By Muriel Sluyter

Greetings, Gentle Reader:

How do you say $300,000 in Chinese? Never mind, the Chinese know. Chinese citizens can get a liver transplant for that amount, and if they arrange their surgery to coincide with their government’s prisoner executions, there is an abundance of organs.

A doctor at Sun Yat Sen University of Medical Sciences in Chengdu says, "Some prisoners have been sentenced earlier. We will have some organs this month. Of course, we have to match the patient’s blood type, but no need to worry. There will be lots" (South China Morning Post).

Now to kidneys. A doctor at First University Hospital in Chengdu says proudly, "The quality of our kidneys is better than in America, because we can remove the kidney fast and at the appropriate time. Basically, as soon as we know the donor is brain dead, we can get at the kidney with a minimum of fuss and we can guarantee several kidneys in one month. The distance between where we remove the kidney and the transplant is short. We can do it in, oh, less than 10 hours. In America, it takes more than 20 hours" (Ibid).

Makes you want to hop a plane for China and get a kidney transplant, doesn’t it? It will set you back $30,000 (which goes to China’s government), but at least you know your kidney is better than one you could get in America.

Why do Chinese doctors have such an abundance of organs? It’s simple. The government executes prisoners and its medical people harvest the organs. Of course, in order to keep the organs in great shape, they try to shoot the prisoners in such a way that they will be brain dead only.

So, how can a patriotic Chinese gentleman earn the dubious honor of becoming an organ donor? That’s simple, too. There are some 68 capital crimes in China: Theft, burglary, corruption, forgery, taking bribes, tax evasion, hooliganism, seriously disrupting public order, pimping, trafficking in women, etc. See? Almost everyone can be a donor. It’s not as bad as the trafficking in baby’s body parts that we do here in America. Probably nothing could be as bad as that, but, hey! The Chinese do their humble best to compete with America’s thriving organ market.

Does a prisoner give the government permission to sell his organs? Silly question! The government doesn’t worry about such niceties. They take the organs without asking, though they swear they would never do such a terrible thing.

Americans must realize that a totalitarian regime such as China’s is in complete power. Citizens are totally subject to the whims of their depraved, bloodthirsty, power hungry rulers, who have no mercy, as this organ donor program proves.

Some of our people think the world’s only hope is for national sovereignty to be done away with, and the UN put in power. Since in the UN, those who believe a dictatorship is a legitimate form of government are in the majority, while lovers of liberty are in the minority, we would live under a dictatorship. Americans will have no constitutional protections against the inevitable abuses of such a regime.

Under a UN government, the Chinese people will be no better off, and Americans will be much worse off.

As we contemplate the consequences of a UN government, let’s remember what Benjamin Franklin said: "A democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch, while liberty is a well-armed lamb disputing the vote."