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annfan_777 wrote: "This story has NOTHING to do with liberal or conservative, or even Christianity. It has to do with basic decency.Which is why you are having such trouble wrapping your little brain around the concept. "
So again you admit that you are a liberal when it comes to things you want -- you dont care about the consequences as long as you get what you want. That makes you no different than the people who demand we save the polar bears from "global warming/cooling/climate change".
Good intentions are often the path to hell.
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...
What the Obama administration has just said is: Freedom is not worth fighting for. Helll, it's not even worth arguing about.
The borrower becomes the slave of the lender. Who told us that?