Chinese bribing foreign VIPs? Who knew?

Walt cannot resist publishing remarks attributed to a Memeber of the Parliament of Canada -- one of the old Reform group that fell off the turnip truck in 1997 and has since been re-elected as a Conservative.

Calgary member Rob Anders, still scraping the shit off his cowboy boots, says some of his colleagues (but not himself of course) have been set up by seductive Chinese spies, lavished with gifts of alcohol and offered business deals which were too good to be true. Can you imagine?

Mr. Anders is quoted in today's Toronto Sun as saying many MPs have told him that on their trips to China they’ve been approached by stunning women half their age “offering them to go out dancing, go to dinner, get a massage.” Gosh. Who'da thunk it? Is there even one businessman who hasn't been similarly propositioned on a visit to China?

“I know MPs who have taken up those offers", Mr. Anders warns. "They have to understand that when they are being done [sic], they are probably being taped [and] those tapes can, and will, be used.” Sold to opposition candidates, perhaps!

Mr. Anders was very discreet, refusing to name names. “My purpose in doing this is not to end colleagues’ political careers,” he said. “My purpose is to educated [sic] them so they are better aware of how they can be manipulated.”

Mr. Anders told the QMI agency he has personally witnessed the sons of two different MPs being seduced by women far too attractive to be interested in these “average looking” guys, including a 14-year-old, in Taiwan. [Oh. That would be the Republic of China, then -- not to be confused with the People's Republic of China except in official government policies. ed.]

“There is no way that any of those people could have been anything other than influence peddling agents,” he said. “That person is up to something when they knock on your door, minutes after your arrival in a foreign hotel offering themselves to you.”

With a brilliant analytical mind like that, Mr. Anders should be put in charge of Canada's spy agency! In fact, he said he’s discussed the matter with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service who seemed very interested and wrote down the girls' names and phone numbers.

Footnote: The picture of Mr. Anders was obviously taken long ago, before Canada got its own flag. He may have aged a little since then, but it appears he hasn't learned much.