Jackie Chan Says 'Chinese Need to Be Controlled'

fox news ^ | Saturday, April 18, 2009 | n/a

[ex91B10]

Action star Jackie Chan said Saturday he's not sure if a free society is a good thing for China and that he's starting to think "we Chinese need to be controlled."

Chan's comments drew applause...

[ex91B10]

FYI

[SolidWood]

Sheep.

[Mr. Jeeves]

"Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire." -- Robert A. Heinlein

Add Mr. Chan to the list.

[allmost]

"I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not," Chan said. "I'm really confused now. If you're too free, you're like the way Hong Kong is now. It's very chaotic. Taiwan is also chaotic." Chan added: "I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want."

Maturity and freedom are not applicable to the Chinese people. They don't know how to live their own lives and are incapable of making personal decisions. He lives a good life with all the aspects of fame and fortune yet condemns the common man as too inept. Nice.

[GeronL]

all leftists think people needs to be controlled

[Mr. Mojo]

"I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not," Chan said. "I'm really confused now. Chan added: "I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want."

Chan's comments drew applause from a predominantly Chinese audience

Pathetic. They should try self control sometime.

[Wissa]

Chan added: "I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want."

I guess he'd have preferred to spend his life as a peasant.

[ReneeLynn]

I love Jackie, but he’s always tended to lockstep and goosestep with the Chinese gov’t. His son recently gave up US citizenship for Chinese.

He’s got a lot of business running over there. I guess Jackie would not be one to say ‘Give me liberty or give me death.’.

[freemike]

"I'm really confused now. If you're too free, you're like the way Hong Kong is now. It's very chaotic. Taiwan is also chaotic." Chan added: "I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want."

Yeah,, firing squads are very controlled and orderly. So is hanging from the gallows.

[ReneeLynn]

His dad was sort of a snitch for the gov’t.

[Robwin]

"I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want."

Oh my goodness, I never looked at the issue that way. When people are free they will do what they want. That will never do. At long last I grasp the wisdom of the collectivist's. And they really are so much smarter than anyone else. Ask them. They will tell you.

Course I kinda wonder if people like Chan want to be "controlled" themselves, or is that something meant only for the little people?

People will do what they want. The very idea boggles the mind. I'm so glad Obowma is in charge. He'll fix that.

[dfwgator]

Judging by how many people voted for the Kenyan usurper here, more Americans believe we need to be controlled as well.

[EyeGuy]

Control?

Fine. Let’s start with Chan’s hideously excessive renumeration for his movies.

That is certainly “chaotic “and “out-of-control”, and needs to be throttled back, with a firm ceiling put in place by some cowardly, talentless bureaucrat.

[12Gauge687]

A lot has to do with the Confucian philosophy, which subverts personal desire for freedom in the name of public order and respect for elders and authority. Many of us whose parents came from war-torn China saw that first-hand. Although my parents complained to one another or other Chinese during the Fifties and early Sixties, they willingly used the service entrances of private clubs and posh hotels when directed so by authority. As they assimilated to American culture, they became more vocal about poor treatment.

The above being said, I think Jackie Chan is partially correct. Many in China are out for the almighty dollar (or in this case, yuan) and could not care less about others. However, when things go awry, as with day-traders, it’s always someone else’s fault - their government or the USA.

I think democracy and the free markets work best with guidance from Judeo-Christian values, which few Chinese in China have. The forefathers of this great nation probably had a more eloquent way of stating this.

[allmost]

It is one thing to have an opinion. It is an entirely different thing to enforce that opinion on others. Saying that a billion people you have never met need to be controlled is an impossible statement to make IMO.

[ex91B10]

I love this quote:

" If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want."

[gigster]

“All leftists think people need to be controlled.”

That is correct.
I was talking with a leftist/lib/loony not too
long ago, and while he thought it was fine that
we had a republic, there were just too many people
in China for that to work there.

[JoeProBono]

[12Gauge687]

Obviously you have not been in conversations with Chinese. If there’s one thing they have, it’s an opinion of others. Since Chinese can get into trouble crticizing the government, they’ll verbally attack a person or people. Chinese are famous for stereotyping other Chinese, as well as foreigners.

In Hong Kong, I used to get a chuckle out of the Cantonese hotel maids who would curse the “hairy foreigh whores” standing right next to them in the elevator.

Quite frankly, a lot of the young Chinese have a real chip on their shoulder - part of the Global Whining that’s on the rise.

[GeronL]

Its a very sad mentality. Its a slave mentality actually.