Quote of the Day 10-25-10
Officials in rural areas often use dramatic slogans hung from banners in the street to deter potential violators of the strict birth policies.
Ms. Yang from Wenjiacun in Shangrao County, Jiangxi Province described to The Epoch Times some of the family planning slogans used in her area.
One says: “Whoever does not obey the family planning rule will be killed and the family broken.”
Another: “We’d rather see blood flowing like streams than an extra living baby.”
~Li Jingyi, reporting on China’s one-child/forced abortion policy in The Epoch Times, October 24
Oct.25, 2010 8:36 am |
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
You certainly can’t say that they haven’t given adequate warning to people not to violate the law. Those warnings are a little blunt for my taste, but you have to consider the poorly-educated, barely literate nature of rural Chinese to whom the warnings are directed. Good communication isn’t always tactful: the important thing is to efficiently and clearly get an idea across.
joan October 25th, 2010 at 1:42 pm
“you have to consider the poorly-educated, barely literate nature of rural Chinese to whom the warnings are directed.”
Your comment reflects and enthocentric and elitist attiude toward poor people in general and the Chinese people in particular.
“Good communication isn’t always tactful: the important thing is to efficiently and clearly get an idea across.”
Reminds me of the pregnant woman who was insistent that her physician kill her pre-natal child.
After being persistently pestered by the determined damsel in distress the good doctor, left the room and came back with a baseball bat and suggested to the woman that she wait til after the baby was birthed and then bludgeon the infants brains out herself.
Blunt but effective communication.
Or the German prison guard who tore the infant from the Jewish mothers arms, swung the baby around by it’s feet and bashed it skull against a wall and then calously tossed the lifeless lump of flesh at the feet of the hysterical woman.
NAZI’s were renowned for their practicality and efficiency.
Humanism reveals it’s hoary head once again
The troll that calls itself Joan is neither female, nor a visiting Catholic. It is some individual who gets it’s kicks trying to rattle the pro-lifers on Jill Stanek’s website. One is idly curious where else the troll comments and under what pseudonym.
“.. you have to consider the poorly-educated, barely literate nature of rural Chinese to whom the warnings are directed.”
So, Joan, this line of thinking makes it’s easier to force abortion on these folks?
What if we replace ‘Rural Chinese’ with ‘Rural American’…would that work, too?
“The troll that calls itself Joan is neither female, nor a visiting Catholic. It is some individual who gets it’s kicks trying to rattle the pro-lifers on Jill Stanek’s website.”
I agree Ninek. Some insane asylums now allow their long-term patients internet access. Let’s continue to welcome and pray for the mentally ill.
Nice to see you back here joan. Welcome.
I will continue to pray for this and all the other commenters. One of them, whom I don’t want to spook like a stray cat that is just about ready to step has displayed a recent clarity that I’m going to attribute to the healing power of Jesus, even if not all commenters believe in Jesus. It’s ok, Jesus believes in YOU. If he can love a snarky goofball like me, he can love anyone!
Hey – I thought that Joan thought there could be no forced abortions! oh well – it just shows how convoluted the thought process is…
While she may indeed hear voices in her head, methinks this Joan won’t be slated for sainthood any time soon.
Normally, I wouldn’t recommend talking about someone in the third-person while in their presence, but I think it would be prudent to make an exception for trolls like Joan (and a few others who are single-mindedly inflammatory and seemingly deliberately obtuse); it reduces the calorie content of the troll-food, and it makes the environment a bit less appealing for them. Perhaps they’ll finally move on and find another bridge, somewhere…
God has a way of dealing with such arrogance – those who make such statements about seeing blood flowing in streams aren’t saying whose blood.
Could it soon be their own families blood? Or their own?