I’ve been saying the same thing about illegal missionaries in China forever. I believe that China should have religious freedom, but it doesn’t, and these missionaries are idiots and criminals. First they smuggle illegal Christian books & videos into China (like other criminals smuggle drugs) and the PRC sends them back to the US and bars them from reentering the country. Then they return and illegally smuggle THEMSELVES back into China and engage in outlawed proselytization. When the Chinese police arrest and finally imprison them, their fellow American Evangelicals raise a huge ruckus, condemn the Chinese government for “oppression”, and generally whine and whinge.

Hellooo? They repeatedly committed religious crimes in a COMMUNIST DICTATORSHIP, then illegally crossed the border and engaged in more “evangelizing” after already having been kicked out and told in no uncertain terms to stay out. What did they THINK was going to happen?

No sympathy for any of them, be they Gore’s journalists or Baptist missionaries.

On March 30th, 2009 at 11:04 pm, WarEagle82 said:

Maybe we can send Algore across the same river to check on them. Heck, maybe we can get Hillary to go too! Just tell her she needs to “press the reset button” in North Korea.

Unfortunately, with Hillary!s luck, the “reset” button translation to Korean would probably say “launch”.

There were and are many North Korean people to interview in China. These reporters wantonly broke the laws of a sovereign nation and now are paying the price for doing so. If there had been no other way to get the story, perhaps it could have been justified but with all of the people available to give their personal accounts already in China, there was no need to put themselves in harm’s way lest it be for the publicity and fame and that is not what reporting (or any profession) should be about. They rolled the dice, they took their chances and they lost.

I have lived in different countries and unlike the USA, most of them are not very hospitable when you violate their laws or make unjust demands on their people or governments.

On March 30th, 2009 at 5:11 pm, calamityville said:
I think we should trade the two women for algore. It is a win win situation. We get the women back and algore can help North Korea stay in the stone age for a few more decades.

LOL! That’s the best idea I’ve heard in weeks!

Yeah, that’s the ticket.

I wonder if they were open border types?

Shh! We are going to have John McCain and Nancy Pelosi sneak across the border and rescue them–keep it quiet-only tell your closest friends and neighbors. We were going to send Senator Kennedy but we could not get him sober soon enough.