The Empire State Building today went red and yellow to commemorate the 60th anniversary of communist China.
Hooray!Read this oh-so-tame excerpt from a letter by Human Rights Watch to the Empire State Building Management:
"While China has made undeniable progress in economic and technological areas in the past 60 years, many key human rights - such as peaceful dissent and of political participation, or the right to form independent unions - are no more assured in 2009 than they were in 1949. Indeed, preparations for the 60th anniversary of the PRC have set back human rights in China, resulting tighter control of the activities of rights defenders and members of civil society, heightened media and Internet censorship, and increased surveillance by police and security forces across the country." (emph. added)But see for yourself the many
Don't remember Tiananmen Square? Here's a handy little primer for you.
Forward it to the Empire State Building management when you're through. The "contact us" link to their website is here.
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Please tell me this isn't so! This is what I call kissing butt in a major way (and not really in a good one either)...
Amen.
Don't the Chinese own the Empire State Building by now?
When did the Chicoms buy the Vampire State Building?
DOH..silly me...last stimulus package (money hadda come from somewhere)...
Next major Chicom holiday will perhaps see Barry, Meesh, and the White House staff, doing a dragon parade through the West Wing...
More examples, (as if we needed them), of our up-side-down societal values.
I was very confused about this when I heard about it. Surely, the news report was in error! Amazingly stupid. Now to send my thoughts via your link.
Is this another one of our apologist-in-chief's brainstorms? Because I can't think of any other reason.
The lack of outrage over this floors me.
I debated a one-woman boycott of all things Made in China, but if we stop buying their stuff, then they won't have any money to lend back to us.
A catch 22 of epic proportions.
What? Is this for real?
Un-effing-believable. I thought this had to be a nasty internet rumor, but no. Moral: never doubt LM. Plus, money changed hands somewhere and life is cheap when money changes hands.
Around my house I say this a lot: "Turn off the lights, it's too expensive"!
And if the Chinese can afford it shouldn't they at least Go Green? As in save energy, not as in Emerald City green, or Iranian protest green.
That is just so weird. I mean, is this a standard practice at the ESB? Lighting up in the colors as a salute to various countries? Who the hell owns the building now anyway? Who made this decision and why? Can't imagine many New Yorkers putting up with this.
We wouldn't want any trouble for all those American companies who have moved their arses to China, now would we?
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!
I've gotta admit; I don't give a rats a*$ for how they light some building. It does seem pretty self-serving though. Oh, and since we've started invading countries without reason and torturing some of their people, I'm not throwing many stones at other countries. We may not be the worst but we lost a lot of ground on being the best.
On a lighter note, maybe if they lit it in Iraq's colors the next set of terrorists wouldn't destroy it?
What were Germany's colors under Hitler? Gosh darn it, I just can't remember. But Hitler, hang in there. We've always loved you, baby. After all, you did head up your own sovereign nation. So who are we to say, "boo on you"?
Screw us. I mean, as Obama repeatedly pointed out in his UN address, we (before he came to power, of course) "unilaterally" did such and so many bad, bad things. Who says we're the best? Who says the United States is the greatest nation on earth? Oh, pshaw.
I say, "Give up the ghost, you patriotic lug nuts." I'm thinking we should give up our sovereignty, as a unified show of self-flagellation. Iran alone has already shown itself mightily susceptible to this diplomatic tactic.
Because really, girls. Aren't there like, a million other countries so much better than ours?
This idea probably came from one of those groups who like to promote "diversity"--the kind where we are supposed to put up with...no, wait, be accepting of....no, that's not right...ah, yes, "respect" all points of view in the name of compassion and enlightenment. What are the colors going to be next week--those of Iran? North Korea? Cuba? Venezuela?
going over there. What freaking idiot thought this was a good idea?
They should really write those dag gone history text books backwards. Sparkle just told me Tiananmen square was way too recent for them to have learned anything about. I guess they're too busy talking about what hypocrites the founding fathers were.
When I think of NYC, the perception of weakness all of our public indecisiveness and all the apologizing our globe trotting leader has been doing...it scares me and makes me feel very vulnerable.
Do people not remember WWI and WWII? For all of our warts throughout history, where would the world be without the USA having their back?
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