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The Harvests of Terror

Gordon Francis Corbett

          My lady and I have owned a ten-foot satellite dish since 1994.  It 

and its receiver have enabled us to learn a lot from foreign news 

broadcasts.

          For a time, some ten years ago, we would tune in at midnight to a 

particular satellite's specific transponder and watch the B.B.C.'s 

8:00 A.M. news broadcast.  After one morning's news summary, we saw a 

report I can only describe as chilling.  It comprised interviews 

buttressed by clandestinely filmed BBC videotape of a Red Chinese 

doctor.  He told a supposed patient how much he would have to pay to 

have an organ put into his body.  I cannot remember now which organ 

the "patient" was pretending to buy because I was in a kind of 

shock.  You see, the doctor planned to, uh, "harvest" the organ from 

an executed political prisoner whose tissue-typing matched the 

"patient"'s.

        If doctors could safely have transplanted organs in the 

nineteen-thirties, Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin would not have 

hesitated to glean from their victims every possible Reichsmark or 

ruble, and to make their deaths warnings to every prospective rebel.

          Many strict conservatives of the Dan Smoot and Barry Goldwater 

varieties would oppose permitting even ordinary trade with the 

Chinese Reds, but under "I feel your pain" Bill Clinton and 

"compassionate conservative" George W. Bush, our two ruling parties 

have been, and are still, forcing American citizens to support them.  

And, just wait until you see how.

          Representative Peter De Fazio said in Port Orford, Oregon, that of 

all the nations buying our debt instruments, only Japan surpasses the 

Red Chinese.  He added a nasty scenario.  Suppose that Peking 

announces an intention to conquer the Republic of China on the island 

of Formosa.  We threaten to send our Seventh Fleet to block them.  

Peking replies that if we do that, they will sell every American debt 

instrument they have accumulated over the years, making our currency 

worthless.  Result:  we do nothing.

          De Fazio did not add this, but selling these instruments to the 

Chinese Reds adds insult to injury.  The Treasury Department creates 

them to amortize Congress's deficit spending, and when foreigners 

purchase them, the dollars we print to pay those creditors go 

abroad.  Eventually, those nations use them to buy goods and 

services;  and, when they return to our country, they increase our 

money supply far more rapidly than our own goods and services can 

grow.  Consequently, we pay far more dollars for the same items than 

we used to do.  That is the injury.

          We get the insult when Communist China uses what had been our own  dollars to improve its arsenal.  We dare not forget that a Red 

Chinese general once threatened to bomb Los Angeles.  Nor should we 

let slip from our memory facts like China's Hutchison Whampoa 

Limited's installations on both ends of the Panama Canal, or China's 

cozying up to Venezuela's Hugo Chávez.

          As a fan of George Washington's non-interventionist foreign policy, 

I oppose defending foreign powers from aggressors who have not 

attacked us;  but the specter of our abjuring a treaty merely to 

please foreign creditors nauseates me.

          How about you?

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