[Mb-civic] My Cute Little China Doll

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My Cute Little China Doll

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-china-religion,0,5377942.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines


Lyle, among others, remains right.  Who can really not see this coming
anymore..?  Hilarious that Our Top People's critiques of such a monster
continues to be nothing more than spitballs bouncing off the hide of a
behemoth.  On so many levels, it remains hard to fathom our own people at
The Top here in America who will actually look the other way, except perhaps
for a verbal reprimand, if even China murders in cold blood a few millions
of its people.  It's like absolutely nothing to them, us, or anyone else,
for, yes, indeed, Commerce is now God, as it has always actually been.  It's
a giant, it's Communist, it's Fascist, it's whatever you want to call it,
just keep feeding it though, we need both cheap labor and WalMart outlets in
every toilet in America.  Instead of building a Wall (not one like the
Israeli fascismo Wall) to protect ourselves from China, our Top People have
dug our childrens' economic futures graves.  The below is just a report on
the new "Religious Freedom Laws" coming out of China, one can easily see all
other aspects of governance by simply reading between the lines.  Places and
events like "Tibet" to your average WalMart shopper remain completely absent
as real thoughts in their brains.  They still think it is a place where that
guy came from in that TV movie "Kung Fu" and that everything is still
allright there and happy children are running around happy women who are
still cooking happy yak butter tea for all the happy men who can break
bricks by simply looking at them.  Go figure.  If they had any idea what was
actually standing around the corner of WalMart in the shadows grinning and
laughing as their children danced and laughed up the aisles, they would take
a crapola supremo.  Thank God, eh, that they don't, after all, even
Knowledge cannot compete with cheap products made by Communist
Dictatorships.  It remains nothing short of sardonically ironic that "The
greatest Democracy's left standing on Earth" greatest trade deficit resides
with the largest cutthroat blood-thirsty Communist Regime left standing on
Earth.  One can only hope and pray and leave you with the enamored words of
some of our greatest liberators coming to our rescue in The Future: "Fred,
clean up on Aisle 9...!!".


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February 28, 2005, 1:32 PM EST

BEIJING -- China is implementing new regulations that the government says
will protect freedom of faith. Critics contend that the broad guidelines
could instead be used to persecute religious groups deemed troublesome by
authorities.

The guidelines, to take effect Tuesday, are meant to give a legal framework
for China's constitutional promise of freedom of religion, state media have
reported.

Under existing laws, communist authorities allow worship only in
state-monitored churches, temples or mosques. Millions of believers attend
unauthorized services, often in private homes, but are subject to arrest and
harassment.

China, which will convene its annual legislative session Saturday in
Beijing, has banned many religious or spiritual groups, including the Falun
Gong movement and churches loyal Pope John Paul II. It also tightly controls
Tibetan Buddhism.

A lengthy 48 articles and seven chapters, the new Regulations on Religious
Affairs cover everything from how licensed organizations can accept
religious donations and claim tax exemptions to how religious institutions
may accept foreign students, among other topics.

The new rules say that "anyone who compels citizens to believe in or not
believe in any religions ... shall be ordered to make corrections by the
religious affairs department" and could face criminal charges, the state-run
newspaper China Daily said.

Such language could be used to persecute the faithful, said Nicolas
Becquelin, research director of the New York-based Human Rights in China.

"The law purports to protect 'normal' religious activities which in effect
means religious activities expressly authorized by the state through a
system of compulsory licensing and mandatory inspections," he said.

Becquelin said overly broad regulations have been used as a pretext to
"suspend, ban, suppress, religious congregations as well as fine, detain or
arrest religious practitioners."

Other foreign observers say the outcome of the new rules remains uncertain.

Egil Lothe of the Oslo Coalition on Freedom of Religion or Belief, a
nonprofit Norwegian group, said the regulations offer "an improvement on
present practices," because they give clearer procedures for registering
religious groups and institutions.

But, "to what extent the regulations will change other aspects of Chinese
policies on religion remains to be seen," Lothe added.

The U.S. State Department said in a 2003 report that China "tries to control
and regulate religious groups to prevent the rise of groups that could
constitute sources of authority outside of the control of the government and
the Chinese Communist Party."

The report called the government's respect of religious freedom "poor."

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