AFP reports:
New York’s iconic Empire State Building will light up red and yellow Wednesday in honor of the 60th anniversary of communist China.
The Chinese consul, Peng Keyu, and other officials will take part in the lighting ceremony which will bathe the skyscraper in the colors of the People’s Republic until Thursday, Empire State Building representatives said in a statement.
The upper sections of the building are regularly illuminated to mark special occasions, ranging from all blue to mark “Old Blue Eyes” Frank Sinatra’s death in 1998 to green for the annual Saint Patrick’s Day.
Red is a good color as the blood of the Chinese has been running since the communists took over China.
From forced abortions to outright public assassinations China has been the unrivaled megamurder leader in the history of the world. And we’re honoring the government of China? Communism has been the most violent failed social experiment in the world. And we’re commemorating its endurance in China? Communist regimes have taken the lives of over 100 million people. And we’re celebrating its anniversary with a light display?
What does something like this say to the world? As long as you’re willing to buy up our debt and keep markets even a little open we’ll overlook pretty much anything.
This is disgusting.
The Empire State building is a symbol of America to much of the world. Its image is one of the most famous and enduring in our country. King Kong climbed it. Cary Grant waited for the love of his life on the observation deck. And Meg Ryan whined and scrunched her nose in that cute way she has that she does in every movie.
But now for the Empire State building to be used in the honoring of the most brutal anti-human government to threaten man is a sick and blatant display of our callous culture.
HT Pewsitter
September 30, 2009 at 6:46 pm
I wish I could say I was suprised, but even having been largely unaware of the habit of lighting up the building, I'm not. I imagine it can be 'bought' for such use for any occasion with the right dough (as long as it's politically correct, I guess).
Communism (in EITHER China OR the USSR) easily killed in one decade more people than the Church "killed" in 20 centuries.. But you know all wars are religious. The atheist ones don't actually count, since the victims aren't usually soldiers anyway.
September 30, 2009 at 7:14 pm
And yellow is a good color for the craven politicians who have bent over backwards to accommodate China since the communists took over.
But that's probably not what they're going for.
September 30, 2009 at 7:15 pm
It's one of the perks you get when you extend a $9,000,000,000,000+ credit line to a debtor nation.
Heck, they probably already own the building.
September 30, 2009 at 10:20 pm
The Empire State building is a symbol of America to much of the world.
Exactly. Which is why it's so fitting.
Now can we please get past the unending political mythology of self-congratulation for being the wonderfulest country God raised to a manifest destiny as his elect city on a hill, etc.? Why God should judge us any more indulgently than he will the blood-soaked Chicoms is a mystery to me.
Romulus
October 1, 2009 at 1:34 am
Romulus,
Its because we as a nation recognize the rights and liberties given to us by our Creator God, and we know that our democracy can only survive so long as we recognize there is a higher power to Whom we have to answer. China denies this existence, we're founded upon it. This is why God will judge, although I must agree with you, there will be very little indulgence with all the blood spilt on our soils too.
October 1, 2009 at 4:22 am
commentator Craig was right on the money.
October 1, 2009 at 7:58 am
Something isnt right about this
October 1, 2009 at 12:40 pm
I wonder, how much money is the soul of our country worth? I think Craig just found the price…
Just one note about Romulus's comment, America is quickly becoming Godless in its legislature. Who's to say that we won't be any better than China in 20 years?
With 40million abortions already (and many more to come) and with the euthanasia waiting on the wings of this healthcare bill, how long until we've massacared as many innocent lives as the Chinese?
I don't like where this country is headed. I think I need to pray a whole lot more than what I've been doing…
October 1, 2009 at 2:21 pm
Maybe our government envies China now?
October 1, 2009 at 4:00 pm
China denies this existence, we're founded upon it.
Yes, Patty; we have had the benefits of Christian culture. And then gone on to practice slavery, genocide, abortion, imperialism, terrorism, and more — even as we elbow our way past the publicans at the back of the temple to remind God how lucky he is to have friends like us.
Which is why God may judge us far more severely: "Every one to whom much is given, of him will much be required".
We need an Old Testament prophet, and all we have is purring hypocrites and crank phonies like Rev. Wright of Chicago.
Romulus
October 1, 2009 at 7:30 pm
In addition to the forced abortions and assassinations, the Church continues to suffer bitter persecution in China. A great book about the history of the persecutions was published by Ignatius recently. It details some of the terrors endured by Chinese Catholics and some of the martyrdoms that resulted.
My review of it is here: http://todustyoushallreturn.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/red-book-of-chinese-martyrs/
October 2, 2009 at 2:43 pm
As Daffy Duck would likely say–
"Dispicable!"
But we are on the road to Socialism/Communism under the present administration…
so no surprise here.