Lantos isn’t exactly a shining moral example himself, he basically called General Petraeus a liar before he even spoke before Congess.

infidel4life on November 6, 2007 at 11:53 PM

“While technologically and financially you are giants, morally you are pygmies. Lantos”

One moral pygmie recognizing another

No mention of MicroSoft? They were there first years ago and gave away the farm when the Chinese demanded their code in order to get their foot in the door over there. No one else had ever been granted similar access by Microsoft. The same tired nostrums were offfered then too.

thegreatbeast on November 7, 2007 at 2:01 AM

Mattel on bended knees apologizing to China because China substituted lead filled paint in toys Mattel hawks at ungodly profits to American babies…

The Chinese can demand our companies bend to their laws and kiss their rears too. No wonder they bought into free trade

Free trade means American plantation owners sub-contracting plantation workers in China to set up golden parachutes for themselves and perhaps their children before China breaks the American economy and we become a nation selling resources to manufacturers abroad.

Amnesty means American plantation owners importing plantation workers from Mexico to set up ungodly golden parachutes for themselves and perhaps their children (see Karl Rove) before breaking the American worker euthanizes the American dream.

what will the pygmies do when the barbarians enter the gates for the coup de gras?

My only hope is the memory of Tiananmen Square triumphs. Otherwise our pygmies will bury us all

They’re just a bunch of yahoos!

The madness began with Nixon in China and continues.
profitsbeard on November 7, 2007 at 12:15 AM

Overstated, perhaps, for effect?

I dislike the application of blame to Nixon; his rapprochement with China defused a hostile environment, and it was for reasons other than economic.

Unfortunately, correct in that it led to increased trade, perhaps making the case for import tariffs for political reasons and accepting the resulting economic inefficiencies.

Also correct if you believe that hostilities between the US and China continue, just on a different battle field. I thought the same thing about Japan, but it appears we have won both of those battles, and may yet win this one.

It also makes the case that economics has no conscience, and free market capitalism without a conscience is your corner drug dealer selling crack to high school kids.

Meanwhile our economic situation degrades day by day, and I don’t see any politician suggesting an appropriate remedy.

They are the World Rogue Nation, getting a pass because they provide good slave-labor for multinationals in the short-term.

As they steal our technological edges, and retool them to make permutations of guillotines.

Selling our birthright for a mess of Made In China pottage.

As if they are truthworthy partners and not unreconstructed Chicom warlords wearing Gucci and Armani knock-offs.

The madness began with Nixon in China and continues.

They will use any power advantage with no moral restraint, which means that they will win, ultimately, since the most predatory always does.

“They Retained The Moral Highground” is a cute poignant epitaph, but bad war policy.

“While technologically and financially you are giants, morally you are pygmies,” House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Lantos, D-Calif., said angrily after hearing from the two Yahoo executives.

You are correct, USA Today has changed the article, here’s another link

The companies have said it is better for them to do business in China, even under restrictions they dislike, because their presence could lead to greater freedoms.

So, in the hope that they might somehow have greater freedoms in the future, Yahoo execs feel they should restrict specific freedoms now? WTF?

Waterboard-em

Texyank on November 6, 2007 at 10:38 PM

While you tase ‘em

Elito Spitzer Tells Illegals “You dont have to answer questions about Immigrant statis Its already covered by law.”

From the NY Observer and up on my site

HHHmmmm… let’s think this through, the democrats in congress are telling American businesses to protect people seen by hostile governments as subversive. Yet when the CIA used a front company as cover for a covert operation that was wrong?

Oh, I forgot, we’re talking about democrats here, reality is what ever they believe it is until they need to believe it is something else.

Smith dismissed that explanation as “plausible deniability.”

Out of the mouths of Clintons…

“I cannot ask our local employees to resist lawful demands and put their own freedom at risk, even if, in my personal view, the local laws are overbroad,” Callahan said.

Lantos rejected that argument.

“I do not believe that America’s best and brightest companies should be playing integral roles in China’s notorious and brutal political repression apparatus,” he said.

Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., compared Yahoo’s cooperation with the Chinese governnment to companies that cooperated with Nazi Germany during World War II.

Lawmakers demanded to know what Yahoo would do to help Shi’s family and reacted with derision when neither Yang nor Callahan provided a concrete answer.

Yahoo sold their soul to the devil to get China’s business, they deserve to get their greedy tit in the wringer.