Trapped within the Dragon’s Lair - Exclusive

Trapped within the Dragon’s Lair, written by By R.J. Godlewski

I long for the days when quality represented a craftsman’s touch. When things were built to last, to safeguard, and to respect my hard days’ earnings. Being a creative personality, I’ve always enjoyed seeing how much care and effort went into the products that I bought, fully understanding that some worker – usually, but not always, a fellow countryman – put their literal life’s work into something just for my enjoyment or service. Not anymore.

Today, it has become exceedingly hard to find anything truly worthy of our monies, almost as hard as it to find something in American stores that wasn’t fabricated in distant China and, when logic prevails, the two problems go hand in hand. Yes, I long for the days when electronics were built in metal casings, things could be innocently dropped without shattering into a thousand pieces, and Wal-Mart boasted of ‘American made’ instead of ‘Low prices. Always!’ In our gradual, almost imperceptible shift towards what I term “budget fixing” we, as a collective nation, have allowed ourselves to drift into purchasing inferior products just so that we can keep up with the Jones’s. We’ve sacrificed our cultural identity just so that we could impress our neighbor’s with how much we have when perhaps we couldn’t really afford it.

I’m no different; I feel as though I modeled for that commercial on television “I’m in debt up to my…” The difference is, of course, that I try to spend my money and credit wisely. I purchase those things that are built well and, most importantly, crafted here in America. I contract for those services that reflect my character and not my public perception. Take my publishing business, as an example. Every day I am flooded with offers to print my books overseas – in China – for a fraction of what it would cost here in America. I could pass the savings on to you or, perhaps, use the profits to fund my counterterrorism and anti-cancer activities. I could, but won’t; no matter how much my sales decline. Why? Because unlike most Americans I don’t want to sacrifice my personal integrity by feeding the Dragon that is slowly consuming the hand that feeds it. In our haste to endure the ‘convenient life’ we just may be sacrificing millions of our fellow earthlings to the jaws of a brutal and unchecked totalitarian regime in Beijing.

Forget the tainted pet food that sickened and killed our companions. Forget the lead-based paint that may suffer our children to birth defects and premature illnesses. Forget the faulty tires that may endanger our lives as well as those surrounding us on the highways. Forget the news coverage of the almost daily recall of things Chinese and reflect upon our national security for a moment. When you walk into your local Big Box retailer, I want you to examine the manufacturer’s label of ten random products that you would normally purchase with your hard-earned money. As you examine these labels, I want you to think of the following highly graphic and most disturbing images. Images of people being executed in China for crimes that we, in the West, are not allowed examining the details of. People who are being paraded in front of their townsfolk, mocked with poles and illegible signs of justice, and summarily shot pointblank in the back of the head by military personnel.

These photographs (click to enlarge) came to me by way of my friend at 2ndWatcher Blog and they simply disgust me. Are these images of some pedophiles being served adequate justice? A spy caught stealing secrets for Islamist terrorists? Or some poor peasant simply being disposed of because they complained about the lack of bread? We simply do not know and therefore you’ll have to judge for yourself. All that I know is that I, for one, do not trust the Chinese government in anything. They zap our satellites with lasers, steal our nuclear secrets, and flood our communities with inferior products. So who’s to blame? We are.

Take a look again at those images. You support the coffers of that government whenever you purchase anything with the “Made in China” label. You support these executions – whether they are legitimate or otherwise – whenever you demand the latest gadgets at the expense of living within your means. You endorse the shameful and ‘secretive’ execution of people by a government that has one of the worst human rights records on the planet simply by ignoring how much of America is being consumed by the Demonic Dragon in the East.

Those are not faked photographs, people, but the Chinese government’s reaction to them may very well be. If we can’t entrust them to provide us with quality products, how can we trust them with presenting the facts? Conversely, if we cannot entrust them with the due process of human dignity, how can we trust them with the national security of a foreign power – ours? So enjoy your portable CD players, your plasma televisions, your ‘do everything’ washers and dryers, and ham it up in front of the Jones’s. The credit that your soul borrows to pay for these earthly discounts will become due once we enter Heaven and that payment is fixed. Always! (R.J. Godlewski)

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Comments

[Debbie]

Rosemary: I have great readers, who are nice enough to email me tips and links to stories. I am also blessed with several real 'authors and writers', who are kind enough to write original material for 'Right Truth Exclusives'. So I'm very thankful.

