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August 25, 2008 at 04:08:11
CNN Caught In Genocidal Correctness by John Kusumi Page 1 of 3 page(s) |
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Ordinarily, I seem to be glib while I kick the news media, as has become my habit in copies of my internet column. (The media? Aren't they the bent, craven, depraved crew of sock puppets, managed by a corrupt cabal? And of course, I work on a book manuscript called Genocidal Correctness....) Well, something is qualitatively different today, and I take no pleasure in saying "I told you so." The key man who now occasions the disgrace of CNN (and the rest of America's MSM) is an individual named Lu Guoping. And, two more essential names in the story are David Kilgour and David Matas. The occasion is to the disgrace of the media, because it is proving a central theme in my book: Genocide has been occurring in China, and America's MSM has been sweeping it under the rug. Somehow, I was thinking that my book might be fought off when released, as if it were a proposition simply from the temerity of John Kusumi. However, it now appears that my ringing indictment will also stand as a record of (unfortunately true) history. The larger matter – that perhaps 40,000 people are dead – will be documented by many historians, and will stand as a black mark against the regime of Communist China, which is the first villain in this case.
As an aside, journalists pride themselves because they file "the first draft of history." What they too often forget is that historians file the later drafts of history, without the pressure to be politically correct in contemporary context. Historians can say things that, apparently, journalists can't.
It's time to review the crime, and the response – or lack of response. The crime is the forced harvesting of vital organs from prisoners of conscience – Falun Gong practitioners – in the gulags and prison system of Mainland China. These people, who shouldn't even be in prison to begin with, lose their lives in a process of organ harvesting, and the organs are transplanted into paying customers.
They may even still be alive as the organs are removed – they are selected, as healthy specimens, for just-in-time execution. It's diabolical. It combines theft with murder with profiteering. Capitalist types could note that it monetizes Falun Gong persecution. This is organized, systematic, machine-like evil through deliberately chosen policies of the Chinese government. The only comparable evil might be Nazi Germany's medical experiments, performed on unwitting prisoners in World War II.
There is plenty of gravity to this matter if it sinks in that this is real – a confirmed crime against humanity that may still be in progress. And, it happens in a context that has also gone unreported – the crackdown against Falun Gong in China. To be fair, it was reported back in 1999 when it began. To be accurate, it dropped out of the news after, late in 1999, U.S. President Bill Clinton signed a "free trade" deal with China.
As an aside, when did Bill Clinton ever say that we should be "trading away" our concern for human rights? He didn't! The deal was ostensibly about trade, and was not about human rights, per se. I believe that news media behavior was decided at the news media level, not the White House. In other words, sociopathic managing editors made their call and took the trade deal "to the next level" of sanitizing China's public image. If it were mine to arrange, I would have Nuremberg-style trials for Peter Jennings, Tom Brokaw, and Dan Rather – accessories to genocide, each.
Let's look beyond my aside, so that we can lay out a time table of notable occasions in my narrative.
Before the Organ Harvesting story
- 1999: Falun Gong persecution begins. Media covers it. Then, White House signs trade deal.
- 2000: Ted Koppel has three guests for it, and zero against it. Congress passes the trade deal.
- Each year since: News media dodges many stories emerging from the Falun Gong crackdown.
- 2003: This author gives a speech and coins the term "genocidal correctness."
- 2004: Anti-communist Falun Gong related newspaper, the Epoch Times, debuts in English.
- 2005: People begin quitting the Communist Party in droves. CNN dodges the story.
The Organ Harvesting story
- March 9, 2006: The Epoch Times breaks the story of forced organ harvesting at a facility called Sujiatun (in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, China).
- Shortly thereafter: A military doctor of Shenyang military zone corroborates the horror and indicates that a network of 36 facilities participate.
- April 4, 2006: The Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (CIPFG) is launched.
The heckler on the South Lawn of the White House and CNN's Wolf Blitzer
- April 20, 2006: With an Epoch Times press pass and on the South Lawn of the White House, Dr. Wenyi Wang becomes the "Rosa Parks" of this cause, by shouting at the U.S. and Chinese Presidents who were meeting together, "Stop the killing!"
