Dave, get your facts straight. I'm not going to get into a discussion like this on a Shotgun forum so I'll leave this post and let you have the last word. Women are allowed to have more than one baby and are NOT forced to have an abortion. The penalty for having more than one child is NOT sterilization or forced abortion. They are simply not allowed to work anymore. 5,000 people killed for political beliefs? Our government kills women and children in Waco and Ruby Ridge, does that mean you won't buy from Remington? Didn't Horiuchi use a Remington?
And as far as governments go, I think we've done our share of genocide. Slavery, Native American Genocide, Legalized and government funded abortions, Area-bombing cities. Vaporizing Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
As far as slavery goes. In China, all work is for the 'common good' as they put it. From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. In the US, we work and pay the government about half of what we make in one way or another. There are income taxes, sales taxes, taxes on labor, taxes on the companies and products they make, imort duties, taxes on the roads that carry the products, etc... ad noseum. In a country where you are forced under penalty of law to devote 50% of your income to the government, how can you say you are free?!
BTW: Don't take this as any apology for the Chinese system. I think the system is wrong and would welcome the violent overthrow of their government. I'd even encourage it. HOWEVER, it's none of MY business. My family is just fine and I couldn't give a F%&# what happens in China, so long as I, my Family, and my Country are safe.