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The Watercooler ~ All Girls Allowed

By: westcoastpatriette (Diary)  |  March 5th, 2013 at 11:17 AM  | 

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In honor of all of the courageous Chinese Christians who have dedicated their lives to ending China’s One-Child policy, today’s open thread will highlight the work being done by an organization called, “All Girls Allowed.”

A plea for help was posted on their website yesterday:

Please join us in prayer and fasting tomorrow (March 5, 2013) as the 12th National People’s Congress convenes in Beijing. There have been some rumblings about changes to the One-Child Policy, so please ask the Lord to move China’s decision makers to bring the policy to an end…

You may have heard about All Girls Allowed when this story was publicized in China through social media in June of 2012. (Warning: graphic picture.) The woman pictured was beaten, blindfolded and abducted from her home by Chinese Family Planning officials while her husband was at work. Her crime was being seven months pregnant. She was taken to a clinic where officials forcibly aborted the baby. The dead fetus was then placed in the bed next to the mother in a plastic bag.

The stories that are being uncovered and shown to the world are causing panic and confusion in the government as they scramble to hide and cover up the hideous truth of what is taking place daily in China under its One-Child Policy. Nevertheless, the brutality continues. On February 6, 2013, Chinese officials ran over and crushed to death a thirteen-month-old boy after they knocked him out of his mother’s arms while they were arresting her for being pregnant with her third child.

All Girls Allowed was founded by Chai Ling in 2010 with a mission to display the love of Jesus by restoring life, value and dignity to girls and mothers in China and revealing the injustice of the One-Child Policy. Ling’s motto: “In Jesus’ Name, Simply Love Her.”

Note: Given that this story is based in China, I debated with myself about whether this topic would be appropriate for RedState. I decided that since many RedState members (including all front-page contributors) have a passion to bring most legal abortions to an end in America, that passion would extend to concern for our brothers and sisters in China where abortion policies are much more brutal than ours. I hope you all agree.

The Watercooler is always an open thread.

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  • westcoastpatriette

    Jeb Bush was on Hannity last night debuting his new book — written with his attorney, Clint Bolick — “Immigration Wars.” The interview was general, not revealing too many details of Bush’s plan for how to deal with the complex issue of illegal immigration. I thought it would be one more squishy amnesty plan coupled with insults shaming those who are concerned about undermining the rule of law in this country should a blanket amnesty be offered. But, according to this Newsmax report, the suggestions outlined in the book is the perfect balance of what needs to happen, IMO. http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/jeb-bush-no-pathway/2013/03/04/id/493082?s=al&promo_code=12A99-1

    I’m impressed.

    Bush would not say whether he plans on running for prez in 2016.

    • cbartlett

      I saw Jeb on Hannity last night and figured his plan mimicked Rubio’s since there were few details given. Just read the newsmax article you linked to and I’m also impressed by his plan as outlined. This is exactly what we need to hear from Republicans in the future. Very specific. No squishiness allowed. I think Perry would have eventually ended up with a similar plan – he was just cut off at the knees for the Texas Dream Act (which was ONLY a plan for Texas at the time) and no one would give him the time of day after that. The only thing I would like to see added to Jeb Bush’s plan is that legal residency needs to have some kind of job/work requirement and either no, or very time-limited, access to social services. For example, you can get food stamps for 2 months, but if you don’t have a job to support yourself and family by then – back to the home country you go.
      I have a few doubts about “Jeb for Pres” (now THAT’S a bumper sticker!) – mainly because I just don’t know if low-information voters will accept a third Bush after liberals are through demonizing him, just for being a third Bush.

      • westcoastpatriette

        I don’t think they should be eligible for any food stamps. Their children are already allowed in our schools via federal regulation (which I think has always been wrong) and they fill up the ER’s in our hospitals here in Cali. for every runny nose and flu bug. They should only be eligible for medical care if it is truly a life or death emergency, otherwise, no, IMO. If OCare could be overturned, then the other requirement for illegals to stay should be to have to purchase health insurance for their families. If they cannot support their families, then they should send them home.

        Maybe Bush got it through his head that taxpayers are tired of paying the bill for all of the “compassion” they expect us to dole out to everyone in the world who makes it to our land. That is what has bothered me about the sudden urge to placate the hispanics. You rarely ever hear the political animals discuss the cost to taxpayers. Here in Cali, FAIR estimates illegals cost $22 billion to educate, medicate and incarcerate them in 2010. We have over two million here thanks to our sanctuary policies. Enough already.

        Any country can only absorb so many illiterate, poor immigrants.