- April 21, 2006: CNN's Wolf Blitzer on The Situation Room has Wenyi Wang as a guest. On the way in during the elevator ride, Blitzer's producer coaches and warns Wang: "Don't talk about organ harvesting!" On TV, Blitzer proceeds to act like a school headmaster, scolding Wang as though the only story was her disruption at the White House. She was there with a message. CNN didn't get the message – although they knew enough to say "shush" about that message just before the on-camera appearance.
The Kilgour-Matas report and CNN's Anderson Cooper
- May 24, 2006: CIPFG seeks and obtains the help of Canadian public figures, David Kilgour and David Matas, to investigate the allegations of organ harvesting.
- June 17, 2006: While Kilgour and Matas were investigating, CNN's Anderson Cooper did a report about "organ tourism," about a California man who went to China for an organ transplant. Cooper did raise an eyebrow at China, saying that a prison population was "vulnerable." But, he stopped short of mentioning Falun Gong, so there was no exposure of that persecution / crackdown campaign, and no indication that the organ sources may be prisoners of conscience.
- July 6, 2006: Kilgour and Matas issue the first edition of their report, later renamed Bloody Harvest. After looking over all available evidence they wrote, "the government of China and its agencies have put to death a large but unknown number of Falun Gong prisoners of conscience. Their vital organs, including hearts, kidneys, livers and corneas, were virtually simultaneously seized involuntarily for sale at high prices." They concluded "that there has been and continues today to be large-scale organ seizures from unwilling Falun Gong practitioners."
The Kilgour-Matas report is the smoking gun. David Kilgour is a former Member of Parliament in Canada, and was Secretary of State for the Asia Pacific region. David Matas is an international human rights attorney. With their political and legal backgrounds, they would know better than to be casual or inexact with public statements. While they knew the stakes in international relations, and while they knew the enormity of the charges against Communist China, they nonetheless undertook to inform the world of their findings.
The Kilgour-Matas report was never debunked by the news media; however, for their own convenience reporters wrote that the entire organ harvesting story was discredited. Apparently, reporters will manufacture lies to suit their convenience and to preclude further research or writing. The Wall Street Journal printed this falsehood, but stopped before citing any source or basis. It's akin to printing, "They say it's not true." That invites the question, who are "they"? Perhaps, do U.S. reporters have communist masters in Beijing?
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Comment from Ratings: Thanks for writing this. Your thoughts mirror my own on this matter. I hadn't before encountered your term, genocidal correctness, but it is a good one. I think there may be an irrational tendency for people to deny news of genocidal atrocities. We have seen (and even continue to see) denial with the Nazis, the Khmer Rouge, Rwanda, Nanjing and other cases. Not to let the MSM off the hook on this one, but the public really doesn't want them to broadcast this news either. by Peter Dearman (10 articles, 32 quicklinks, 9 diaries, 144 comments [1 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Monday, Aug 25, 2008 at 12:23:03 PM  (0+)
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Talking Heads and Bubble-Headed Bleached-Blondes
Here's the deal. The "mainstream media" is nothing more than a propaganda tool which produces entertainment for the brain-dead masses. Investigative journalism in the mainstream media long ago went by the wayside. Now that we know, we must replace the way we gather news and report it to each other. With this comes great responsibility, as you have demonstrated, because lives are at stake. by daveys (9 articles, 0 quicklinks, 22 diaries, 272 comments [20 recommended, 2 rejected]) on Monday, Aug 25, 2008 at 12:53:27 PM (0+)
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MSM = Hollywood
CNN and the rest of the MSM aren't "reporters" as in Journalists. They are actors on stage, glistening and presenting "glittering generalities" of news sound bites. I mean, really, "who's cheating who", "what the Pastor didn't say", gossip galore and news investigative reporting no more. Those reporters on the MSM are nothing but robots and mega phones, looking all classy and nice for eye appeal, empty minds with no integrity regarding the important news. What a gimmick(MSM), but the gulled are many. "News-speak" as in Orwellian terms. Of course they are all biased to Liberals and Democrats. We want to tax their multi-million dollar salaries--anything over $250,000!! We are coming to get you, MSM. A penny at a time...heh heh heh by shirley reese (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 592 comments [98 recommended, 1 rejected]) on Monday, Aug 25, 2008 at 2:32:41 PM (0+)
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Great report, on an important issue
The last thing the global elite want is a public referendum on China. They are hoping that people here just forget that they sold our middle class' future to China; to break the unions and force us into economic slavery to the corporations by eliminating up to 85% all the U.S. manufacturing jobs.... So it is no big surprise that anything negative about China is being suppressed. Like this: That there are documents and witnesses that prove that Walmart refuses to do business with garment suppliers who DO NOT have factories or warehouses in China. Looks like you got CNN dead to rights this time, tho ;) we just gotta wonder who is going to report on it in the mainstream lol. i get a cynical kick out of knowing that the same "a-holies" who scream up and down about abortion being murder, look the other way when millions of adults ARE murdered in such an evil enterprise. Perhaps the wealthier of these hypocrites are hoping that they can get some organs from China to prolong their parasitic & self-centered lives. by Steve Windisch (jibbguy) (17 articles, 0 quicklinks, 4 diaries, 360 comments [54 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Monday, Aug 25, 2008 at 3:41:09 PM (0+)
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Reply: Good point but...
