Maggie's Farm

China is harvesting organs from detainees, tribunal concludes - Victims include imprisoned followers of Falun Gong movement, China Tribunal says

"Hey, it's a different culture"

I find your glib little quip above to be un-amusing. It is not the first such, but it reveals a shallowness of thought and a callous disregard for the suffering of other human beings. You can do better.

What damn few in the media like to report is that this (organ harvesting) is yet another manifestation of the glories of socialism. The all knowing government in their all powerful manner of lording themselves over the individual, take it upon themselves to wantonly off those they find undesirable and conveniently steal the victim's body parts, often before the poor bastard is dead! I'd say that is nothing to joke about. It is unreported within Mainland China, just as the mention of recent 2 million protestors in the streets of Hong Kong is not reported.

Socialism is a malignant tumor upon the soul of humanity. Not a joke.

Socialist, communist, collectivist regimes the world over have been responsible for the unjust deaths of well over 100 million people. Not funny!

Surely there are differences between eastern and western cultures (some may even be worthy of mockery), but communism, socialism, collectivism is a dangerous ideology that destroys cultures and that is no joke.

I would prefer you quit making childish wise-cracks about things of this nature. As a Christian you should think about that.

In reply to 1.1 -
So, as you "note" this horrific form of barbarism in the first quarter of the 21st Century, you are content to simply attribute it to a difference in culture?
Do you really believe that the individual victims would consider this as a matter of their culture "thinks differently about the human individual"?
Not the actions of a brutal regime bent on disregarding accepted standards of human behavior? Not the policies of a gang of thugs who habitually disappear people with whom they disagree?

As I said, You "reveal a shallowness of thought."

Consider this;
There is a difference in any nation between the country (i.e. country defined as - the people, the food, the history, the music, the art, etc.) and their government. Casting an entire nation of 1.4 billion people into a category of "they" and stating "they think differently" is lazy at best.

@ 1.1.1.1
I didn't miss a thing!
Sarcasm - the lowest form of humor.
And in this instance shows laziness and a callous disregard (some might say un-Christian) for the plight and suffering of others.

There is no joke in killing people and harvesting their organs.

@ 1.1.1.2 DeGaulle gets it.
"I doubt likewise whether such brutality is necessarily encouraged by Buddhism, Taoism or Confucianism, even if such religions do not share such powerful witness against such evils as does Christianity. The culture of Communism/Socialism, on the other hand, is ultimately derived from satan."

Yes, this satanic culture of power and death - Communism / Socialism is not in keeping with the traditional cultures of Asia or anywhere else, as far as I can tell. It is a murderous cult with a horrific disregard toward the notion of human rights.

The question is, who will speak up on behalf of the victims?
Or shall we just dismiss such horrors and attribute them as merely "a different culture"?

I suggest that we all think long and hard on this one, as nearly half of those eligible to vote (many of whom are utterly uninformed of history) are dabbling with the notion of Socialism as a good idea here in America.

@ 1.1.1.3 - I will expound on Indy's point.

I love my country - America, but I loathe the government.

To make a finer point, my country- the history, customs, food, music, art, etc. is not the United States Government.

Indeed! The current culture of this government is one of death, destruction, theft of the people's productivity, enslavement of future generations through obscene levels of spending money they don't have and politicians playing one group against another for their own political gain. This government has socialized damn near everything in its own quest for eternal power.

I submit that the (mainland) Chinese people are in no position to demand change, as A) they are uninformed of the truth and B) they are disarmed. Hong Kong citizens fear losing what freedoms and government transparency remain after British rule. They understand better than many the dangers of the Communists.

In America we still have one last method to effect change if our would-be overlords refuse to comply with the rule of law or the consent of the governed. Pray that when (not if) a righteously indignant populous rises up to defend basic human rights, the event doesn't tear the country asunder. And pray for those poor souls who have been victimized by the perpetrators of ruin and death under the banner of "Socialism with Chinese characteristics".