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A Further Perspective
Joe Misunderstands
The author of the Violence Against Women Act is slow to react to violence against Chinese women.
They let Joe Biden out without a leash again. He went to China this month and pronounced the Communist giant’s one child policy “repugnant.” That was, of course, after he told a Chinese audience at Chengdu University that “your policy has been one which I fully understand — I’m not second-guessing — of one child per family.” Repugnant? Understandable? Which is it? Well, you need to have Joe Biden’s forty years of skilled diplomacy to be able to tell which.
Joe Biden has been underrated for too long. We don’t realize what an unusual talent we have just a heartbeat away from the presidency. The White House is trying to rectify that. They feature important contributions by Joe Biden on their website.
Here’s one that caught our attention: Joe Biden was being hailed for his contributions to the fight against domestic violence against women. Well, we’re certainly all against that. But Biden did more than we did. He authored a bill — The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) — to show how much he is against it: The White House website explains:
Written and championed by then-Senator Biden, VAWA focused on improving the criminal justice response to domestic violence, stalking, and sexual assault.
Now, that law, VAWA, was all about domestic violence against women. As opposed to violence against women in foreign nations. Like China, for example.
China Scholar Steven Mosher knows something about China and about violence against women there. In the late 1970s, Steven Mosher was the first U.S. doctoral student permitted to study and write about life in rural China. Fluent in Chinese, Mosher lived among the peasants and wrote about their life with beauty, sympathy, and humor. Once, while visiting a humble Chinese café — a greasy chopstick if not a greasy spoon — the owner spied him sitting with the agricultural workers and construction gang members waiting for their noon meal. “You go upstairs,” the Chinese lady proprietor yelled at the obviously Western visitor, Mosher. “This place not fit for pigs. You eat upstairs.” Steven noted that the Chinese peasants sitting around the downstairs tables all laughed good naturedly and agreed with the owner.
But Steven Mosher uncovered something in rural China far more menacing than unhygienic eateries. In those days, like so many Western grad students, Steve Mosher considered himself pro-choice on abortion. Yet, he was shocked to find trucks roaring into these quiet villages. “Cadres” — as Communist officials in China are called — were empowered to round up pregnant peasant women who were about to have their second or third child. The women cried piteously as they were forcibly pushed into the open trucks and hauled off to party headquarters. There they were kept, without family contact, and browbeaten into getting abortions. Some of these women were in their seventh, eighth, and even ninth month of pregnancy.
Shocked, Steven Mosher published an article about forced abortions in China. Even the New York Times managed to tut-tut its disapproval of forcing women to get abortions.
But Stanford University was warned by the Beijing regime that they’d better get rid of Ph.D. candidate Steven Mosher or they would never send another grad student to China .
What could poor Stanford do? They didn’t have any nuclear weapons. So they quickly passed a rule to cover their stray scholar’s case — and promptly applied it to young Mosher. You think it’s not right to pass an ex post facto law? Well, the Faculty Senate of Stanford University is not the U.S. Congress. So, faster than you can say General Tso’s Chicken, Mosher was pitched out of his graduate degree program and forbidden to re-enter the People’s Republic of China.
Now, Steven Mosher is president of the prestigious Population Research Institute. He has long since converted to Catholicism, is married, and the father of nine children. He remains a champion for the persecuted people of China .
Joe Biden was in the Senate in 1979. His greatest accomplishment of thirty-eight years in the U.S. Senate was the passage of the Violence Against Women Act. Now, he goes to China as a member of an administration that is giving $50 million to help China apply a one child policy which Biden thinks is “understandable” and “repugnant.”
China is probably the worst example of violence against women in history of the world. And 160 million girl babies have been killed by abortion in China and in other Asian cultures to which U.S. de-population aid will now be flowing.
Joe Biden will have a lot of explaining to do. To American taxpayers, to history, and to God.
About the Author
Ken Blackwell, the former mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio is Vice Chairman of the Republican National Committee’s Platform Committee. He also serves on the boards of the Club For Growth and the National Taxpayers Union.
About the Author
Bob Morrison is a writer and researcher in Washington and a senior fellow at the Family Research Council.
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Wayne | 9.1.11 @ 6:56AM
Biden only said what he truly believed. You see as a statists, it is the Obligation of China's government to control its population and the individual does not matter.
With Obama we are seeing more and more of that thinking here. For example defending one's family against a member of a protected species is a crime against the state and deserves punishment. Individual concerns have no place in a statist regime.
RT| 9.1.11 @ 7:09AM
But statists probably have a special place in Hell.
Great article; horrible topic.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 9.1.11 @ 7:10AM
You might mention the millions of fetuses aborted here in the USA, both male and female.
The Republicans need a highlight the long term Democratic slogan: No child left behind, in the womb.
POST American| 9.1.11 @ 8:09AM
---This piece doesn't even give us the tip
of the rice-berg as far as what the Globalists
and Glow--bal--ism has wrought.
Dan Mathewson| 9.1.11 @ 5:48PM
Evidence, man, where's your evidence???
