Farkin' Combat!

Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft are part of the "Great Firewall" built to imprison Chinese bloggers and journalists.

Cai Lijun got 3 years in prison for posting articles (on a non-Chinese website) calling for democratic reforms.

He Depu got 8 years in prison for pro-democracy internet offenses.

Li Zhi got 8 years in prison for criticizing official corruption after Yahoo provided Chinese authorities with information.

Liu Weifang got 3 years in prison for criticizing the Communist Party online.

Lu Xinhua got 4 years in prison for posting (on a non-Chinese website) articles about human rights abuses in China.

Jin Haike got 10 years in prison for pro-democracy internet offenses.

Shi Tao got 10 years in prison after Yahoo provided Chinese authorities with information.

Xu Wei got 10 years in prison for pro-democracy internet offenses.

Yang Zili got 8 years in prison for posting pro-democracy material on his website.

We don't know how many of these people there are, just as we don't know how many people China executes every year. All you Democrats who shrieked yourselves hoarse over every tear shed at Guantanamo, how about working up one drop of sweat for the imprisoned cyber-dissidents? Republicans, where is the commitment to freedom for China that you sermonized about in the 2004 platform?

What is to be done?