Hu are you? Hu-Hu, Hu-Hu!

Since when did we become China's bitches? A heckler was arrested on federal charges of intimidating a foreign official yesterday durng a speech by Chinese President Hu Jintao ... a communist. Now, I'd be the first person to say that the Chinese form of communism is pretty weak as far as communism goes. It's really much more like government sponsored capitalism with an assload of human rights violations thrown in to the mix for good luck. That's why the United States digs China so much an completely overlooks their complete disregard for civil liberties while continuing to harass the powerhouse that is Cuba.

But what really chaps my hide isn't that we do business with them. It's shitty, but it's not THE shittiest thing we've done. What galls me is that we don't stand up for human rights and we do their bidding. It's the one last vestige of my dying American jingoism that I believe we shouldn't take shit from anyone. We should do what's right because it's right, but we ain't anybody's bitches and we shouldn't start now with the fucking Chinese.

This woman, Wen Yi Wang, 47, who got loud about Falun Dafa (a persecuted relgious group in China) is a naturalized American citizen from China. She got into the event because she is a reporter and while I personally feel that she should have kept quiet on the grounds that it isn't professional for a journalist to act that way regardless of who is on the stage. As an American, she certainly isn't guilty of a damn thing. It isn't harassment to protest. No one should do time because they outsmarted security and got themselves heard. So while she might be a shit journalist, she's a good American.