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08/25/2007: "MLK, Jr monument outsourced, panic results"

The selection of a Chinese sculptor to carve a three-story monument to Martin Luther King Jr. on the National Mall is raising questions about what part of his legacy should be celebrated.

A loose-knit but growing group of critics says a black artist — or at least an American — should have been chosen to create the King memorial between the Lincoln and Jefferson memorials in the nation's capital. They have been joined by human rights advocates who say King would have abhorred the Chinese government's record on religious and civil liberty.

[ But if we have freedom, the Chinese can choose whatever society they want, and we can pick a Chinese artist without blaming him for Chinese religious and civil liberty foibles. Oh wait... we have "freedom," not freedom, because true freedom doesn't exist. True freedom would mean that any idiot could do whatever he wanted, and that would destroy us. Is destroying is. Well, you see the problem. ]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070825/ap_on_re_us/king_memorial_protest