Strange how right-wing apologists never seem to remember things ike Tiananmen Square, or the Gulags, when they're dealing with oppressive regimes that can make them a quick buck at the expense of the poor sods that do the work for next to nothing.

These regimes have sod all to do with communism (bloody obvious) and everything to do with supplying fat lazy westerners who have never known life without free speech but balk at life sans Coca Cola or burgers to feed their fat faces with.

There's no chance of those proles giving their leaders a good kick in the balls and taking over; they're too afraid of losing their Nike trainers, cheap computers etc Better let some Chinese worker in a Laogai who they'll never have to face do the donkey work - they're not going to complain after all, unless they want a bullet in the back of the head.

The pro-democracy movement in China is made up of people with more courage and integrity than most westerners can ever dream of having, and the fact right-wingers love to business with the people who seek to oppress their free speech renders them complicit.

Loony lefties we may be, but remembering Tiananmen Square, The kidnapping and disappearance of the true Panchen Lama, The 50th Anniversary of the Tibetan Uprising and human rights in China are causes we believe in and actually do something about, rather than kow-tow to money-men and political pirates.