China's Religious Tyranny

Fire of Liberty

Jason Lee Steorts has an excellent piece over at National Review Online on the horrific conditions that Christians endure in China. What's even worse is the fact that the Communist tyrants in China have made it their mission to wipe out any practice of religion while also serving as a member of the UN Commission on Human Rights. So along with the likes of Cuba, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Sudan, and Zimbabwe, the PRC is the member of an organization that condemns other states for actions they condone. Just look at this one account in China:

On April 5, Fu testified before the commission about, among other things, the imprisonment of Cai Zhuohua. Cai is a Chinese pastor who, in September 2004, was arrested for printing Bibles without permission from the Chinese government. (I reported on his arrest in the January 31 issue of NR.) According to Fu, Cai has been tortured in prison, and the judge presiding over his case has just sent him back to the police for another round of "interrogation." The idea is to make him confess to a crime that carries a long prison sentence.

One of the Chinese police's favorite torture devices — and one that has probably been used repeatedly on Cai Zhuohua — is a kind of electric baton. Bob Fu owns such a baton, smuggled out of a Chinese prison. He took it to Geneva after obtaining permission from the secretary of the UNCHR to conduct a demonstration of it during his testimony. This demonstration consisted of Fu's holding it in the air over his head and turning it on for six seconds.

Predictably, the Chinese delegation went berserk, its members claiming that the demonstration made them feel threatened. (One is left to wonder how they would feel if the baton were actually used against them.) They then demanded that Fu be booted from the proceedings. The commission's chairman, obliging chap that he is, agreed. Fu was escorted from the building and stripped of his U.N. badge. His baton was also seized, and has not been returned.

And people question why we need John Bolton in the UN. This body needs a good kick in the pants or we'll continue to see this nonsense go on day after day.