Deeply Concerned.......

Well, as most of you know, the Olympics are about to begin. So there are millions of people heading to China to partake in the events. Politicians are no different. But the difference is that politicians use this time to make speeches.

So GW is incorporating this trip to the Olympics into meeting with foreign dignitaries, such as China. It is all over the news right now about his meeting with the South Koreans. And some of his comments have got me thinking. Here's the report:

" SEOUL, South Korea — The same day of his arrival in Beijing for the Olympics, U.S. President George W. Bush plans to pointedly express "deep concerns" about the state of human rights in China and urge the communist nation to allow political freedom for its citizens.
"America stands in firm opposition to China's detention of political dissidents, human rights advocates and religious activists," Bush is to say in the marquee speech of his three-nation Asia trip. "We speak out for a free press, freedom of assembly and labor rights — not to antagonize China's leaders, but because trusting its people with greater freedom is the only way for China to develop its full potential."

This is rather comical to me. Our president is Deeply Concerned about China and human rights. He is concerned about the the right to free press in China, but our government does everything it can under the constitution to censor dissendents in this country (both sides of the political spectrum are in cahoots on this one). He is concerned about freedom of assembly in China, while the government here will try to do everything in its power to squash that right by creating permits and other items to keep those things from happening. He is concerned with Civil Rights in China, yet his administration is continuing to take our rights (rights afforded us by the constitution) away under the disguise of Security. His administration has given the federal government the right to spy on our conversations over the telephone, over the email, our surfing activity over the internet, and our banking records.

It is a little hipocritical to tell one country that their government needs to work on things that you government does the same. Why would you want to pull another government toward democracy when your own is moving away from it?

Viva Liberty!