This is an absolute tragedy. It is one thing to heckle the president of a free nation. But how dare a Chinese Dissident reporter cry out to a Communist dictator? This is a certain mistake for Bush. Why not jsut say to Dictator Hu, "Welcome to the land of Freedom of Speech"? Instead we are treating her as if she is a Chinese dissident...in China. By acting as if this is a big deal, the Bush administration can only embolden those who love to squash the specch of others. This is a tragedy.
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Krystavegas,
By the way...how the heck are you? Well, what happened was the President of China was speaking in the Rose Garden with Bush when a Chinese-American reporter yelled something out to him about how his days as President are numbered.
What was tragic is that she was summarily arrested. This is tragic because China is a Communist country that highly restricts speech through threats of and implementation of torture, imprisonment and killing.
Bush should have "amen"ed her. Instead he did exactly what President Hu would have wanted. She was charged with a crime.
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