It Just Proves "Neo-Cons" Live In The Real World

Social in-activists live in their own little neighbourhoods where their "outrage" is relative to the distance they are from the problem. In the 60s we called them Harlem Liberals......

The China syndrome
Weird that neo-con PM, not social movement, is raising rights issue
By ANDREW CASH

Who'd have guessed that sup porters of human rights in China would be applauding Stephen Harper while business executives pine for the good old days of Chretien-led trade junkets?

Not that Chinese democracy has made much headway on the activist agenda here. While the Mideast has become a flashpoint for solidarity types, annual remembrance ceremonies for the Tiananmen Square massacre and for the thousands of dissenters in Chinese prisons grow smaller every year. The brave and tireless campaigning of the Falun Gong has elicited very little backing on the barricades – and the large Chinese-Canadian community is generally silent.

So I find myself wondering whether Harper's comments during the recent APEC summit in Hanoi that Canada will not let business interests trump human rights aren't actually a good move for the world. I'm not alone.

Sure, everything the minority-government PM does is electioneering. Here, he gets to look resolute on the global stage. When we saw that last, it was his Afghanistan war tour.

Marching on........