This comes from Assemblyman Chuck DeVore here in California, who on this subject is on the same side as the sometimes controversial Congresswoman Maxine Waters.

It seems DeVore and others in the State Assembly are trying to pass Resolution 119 which marks “Tibet Day.” ACR 119 is bottled up by Assemblymember Ted Lieu’s (D-El Segundo) Rules Committee, with the Democratic leadership in Sacramento refusing to allow a vote on the measure due to its controversy.

Meantime, at the same time the Democrats in the The California State Assembly hold up the condemnation of China, it passed a measure that memorializes the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to list both polar bears and penguins as needing protection under the federal Endangered Species Act. ACR 119 marks the People’s Republic of China:

…egregious violations of human rights including the repression of political, civic, and religious groups such as Tibetan Buddhists, Catholics, Protestants, Falun Gong practitioners, Muslims, democracy advocates, labor organizers, lawyers, journalists, environmental activists, political dissidents, and other innocent people; the illegal harvesting of vital body organs and coercive third-trimester abortions; the perpetuation of slave labor camps; and the deprivation of basic fundamental freedoms of expression, assembly, and religious beliefs…
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Why are people afraid, or should I say governments afraid of allowing people to speak the truth. History is again repeating itself, just consider this story coming out of the UK. The heads of the British Olympic team are forcing athletes to sign a contract promising not to speak out about China’s appalling human rights record when they travel to the communist nation this fall. If they do speak out, they could face being banned from travelling to Beijing and thus the Olympics. This isn’t the first time the British have succumbed to such a thing. Back in 1938, an order was given to the England football (soccer) team to give a Nazi salute in Berlin. This clause inserted into the athletes contracts forbids them from making any political comment about countries staging the Olympic Games.More…

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