When I read something like this, it makes me feel so grateful to be born and raised in a country like Canada. Every day is a blessing. Our freedom and prosperity is so precious and rare.
It’s not North Korea yet, to be sure, but year-on-year Canadians have less freedom.
The same is true for the rest of “CANZUK”, and the USA.
Aside from drug legalisation, which suits the ruling class to the extent that it keeps people quiet, what examples can you point to that show freedom increasing?
Freedom for the friends of the liberal government is sweet. Golden rice bowl and the government has their hands on the scales of justice in your favour.
Too bad the current federal government keeps on ignoring the constitution.
MR
Mrs R
5 months ago
What truly extraordinary people. These are the real heroes. I am so grateful that this documentary has been made and I hope and pray that it gets a worldwide audience and people start to wake up. Keeping such horrific realities away from those in the West, a vast number of whom do not have the beginnings of a clue as to just how fortunate they are and how grateful they ought to be to live here, has been a huge error, an error so huge one can be forgiven for thinking it has been deliberately swept under the carpet.
BW
Benedict Waterson
5 months ago
These are real political ‘activists.’ People putting their neck on the line to battle real oppression and ease real suffering.
AB
Allison Barrows
5 months ago
When I read “Life and Death in Shanghai”, Nien Cheng’s harrowing account of her arrest and tortuous imprisonment during China’s Cultural Revolution, I often wondered why no one had made a movie from it. Given how much influence that country has on American institutions, I no longer wonder.
Where did Mr. Birrell see Beyond Utopia? Will it be made available for public viewing? How will Pastor Kim’s rescue operation continue with this documentary exposing his methods, routes, and rescues? Cheng wrote her book while in exile in the US during the Reagan Administration. Her daughter had already been murdered by the government, so there was no one left in China for her to protect, nor had our country’s politicians yet been bought by China. How will the Xi regime react to this documentary, and who will pay the price for its existence?
Incidentally, the word for stopping the flow is stanched, not staunched.
In English, staunch as a verb has the same meaning as stanch. I suspect that this is yet another example of American English diverging from its roots (or perhaps vice-versa), as I (English and well educated) had never heard of ‘stanch’ until I just looked it up to check that.
The American version of our language is simply incorrect
ML
Michael Layman
5 months ago
It’s sad that no western country cares about the plight of North Koreans. Kim Jong Un is nothing but a pesky gnat to the US. The US had an opportunity to punish them after the torture and death of Otto Warmbier, but Obama was a democratic wimp.
The West is beholden to China financially and we will never punish them for human rights violations.
If only politicians had the courage of this pastor.
NK has a huge military and nuclear weapons. The country is almost impregnable to ground forces. What exactly should the West do?
For the West to impose its values (freedom, tolerance, democracy, etc) on others, it needs to have sufficient superiority in military and economic strength. China has caught us up militarily and could soon surpass us economically. People who cheer on the West’s relative decline then turn around and say why doesn’t the West do something about this or that.
W
Waffles
5 months ago
Someone should inform Wokes about the slavery happening TODAY in non-Western countries.
WB
William Brand
5 months ago
Now that America did nothing except talk and beg N Korea to stop its Nuclear program Kim has the bomb and can deter America he can take over S Korea any time he wants.He can even take Japan as well. The only question is wry he hasn’t walked into Seoul without firing a shot. Is it because he doesn’t want the effort of training a new group of slaves who remember wat it was like to be free.
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When I read something like this, it makes me feel so grateful to be born and raised in a country like Canada. Every day is a blessing. Our freedom and prosperity is so precious and rare.
Yes, for all its problems we are lucky to be born in the West.
Self praise is NO recommendation.
It’s not North Korea yet, to be sure, but year-on-year Canadians have less freedom.
The same is true for the rest of “CANZUK”, and the USA.
Aside from drug legalisation, which suits the ruling class to the extent that it keeps people quiet, what examples can you point to that show freedom increasing?
Freedom for the friends of the liberal government is sweet. Golden rice bowl and the government has their hands on the scales of justice in your favour.
I didn’t say freedom is increasing.
Too bad the current federal government keeps on ignoring the constitution.
What truly extraordinary people. These are the real heroes. I am so grateful that this documentary has been made and I hope and pray that it gets a worldwide audience and people start to wake up. Keeping such horrific realities away from those in the West, a vast number of whom do not have the beginnings of a clue as to just how fortunate they are and how grateful they ought to be to live here, has been a huge error, an error so huge one can be forgiven for thinking it has been deliberately swept under the carpet.
These are real political ‘activists.’ People putting their neck on the line to battle real oppression and ease real suffering.
When I read “Life and Death in Shanghai”, Nien Cheng’s harrowing account of her arrest and tortuous imprisonment during China’s Cultural Revolution, I often wondered why no one had made a movie from it. Given how much influence that country has on American institutions, I no longer wonder.
Where did Mr. Birrell see Beyond Utopia? Will it be made available for public viewing? How will Pastor Kim’s rescue operation continue with this documentary exposing his methods, routes, and rescues? Cheng wrote her book while in exile in the US during the Reagan Administration. Her daughter had already been murdered by the government, so there was no one left in China for her to protect, nor had our country’s politicians yet been bought by China. How will the Xi regime react to this documentary, and who will pay the price for its existence?
Incidentally, the word for stopping the flow is stanched, not staunched.
In English, staunch as a verb has the same meaning as stanch. I suspect that this is yet another example of American English diverging from its roots (or perhaps vice-versa), as I (English and well educated) had never heard of ‘stanch’ until I just looked it up to check that.
The American version of our language is simply incorrect
It’s sad that no western country cares about the plight of North Koreans. Kim Jong Un is nothing but a pesky gnat to the US. The US had an opportunity to punish them after the torture and death of Otto Warmbier, but Obama was a democratic wimp.
The West is beholden to China financially and we will never punish them for human rights violations.
If only politicians had the courage of this pastor.
NK has a huge military and nuclear weapons. The country is almost impregnable to ground forces. What exactly should the West do?
For the West to impose its values (freedom, tolerance, democracy, etc) on others, it needs to have sufficient superiority in military and economic strength. China has caught us up militarily and could soon surpass us economically. People who cheer on the West’s relative decline then turn around and say why doesn’t the West do something about this or that.
Someone should inform Wokes about the slavery happening TODAY in non-Western countries.
Now that America did nothing except talk and beg N Korea to stop its Nuclear program Kim has the bomb and can deter America he can take over S Korea any time he wants.He can even take Japan as well. The only question is wry he hasn’t walked into Seoul without firing a shot. Is it because he doesn’t want the effort of training a new group of slaves who remember wat it was like to be free.