Human Rights are Bad!

Human Right Watch is viciously attacking free trade;

"Prime Minister Stephen Harper is right to insist that Canada should not sell out human rights in order to promote trade and investment with China. Now he has an opportunity to show he is serious — when he meets with Chinese President Hu Jintao on the sidelines of the APEC meeting in Vietnam.

Human rights must be part of the discussion because China's record — already poor — has deteriorated markedly over the past two years. First came a crackdown on the already tightly controlled press. Editors have been jailed, newspapers closed. Then it was the Internet. Censorship regulations were tightened, websites taken down, cyber dissidents arrested. Next the lawyers found themselves in the authorities' crosshairs: Three top human-rights lawyers have been thrown in jail in a matter of months. Other civil rights advocates have been assaulted by thugs with total impunity. Now it's a clean-up of Beijing's undesirables — migrant workers and their children, beggars and people without a city permit — in the name of beautification efforts for the 2008 Olympics."

Human Rights are highly overrated, "all we need is profit" as Johan Norberg points out in his "Why corporations shouldnt be socially responsible" address at the 2003 "Managing on the edge" conference in Holland.

Corporate profit, not "Human Rights", is what is going to erase world poverty, make peace on earth, make your tits larger and make everyone on earth be able to buy a brand new car and a flatscreen tv. (Forget about the Global Warming alarmists)

And the key to corporate profit are low wages and weak or non-existent trade unions, like in China.

China is Swedens biggest trading partner in Asia, there are 400 Swedish companies already in China and hopefully Sweden will be able to get more Chinese workers over here to compete with the spoiled overpaid Swedish workers.

"A Chinese worker killed in an accident at his workplace in Gothenburg harbor last month was earning four kronor per hour. The Transport Workers Union previously elected not to get involved but is now demanding better payment conditions for the Chinese guest workers.

According to the Union's newspaper the 14 Chinese crane workers, of which the deceased man was one, work 60 hour weeks at a rate of four kronor per hour."

Four kronor an hour - now thats more like it! If we manage to get all Swedish salaries down to those levels then the 2800 jobs lost to China and other low wage countries might stay in Sweden.

But to succeed with that we need people to abandon all mafia trade unions and get rid of all "workers rights"!