Teaghan| 9.1.11 @ 8:12AM
How right you are Bill. Especially black babies. More killed in the womb than any other. Margaret Sanger would be proud if she could see NY abortion numbers for blacks today. Ms Sanger, the lover of eugenics and carried on today by Planned Parenthood.
I learned the other day that the Susan B Kohlman (sp) Foundation, the charity that is supposed to be aiding in the research of breast cancer, is a big donor to Planned Parenthood.
They will never get another dime from me.
David W| 9.1.11 @ 10:10AM
Susan G. Komen is the organization. I'll see what they say.
Teaghan| 9.1.11 @ 11:34AM
Thank you David for the clarification on the name.
KyMouse| 9.1.11 @ 11:22AM
Good points, Teaghan.
Between April 2005 and April 2006 (to name only one 12-month time frame), various affiliates of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure organization contributed $711,485 to Planned Parenthood branches. Those figures are from a report released by STOPP (a project of the American Life League) in 2008, which added that 21 Komen affiliates had given significant amounts of money to 26 Planned Parenthood facilities.
The Komen people also refuse to tell people that numerous studies have found a link between breast cancer and abortion, as well as between breast cancer and chemical contraception.
As recently as last year, Susan G. Komen was discovered to be funding at least five facilities or groups that are actively involved in killing human embryos for stem cell research.
Although I'm not Catholic, I applaud the Catholic bishops of Ohio who (in July) announced the withdrawal of their support for Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Other groups and organizations have done so as well.
W| 9.1.11 @ 11:53AM
Good info; did not know this. thanks.
Wayne | 9.1.11 @ 11:55AM
Plus I guarentee they will never do any good fighting cancer.
Petronius| 9.1.11 @ 9:09AM
Back in the late '80's, my sister started graduate school in the bay area studying health care management. At a lecture on public policy and population growth, a student from China rose to object to his country's one child mandate. That night, the thugs from the Chinese consulate in San Francisco dragged him from his dorm and he was never seen or heard from again by anybody. The following week, the commie feminista lecturer bragged about turning him in. Doubtless, that young man was repatriated to China and executed.
Joe Biteme only cares about preventing violence if "Bubba" is doing it to a female who is a beneficiary of Democrat largess.
C Smith| 9.1.11 @ 9:57AM
"China... the worst example of violence against women in history of the world"? Hardly:
Friday, April 8, 2011
The Budget You Say
The budget impasse tonight pivoted on one point – abortion, a miniscule fraction of the total. Yet Obama and Reid and a plethora of screaming feminists were literally frothing at the mouth over the suggestion abortion funding might be curtailed. They tried tirelessly to justify the "A" word, but God wasn't listening.
David writes: "... thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.... My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them" (Psalms 139:13-16).
The words of Jeremiah: "Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations" (Jeremiah 1:4-5).
"And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Judah; And entered into the house of Zacharias... And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb" (Luke 1:39 -41).
Tonight, as the cause of the innocent among us went again unheard, we all remain complicit in that euphemism called "a woman's right to choose."
For a less sanitized rendition, go to Google, click Images, and enter the word "abortion."
In that Day Obama and Reid and a plethora of feminists (unless there is repentance) will stand before the Lord in silence. "And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and Hades delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged... according to their works.... And whosoever was not found written in the book of life..." (Revelation 20:11-15).
http://the-day-of-the lord.blogspot.com/2011/04/budget-you-say.html
RT| 9.1.11 @ 6:26PM
C Smith, very well said!
Radioman777| 9.1.11 @ 10:22AM
Joe Biden is the consumate statist. Having said that, he also doesn't have two brain cells to rub together.
PattyMor| 9.1.11 @ 3:10PM
China has big demographic problems are a result of their one child, forced abortion policy. First, there is a shortage of marriageable women and we already know how much damage high testerone young men can do. Second, there will not be enough young people to support the old age pensioners. So in the long run, population is destination. Just ask old Europe which is now filled to the brim with Muslims.
Skippy| 9.2.11 @ 3:16PM
I love Mark Steyns line.
"When history comes a-knocking, the only question that matters is, who's there?
With God all things r possible| 9.1.11 @ 7:04PM
Being both wicked and foolish is a wretched combination, especially in a leader of a country, even more so when making casual excuses for monstrous crimes.
With God all things r possible| 9.1.11 @ 7:06PM
Red State has a good summary of a new study showing increased mental illness in women due to abortion. Check it out: http://www.redstate.com/meliss.....l-illness/
POST American| 9.3.11 @ 2:59AM
---------------------FINAL WORD-----------------------
-Feeble, token, Tavistock scripted
coverage of David Rockefeller's
'fave' Glow-ball-ist EUGENICS paradise.
But no worry, that 30 MILLION MAN surplus
population, we're sure, are getting lots 'n lots
of training in FEMA camp management.
You'll all be brought up to speed come 2015-20.
In short, one way or another, 'Youth--in---Asia's
set to play a part in your future.
SO ---Keep voting for that Globalist cardboard kiddies! --Keep patronizing that Trump dump
casinos, sports 'n wampum 'culture'.
----------Chop-sticks n' viagra
-----------------JUST KEEP A GOIN'!