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Rep. Chris Smith of New Jersey, a Republican who’s been a leader on pro-life and other human rights issues, was on the Laura Ingraham show today to discuss Vice President Joe Biden’s comments, in China, about that country’s one-child policy. (Biden said that he “fully understands” and isn’t “second-guessing” the rule.) Here’s a transcription of some of what Smith said on the show:
This is just exposing what this administration has been doing from day one. Just like the eight years of the Clinton administration, and that is to enable dictatorship, to enable forced abortion and forced sterilization. Let’s not forget that at the Nuremburg War Crimes Tribunal, forced abortion was properly construed to be a crime against humanity. It is no less a crime against humanity today and there is our Vice President saying that he fully understands the one child per couple policy that has made brothers and sisters illegal in China.
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Hillary Clinton, en route to Beijing, after being selected as secretary of state, said, I’m not going to allow human rights to interfere — her words — with selling or peddling our debt, as well as global warming. Obama — when he had Hu Jintao in town, who ought to be held for genocide and crimes against humanity at the world court, he said nothing, had a state dinner for this man who ought to be behind bars, be held to account for these atrocities, including those focused on women.
It is hideous. Women are hunted down, if they evade these family planning cadres into the ninth month, they are forcibly brought into a clinic and [their children] are aborted. I had a…Chinese student here in the United States, who finally got asylum, and she told her story, how they literally held her father, they held other people until she surrendered for this so-called voluntary abortion, and then she literally, roughly, had her baby removed. And, as she said, they actually put one of the body parts on her to mock her. I mean, that’s how cruel this policy is. And there’s Joe Biden, saying that he fully understands this one-child per couple policy. That is an outrageous statement. He prides himself on his combating violence against women. This is the worst, most pervasive act of violence against women anywhere in the world. It is systematic, and it is state-sponsored. And the United States of America under Obama, Hillary Clinton, and now the vice president, in this outrageous statement, is showing the world that we do not care about Chinese women and about Chinese babies.
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Marie| 8.23.11 @ 3:49PM
If the truth be known Joe Biden has proven himself to be a b-----d!!
Occam's Tool| 8.23.11 @ 3:51PM
China cannot replace us either. Their demographics are horrible. No, we can either fight, or lose, against the Islamists.
soldiermom11| 8.23.11 @ 4:47PM
If Biden thinks it's such a great idea lets outsource Planned Parenthood to China and the whole Biden gang and see how he "understanding" he will be.
florin| 8.23.11 @ 5:48PM
This is the same Biden who went to Africa and promised that the money would flow if they would put abortion rights into their new constitution...the people there pleaded for help but did not want to terminate the lives of their unborn children to get that help...however, the government there, like the Obama adminstration here, does not care about what the people want.
Kitty | 8.23.11 @ 6:47PM
Joe Biden wishes his brothers and sister were never born?
I Survived Arlen Specter| 8.23.11 @ 8:39PM
Whenever this heinous crime against humanity (abortion, forced or elective, not "Plugs" Biden) is brought up the following words from Jesus Christ comfort me & remind me God is still in control:
"Do not be afraid of those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul & body in hell. Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father. And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So don't be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows." - Matthew ch. 10 vs. 28 - 31
While Christ's words did not focus directly on abortion they do focus on the value to God, our Creator of every human life & every human being He has created. This crime will not go unpunished in the end. God will have the final say & all who had their God given life ended before it began here by either evil governments or greedy abortionists making their living off organized, legalized murder, will receive justice from the Almighty God who formed them in their mother's womb. May Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama & all those involved in the horrible holocaust of abortion turn to Jesus Christ before it's too late. God does not wish to see anyone perish in hell. Hell was created for Satan & his demons, not human beings.
Wayne | 8.23.11 @ 11:56PM
We are judged by how we treat the weakest among us. First by how we treat the unborn, then the old and infirmed, and the newly born.
It is easy to see why. Their value comes from their existence rather than what they can do.
Timothy L. Pennell| 8.24.11 @ 6:56AM
He is Heir to a Throne, occupied by a Champion of the MURDER of Babies, in their Mother's womb. The 2nd in command, to a man who voted 3 TIMES, in the Illinois State Senate, against putting money aside for the humane treatment of little BABIES that had, somehow, managed to survive the Butcher's Blade. He voted to discard them, and let them Die, ALONE, on some dirty floor, in some dark room. His, "SUFFERING" of the little children, is not the same as that of JESUS.
I wonder what Joe Biden believes in? I wonder, if he's a Christian, like his Boss? A man who was raised in the Muslim Country of Indonesia, attending Muslim Schools and going to Mosques, until the age of 11.
I see the smile on Biden's face. He is so happy to be Vice President. This little man, from a little State. It's gotta be, for him, truly, a Dream come true. You can see it in his face.
But, at what price?
If he's even half the Christian, that his Boss is, (The man that HAMAS believes is their MOSES) then he would know the words of our Lord: "What does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and lose his Immortal Soul?"
Indeed.
Steve| 8.24.11 @ 9:19AM
You wrote, "Hu Jintao ... ought to be held for genocide and crimes against humanity at the world court..."
The World Court is it self a crime against humanity, a violation of popular sovereignty accountable to nobody.
Other than that, I agree.