        • cbartlett

          Agree – NO food stamps would be better. Interesting that you mention communities caring for these. Our church started a food pantry/outreach ministry about 15 years ago that has grown immensly in the last few years (to the tune of a budget of $70,000+). We struggled to stock the shelves at first and about 3 years after we started, we applied and became eligible to purchase food at an extreme discount (like 1/10 the price you’d pay at WalMart or other discount store) from a regional food distribution center located in a town about an hour and a half away. All grocery stores within the region are now required to send their “excess” (produce, bakery goods and dated canned items, etc) to this regional center – they could no longer give them to us directly. Because we “purchase” food from the regional center, we can only give a client one box and they must fill out an application to qualify for any more. The application is a state form that basically contains the same info that is required to receive government assistance. We have a liltte leeway in assisting “emergencies”, but not much, or we jepardize our access to getting food. Bottom line – even the church, trying to do the right thing, sometimes has its hands tied. Sigh.

          • westcoastpatriette

            Infuriating. Classic case of government over-regulation stifling the private sector.

    • mkeprof

      He said on Today show that he won’t rule out a run in 2016 – which is probably as good a yes one is going to get in 2013. I am pretty sure he is running and his moving away from providing citizenship to illegal immigrants in his new book is part of his positioning for the primaries. I am pretty sure is he plans to tack back to “path to citizenship” as soon as (if?) he wins the nomination.

      I personally like the guy. I am not sure how much of a downer the Bush name is though.

      • funwithknives

        He’s taking it one step at a time and gauging what the ‘responses’ are to his proposals.
        How he responds and what he does after same are what we watch for……….

      • westcoastpatriette

        I have mixed feelings re: whether Bush gets in the game for 2016. After the gruesome, humiliating primary we went through only to wind up with Romney in 2012, the system has almost beat me down to where I’m ready to accept the familiar rather than try to fight the system. The Bush name would not be welcomed by many, but hubris and family tradition would be hard to resist for Jeb looking ahead. He would be a better choice than Romney, but he would still be establishment.

        • mkeprof

          In the end money wins in politics – and Jeb has a massive money raising machine behind him (same with Hillary, although she couldn’t beat the “new money” of Obama in 2008). It feels like he would run – and he would be strong candidate. Presumably he will have FL locked at least.

          I also think that he is perhaps a better bet than most. There is a reason establishment candidates win the nomination – they (IMO) have a better shot at winning the general. Irrespective if how Romney did, I don’t think anybody else in the R field could have done any better in 2012.

          My personal opinion is that we need a woman to fight Hillary otherwise we will only fighting daily the consistent media orgasms of first female president, glass ceiling etc. Unfortunately, I don’t think we have someone of national profile readily available. I hope someone emerges in next couple years.

          • Jim_Riggs

            If someone better steps up then I’m all for it but none of the ones who have been mentioned so far are even close IMO.

  • Sir Aaron

    This is a sobering post. However, bad we think it is or is going to get here, there are places that are much, much worse.

  • PowerToThePeople

    Hugo Chavez is dead of cancer. Let us all state how much we will miss him. I will start, not one damn bit. But I bet ole Sean Penn is in tears right about now.

    • funwithknives

      ….and let’s not forget just how beside himself Danny Glover must be, right this very minute.
      Watch your local CITGO stations for any signs of HUGO-worship….and don’t be one bit surprised when ‘something’ appears………

      • PowerToThePeople

        That is true, ole Danny Glover was a huge Hugo fan. I forgot about his little trek over there where he praised the man and railed against us and the “evil” Bush.

  • lineholder

    Not sure where to put this, but for anyone wanting to watch the filibuster with Rand Paul and his bipartisan posse, here’s the link

    http://www.c-span.org/Live-Video/C-SPAN2/

  • westcoastpatriette

    Reading the blogosphere of conservative media this morning is almost getting me excited about the potential to make Obama start feeling the pain of acting like a dictator immune from criticism much less being stopped in his tracks.

    I’ve been saying lately that we need to come up with creative new ways to rock the political boat and it looks like Rand’s stand yesterday is starting a new precedent to do just that. May this be just the beginning for the truly courageous members in Congress to take bold stands and get real results.

  • westcoastpatriette

    Here’s a copy of the letter from Holder to Rand re: using drones on American citizens. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/interactive/2013/03/07/letter-from-holder-to-sen-paul-on-drone-authority/

  • ww2nd95

    Since Rand Paul’s filibuster is all the talk at the moment, in both liberal and conservative circles, I wish we could see more filibusters of that style, like they’re supposed to be, rather then just one Senator saying “I object” and then not having to provide any reason what so ever. I just do not understand why it was changed in the first place. I think anytime there is an objection, no matter the obviousness of it, it should have to be defended.

    • westcoastpatriette

      I agree.