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- inactive, on 12/03/2008, -0/+5Any Nation's authority toward sterilization
is EVIL and must not stand !
Her particular story is overly complicated for a simple post ! - Christianptriot, on 12/03/2008, -0/+4I would imagine that there are some political and international trade implications that have played into the background of this decision - which is very sad.
- inactive, on 12/03/2008, -0/+4The article states that "She arrived in the U.S. in the 1990s on a temporary visa" and then states she failed to file "asylum papers" within the "first year" of being in the USA.
This is a sticky situation here because the reason she came to the USA initially was to "meet her fiancé, who then ended their relationship. Without a way to return to China, and facing societal humiliation there for being rejected, she remained in the U.S. and later met and married her husband."
So in other words she did NOT come to the USA initially seeking asylum because of the threat of forced sterilization and the one child policy of the Chinese government, it was because she was to meet her fiancé, so therefore seeking asylum DOES NOT APPLY in this case. That is why she NEVER filed for asylum within the first year of being in the USA which means she HAS BEEN in the USA illegally because that temporary Visa ran out! She knew this and did it anyways. There are grave consequences for ones actions and in this case there might be.
However, the Chinese government is known NOT to claim or take their citizens back either because of the over population they suffer as a nation. So what happens is Americans get stuck with them on our streets. This could ultimately be a blessing for her in the end.
This article is failing to explain this and instead playing on the heart stings of Americans.
And I do agree with Salesti's post above. Makes sense. - TheSpaceballs, on 12/03/2008, -1/+5It's an interesting story actually how we in America have endorsed this sickening practice. A young teenager named Carrie Buck had been raped in 1924 by her own cousin, and her mother was in an asylum stricken with epilepcy. Being a young teeager with child out of wedlock, the state of Virginia decided she was an excellent candidate to test out it's new forced sterilization laws. She was condemned as "permiscuous" by the Eugenics Record Office (ERO), a group of scientists complete with official degrees in biology, and ordered sterilized. Carrie Buck's case ended up in the Supereme Court in 1927.
"It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind…Three generations of imbeciles are enough."
— Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., in Buck v. Bell, 1927
With the full support of the scientific community and the court system, the practice of Eugenics was unleashed in America. Virginia however, was not the first state to put laws on the books requiring forced sterilization. That honor falls to the state of Indiana, who passed it's laws in 1907. The model for all these laws was written by a man by the name of Harry Laughlin, who as an "expert" in eugenics also wrote the condemnation of Miss Buck, whom he had never met. He ironically suffered from epilepsy just like the mother of Miss Buck had. In 1922 he wrote a model law for compulsory sterilization, which would later be used by several states and regimes including the 3rd Reich as a basis for it's own laws.
The last forced sterilization in America took place as recently as 1979, by which time the lives of nearly 65,000 American citizens were destroyed by this sickening practice, where men took upon themselves such broad and sweeping powers over others without any care for the individuals they were condeming. Today, no judge or state in their right mind would repeat the practice since it is so widely unpopular. Indeed, we can ironically thank World War II for that, since the troops who came home from Germany first hand described eugenics for the public. It would take another 30 years and another suscessive generation before eugenics could rear it's head in America again.
No, this shouldn't surprise you at all. Eugenics started in Brittan and America and as such we are responsible for scientists being out of control on a worldwide scale. Look now at last at Darwin's deadly legacy... - Kaffir, on 12/03/2008, -2/+6It's not a mental disorder to have real compassion (something Jesus teaches) towards people's suffering. This family faces forced sterilization - something absolutely antithetical to the Constitution, but more importantly, to God's Word, upon which our civilization, and our American experiment, specifically, is based. (The cries and lies of some, notwithstanding.)
- TheSpaceballs, on 12/03/2008, -1/+4Congradulations Salesti for realizing just exactly how moraless power works. A single individual is a useless number. A large number can be exploited for political gain. That's why gangs show up in school while nerds get the crap beat out of them, or why youth centers are built for underachievers while responsible youngsters are more severely punished if they are in the wrong place at the wrong time.
It's also why the DNC whores itself to the Meixcans while turning a blind eye to the Cubans. - Salesti, on 12/03/2008, -1/+4Okay, so maybe I do have a teensy little liberal streak (that's "liberal" in the pure sense). It's not like she can be dropped off on the other side of the border and given a number and some paperwork to be considered for re-entry at a future date. They're condemning her. We have THOUSANDS of illegals from south of the border -- one of them got drunk and totaled my car -- why can't we kick THOSE guys out? Answer: They're a bigger hassle. The weenies my neighbors elect as representatives have cultivated this climate. I guess that's what "we" want. Pfffft.
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