andrew Bremberg, a former ambassador and now CEO of Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. “And all too often, people in the U.S. and the West will do their best to ignore” them. 

But in order for such human rights abuses to end, the West must act. Thanks to Robertson and Lavee’s research, some of the doctors who took part in China’s forced organ harvesting are now known, Bremberg said. “But we don’t know all of their relationships with U.S. or other Western-based hospitals or universities, or whether they collaborate or publish with other Western academics.”

A bipartisan collection of legislators — Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Chris Coons (D-DE) and Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ), Tom Suozzi (D-NY), and Vicky Hartzler (R-MO) — introduced the Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act last March. The bill would allow U.S. officials to identify and sanction those involved in organ harvesting, including revoking their passports. 

“It’s past time to hold Beijing accountable for these heinous acts,” said Sen. Cotton.

This is not an acceptable practice and needs to be addressed. No country engaged in the practice of live organ harvesting should be allowed to trade on any world markets. The only way to end this ghoulish practice is to hit China in the pocketbook.

Has The Desire For Cheaper Products Caused Americans To Forget Who They Are ?

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Investors.com posted a story yesterday about a disturbing note found in a box of Halloween decorations sold at K-Mart.

The article reports:

Last October, Julie Keith, of Portland, Ore., opened up a kitschy box of “Totally Ghoul” Halloween decorations bought at Kmart and between two Styrofoam headstones found something more authentically jarring: an unsigned note in mangled English and Mandarin reading: “Sir: If you occasionally buy this product, please kindly resend this letter to the World Human Right Organization. Thousands of people here who are under the persicution of the Chinese Communist Party Government will thank and remember you forever. This product produced by Unit 8, Department 2, Mashanjia Labour Camp, Shenyang, Liaoning, China.”

The mysterious writer went on to note that the workers were effectively slaves, paid about $1.61 a month, with many prisoners sentenced to work there to punish them for belonging to Falun Gong, a peaceful meditation sect reviled by Beijing as a threat.

Meanwhile, what is the American media and business community saying about China? New York Times columnist Tom Friedman has stated, “One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks, but when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can also have great advantages.” He added that such a one-party state can “just impose” the policies that are needed. GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt has stated, “The one thing that actually works, state-run communism a bit — may not be your cup of tea, but their government works.” Please define ‘works.’

The article reminds us:

The main reason for the Obama administration’s lack of interest in human rights in China is because China enables the U.S. to continue its wild deficit spending. They’ve bought our silence on slave labor, in effect.

China now holds $1.16 trillion in U.S. treasury bonds, and is our largest creditor. So long as China enables Obama to spend cash at home, the silent screams will continue from China’s slave labor camps, only occasionally reaching the ears of the West.

The obvious reaction to this story is to say that we should no longer buy things that are made in China, but I am not sure that is the solution. Americans buy goods from China because those goods are less expensive than American made goods. Obviously, the American worker cannot compete with slave labor. As long as we are financing China through our overspending, our government and media will not even report what is going on in China.  I wonder if this story were widely reported if it would impact the buying habits of Americans. It is a concern that some of the American media and some of America’s business leader view the government of China as acceptable. If they truly believe that, are they willing to live there?

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