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China Lashes out at U.S. on Human Rights
Knight Ridder via Yahoo News ^ | March 3, 2005

Posted on 03/05/2005 12:35:09 PM PST by iddygents

BEIJING - China issued a tit-for-tat report card Thursday on human rights in the United States that lambasted the Pentagon (news - web sites) for "wanton slaughters" abroad, belittled American elections as awash in special-interest cash and accused U.S. courts of deep-seated racial bias.

The Chinese government report, which portrayed the United States as gun-crazed and unfair to minorities, came three days after the State Department released its annual report on human rights abuses in countries around the world, including China.

Instead of censuring other nations, the report urged the United States to "reflect on its erroneous behavior" and deal with "tons of problems in its own human rights."

In a report issued Monday, the State Department cited "numerous and serious abuses" in China against petitioners, writers and critics of one-party rule. It said inmates often died in custody, and that more than 250,000 people languished in labor camps without trials. It cited "credible reports" of widespread incarceration of regime critics in high-security psychiatric hospitals.

China's report listed many of what it said were injustices in the United States for women, minorities, the poor and victims of violent crime. Many of the problems were cited from American newspaper reports. The sources of some of the statistics used in the report weren't given.

"The United States claims to be `a paragon of democracy,' but American democracy is manipulated by the rich and malpractices are common," the report said. "Elections in the United States are in fact a contest of money." It described the 2004 presidential election as riddled with problems, ballot-counting errors and confusion.

"Poverty, hunger and homelessness have haunted the world's richest country," and racial discrimination permeates society, especially in the court system, the report charged. Nearly 3 out of 10 African-Americans have been in prison at least once,

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; humanrights; irony
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Welcome back to the good old days of loudspeaker Communist ways!

They seem to know very well how to exploit liberals in our own land. And I cannot help wondering who is cooperating with Chinese Communist Party government.

1 posted on 03/05/2005 12:35:09 PM PST by iddygents
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To: iddygents

I'm so glad they're our Most Favored Nation.


2 posted on 03/05/2005 12:36:23 PM PST by Future Snake Eater (The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.)
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To: iddygents
SSDD

THE REAL DEAL

China: Execution of Tibetan Prisoners (photos, warning: gruesome)

3 posted on 03/05/2005 12:38:11 PM PST by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: iddygents
The Chinese government report, which portrayed the United States as gun-crazed and unfair to minorities,

They are not making this up. They are just watching the MSM and listening to the Dimocrats.

Hello! (hiccup) Hello!

4 posted on 03/05/2005 12:40:15 PM PST by technomage
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To: iddygents
is that so?
5 posted on 03/05/2005 12:41:46 PM PST by Maceman (Too nuanced for a bumper sticker)
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To: iddygents

People from every nation in the world are lined up trying to get into the US (except for the millions who just flood across our borders illegally).

From how many nations (other than North Korea, whose population is starving to death) are people trying to get into China?

The free market is so revealing...


6 posted on 03/05/2005 12:42:21 PM PST by American Quilter
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To: iddygents
Sigh ... The Chinese are right.

Here is a photo of me making sure the wife drives nice.




7 posted on 03/05/2005 12:42:22 PM PST by G.Mason ("If you are broken It is because you are brittle" ... K.Hepburn, The Lion In Winter)
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To: iddygents
Hey commies. Ya want a lash? Well, come and git it.


8 posted on 03/05/2005 12:44:19 PM PST by Enterprise (President Bush thought Wead was a friend. Turns out he was just a big fat tape worm.)
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To: Future Snake Eater

Doesn't the "Most Favored Nation" provision in GATT/WTO simply mean that you must treat any trading partner that is a co-member of the WTO as well as you would your most favored nation? That is, it is an attempt to promote equal trading rules, such as tariffs, etc.

See, for instance, Part I, Article I, Paragraph 1 of GATT, which says "any advantage, favour, privilege or immunity granted by any contracting party to any product originating in or destined for any other country shall be accorded immediately and unconditionally to the like product originating in or destined for the territories of all other contracting parties."

Now, whether this is a good idea not is up for grabs. China is using us to build up their infrastructure for them--it's only a matter of time before they say "Thanks" and expropriate foreign companies' assets. Those Commies have subjected their people to the likes of such incompetent villains as Mao, and they dare to attack us on these matters? They accuse us of being gun-crazed while Mao often said "All politics comes out of the barrel of a gun"? Not to mention that their understanding of our courts is wanting.


9 posted on 03/05/2005 12:45:27 PM PST by Cyclopean Squid (The 80s belonged to the Gipper, the Aughts belong to Dubya!)
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To: iddygents

Remember this before you buy a Lenovo (formerly IBM ThinkPad) laptop.


10 posted on 03/05/2005 12:47:35 PM PST by RegT
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To: iddygents

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11 posted on 03/05/2005 12:47:56 PM PST by big bad easter bunny (I live so far beyond my means it could be said we live apart.)
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To: iddygents

bump


12 posted on 03/05/2005 12:50:12 PM PST by lilmsdangrus (hard work musta hurt somebody, somewhere....)
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To: iddygents
What do the Freepers from mainland China have to say about this? Oh, I forgot, there aren't any because the government won't allow it.
13 posted on 03/05/2005 12:51:37 PM PST by LOC1
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To: iddygents

Taken staight out of the Clinton playbook, where projection is tool #1.


14 posted on 03/05/2005 12:57:57 PM PST by Diddle E. Squat
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To: Maceman

is that so?


Have you forwarded this to our "esteemed" congress that they may KNOW what torure is?


15 posted on 03/05/2005 1:24:04 PM PST by Just A Nobody
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To: Justanobody
Have you forwarded this to our "esteemed" congress that they may KNOW what torure is?

I was going to, but then I thought I'd let you have the honor. ;-)

16 posted on 03/05/2005 1:26:49 PM PST by Maceman (Too nuanced for a bumper sticker)
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To: iddygents

The Chinese government report, which portrayed the United States as gun-crazed and unfair to minorities, came three days after the State Department released its annual report on human rights abuses in countries around the world, including China.

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They are so afraid of the American Citizens Right to bear Arms!! They know we will use them! and we know how. The UN will, along with our own lawmakers pass laws to disarm us. When that happens, what you see in the pictures is not far behind in happening here!! Beware of the New World Order Eletist of both parties, we are being sold out.


17 posted on 03/05/2005 1:39:35 PM PST by 26lemoncharlie (Sit nomen Dómini benedíctum,Ex hoc nunc, et usque in sæculum! per ómnia saecula saeculórum)
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To: Maceman

I was going to, but then I thought I'd let you have the honor. ;-)


You really can not trust me...I have been sending them a great deal of correspondence lately. I just went out & bought a new box of envelopes & a roll of stamps! :>))
I am SURE they would be more than happy to hear from me again. haha


18 posted on 03/05/2005 1:45:25 PM PST by Just A Nobody
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To: Justanobody
I am SURE they would be more than happy to hear from me again. haha

Well, I'm sure that my Senators Kennedy and Kerry, and my congressman Ed Markey, are just waiting with bated breath for my next communication.

19 posted on 03/05/2005 1:58:16 PM PST by Maceman (Too nuanced for a bumper sticker)
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To: iddygents
Friends/brothers of the Democrats in action
20 posted on 03/05/2005 2:31:07 PM PST by Fast1 (Destroy America buy Chinese goods.)
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