One of the most significant events to shape my personal political ideology was the Tiananmen Square massacre. I was in awe and inspired by the students, and utterly horrified by the actions of the ChiComs. I have never forgotten, and I never will.

Still- it took a few more years for me to realize that I wasn’t a democrat, but rather a conservative. It was in the transition from what I thought was a liberal to admitting my conservatism that I recalled Tiananmen, and the profound difference in paying lip service to rights, and actually holding it as a conviction.

To see the same regime that so brutally murdered their own people and continues to do so to this day sitting on a council supposedly dedicated to “human rights” makes me so utterly sick to my stomach and revolted to my core, that there are no words.

Shame on this administration for giving this complete sham any legitimacy.