Beaten and Chucked into Prison

With thorough regularity, Christians are still being beaten and chucked into prisons in Vietnam and Laos, two of the few-remaining Communist countries in the world.

I wonder what our good old liberals have to say about such behavior? On the one hand, liberals hold sacred the idea that all cultures are equal and equally worthy (therefore, we simply cannot condemn a culture that practices female genital mutilation or chucks Christians into prison right and left; rather, we must celebrate such diversity in cultures!). On the other hand, liberals are constantly squawking about tolerance and respect (therefore, we must both tolerate and respect the Laotian Christian's right to self-determination as well as the Laotian government's self-appointed right to beat the hell out of that Christian and then chuck him into prison). On the third hand (we're aliens here and have unusually generous anatomy), liberals are perpetually moaning about human rights (therefore, the Christian has the right to...oh, hang on - those rights are more applicable for pederasts, abortionists, islamofascists expressing themselves by indulging in violence and cute thuggery, and illegal immigrants bent on breaking our laws and then enjoying the advantages brought about by our rule of law).

What a conundrum.

Perhaps we should just, oh - I don't know - raise taxes, appoint a commission, and hire ten dozen more bureaucrats with Ivy League degrees.