This is a ho-hum story, so I’ll be brief: “A 64-year-old woman has died from torture-related injuries while being held in a Beijing labor camp . . .” Her name was Geng Jin. She was a Falun Gong practitioner. So they tortured her to death. That’s what they do, the Chinese Communists. If you want to read more about Gen Jin, go here.

Every time I write about torture, I get screaming, foaming e-mails from the Left saying, “George Bush, George Bush! You can’t talk about torture. Your George Bush did it. George Bush, George Bush!” A few days ago, I wrote about a North Korean Christian — a mind-blowingly brave man — who was tortured to death. “George Bush, George Bush!” screamed my e-mail. I also wrote about an American geologist, tortured not quite to death by the Chinese. Again: “George Bush, George Bush!”

In a long column the other week, I tried to address this question of moral equivalence: the charge that the United States, under George W. Bush, was no better than, say, the North Korean dictatorship or the Cuban dictatorship. That column is here. Frankly, I don’t think I can say any more. All the rest would be repetition (which is not unheard of, true). I guess there comes a time when you have to accept that people live on different moral planets.

I will keep writing about persons tortured to death by dictatorships. The screamers of “George Bush!” can just . . . keep screaming, I suppose. It will not make them part of a morally reasonable realm.

P.S. The Obama administration held “human rights” talks with the Chinese dictatorship. Our representative, assistant secretary of state Michael Posner, expressed guilt to the Chinese over Arizona’s immigration law. He proudly told the press that he had brought up Arizona himself, without any prompting. The Chinese government has tortured to death Gen Jin — a 64-year-old woman whose offense was to have talked about Falun Gong on a bus. Great. Just great.