What We All Know Continues To Be Ignored and Yet the Problem Is Still Unresolved.

Weird, right? We all know the truth yet we disregard it. We disregard it for a variety of reasons- convenience, greed, guilt- the list is long. Yesterday, yet another incident occurred in a Chinese school where several children and teachers were assaulted by a man. The press would have you believe that this is due to two possible reasons. 1. The man was mentally ill. 2. He was driven by "social pressures" because of the widening gap between the Haves and the Have-nots in China.

Excerpts from Yahoo News:

Most of the recent school invasions have been blamed on people with personal grudges or suffering from mental illness, leading to calls for improved security.

Accounts in China's state-owned media have glossed over motives and largely shied away from why schools have so often been targets. Yet experts say outbursts against the defenseless are frequently due to social pressures.

An avowedly egalitarian society only a generation ago, China's headlong rush to prosperity has sharpened differences between haves and have-nots, and the public health system has atrophied even as pressures grew.

"We must create a more healthy and just society," said Zhou Xiaozheng, a sociology professor at Renmin University in Beijing.

While it's not known if Thursday's attacker knew about previous school stabbings, Zhou said such sensational, violent acts often draw copycats.

"Normally, with these kind of violent events we hope the media won't blow them up too much, because that tends to make it spread," Zhou said.

On Wednesday, a man in the southern city of Leizhou broke into a primary school and wounded 15 students and a teacher in a knife attack.

That attack came the same day a man was executed for stabbing eight children to death outside their elementary school last month in the southeastern city of Nanping.

China likely has about 173 million adults with mental health disorders, and 158 million of them have never had professional help, according to a mental health survey in four provinces jointly done by Chinese and U.S. doctors that was published in the medical journal The Lancet in June.

The attack in March shocked China because eight children died and the assailant had no known history of mental illness. At his trial, Zheng Minsheng, 42, said he killed because he had been upset after being jilted by a woman and treated badly by her wealthy family. He was executed Wednesday, just a little over a month after his crime.

After a 2004 attack at a school in Beijing that left nine students dead, the central government ordered tighter school security nationwide. Regulations that took effect in 2006 require schools to register or inspect visitors and keep out people who have no reason to come inside.

Other sources are singing the same song. A quick google search in News for "china kindergarten" will result in countless news stories on the topic. A quick tally shows that these incidents are neither rare nor abating. The first major incident was in 2004 but the 3 most recent all occurred this year in May, last Wednesday and yesterday. One might think there's a pattern of acceleration in the frequency of these occurrences.

The solutions proposed are seemingly obvious but ultimately futile. The real problem is much larger and unfortunately for all of us, it's the elephant in the room that everyone is trying so desperately to ignore. The real root of the problem is their cultural lack of respect for basic human rights. The standard of living for the majority of the people in China is so low that even if you've never known anything else, you'd still realize that something's wrong with it.

Those who toil in China are chronically subjected to working conditions that would drive any human being insane and it's not like they're taking these jobs to get rich. The workers are wasting their lives away working for wages that are so far below the poverty line that they can only dream of dying young and being relieved of this torture.

In China as in every communist country, the few govern the many and contrary to an actual Utopia, 99% of the money goes to 1% of the population while they simultaneously orate that they're doing this for the good of the people. This is the very same thought process demonstrated by President Obama, Speaker Pelosi et al regarding healthcare reform. Contrary to the blatant and obvious objections by the American people, they did what they knew to be best for us.

Now we're being told that the healthcare plan that was going to save $143 billion (that's like million but with a b) is actually going to cost $115 billion. Of course none of us are actually surprised but nothing we did to stop it actually worked. What makes this worse is that the Liberals defend this fact with arguments like "well, we knew it was actually going to cost money but saying it would save money was the only way we could get it passed".

To wind this up and to get to the point, the working Chinese are subjected to such sub-human treatment that it's no wonder they snap. To remain subjected to such treatment with no reasonable means of escape and to not zealously object would be abnormal behavior. In spite of all the evidence in front of all of us, it takes the MSM months to finally acknowledge that terrorist acts are not the work of home grown terrorists who object to big government and to admit that yes, indeed, they're Islamic extremists. The same will be true of these seemingly bizarre killings of school children.

 I'm sure I'll be called a lunatic for suggesting this but the only obvious cause for these violent and heinous acts is that these people are trying to spare those children of miserable lives. Clearly, it's not their choice to make and obviously as Americans we can't imagine such a level of despair that we could even dream up such a "solution" but the more you understand about the actual standard of living in China, the more you'll see the likelihood of this scenario.

Special thanks to WAMK.