Chen Guangcheng‏

This is a real problem for President Obama in an election year.   What to do…..What to do……

On one hand he has the most important country on Earth in Communist Red China.  Land of the oppressed people who will work for $17.00 a day until they can find a way to kill themselves.  Corporate America loves these slaves.  They need these slaves.  They want these slaves.  Will do anything to make sure they continue to have unfetter access to these slaves.  Priority # 1 is cheap labor to make US products to sell to unemployed Americans. 

For Obama millions of dollars in campaign contributions are at stake.  He must make sure Chinese slavery remains available to his corporate masters.  He also must make sure the Communist government continues to lend Billions and billions and billions of dollars to prop up our hollowed out economy.  Pissing off his creditors would not be good.

On the other hand Obama must pretend he cares about human rights (my belly hurts from laughing as I try to type this).  He must pretend to support democracy (laughing uncontrollably), and freedom (can barely contain myself), and peoples right to protest. (almost fell off my chair).  He must pretend to care about woman’s rights (So hard to type this)  Especially in an election year…….  So this is going to get tricky.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-china-0501-jm-20120501,0,4569020.story

Chen Guangcheng A blind, self-educated lawyer who brought down the wrath of Chinese security agencies by campaigning against forced abortions and sterilizations, he spent four years in prison and additional time under house arrest. That ended when he managed to escape under cover of darkness and, with help from confederates, made his way to Beijing, more than 300 miles away. He then reportedly went to theU.S. Embassy and was granted shelter.

The episode creates an awkward diplomatic situation just days before Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner are scheduled to arrive in Beijing for talks on a variety of matters. It also erupts as Washington seeks Chinese cooperation in dealing with intractable dangers in Iran, Syria and North Korea (They left out the Philippians). Chen's flight to U.S. protection could complicate a presidential campaign here, as well as a delicate leadership transition in China that will occur later this year.

For the United States to harbor a fugitive within China's borders will doubtless stir nationalist resentment of the West. But no American president is likely to simply hand over a peaceable dissident to the mercies of the Chinese security apparatus.

What did this fugitive do again?   attention ought to focus at least briefly on the government policies that Chen took such risks to protest.

Most gruesome is family planning agencies' practice of dragging pregnant women out of their homes to have their fetuses destroyed, as part of the government's long-standing one-child policy. Forced abortions have occurred as late as nine months into a pregnancy.

The victims may also have IUDs inserted without their consent to prevent future pregnancies. The advocacy group All Girls Allowed says these atrocities help explain why China is the only nation on Earth where women are more likely to commit suicide than are men.

Chen's crime was to publicize this savagery by filing a class-action lawsuit on behalf of women subjected to it.

Sounds like the kinda guy who should be in Jail.  China…..What a beautiful place.