"Bruce in Bangkok" wrote in message
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Yes... US citizen, and I'm thoroughly embarassed by that dope in the White
House. Unfortunately, that's what we have. Unfortunately, he's not that
much
worse than previous administrations in how they dealt with China. I would
also add that while we may have had more than a few questionable practices
going on wrt to torture/human rights, I don't think the US can really be
compared poorly or even close to poorly with China.

I think as a US citizen I have an obligation to condemn the use of such
practices, whether originating from here or elsewhere.


Of course you have the right, and possibly even the moral duty, to
condemn such practices, but why limit yourself to China? Nearly all
Asian countries treat their citizens the same. Some make "nice, nice,"
noises but in practice the government is right and the individual is
at their mercy, and I'm not so sure that this philosophy isn't the
prevailing political philosophy throughout the world.

I'm too lazy to do it but perhaps you might be interested in making a
list of all the countries that actually, in practice, really, truly,
protect the human rights of their citizens/residents vis-a-vis the
countries that don't.

In Asia, in Japan, China Taiwan, Viet Nam, Cambodia, Thailand,
Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia, to my personal knowledge, the
Government is RIGHT and the people have few, if any, real rights
against the Government. I have no actual knowledge of Africa but from
what I read in the newspaper the general population is "rightless".
Certainly in all the Moslem countries "Human Rights" run a distant
second to the word of the Imam.

So that is, possibly, the majority of the world's population. Care to
go on from there?

Bruce-in-Bangkok
(correct Address is bpaige125atgmaildotcom)


I think I'll stick with "Of course you have the right, and possibly even the
moral duty, to condemn such practices...." :-)

I'm sure you're right also that it's not limited to China. That country was
the topic of discussion, and it was being compared to the US. I limited my
response to the topic.

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