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Obama's Disgraceful Abandonment of Chen Guangcheng

K.R.2 Wrote: May 04, 2012 11:23 AM
Obama and Hillary sold him down the river. He just doesn't fit their plan of turning us into another Communistic country.
traitorbill Wrote: May 04, 2012 12:05 PM
Why not? Obama welcomes China's rise as a superpower as they insulted us at state dinner thrown in their honor. And Hillary laments that it "difficult to act toughly with your banker."

It's hard to know which is worse: one's grief over Chen Guangcheng's fate or the fury over the Obama administration's abandonment of him to that fate.

Chen was already an internationally known human rights activist when he remarkably showed up at the U.S. embassy in Beijing last week seeking refuge. A blind, self-taught lawyer from Shandong province, Chen had been held prisoner for 19 months for the crime of publicizing Chinese atrocities by those enforcing the "one child" policy. Chen had chosen a moonless night (his captors were not blind) to scale several high walls and stumble his way...

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