Sharon Stone Goes Jerry Falwell

There is no doubt that China deserves the most brutal of condemnations for its occupation of Tibet, and subsequent crackdown this Spring. Tibet is indeed China's Palestine. However, as it is with any conflict, critics of China's policy towards the country can sometimes be guilty of awful rhetorical excesses. Such was the case with actress Sharon Stone, who was caught telling a television camera that the tens of thousands of Chinese killed in the country's recent earthquake might have died because of the country's 'bad karma' over Tibet.

Sharon Stone's oral carelessness is precisely the kind that give human rights activists a bad name. Stone should either apologise to the survivors of the Chinese earthquake, or stop sounding off like a liberal version of Jerry Falwell, eager to see signs of divine morality at play in the wreckage of such sites as the Twin Towers, and the collapsed cities of Sichuan. To listen to Stone's deplorable and surprising spiel, click here.