As bad as the worst

John Aravosis at Americablog makes a good point after observing that China has deep sixed an aids activist. How can we complain, given that we do the same things here:

But with all due respect to AIDS activist China has now disappeared, this doesn't appear any different than what the US government now does to those it suspects of being a threat to our way of life, so what's the difference? I can't stand the Chinese government - they're one of the most vile regimes on the planet - but how do we criticize their actions when the Bush administration does the same thing? Gonna complain that China is ignoring international law? Domestic law? Any Chinese version of habeas corpus? That they're refusing to let the disappeared see a lawyer? That they're refusing to make the charges public, to hold a public trial? These are all things the Bush administration and the Republican Congress have now dispensed with in America - and the American people didn't give a damn. So what right do we have to demand more of China than ourselves?