While american authorities were mopping up in levee leveled New Orleans, the Head of State of their next door neighbour was entertaining Chinese President Hu Jintao.
While Prime Minister Paul Martin, dubbed "Mr. Dithers" by a prominent magazine let out an audible loud sigh and closed his eyes, the Chinese president was facing the first of a flurry of questions on human rights from Canadian journalists.
Hooey played a major role in Hu's first state visit to Canada.
Supporters displayed colorful banners and flags. Television reporters said they were of the rent-a-mob variety on the People's Republic of China payroll.
Inevitably, Hu dismissed one of the first questions from a reporter, dismissing allegations of industrial espionage by Chinese firms in Canada as a "non-existent question".
But he rendered strong vocal support to Canada's goal to double trade with China, it's second largest trading partner to US$30-billion by 2010.
Hu opined that it is normal for Canada and China to hold different views on human rights because of differences in their cultures and histories.
a Sept. 17 visit by Hu to Vancouver will cap his first visit to North america since he became president of the world's most populous country in 2003.
The ever-smiling, benign-looking Hu being entertained royally by the Canadian Government is top dog in The People's Republic of China, which leads all others in an appalling human rights record.
Canada's appeasement policy toward China would be a joke were it not for the fact that Hu ranks as one of the world's worst dictators, in the company of his personal friends Kim Jong Il of North Korea, Than Shwe of Burma and Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, a deadly trio in the books of anyone who believes in democracy.
as leader of a country where freedom of expression is only a fond dream, Hu's official biography is available only for readers in Hong Kong, but is not accessible to people in Taiwan and Mainland China.
The son of a family of Shanghai tea merchants, Hu, according to his biographer Beijing journalist Ma Ling, was always the class monitor through school.
He seems to have been attracting powerful mentors ever since, Canadian billionaire Maurice Strong, who is an advisor to Paul Martin, not the least of them.
"Over 12 years, he rose steadily to important jobs in Gansu's economic planning agency, before a patron pulled him back to Beijing where he quickly became head of the Communist Youth League and then a provincial party secretary in impoverished Guizhou in China's south-west." (asian Pacific Post News, aug. 25, 2005).
Hu's reputation as a tyrant was earned early in his career. In 1998, he was transferred to run Tibet as party secretary. By the time he arrived in Lhasa, the city was erupting as Tibetans rebelled against Chinese rule.
His job was to handle the "dirty work" of crushing separatist agitation and Hu soon arranged to bring in 170,000 extra troops into Tibet and declare martial law in 1989 as proof of his commitment to Beijing.
"around the same time, the democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square in Beijing were broken up by troops. Between 1,000 and 2,600 protesters were killed. Terrorists did not kill them; their own government did." (asian Pacific Post News).
"The Chinese government later confirmed that over 2,500 demonstrators had been arrested, though other estimates were as high as 4,000. Beijing has still not accounted for those killed, injured or imprisoned.
"Hu was among the first communist provincial secretaries to express support for the crackdown on the Tiananmen democracy movement."
God is a forbidden entity in a country that promotes the occult and continues to imprison, torture and slaughter Christian leaders.
This is the human rights record held by China that thus far has been patently ignored by the Government of Canada:
amnesty International has reported that China executed more people than all other countries combined. Estimates range as high as 20,000 executions per year.
a U.S. Congress human rights committee has heard evidence of the horrifying practice of organ harvesting from executed prisoners. Skin, corneas, kidneys and other tissues were harvested and sold for profit. China is deliberately cloning human embryos to experiment on them.
China carries out violence against women through the most barbaric population control policy in the world. Forced sterilization, forced abortion, forced fitting of IUDs, female feticide and infanticide and sex selection are the result.
according to Chinese Government statistics, 230,000 Chinese citizens are incarcerated in re-education-through-labor camps. China has 20 high-security psychiatric hospitals run by the Ministry of Public Security. a number of dissidents are jailed in these hospitals.
Ottawa imprudently believes that its relationship with Beijing can help political reform in China.
Martin, like his predecessor Jean Chr™tien before him, wants Canadians to believe that wining and dining a dictator will somehow boost democracy in China. Mr. Dithers is no match for Mr. Tyrant.
The smiling dictator of the Peoples' Republic of China is interested in any business deals thrown his way and in acquiring Canada's impressive natural resources. But when it comes down to hardcore politics, Hu Jintao is interested only in luring the necessary useful idiots to his life's main cause: Communism.
Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com
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