Kool Beans. 90 grand for a kidney.

This is not a new story to me. Any communist goverments' country always have a tortue and evil things to do their own people.

David, you said any communist governments' country always have toture and evil things to do to their own people.. Hmmm.. Executions are carried out every month or so in the USA. Maybe taking the prisioners organs for people who need them would be a better way for them to pay their debt to society. I think its a great idea, and I'm all for it! There are huge lines for people in prision to die, and there are huge lines of people who need organs. Sounds too easy to me.

If someone is going to die anyway at least they are putting the parts to good use to save a few other peoples lives.

China is our biggest importer of goods, China is our biggest taker of American jobs, yet we condemn Iran and North Korea and invade Iraq. What the hell is going on? We should shut the import door to all China goods and turn our prisons into factories of these same goods.

Tom Vaitys- That's disturbing. I suppose on the one hand China could argue that some good comes from executing murderers and other horrible offenders. On the other hand doesn't the profit from harvest organs encourage shoddy convictions and executions? Pretty damned disturbing

And if Halliburton could get away with it they would.

What's disturbing to me is not so much the mandatory giving of organs, but that the executions of these prisoners are timed to coordinate with a paying recipient. This is inhuman because after condemnation, the prisoner's body becomes little more than a life-support system protecting an asset of the state (which in this case would be an organ).

what is wrong with chinese goverment...They need to improve their human right...killing or taking stuffs away from executed prision is not make someone be rich

This story is very important. China is positioning itself as an economic power. It can't do that without the help of other countries.
They will have to "open up" their society in order to do this. That could mean discarding gruesome acts like this one.

This story is very important. China is positioning itself as an economic power. It can't do that without the help of other countries.
They will have to "open up" their society in order to do this. That could mean discarding gruesome acts like this one.

Why cannot the citizens in this country sell their own kidneys? Why shoud the goverment be involved at all. Who does your body belong to anyway?. Chicoms selling prisoner kidneys does not surprise me..

DAMN-

I'll sell MY kidney for $90k!
bring your pliers, I'm broke!

This is sick. Just plain sick. Considering the amount of societal repression and horrible human rights record of China, how do we know that these organs are coming from convicted murderers, and not political prisoners of the Chinese government? China, with its barbaric, backwater policies like this, is completely undeserving of any place of prominence in the international community.

It sounds sad but if the organs saved from the deceased are used to save other Chinese in China then it's a good intention ...but to sell 'em to foreign countries is inhumain ....but then who, in China, can stop officials in the communist regime from doing what they do ...pretty soon there will be a lot of condemned prisoners in the country that has over 1 billion bodies...just for profit.

China has been involved in all kinds of human rights abuses in Tibet - but the US which is seeped in hyprocrisy hardly ever protests. After all, Tibet has no use to US.. Only a country like India could come to Tibet's aid.

Over a billion people. Is soylent green next? Over a billion served. It rates in my mind as the same moral level. Capitalism without a spirit. Remember the roots of evil, Greed, Hatred and Delusion.

The point of this story is that China is not executing murderers and rapists and then just repurposing their organs, they're executing political dissidents, bloggers, religious activists, and Falun Dafa practitioners. And they're doing it for profit, not out of any sense of justice or "recycling." It just happens that locking up and murdering critics of the government now makes a tidy profit.
I know what you're thinking, Halperin and ABC, we should do that here! THAT would sure help the Republicans come 2008...

In China you can get arrested and sent to prison and executed for the things that we take for granted. Free speech, free press, the right to assemble, freedom to worship in the way you choose, things that we take for granted, the Chinese are not afforded. These are basic human rights. But,exercising one these "inalienable" rights can be a crime if it does not agree with the Chinese governments agenda. Therefore, these "horrible" criminals that they are harvesting organs from may have been sent to their death for one of our "God-given" rights. The "end does not justify the means." Even if the prisoner was a hard-core criminal, their punishment was meted out and justice was served. Therefore, the harvesting of their organs is basically just another violation of the Chinese government of the rights its' people.

This doesn't surprise me. I have family in China. Everyone there knows about this like how we know who the president is.