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Clive Ansley: Support Gao Zhisheng

Excerpt from a speech given by Clive Ansley, given at a rally at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza in New York City on 28 September 2007 at a rally for the global Human Rights Torch Relay.

"Today, the fascist government in Beijing is without doubt the worst violator of human rights on the planet. Moreover, most of the world's thugocracy regimes which rival Beijing in terms of sheer brutality and bestiality are supported, sustained, and in some cases made viable by Beijing. Burma, Sudan, and North Korea come readily to mind. But Beijing itself is today perpetrating at least some atrocities which exceed even those of the Nazis for sheer barbarity. And, in an eerie historical parallel, the International Olympic Committee has once more chosen to award the Games to the most chillingly brutal perpetrator of Crimes Against Humanity which our generation has known.

The German Nazis in the 1930's, the Soviets in 1980, and now the Beijing fascists have all used the Olympic Games to showcase their regimes and shower themselves in glory. For Beijing, the quest to host the Games has from the outset been the most important political propaganda exercise in the post-revolution history of the regime. Yet the International Olympic Committee can dismiss, on the grounds that the Games should not be politicized, even the fact that this regime keeps "herds" of human beings alive for the purpose of slaughtering them on demand so as to sell their organs on the international market.

The 2008 Games are now being shamelessly employed to glorify and idealize the most brutal, bestial, and benighted regime the world has ever seen.

(...) Gao Zhisheng has called for the civilized world to boycott the 2008 Games in Beijing. The 2008 Games are not for China. Their only purpose is to glorify and sanitize the criminals who operate the Beijing thugocracy. We must heed the pleas of the Chinese people, articulated by courageous advocates for human decency, such as Gao Zhisheng.

Gao Zhisheng is a lawyer and one China's most famous human rights activists. Since his secret arrest on September 22, 2007, he is a political prisoner.

Clive Ansley is a Canadian lawyer and expert on China's legal system.

http://en.epochtimes.com/news/7-10-24/61126.html

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