Monday, April 17, 2006

Greed is not always good

Everyone has heard the arguments against the current conflicts that the US have been engaged in recently (Kuwait and Iraq) as being more anout oil and money than the liberation of the local people and freedom for everyone in the world. It has not been a difficult task proving that this is indeed the fact but in doing the self-serving bit, there is the fallout that the people are indeed being freed from oppression. The trick in the end will be how the locals can keep things free once the big, bad allied troops leave.

On the other end of the spectrum, and very much out of sight, is the plight of people who do not reside on top of much wanted natural resources, or, do but they are not white so it does not matter to anyone that cares. No, I am not being melodramatic. Take a little Google(tm) run around the net and look up any of the following: Apartheid, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Tibet, Kashmir, Ethiopian Jews, Native Peoples Canadian and American), New Orleans and FEMA, and on and on.

Always on this list, but in varying degrees of visibility, is China. Everyone remembers the picture of the Chinese student trying to stop a tank in Tiananmen Square. Well, now we have something that is much, much worse. While the communist country is known to suppress religion and generally keep people in line (a worry for the IOC when China was chosen for the summer olympics), the issues that are coming to light show there is far more going on than that. This article talks about China stepping up the ante for dissidents that dare to go against the wishes of "the people". It seems that they may be recycling these broken people so that others may do better things in the world.

Yeah right, if only it were that noble. They are killing off the prisoners and the dissidents and then turning around and selling off their various body parts for transplantation into people willing to pay to extend their lifespan at the cost of someone else's life. It is not oil, or land, or religion, or diamonds that is the currency in this atrocity but human body parts. If there wre only enough organs available, a lot of lives would not be lost. However, in most cases, another has to die in order for one to live. As medical science perfected the various transplants that extend life, it was known there would be a day when a black market would emerge that traffiked in human body parts at the expense of the donor's lives. It is a cash cow when you think about it. Someone, somewhere always needs the next part and someone that knows them will be willing to pay for it in order to buy more time with that person. China seems to have decided that it need not be a black market but rather a Big Box mall retailing the parts of those who would dare oppose them as if in a flea market.

So, why do we not see this front and center on the news stations everywhere? China is a closed country to freedom of the press. You see what they allow you to see and that is what is going to be their greatest challenge controlling when the world comes to their doorstep in 2008 for the Olympics. No one wants to rock the boat with China either due to the upcoming games as everyone wants to give them a chance to shine. But, at what cost?

I think this is serious enough that China would want to have it cleared up and that the world should want to demand it proven to be erroneous reports; but, that is simply my opinion. Is the trafficking of human body parts from people who go against an oppressive government's will important enough to step in and do something or do those bodies have to be buried on a shitload of oil for anyone to care?

Ciao.

2 comments:

bobby fletcher said...

Just want you to know the China concentration camp allegation is not credible:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,18669046-7583,00.html

"It appears the claims by Falun Gong have been at least substantially exaggerated. Initial investigations by researchers for a US congressional committee have identified the site at Sujiatun as a hospital, where it is suspected organ harvesting occurs but on nowhere near the scale claimed"

Dtrini said...

OK, I will concede that maybe the scale of the claim may be flawed, and when we do not have a source of our own in China willing to talk openly, you work with what you can. That said, SSIX, you said, "where it is suspected organ harvesting occurs but on nowhere near the scale claimed". Uhm, just what scale of illegal harvesting do you consider not to be an atrocity exactly?

I'll tell you mine: NONE.