Zhukov
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From Nicholas D. "Big Lib" Kristof:
It's not all a glowing endorsement of the conservative movement's policy on NK, but it's much more than most liberals have managed to admit.
When exactly did gay 'rights' and reproductive 'rights' trump human rights for Democrats?
Somewhere between the left's collusion with Charlie and the left's hostile take over of liberalism I guess........
Liberals took the lead in championing human rights abroad in the 1970's, while conservatives mocked the idea. But these days liberals should be embarrassed that it's the Christian Right that is taking the lead in spotlighting repression in North Korea.
Perhaps no country in human history has ever been as successful at totalitarianism as North Korea. Koreans sent back from China have been herded like beasts, with wires forced through their palms or under their collarbones. People who steal food have been burned at the stake, with their relatives recruited to light the match. Then there was the woman who was a true believer and suggested that the Dear Leader should stop womanizing: after she was ordered executed, her own husband volunteered to pull the trigger.
"The biggest scandal in progressive politics," Tony Blair told The New Yorker this year, "is that you do not have people with placards out in the street on North Korea. I mean, that is a disgusting regime. The people are kept in a form of slavery, 23 million of them, and no one protests!"
Actually, some people do protest. Conservative Christians have aggressively taken up the cause of North Korean human rights in the last few years, and the movement is gathering steam. A U.S.-government-financed conference on North Korean human rights convened in Washington last week, and President Bush is expected shortly to appoint Jay Lefkowitz to the new position of special envoy for North Korean human rights.
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It's not all a glowing endorsement of the conservative movement's policy on NK, but it's much more than most liberals have managed to admit.
When exactly did gay 'rights' and reproductive 'rights' trump human rights for Democrats?
Somewhere between the left's collusion with Charlie and the left's hostile take over of liberalism I guess........