Shameful US State Department

The US State Department should be ashamed of the appalling manner in which it recently addressed China in regards to human rights.

ABC News reports: “We brought it up early and often. It was mentioned in the first session and as a troubling trend in our society, and an indication that we have to deal with issues of discrimination or potential discrimination. And these are issues very much being debated in our own society,” Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy Human Rights and Labor Michael Posner, who led the US delegation to the talks, told reporters on Friday.

This is Jimmy Carter redux at its best.  The Democrats, being the moral relativists they are, have no problem equating the AZ law aimed at stemming the tide of illegal immigration to one of the worst violators of human rights in the history of the world.

Somehow, cracking down on illegal immigration which is tied to human trafficking, drug smuggling, violence, kidnapping, murder, and mayhem is equivalent to the Red Chinese who have the blood of millions on their hands as a result of the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution, not to mention Tienanmen Square and Tibet.

America is the greatest symbol of freedom in the history of mankind, while Communist China has the blood of between at least 30 and 60 million on its hands.  Only a secular-socialist regime like the Obama administration could make such an appalling equivalence.

China tortures and kills those who speak freely.  China tortures Christians, Muslims, Falon Gong, and others who do not conform to the state sanctioned religion.  China kills routinely, all those it views as enemies of the state.  China executes people for "corruption" and drug smuggling.  China spies on its people as a matter of policy while refusing to give them a say in their government.  China confiscates property at will and devastates the environment for economic gain.

Obama's previous statement regarding American exceptionalism seems especially revealing in retrospect: "I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism."

But any idiot knows that if everyone is exceptional, no one is exceptional.  What makes America exceptional is its rejection of the welfare state, socialism, and dependence on government.  Obama is trying to change that so that America moves towards a European style socialism and dependence on Big Brother.  Obama promised transformational change and he's doing everything he can to ensure that America is no longer exceptional.

If America continues down this course, it will not just be like all the others in Europe, but the light of freedom in the world will have dimmed and the forces of oppression and tyranny will be strengthened.  Who then will stand up to China, Russia, Iran, Syria, and the other dictators of the world who seek to rule through coercion, violence, and intimidation?

Alas, I am an optimist.  I believe America will recover and be rejuvenated through individualism and a re-commitment to liberty in spite of Obama, not because of him.  America will endure so long as it returns to its founding principles of liberty, the pursuit of happiness, equality of opportunity (not result), and limited government.

God save America. God bless America.