Object Lession in Democracy

I was distressed by one of the events that happen during President Hu of Red china visit to the U.S. During his visit with President Bush at the white house a member of the falung gong religion vocally protested china treatment of her group. She was taken out by the secret service and maybe criminally charged with intiminating a foreign official and disorderly conduct. The secret service doen't know how she cleared all the security for a press pass. She was given press credentials by The Epoch Times,a falung gong affiliated newspaper. Her name is Wenyl Wang a doctor by trade and a falung gong practitioner. Was she a planted protester, most likely she was, but sometimes you have to do drastic things to let the world know about the grim reality of a totalitarian state.

Kudos to Miss Wang for this act of protest. The history of the people's Republic of china has been nothing but a sordid history of mass murder, arbitary mass arrests and imprisonment, aggresstion against other countries and repression of freedom of thought, speech, and religion in their so called workers paradise, Someone has to bring a light on the truth on this reprehensible state. It is good to see there are people that are willing to stand up for what is right and not molly cuddle this evil state. Many in the west placate china, because we can obtain cheap consumer goods from them, and they have such a large market to exploit. Shame on us for putting cheap eletronic goods before the freedom and dignity of the chinese people.

One of the most disturbing elements of this event was: Mr Bush actually apologisied to this tyrant for the outburst. He could have used this event to give Mr Hu a lesson in democracy. He could have told him that a true democracy is a messy and loud affair, sometimes you have to let the people speak. It is not always a polite and predictable affair,but that is what makes it great. It is the best form of government compared to all others that have been tried. Instead he probaly had Wal-Mart stocks in his eyes and decided to apology to Hu, so not to upset him with this outburst from an unwashed commoner. Way to be Bush you really dropped the ball on this one.


It has been said that democracy is the worst of all governments, except all the others that have been tried . Sir Winston Churchill.