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    China Has Organs For Sale
    China Has Organs For Sale
    China Has Organs For Sale
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    China Has Organs For Sale

    By R. Paul Stevens

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    An article on the awful but lucrative Chinese trade in organs from executed prisoners.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherR. Paul Stevens
    Release dateJan 19, 2013
    ISBN9781301697687
    China Has Organs For Sale
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    R. Paul Stevens

    There is a favorite line from my novella Dinner Party For Eight in which Angela asks Harry:“What do you think I am?”Harry considered this for a moment. What was she actually?“Well I suppose you are a very beautiful cook.”So if I have to answer the same question what am I actually? I would also need to consider this for a moment. I would like to say I’m an ex astronaut, have more degrees than a thermometer, have competed in the Tour de France without any EPO, surfed Teahupoo in Tahiti and emerged unscathed, sailed round the world, am an ace Alpine skier, am a member of Mensa, have a beauty queen wife and gorgeous kids, and started my own corporation which has listed on NASDAQ. I could go on but like Arnold Schwarzenegger I don’t want to boast.Well to be honest, I have gone some of the way towards all those things. I do have a letter from Wernher von Braun, I do have three degrees in Physics, I have flown in a jet plane (Emirates Air), I do cycle the mega steep hills here where I live but unfortunately can’t get EPO anywhere, I am a keen surfer who has almost managed to break his neck, I am an ocean going skipper and I did own my own yacht though if it was me I wouldn’t sail with me as captain, I do ski but you need to get out of the way, I do have a beautiful wife (though her agreeing to marry me has to be my biggest piece of luck ever) and two great kids, I do have my own software business but no stock exchanges alas and I would like to take the Mensa test but I’m pretty sure I would fail and then I wouldn’t be able to live with that so I would rather rationalize. I live in that sapphire city – Cape Town.

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      China Has Organs For Sale - R. Paul Stevens

      China Has Organs For Sale

      All Rights Reserved © 2012 Paul Stevens

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      China Has Organs For Sale - Crimes - Also by this Author

      China Has Organs For Sale

      Whether or not you are a proponent of the death penalty you have to admire the Chinese ingenuity in devising no less than 55 ways you can be sentenced to death. This is actually down from a total of 67 ways in 2005. A full list is reproduced at the end of this article from Wikopedia. If you are a Chinese citizen it would probably pay to scrutinize this list pretty carefully before even thinking of engaging in any nefarious activities. In fact if Chinese capital offense categories were to be applied to Wall Street they would have hauled off most of the high flyers responsible for the Sub Prime crisis and executed them. The actual wording is disrupting the Order of Financial Administration and being involved in other serious circumstances. Yes, I would say these dudes seriously disrupted things, not just in their own country but the entire world.

      The Chinese government did announce in February 2012 that it had reduced the number of capital offenses by 13. But in fact this is nothing more than window dressing because the crimes relate to tax fraud, the smuggling of cultural relics or precious metals, tomb robbing and stealing fossils for which executions are

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