Poster from Wikipedia file 18 Sept 2008 |
But what was the useful aspects of showing this display in China. It would simply drive home the point that the State can do anything they want with you even in death. What was the useful aspect of showing this display in America.? A new generation has risen who has not faced war or the threat of the loss of their freedom and perhaps, just perhaps we are ready for our own death camps and will set on our hind sides as friends and family are haled away. Maybe I just think too deeply;some of my friends went to the exhibit but I had no desire to, as in my minds eye I could visualize that these perfectly preserved specimens who were obviously healthy individuals were not the casualties of natural causes of death. (But China has now made attempts to deny it with little or no proof of the origins of the bodies)
Today a meat market is involved in China as people with money can go and buy a hart kidney or liver and have it transplanted. One man coming home was obviously shaken by what he had just done and went on TV and was talking about having just spent his money to save his life knowing that it had just cost some poor China-man his life. Perhaps we will only awaken when political controls involves us or someone we love. Perhaps we need to be awakened to the morality and reality of the past and present or we will awaken to have the past repeated in our future or that of our children or have no future worth offering to the next generation at all. Richard W Norman