By Cindy Sheehan, 4/21/06
I am sitting here watching CSPAN, where Congress is holding a special
hearing into Chinese human rights violations, which is, of course, an
important issue that needs to be addressed. An Amnesty International
report just came out, and of all of the countries in the world, the US
is fourth in number of executions – behind China, Iran, and Saudi
Arabia. China by far executes the most people with seeming barbaric
abandon.
Everyone who has a brain and a stake in what direction our country is
going should be demanding that Congress investigate the administration
and itself for human rights violations. This feeble excuse for an
Executive Branch and its bobble-headed, rubber-stamp franchise of a
useless body down the mall – Congress – are committing crimes against
humanity, war crimes, and crimes against our Constitution and rule of
law. Instead of holding these investigations against China, they
should be investigating themselves and George Bush and his cronies,
who are violating everything that we hold dear as Americans and are
killing and torturing thousands of people just for the icing on the
brutality cake. [read more]