It has been wonderful to see the public protests against the 1936 Berlin Olympics soon to be held in Beijing. For once, an instinctive revulsion against totalitarianism is driving a global movement of protest. But every legitimate protest movement attracts slimy elements, who seek to cash in on a human rights issue to cover up their anti-human-rights agenda. Both the Civil Rights movement and the Anti-War movements in the 1950s and 1960s were infiltrated by totalitarians, seeking to exploit a just cause for their own nefarious purposes.
Today, the fifth column is Conservative. I find it absolutely hilarious that many Conservative columnists in the United States and Canada have been going through a crisis of conscience about the protests against repression in China and Tibet. Their instincts, whenever they see young protesters in the streets, opposing big power, is to call out the tanks and roll over them. But their own traditional rhetoric has painted them into a corner. Most of them have managed, by the most bizarre contortion, to blame the repression practiced by their Communist buddies on “Liberalism” !
Let’s look at the record:
It is Conservatives who consistently promoted the doctrine of “engagement” with the Communist Party in Beijing, starting with Richard M. Nixon kissing Mao’s bum, and continuing through Reagan’s rush to clink champagne glasses with Deng after the Tienanmen Square massacre.
It is Conservatives who have universally claimed that human rights and democracy are of no importance, as long as global corporations can make money off of slave labor.
It is Conservatives who have consistently promoted the lie that China is “no longer Communist”, virtually wiping the term “Communist China” out of existence. It is nonsense. Beijing’s dictatorship is not one molecule less Communist than it has ever been, But it is a hell of a lot richer.
It is Conservatives who have consistently done everything in their power to protect Communist dictatorship in China, and keep its gerontocracy of mass-murderers and slave-traders wealthy and happy.
It is Conservatives who have consistently abandoned and betrayed the Captive Nations conquered by Beijing’s Communist imperialism, and the religious and ethnic minorities who suffer persecution.
It is Conservatives who have encouraged American corporations to collaborate with the Communist Party in maintaining an iron curtain of censorship, keeping the Chinese people in helpless ignorance.
It is Conservatives who have tried to redefine a “free market” so that freedom plays no role in it, and it now means “anything the Communist Party does”.
It is Conservatives who have done everything in their power to hand over America’s (and Canada’s) wealth to the Communist Party in Beijing, and to deflect attention from the tremendous danger this poses to freedom everywhere on the globe.
It is Conservatives who have consistently promoted Communist values: ant-like conformity, state secrecy, censorship, oppression of women, autocratic rule, persecution of gays; racism, military adventures, sexual repression, arbitrary arrest and imprisonment, abolition of due process, concentration camps, torture, a continuous assault on individual freedom. These are all essential and innate elements of Communism, which is the most extreme form of ultra-conservatism. Conservatives have consistently advocated these Communist ideas. Guantanamo Bay and “waterboarding” are Communism in its purest form.
Now Conservatives try to position themselves as on the side of freedom? Bullshit.
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