There are so many levels of insanity and sadness in this story that I don’t know where to begin.
A Chinese farmer kills a family planning official after she reports his wife’s “illegal” second pregnancy and the wife is forced to have an abortion.
He also violently attacked her children, who are now in the hospital. The victims’ husband and father is, of course, aghast:
“He is so ruthless. My wife reported to the superiors that his wife was unlawfully pregnant again,’ Zhao was quoted as saying by Global Times.”
Is the farmer ruthless—or is perhaps China’s one-child law and its violent enforcement “ruthless”?
While of course the farmer’s acts of violence are unacceptable, can any one really call them unpredictable? Or even inexplicable?
Only when inhumanity on the government’s part finally leads to inhumanity on its citizens’ part do we bring out the word “ruthless”?
A nation that violently forces its citizens to destroy their own children cannot honestly expect a peaceful response. And other nations (and individuals) that continue to financially support a nation that violently forces its citizens to destroy their own children cannot honestly consider themselves guiltless either.
Are you contributing to the violence?
I don’t know about you, but I often find it difficult to avoid purchasing Chinese products and have therefore not made it much of a priority in the past. But enough is enough.
What do you think? Might it be time to consider joining the ranks of principled people like Aquinas and More Catholic Goods in taking a financial stand against Chinese violence and persecution?
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“Are you contributing to the violence?”
We also need to look at where charitable contributions go (Susan G. Komen fund gives money to Planned Parenthood) and the connections between any organization we are members of and Planned Parenthood and any other population control group. In my case, I found out recently that Girl Scouts supports PP so we are out of GS.
We’ve tried the “made in China” boycott. It’s hard….EVERYTHING it seems is made in China. I do think we’ll start trying a little harder though. And I agree with the first commenter. We don’t support Susan G. Komen, the United Way (I think they’re on the list, either way we don’t support them), March for Dimes, and other companies that support evil. But there are others that are a little harder. Our mortgage is through Bank of America which supports PP, we HAVE to pay that. It’s hard, very hard.
I will gladly boycott China if there’s a list of things to boycott.
boycotting china make products don’t help. too many issues and complication in the country of china. One of them is they don’t believe in God and the precious human life. I believe what we could do is reach out as much as possible to the peoples of China by exposing more teaching, spiritual influence, religion etc via internet such as Faith & Family Live or making a living example to those who are residing outside China. We need to be understanding, with care and love to show them the ways. We can’t enforce them through force or rejection. Jesus says, hate the sins but love the sinners. By influencing them, they could make a different to the next generation of China. Most of all, we need to pray for them.
Back in 2001, I was at the March for Life in Washington, DC. Along with some others in my group, we stood before the Chinese Embassy in protest against their one child coercive abortion policy. Perhaps we can find the Chinese embassy in NYC, SF and other major American cities including Washington DC and stand in protest against the evil.
However, we must remember that American hands are stained with the blood of taxpayer funded Planned Parenthood and Medical abortions. I know that in California, the potholes proliferate in the streets but the Medical abortions will be funded until no womb is left behind.
I completely understand the instinct to want to boycott all products made in China, but I can’t see how that would end up harming low-income Chinese workers far more than the government behind the laws. It’s hard to figure out how to put pressure on the Chinese government when they only seem to respond to financial pressure, but it’s just as hard for me to justify doing so when the ones who will be hardest hit have nothing to do with the government policies. It seems like it is one thing to boycott the Susan G. Komen fund (as there are other ways to fight breast cancer), but a whole another thing to outright boycott China’s products. Anybody get any other ideas out there?
Of all the ways mentioned here on how to help the Chinese people “throw
off” the horrific oppression under which they must live I think Pauline has the best way….TO PRAY!! for these most unfortunate of people. There but for the grace of God (and I might add the sacrifices of those who went before us)go the rest of the Nations. Our Blessed MOther told us what needs to be done…we need to do penance and pray the Rosary for the world to be at peace with God and with one another. Boycotting the products produced there ..nearly impossible since we import HEAVILY from there and thanks to the greed and avarice in our own government many of us are bound through the Banks ( not just Bank of America)and the huge debt we owe to China ( our mortgages, credit card balances,etc) We stopped listening decades ago to the conservative notion that we must not spend what we do not have…easy credit….no such thing! We who have a
credit card payment due each month now know that. So thanks Pauline…for
reminding us what we should be doing.
Hey Ann,
Since you’ve dropped Girl Scouts, have you heard of American Heritage Girls? It is a nice replacement for GS, and I believe it was founded to provide an option to those opposed to its policy. I don’t have a link, but I’m sure it can be googled.
Yes, prayer is always the answer to any problem. We are reminded of that by the messages given by Our Lady of Medjugorje to the world. Sister Lucia of Fatima said that in these times Our Lady has promised that the rosary would be especially effective as an answer to all of our problems. Let us not be too proud to humbly take the holy beads in our hands and make reparation to our God for the sins of all of humanity. Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us and bring us peace as you conquer our enemy.(deliberately not capitolizing satan’s name as a sign of disrespect for this liar.)
These sad stories are legion. Not that long ago, the wife of a Chinese couple already blessed with a girl became pregnant. The local authority ordered an abortion. The couple would have had twin sons. The father was so enraged he murdered the official. He, in turn, was sentenced to death.
I haven’t knowingly purchased anything made in China for a few years now. I may have to make do with what I have or go without or even spend more money on an item but I feel that it’s worth it. I first started because the made in China frenzy by companies so they can have a bigger profit margin has stolen American manufacturing jobs away but then I decided that more importantly I could not support a government that abuses women so violently.I could not support a government that purposely murders children and forces sterilizations. I could not support a government that imprisons, tourtures, and murders people if they don’t follow state sanctioned churches and instead are faithful to Rome. Some of my friends make fun of me because I do this but someone has to take a stand. Evil wins when good people do nothing. One person may not change things but if others would join it could send corporate America a huge wakeup call. Then from there maybe the world.
Yes. This is a terrible thing. I bet you have not found any toilet paper not made in China ! Remember, It was Bill Clinton who declared China “most favored nation”.
We should NEVER have transferred our industry there. Our family avoids Walmart..and we also avoid all of the Chinese goods that we can. People are ruthless when they do not have any morality. We are, unfortunately, not far behind China.
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