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A discussion about torture at Guantanamo Bay with Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch and John Yoo of the School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley.
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winter 01/23/2011 09:09 PM Report
Chinas approach to human rights is simply that they refuse to allow their culture to become as garbaged up as Americas.
They refuse to allow their standards to be brought down by
by the loudest most vocal mobs who intimidate the more reserved and often less ignorant personalities. Its all very western to impose on the weak, the recent attention paid to bullying in American high schools verifies just how early the pathology is introduced.
What we call Freedom here is just the last line of defense for how our thugs in business and politics operate --its proven to serve them well as its played out in the well established decades of disparity of income distribution that seems to have its permanence set in stone now that republicans own the House.
Internationally American foreign policy uses the Freedom card as the pretense to gain access where a more outright and unapologetic colonialism served that purpose in the past. From my pespective the Chinese are a much more dignified people than the average American and they've been in existence for hundreds of centuries longer. It would be like a 16 year old with his pants hanging halfway across his bottom lecturing a grandfather and its that 16 year old who leads American popular culture with business hanging on his every word, waiting to serve his every impulsive instinct.
On religion; I just as soon have these televangelists off my cable television. Anyone with any sense can see they're nothing but charlatans enriching themselves at the expense of the desperate. Religion is allowed to exist in China just not the charismatic cult leaders we have targeting the estates of our elderly. At a certain level, it amazes me that noone has legislated taxing them.