Send a message to Beijing this Black Friday.

In light of Communist China’s refusal to allow the U.S.S. Kittyhawk to dock for a scheduled port visit so that the soldiers could visit with their hundreds of family members who flew into Hong Kong for Thanksgiving, take a moment this Black Friday to eschew companies that continue stocking their shelves with the GHB and lead-laced spoils that fund the coming war against us:

The top U.S. military commander in the Pacific said he’s “perplexed and concerned” by China’s last-minute decision to deny a U.S. aircraft carrier entry to Hong Kong for a previously scheduled port visit.

The USS Kitty Hawk and its escort ships were due to dock there for a four-day visit Wednesday until they were refused access. Hundreds of family members had flown to Hong Kong to spend Thanksgiving with their sailors.

“It’s hard to put any kind of positive spin on this,” Adm. Timothy Keating told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Thursday while flying back to the U.S. after visiting troops in Iraq.

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It was the second time in a week that China refused to let U.S. Navy ships into the port.

Two U.S. minesweepers seeking to refuel and shelter from bad weather in the South China Sea had asked for permission to enter Hong Kong three or four days before the Kitty Hawk. Those ships were denied, Keating said.

Naturally, this will find us at loggerheads with our sometimes allies in the Ayn Rand camp but we’re not asking for a government boycott yet and it takes an industrial strength ideological cocoon not to see the difference between trading with a murderer and trading with a murderer who is sending signals that he’s going to kill you as soon as he has enough of your money.

So Boycott China today. The life you save will be your own. And your kids. And your pets.

A stronger signal would be to revoke Most Favored Nation Trading status to a country that is spitting in our soldiers’ faces during our illusory, so-called “peace time”.

PowerLine receives a message from a naval officer:

What hasn’t been widely reported yet is that several hundred families of the Kittyhawk crew, who live here in Yokosuka, Japan, had flown to Hong Kong to spend the holiday with their spouses. I personally know three wives who made the trip, taking their small children with them. Ever spent $2500 on airfare to fly 10 hours round trip by yourself with two kids under age 4, then found out it was for nothing?

The LA Times reports that the ChiComs relented after it was too late and that they were creating a public relations nightmare for themselves under the capricious claims that they would allow the visit “out of humanitarian consideration only”. A day later after the ship had almost returned to its home port. Falun Gong, Tibetan and Taiwanese recipients of their vaunted humanitarian largesse were unavailable for comment:

Word spread Wednesday afternoon that China’s Foreign Ministry had suddenly and inexplicably blocked a five-day visit by the giant vessel and its strike group, despite prior approval and weeks of planning.

A day later, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao told journalists that Beijing would relent, saying its change of heart was “a decision out of humanitarian consideration only.” Repeated efforts by foreign reporters to get him to explain the reversal failed.
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Amid the head-scratching, some praised this week’s moves, even if they too were uncertain about the intent.

“My guess is the U.S. did something that wasn’t so friendly toward us,” said Ni Lexiong, a military expert with the Shanghai Institute of Political Science and Law. “It’s good to let them know in a rather abrupt way, otherwise they might not notice.”

Let the ChiComs know you noticed this Christmas.
Naturally, the Red Chinese apparatchiks at Google have upped their monitoring of us to preserve Their Master’s Will.

Don’t be evil, eh?

Jing-Jing must be proud.

Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to sell.

UPDATE (Cranky)

Crap, I wasn’t paying attention. Just came from shopping. Brian’s post made me go back and look at the labels.

The crap made in China:
One pair of Nunn Bush shoes
Linksys router
NVidia graphics card

I’m cool with globalization and all, but why can’t the hardware be made in Malaysia or India?

I used to boycott China until I found that my wife’s trip to Walmart blew away hours and hours of searching for alternatives.

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