Empire State Building Sells America’s Soul to Commies!
This is just blatant discrespect to the freedoms and liberties of our country! It would be bad enough if it were some simple small unheard of business, but it is the freakin Empire State building. That is a national landmark that is a poster child of what American ingenuity and capitalism can build, and they go and do this! What’s this that I speak of? Read on…
Empire State Building honors China in lights
Ceremony celebrating nation’s 60 years of communism riles critics
NEW YORK – Red and yellow lights shone from the top of the Empire State Building at dusk Wednesday, a tribute to communist China’s 60th anniversary that protesters labeled “blatant approval” of totalitarianism and criticized as inappropriate for an icon in the land of the free.
The building is routinely lit with different to mark holidays and big events, but opponents questioned whether it’s right to commemorate a sensitive political issue, particularly when China has such a poor human rights
record.
About 20 supporters of Tibet, which China has ruled since shortly after communists took over in 1949, protested outside the building during a ceremonial lighting of a scale model inside the lobby. They chanted “No to China’s empire; free Tibet now,” and held signs reading, “Empire State Building celebrating 60 years of China’s oppression.”
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‘Honored and delighted’
At the lobby ceremony, building manager Joseph Bellina called the lights a high honor and said he was proud of the relationship between “our countries and our people.”
Honored? Freedom is what got you your education to have your fancy job that freedom gave you. Oppression is what will take it away. And you feel honored to support oppressive governments? Hmph!
Chinese Consul General Peng Keyu, who pulled the switch on the glass-encased model, said he was “honored and delighted.”
He said China’s reforms of the past 30 years have led to greater openness and “tremendous change.”
Keyu and Bellina didn’t address critics and declined to answer questions.
Journalist and blogger Marc Masferrer questioned legitimizing a government that continues to repress its citizens’ freedoms, including their access to media and the Internet.
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Masferrer pointed out that this year is also the 20th anniversary of the violently crushed student-led movement in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. The People’s Liberation Army
Read the full uncensored story here, while you still have the freedom to do so.
All You Need to Know About Michigan Redneck
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Michigan Redneck is a former Republican Loyalist, who is now a Libertarian minded chick. She loves the USA and will do all she can to keep this republic a republic. She loves Rockabilly music, clothes, decor and Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer, but is not a hipster. She grew up in the Flint, Michigan area and is currently living in the Upper Peninsula. She is a blue collar worker who is eligible for many gubmint handouts who refuses to sign up for these programs. She pays her bills according to which utility threatens to shut her off first. She struggles was raised that to get what she wants and needs, work for it.
Her political views lean towards Fiscal Conservative. Believes the gubmint needs to get out of the way and let the free market work. Believes both of the two main political parties need to get out of the business of social issues. In this blog I will alert readers of what is going on around them in my outside the box way. I WILL call out hypocrites, from all sides of the aisle.
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