{"id":3037,"date":"2020-09-15T12:39:17","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T12:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/?p=3037"},"modified":"2021-02-19T03:17:07","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T03:17:07","slug":"intl-day-of-democracy-socialism-is-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/intl-day-of-democracy-socialism-is-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"Int\u2019l Day of Democracy \u2013 Socialism Is Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cSocialists promise heaven on earth, but always end up giving you a one-way ticket to hell.\u201d&nbsp; &#8212; Jennifer Zeng<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cThe goal of socialism is communism.\u201d&nbsp; &#8212; Vladimir Lenin<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>September 15 is the International Day of Democracy \u2013 a day when those of us fortunate enough to live in a democratic society celebrate breathing the air of free speech, freedom of religion, self government and the rule of law.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Too often, socialism is held up as an ideal, even in the United States.&nbsp; My colleague, Jennifer Zeng, is a courageous survivor of a Chinese labor camp.&nbsp; She describes the truth about socialism.&nbsp; The Chinese Communist Party <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pMyWuxMTpSs\">forcibly aborted<\/a> Jennifer&#8217;s second child under the One Child Policy.&nbsp; Then, they burst into her home in the middle of the night and detained her.&nbsp; When she asked why, the police officer answered, \u201cBecause of your <strong>thought.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jennifer, a survivor of \u201csocialism with Chinese characteristics\u201d \u2013 communism \u2013 tells the story of being detained and tortured brutally in a labor camp because of her religious beliefs.&nbsp; On her first day, she and others were forced to squat with their hands behind their heads, looking at their feet, for 15 hours, in the baking sun.&nbsp; Anyone who fainted was shocked awake with electric batons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jennifer says that \u201cEvery day was a struggle between life and death.\u201d&nbsp; She says that the slave labor in the camp was used to make products sold all over the world, including in the United States.&nbsp; She says that she and others were forced to submit to blood tests, the results of which would go into a database for forced organ donation, in which innocent people were killed to harvest their organs for transplant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Anyone who thinks socialism is a good idea should<\/em> <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T3KbZOVEa_o&amp;t=24s\"><strong>watch this video<\/strong><\/a><strong><u>.<\/u> <\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;It is just four minutes long.&nbsp; Socialism makes promises that sound noble, but in reality, it delivers crushing pain.&nbsp; Man-made famines, thought police, inescapable surveillance, forced abortion and sterilization, forced organ harvesting and so many more crimes against humanity have brutalized the Chinese people for more than 70 years. <strong><em>Those of us who live in a democracy must commit ourselves to never let this evil form of government take hold of our land.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSocialists promise heaven on earth, but always end up giving you a one-way ticket to hell.\u201d&nbsp; &#8212; Jennifer Zeng \u201cThe goal of socialism is communism.\u201d&nbsp; &#8212; Vladimir Lenin September 15 is the International Day of Democracy \u2013 a day when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/intl-day-of-democracy-socialism-is-hell\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[225,244,245,223,239,236,243],"class_list":["post-3037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chinese-communist-party","tag-communism","tag-democracy","tag-forced-abortion","tag-one-child-policy","tag-reggie-littlejohn","tag-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3037"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3204,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037\/revisions\/3204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}