[Rosemary]

Hi Debbie,

Great work. I answered you over at my site as to how was handling all those sites. Apparently not too well! lol.

You already have pinged my site, also. Just so you know. Now it's time for me to ask you. Where do you get the time to find all of this info? ;)

[Debbie]

Thanks everybody. I've forwarded your comments to Mr. Godlewski. He's truly a great writer, has written several books, internet articles, and one you might be interested in reading:

"Integrated Technical Warfare"

http://www.cafepress.com/NuclearResponse

Book review here:

http://righttruth.typepad.com/right_truth/2007/05/integrated_tech.html

Check out his home page here:

http://www.rjgodlewski.com/RJGodlewskiMusic.html

[2ndWatcher]

Having made the initial post I am taken aback by the eloquence of this post.

My Thanks

[Yankee Doodle]

Islam and Communist China -- two of the most important issues that will face us in the Twenty-First Centurty.

[Rastaman]

Gross! That the soldiers would commit those murders of young girls willingly says a lot about how either brainwashed or, more likely, afraid to say No, they are.

I remember when Richard Nixon was lauded for "opening China to the West" and thinking at the time that we'd just invited Hell to breakfast. I was very unfortunately right. COMMUNIST China is Communist! Not democratic, not caring about individual rights. In Communism, the people are the property of the state. It's slavery, outright. We should never have begun doing business with them in the first place but the greed of our politicians and corporations is boundless.

I've been looking at labels for some time now and putting Chinese junky crap back on the shelves. With the latest about lead paint on toys, maybe the manufacturers will stop ordering up Chinese trash and start putting our honest businesses back to work. It would sure give all those illegal aliens something to do besides rape teenage girls and sell drugs.

Ted, exactly where did you get that bogus information about the Israelis? The reality is that while the Palestinians happily torture wounded Jews to death, the Jews tend wounded Palestinians in their hospitals, yes including the ones who try to kill Israelis. The Jews are decent people, the Arabs are a horde of stone-age maniacs. Come on!

Rastaman
www.islamanazi.com

[Ralph E.]

SNAKE HUNTERS SEZ,

The author speaks with the
authority of Truth. We should take a look in
the mirror. Examine the major retailer that
offers 50% Off and Sale! Buy one, get one FREE!

I had a retail furniture store for 15 years, never
once had a "Sale".
I stocked quality hardwoods,
the competition sold them Partical Board...we had
Sofa & Chairs w/Hand-tied Springs & Quality Fabrics.

Free & Sale are Four-Letter Words! There's a sucker born
every minute, and two to take 'em. Who Do You Trust?
reb

www.lazyonebenn.blogspot.com

[Roger W. Gardner]

R.J.Godlewski --
Thank you for your moving and thoughtful article. There are so many ruthless regimes, so many brutal dictatorships who despise us here in America that sometimes I feel that we are almost completely alone in this world -- not powerless, but nonetheless alone.
We are a civilized nation -- which means, among other things, that we are vulnerable to that debilitating disease of introspection. If there's something wrong in this world, it's more than likely to some degree, or in some way our fault.
But as your excellent article points out, there truly is evil in this world, evil for which we cannot be held accountable.
I will definetly give more thought to my future purchases.
Keep up the good work.
Best wishes,
Roger W. Gardner
Newburyport, MA

[Debbie]

Israel does NOT treat the Palestinians the same way as the pictures. Ted, what kool-aide are you drinking?

[Ted]

If they are pedophiles they are receiving just punishment.
But the real thing is that the United States needs to look at relations with many countries including Saudi Arabia and Israel. Saudi Arabia treats their own people in much the same way as those pictured above. Israel treats Palestinians in much the same way also, if not worse. Both Saudi Arabia and Israel need to be probed for crimes against humanity.
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