RECENT revelations of tens of thousands of citizens being subjected to 'horrific and terrifying experiments', such as the injection of plutonium into their bloodstream, but without their knowledge, has cast a pall upon America's much vaunted human rights activities. This shocking information, coupled with the millions of Iraqis who are faced with starvation and disease, as a result of US-sponsored sanctions, has further thrown into doubt, the integrity and degree of genuine concern, that Washington-based human rights monitoring organisations are capable of generating, in any endeavour to alleviate the repression and suffering of a foreign people. The US, with a population of about one fifth of China's, probably incarcerates more prisoners in its penal institutions, on a per capita basis, than the PRC and certainly does not offer an equal measure of discipline. It also borders on the hypocritical and perverse that the so-called great democracies of Latin America and Asia, that allow their environments to be polluted and poisoned by the multi-national corporations and let their children be debauched and bonded into virtual slavery, are not classified as abusers of human rights and are not monitored by the various 'watch' organisations that are head-quartered in the US. Last but not least, it has become very apparent in recent months, that China's ruling elite does not hold a mandate for corruption. This peculiar disease seems to plague individuals in high places, in nearly all of the highly developed countries of Western Europe. Therefore, it would probably be of far greater value for the detractors of China's human rights policies (or the lack of those policies), to get their own act together. These detractors should, collectively, set an example, that is above reproach and shines as a beacon of human integrity and care. JONATHAN GRAY League of China Patriots
