Iris Chang Suicide? Not So Fast..Officials Should be More Responsible (race card thrown)

Mullenax News Wire ^ | 11/10-11/17 issue | Rob Tong

[gopwinsin04]

Iris Chang, the Chinese American historical author, was found dead Wednesday, November 10 2004. The initial assessment was that she committed suicide in her car.

A best selling and critically acclaimed author whose sole literary desire is to prevent Chinese history from being rewritten or forgotten would somehow find life too meaningless or difficult to continue living and thus mysteriously kill herself?

C'mon. I've heard more plausible explanations on reruns of the 1980's cop drama 'Hunter.' Or the film 'The Whole Nine Yards' for that matter.

I'ts more believeable to say that Chang was found trying out for the Zimbabwe football team.

How about this: Someone who despises the material Chang has been releasing wants her dead. They kidnap her, take her to an isolated spot near a small town, shot her, put the gun in her hand to give the impression of suicide and leave the scene.

Yet Bay area officials hastily made a ill-advised judgement, one that didn't even make sense. Conspiracy theorists are now free to argue that white officials dont care for minorities.

So when minorities die, (even celebrities) they try to sweep it away as quitely under the rug as they can.

If officials want to spare themselves any unfair criticism, they should be more prudent in their deliberations and decision making, lest they leave themselves open to second guessing and motive guessing.

[gopwinsin04]

This theory is probably discounted by the long, carefully written suicide note that was found..

[isom35]

Vince Foster comitted suicide (well kinda, it was assisted suicide).

[sully777]

This theory is probably discounted by the long, carefully written suicide note that was found...

...and the death threats from the Japanese back in the day Rape of Nanking was published.

Pure case of Fosteritis

[sinanju]

This theory is probably discounted by the long, carefully written suicide note that was found..

We need to hold off till the evidence is in. The author does have a point in criticizing the apparently contradictory official release. But if there was a (not ripped into an uneven number of pieces at the bottom of a briefcase without any fingerprints on it) suicide note and the episodes of depression were for real. If the gun (and don't tell me girls NEVER shoot themselves, she clearly was not fooling around) was not being held in an unusual way, etc. etc. then it would look pretty open and shut. Even insinuating racial crap on the part of the authorities in the Bay Area sounds ludicrous.

[gopwinsin04]

Have they ever determined whose long blonde hair that the Park Service found in Vince's apartment?

[gopwinsin04]

IMO, It probably was the shame of having her children taken away from her while she got treatment for her severe depression.

Best guess. Just such a shocking case, prayers for her family..

[gopwinsin04]

Anything about the small town of Los Gatos that might tell us about a possible Japanese suspect?

[Law is not justice but process]

It is a shame whether it was suicide or murder. She certainly gave many Japanese Nationalists a motive with her book "The Rape of Nanking."

I think "The Rape of Nanking" should be required reading for anyone interested in history. What the Japanese did in Nanking and other parts of Occupied China was every bit a brutal as the Holocaust. It was perhaps not as organized and certainly not as well documented, though. Iris Chang did as much as anyone to preserve and disseminate what evidence there was. For that she deserves to be remembered by all. Japan has no desire to face up to what was done by their troops in China and Korea (and the Philippines, and Borneo, and the Solomons. . . ). I certainly hope others will take her place in publicizing Japanese War crimes.

[cyborg]

I sense this man straining from the weight of that chip on his shoulder.

[TheDon]

A best selling and critically acclaimed author whose sole literary desire is to prevent Chinese history from being rewritten or forgotten would somehow find life too meaningless or difficult to continue living and thus mysteriously kill herself?

The author obviously has no experience with clinical depression.

[gopwinsin04]

Such a needless loss..

[mac_truck]

Iris Chang had been diagnosed and was being treated for clinical depression prior to her death. She recently returned from a cross country trip to conduct research for her next book on the Bataan Death March . During this trip she was hospitalized and treated for depression. Given these circumstances and the effect that antidepressant drugs can have on some personalities, it is not hard to conclude her death was a suicide.

[gopwinsin04]

Hey Cy, anything interesting on Drudge last night? Busy all week. couldnt listen night..

[cyborg]

Something about radio antennae on medicine bottles... I was listening while falling asleep :-)

[SilentServiceCPOWife]

It's possible that she was murdered, but I don't believe that racism has anything at all to do with the judgement that she killed herself.

The guy that turned himself in to the police after seeing The Passion was white and the girlfriend that he murdered was white. Yet the police said initially that she had committed suicide. And they would have held to it if the guy hadn't turned himself in.

[Siobhan]

Actually I thought these very things when I read of the report of Iris' alleged suicide. Of course, such is not impossible but it is possible to force a person to write a suicide letter etc etc. Quite a few Japanese Shinto nationalists hated Iris with a perfect hate. There are all sorts of scenarios worth checking out before so easily throwing out this finding of suicide IMHO

[PianoMan]

A demagogue wanna be. Let's hope he doesn't get far.

[Calvin Locke]

This http://www.cnd.org/njmassacre/index.html is a pretty good starting place for anyone interested
in Japanese war crimes, or is fascinated by morbid events and historical atrocities.

Not for the squeamish, revisionists, or those that think denial is a river in Egypt.

[gopwinsin04]

I was listening to that same gal caller, something about her being a trucker..

[gopwinsin04]

The sad thing is that we may never know exactly what the story was..