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  China Executes Drug Offenders
Posted by FoM on June 27, 2001 at 07:29:28 PT
By Joel Miller 
Source: WorldNetDaily 

justice Yesterday, China showed the world what makes its antidrug efforts so wildly successful in the minds of narcowarriors like former DEA agent Michael Levine, who praised Beijing's crackdown methods in his 1991 book, "Fight Back."

In observance of the United Nations' antidrug day, Chinese officials executed more than 50 drug offenders in various provinces across the country. The day before, gearing up for the big kill I suppose, the official Xinhua News Agency reported that the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing knocked off 18 people charged with drug trafficking.

AP's tally of Tuesday's crop wasn't as succinct as Xinhua's death toll for Monday. Associated Press bounced around between 43, 56, 59 and the pleasantly vague "dozens."

Overlooked by many, the official U.N. theme for the day was "Sports, not drugs." Guess something got lost in the translation to Chinese. Keep this confusion in mind next time you hear about Beijing bucking for the Olympic games; if it gets them, you'd better bring your flak jacket to the 100 meter dash.

The strange thing was that, while China was busy simultaneously dealing with its drug and population problems, Reuters was reporting that "The United States' use of the death penalty has nearly isolated the world's superpower among western democracies and could make it more difficult for Washington to pursue its own human rights agenda. …"

Excuse me?

Perhaps in anticipation of adding insult to irony, the U.S. got bumped off the U.N. Human Rights Commission in May. That was the insult. The irony is that China is still aboard the commission, regardless of how many drug offenders it kills.

As part of the antidrug hoopla in Yunnan province Tuesday, thousands of people rallied in a stadium to watch 20 alleged drug traffickers get sentenced to death. The whole lot was dragged to a separate location directly afterwards and immediately executed. According to AP, such executions "are usually done by a gunshot to the head." Saves rope, I guess.

Because most of the mob couldn't make it to the festivities – which included a pyrotechnic show of exploding heroin stashes – the government TV network decided to prove that Nero's Colosseum survives in spirit by broadcasting the spectacle.

It's one of the wonders of geopolitical correctness that a nation which doesn't murder its citizens in honor of a U.N. holiday is bounced from a "human rights" commission, while a nation that sentences citizens en masse for celebration and rushes them out back for a case of immediate lead poisoning is cheered.

The U.S. is "nearly isolated." China is happily included in the global glee club.

Don't try to make any real sense of it. It doesn't matter how many you kill or why, just so long as you suck up to the globalists.

China, AP reported, has "executed hundreds of people since April in a crime crackdown labeled 'Strike Hard' that allows for speeded up trials and broader use of the death penalty."

Hardly noted for its treasured opinion of civil liberties, doubtless many victims of the crackdown are genuinely innocent. Worse, don't even think about life drawing out during a lengthy appeals process, in which you still have a chance of proving your innocence (even if you're guilty as sin). China spares all the melodrama and pops you right away.

Levine points to this sort of thing with approval. His book, "Fight Back" – billed as "How to take back your neighborhood, schools, and families from drug dealers" – praises China's efforts to go heavy on drug addicts. Levine says that the U.S. has never tried any of Beijing's surefire methods because "the United States is a 'nation of individuals' not capable of group actions carried out by Japan and China."

Hogwash.

The reason is that, unlike Japan and China, the U.S. has a Constitution that forbids the kind of policing favored by to-the-death drug warriors. The founders established this nation under the notion that the law was a shield for the innocent. The Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Eighth Amendments were included specifically for this reason. China has no use for these protections. And no use for liberty, either.

Last year, then-U.S. drug czar Barry McCaffrey worked with the Chinese government to hash out some sort of international agreement on dealing with illegal dope traffic. If Beijing pitched McCaffrey its usual trash, I sincerely hope someone lost his notes.

Forget the founders, some idiot at the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy or the DEA is bound to think it's a swell idea.

Joel Miller is the commentary editor of WorldNetDaily. His publishing company, MenschWerks,recently published "God Gave Wine" by Kenneth L. Gentry Jr.

E-mail: jmiller@worldnetdaily.com

Source: WorldNetDaily (US Web)
Author: Joel Miller
Published: June 27, 2001
Copyright: 2001, WorldNetDaily.com, Inc.
Contact: letters@worldnetdaily.com
Website: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/

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Comment #8 posted by dddd on June 28, 2001 at 08:01:09 PT
oops
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Comment #7 posted by FoM on June 28, 2001 at 07:53:19 PT
News Brief From The Associated Press
China Denies Doctor's Organ Harvesting Claims

Beijing (AP)
Published: June 28, 2001
Copyright 2001 The Associated Press

Beijing said Thursday that a Chinese doctor was lying when he told Congress about the harvesting of organs from executed prisoners in China.

