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China Should be Falun Gonged!

Hi! Thanks for the dinner invite, it's very nice to be here. By the way, your taste in decor is appalling and how about you stop your children reading books because I don't happen to agree with them.

A bit rich, don't you think? Well, that's pretty much the attitude of the Chinese government when it comes to popping down to visit these shores and then telling us to crackdown on the "Evil Cult" of Falun Gong.

If you haven't heard much about Falun Gong it is a religious group that has an amazing following in China, and the puppet masters in Beijing have been trying to smash the followers into giving up what they believe in.

Tens of thousands have been arrested, many hundreds beaten and tortured - all for practising their religion.

It's bad enough hearing reports of China's appalling human-rights record, but the arrogance of these blighters in thinking we give a rat's arse enough about what they think that we'll deal with Falun Gong just because they tell us to.

The Voice of Beijing Kindness, Tang Jiaxuan, clearly thought we'd want to kiss his backside so much - China being a huge potential area for exports and business deals - that our pollies would pull their tongues out of his rear long enough to arrest the Falun Gong followers camped outside the Chinese Embassy in Canberra.

Well, Tang, old fruit, even our jellybacks couldn't be seen to do that at a press conference and so your reasonable (if you are in Beijing) request was politely ignored.

Oh, the Great Gall of China!

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