Recently, several large search engine companies helped the Chinese government crack down on dissidents. They provided software so people who spoke out for freedom could be hunted down.
After these freedom-seekers were caught, they were brutalized by the police. They were pummeled with clubs and beaten with batons. To get an idea how they suffered, slam your hand in a door. Hard.
When the Chinese police finished beating,kicking, and stomping them, they were put in front of a Communist judge. They were sentenced to hard labor. Imagine digging a ditch for twelve hours, being fed a bowl of rice, and sleeping on a concrete floor with, maybe, one thin blanket. Winter and summer.
All us should think about spending a day like that,interrupted with beatings. Then, we should imagine seven days a week for twelve years.
A few conservative Congressmen criticized the American executives who made such agonizing punishments possible.
One Congressman asked the executives: “Would you have helped the Nazis find Anne Frank?” Of course they would.
Catholic Fundamentalists have an ideal punishment: sentence each money-crazed American executive responsible for this suffering to exactly the same punishment they intentionally inflicted on others.
If our government won’t, God will.