Adding weight to widespread reports of involuntary organ donations in China, burn doctor Wang Guoqi told a U.S. House International Relations Committee panel Wednesday that he removed skin from nearly 100 executed prisoners for transplant.

Wang, who is seeking asylum in the United States, told the human rights panel that doctors took the kidneys from a prisoner who was still breathing after being shot in a 1995 execution in northern China.

"Any clear-sighted person can see that this is a vicious slander against China," said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue. I believe for personal purposes, they have gone so far as to create those sensational lies.

"With regard to the trade in human organs, China strictly prohibits that. The major source of human organs comes from voluntary donations from Chinese citizens," she said.

Chinese officials say organs are transplanted from executed prisoners only if they and their family consent.

But human rights campaigners have claimed that prisoners' executions are sometimes scheduled for transplant recipients who pay for involuntarily harvested organs. Activist Harry Wu, imprisoned by China for 19 years, said rich foreign transplant recipients may pay more than $15,000 apiece.

Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, head of the congressional panel that held the hearing, said she wants to ensure that the United States does not become an accomplice "in promoting this deplorable practice."

She has sponsored a bill to bar Chinese physicians from coming to the United States for training in organ or tissue transplants.

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Comment #6 posted by Fat Blunt ConXtion on June 27, 2001 at 23:04:57 PT
lesser of two evils
Sure, the United States doesnt execute drug offenders in large numbers. You just incarcerate them. The united states has a higer prison population than any other nation. You can gloat about your constitution all you like. As for Americans being revolutionarys...In the history of your nation you have had one revolution. You have suffered under the totalitarian regime that you call "democracy" (it soils the word) for almost three hundred years. Something went terribly wrong. I cannot imagine this is what your revered forefathers had in mind when they drafted the constitution that is continually walked over. Day in and day out. I have no beef with Americans. I like Americans. I just hate the people who run your nation.

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Comment #5 posted by FoM on June 27, 2001 at 21:14:36 PT
Executing People
New Mexican last night I had ABC News on with Peter Jennings which is unusual for me because I don't watch the news that often anymore but I didn't hear him mention the executions just it was a big drug day. Who cares about it being a big drug day. I care that human beings were shot and murdered. It just so wrong.

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Comment #4 posted by New Mexican on June 27, 2001 at 20:20:19 PT
Who's Worse?
With gen. mccaffiend giving advice to the chinese, I guess he's collaborating with the enemy. Sounds like treason to me! An accomplice to murder? Hmmmm...Where's the outrage?
No uproar in the U.s., I wonder why, don't we have a free press that devotes days and weeks, even months to trivial court cases that affect no one (except for media pocketbooks). The real news is treated with contempt and the faux news is shoved down our throats. These executions are an outrage, but you won't see it covered in that context, meaning it's already too late folks.


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Comment #3 posted by meagain on June 27, 2001 at 14:41:23 PT
Boycott CHina
If it says "MADE IN CHINA" send it back !

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Comment #2 posted by Monvor on June 27, 2001 at 14:27:19 PT
Barbarians
nfm

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Comment #1 posted by lookinside on June 27, 2001 at 08:44:44 PT:

our constitution makes us as different from the...
chinese as our opposable thumb does from a muskrat...

totalitarian regimes have a finite lifespan...the soviets
managed to go 70 years before collapsing...the red chinese
have made it 50 years, in a country with a history of
revolution when a government becomes too repressive...all it
will take is a spark at the right time...

america was founded on revolution...our founding fathers
were revolutionaries...they told us when revolution was
acceptible...

in a nutshell, civil upheaval is correct when the current
government becomes unresponsive to the will of the people...
sound familiar?

the chinese are a very patient people...they think in terms
of generations....americans, by our nature, seek change
NOW...this is built into our election system, and worked
pretty well until the two party system became effectively a
one party system, with the two major parties giving us NO
REAL CHOICE...(we are also VERY intolerant of oppression and
injustice)

a STRONG third party, based on the CONSTITUTION and TRUTH is
required to realize positive change, peacefully...if this
doesn't happen, the public apathy that the present power
structure relies on for their "mandate" may(will) turn to
anger...


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