Where do we go if we don't want babies or adults to be murdered? by Ron R. (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 7 diaries, 152 comments [11 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Tuesday, Aug 26, 2008 at 2:47:19 AM (0+)
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You say yourself that
westerners are recipients of these organs for transplant. So it is westerners that want cheaper operations to prolong their lives that are benefiting and have created this dilemma. I wonder how many of these people would call themselves "Christian" too. Again you play the blame China, for a situation that westerners have help set up, finance, to prolong their lives. Once more your feeble mind labels China as Communist. All one has to do is having watched the Olympics and seeing the half empty venues to learn that party officials that were given tickets to attend were scalping them, which is a "capitalists concept, or not attending at all. Tough stupid was and stupid still is should be your mantra. by Stanimal (2 articles, 226 quicklinks, 38 diaries, 1254 comments [233 recommended, 2 rejected]) on Monday, Aug 25, 2008 at 6:50:50 PM (0+)
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A starting point
A good place to start would be to pressure China to get rid of its Reeducation Through Labor (RTL) system that permits (or renders inevitable, most surely) the police to adminster arbitrary "justice" without any judicial oversight whatsoever. I just wrote an article about it here on OpEdNews. The RTL system isn't widely known in the West, and I don't know so much about it myself, but it is the main reason that the Falun Gong can be "disposed of" so easily. In my article I point out that the Olympics could have and should have been used as a means to pressure China to get rid of this medieval practice. But nothing was heard. All the coverage of human rights predictably revolved around stunts the activists have to do to get attention. How sad. Yes, damn the journalists for being so cowardly. There is really no need of it. I post and repost articles about organ harvesting. And, I live in Taiwan where the Chinese secret police could easily reach me if they really wanted to. I blog about other topics too that might offend the dark lords of the M.I.C. John wrote the above story. Mr. Kilgour and Mr. Matas promote their findings like crazy, and they're still with us. So why can't any paid journalists out there show some backbone? Again, I think the answer is not that they are all "corrupted." There are other factors at play. With regard to China, I think there is a sort of Sinophilia effect. Maybe it comes from some guilt over the cold war or something. But it always seems to be the perfect time to cut China a break. Take the non-ethnic, ethnic dancers in the Olympic opening ceremony. Could you imagine that happening in any other country without the press flipping out over it? Anyway. Everyone should learn more about the RTL prisons in China. by Peter Dearman (10 articles, 32 quicklinks, 9 diaries, 144 comments [1 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Tuesday, Aug 26, 2008 at 10:37:22 AM (0+)
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Follow up
This article continues to "get around" far and wide. It's also published by the Epoch Times and by NolanChart.com. At the latter place, readership has reached 23,000. I do not receive readership reports from the Epoch Times or OpEdNews, but I just got here, clicking where it is the #3 most popular article. The Sound of Hope radio outlet did a follow up discussion, a five minute segment for the benefit of Chinese listeners. If you want to hear it in Mandarin, go to this URL-- by John Kusumi (53 articles, 0 quicklinks, 32 diaries, 107 comments [8 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Saturday, Sep 6, 2008 at 3:37:49 PM (0+)
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Reply: Busted link
Whoops, try this one-- by John Kusumi (53 articles, 0 quicklinks, 32 diaries, 107 comments [8 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Saturday, Sep 6, 2008 at 3:42:09 PM (0+)
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