Oct 02 2008
China: Don’t mess with our babies!
Letter to the Editor
By MWC News   

Translation

China: Don’t mess with our babies!

I was disgusted to learn from an Epoch Times media report that the tainted milk outbreak will see up to 10 million infants in China suffering future complications as a result of drinking contaminated milk powder on top of the 53,000 infants already affected. This is by far the worst scandal that China has had to deal with in decades.

I can’t even imagine the pain and suffering that those parents are going through let alone the growing frustration and anger. Even in Canada, who knows if what we buy doesn’t contain ingredients that are imported from China’s contaminated products--spot checking items is far from ideal, totally inefficient and not reassuring.

All of this makes one wonder why there are so many fake goods and poisonous stuff coming out of China. Bear with me for a second.

In China, if you hold up a sign saying “Free Tibet” or “Truth, Compassion and Tolerance”—core values of the Falun Gong mind/body discipline—you will be thrown in the Chinese gulag faster than you can say torture. Odd? Could it be due to the fact that traditional belief systems and culture have been systematically destroyed under the one-party communist rule during the last 50 years-think Cultural Revolution.  Having said this, are people worshiping the God of money instead of listening to their own conscience and trying to do what’s right? The answer is yes! In my view, this is undoubtedly the source of the problem and why we see these endless poisonous products for exports: moral values no longer have any meaning--the money (is key) and corruption go hand in hand.

As Canadians, it’s high time for us to speak up loudly to condemn these toxic sub-standard products--for the most part made in China’s labour camps--that endanger people’s lives and demand of China to play by the rules, as they should, considering that they’re a member of WTO. The old saying that ‘there is a price (human cost) to pay for doing business with dictatorships’ is becoming reality and that’s a tad bit scary. Would somebody tell our politicians that turning a blind eye to this problem is no longer part of the solution. Time to wake up Canada! Think twice about this when you cast your vote at the upcoming election.

Joy Wang
Penticton, BC

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1. 02-10-2008 12:50
I agree with you! Tibet has been occupied by the Chinese goverment since 1950(1949). Recently China has used the Olympics as a political tool to legitimize it's illegal and brutal occupation of Tibet. March 10th of this year showed everyone in the world what Tibetans wanted. They wanted Independence and freedom of expression/religion. As a result of their protest, China quickly closed off Tibet to the world. Tibet now is still under crackdown and under a great state of fear. Many protestors and non-protestors have been missing and their have been random but harsh house searches. Tibet is again silenced by the Chinese government. It is our duty as free countries to speak up for Tibet. Please help Tibet end colonialism and stop the real terriorists (Chinese government). Vote and get issues such as Tibet out there to your local leaders. For more information visit: www.studentsforafreetibet.org.
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Tenzin
2. 02-10-2008 13:20
Say no to the CCP
Tenzin is right. Let's make Tibet's cultural genocide and the persecution of Falun Gong hard core election issues.  
 
Why do Canadian MPs think that they need the support of the CCP in order to have a good career? It's because too many of us remain silent about the human rights atrocities committed by the regime. They are also blinded by money and greed which doesn't help.  
 
Killing the Falun Gong on demand to procure body parts to the Communist Party cadre and to rich foreigners for huge amounts of money is simply unconscionable. You'd think that this would be enough to stop anyone from trading from such barbaric butchers. 
 
I agree with Joy that the human cost of dealing with this brutal regime is adding up quickly. Let's say no to the poisoned goods and to the regime's evil ways before it's too late.
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Marie
3. 03-10-2008 18:45
Falun Gong Show
Epoch Times is a well-funded international mouthpiece for the Falun Gongers. 
 
Falun Gong is living proof that even paranoids have real enemies. Think Chinese Scientology and you won't be far off the mark. 
 
While they may be persecuted by the Chinese Government, if they had their turn at the whip, they'd persecute gays and anyone with the temerity to fall in love with someone of a different race. 
 
Read up on them from an unbiased source; i.e., not Red Chinese *or* Falun Gong. 
 
One wonders where Falun Gong gets all the money to run its propaganda machine. CIA maybe? Just askin'.
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4. 04-10-2008 03:16
Falun Gong Show
Half or more of your history is off base. But, more to the point, is the fact that this kind of shit would not make the news in the US and, if it did, there would be absolutely nothing you could do about it. As totally ignorant as you are about China and Chinese politics, let me say--again--that the fact that the gov\'t is allowing such horror--probably the result of corruption-collaboration with the criminal element who could give a damn who dies as long as it\'s not them and they make money--is a very, very good sign. The gov\'t is opening up while the US gov\'t is shutting down. The Chinese gov\'t is beginning to pay attention to the people while the US gov\'t could give a shit. 
My life here may be overrun by racism of the most arrogant kind but I have a job and I have a house and I can buy my medicines and I have a family; in the US I\'d die for want of medical benefits, including hospitalization, and my family could give a shit. 
China and Tibet? First, learn your history and then look to what the US has done around the world since the 1960\'s at least; but, you know, you cannot forget the horror your country, my country visited upon the Japan for no other reason than to prove we were heartless enough to kill anyone at any time to be #1.
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