Posted on 04/21/2006 5:16:29 PM PDT by satchmodog9
A woman accused of heckling Chinese President Hu Jintao during a White House appearance this week was charged Friday in federal court with a misdemeanor of willfully intimidating, coercing threatening and harassing a foreign official.
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Wang Wenyi, 47, had obtained temporary press credentials as a reporter for a Falun Gong newspaper and positioned herself on a camera stand.
According to Secret Service translations provided in court documents, she shouted in Chinese: "Stop oppressing the Falun Gong," as well as "Your Time is running out," and "Anything you have done will come back to you in this lifetime." She also shouted in heavily accented English: " President Bush, stop him from killing," and "President Bush, stop him from persecuting the Falun Gong."
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Absolute BS.
There was no apologizing for tyranny in any form.
If you want to post a credible argument you should at least pretend to be honest about the issue.
I dunno... IMO, there is a limit to free speech, you can't have anyone disrupting any ceremony at any time...
Goes to show, even those without the slightest grasp of an issue can use a Photoshop programs to express their childish views.
Sounds reasonable to me.
What did you expect me to say?
China has us by the short hairs.
Bush, Clinton and Bush let it happen.
Isn't it ironic because both Muhammed and Hitler were born on April 20th...
that won't happen
Hu?
"What did you expect me to say?"
Oh, I don't know ... maybe that such a horror transcends tut-tutting over a breach of diplomatic niceties, perhaps.
I was wrong, I see. What's a few missing organs in the face of such a huge market, right? /sarc
Hu's on first.
I don't know, third base.
Derek Mitchell, a former Asia adviser at the Pentagon and now an analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a neolib “private organization,” told CNN how he feels about free speech, even when it disrupts a confab between dictators (or meeting between global Mafia dons). China “must know that this Bush administration is good at controlling crowds for themselves, and the fact that they couldn’t control this is going to play to their worse fears and suspicions about the United States, into mistrust about American intentions toward China.” Mitchell made the remark after a Chinese woman, reportedly a member of Falun Gong (or Falun Dafa), a persecuted religious group in the slave labor gulag of China, “began shouting from the top of a camera stand that was located directly in front” of the dictator of the United States and his counterpart from China, Hu Jintao.
Indeed, as Mitchell proudly admitted, the “Bush administration is good at controlling crowds,” even sweeping potential disagreers (in opposition to the decider dictator) from public street corners before Bush comes to town. Such “crowds,” believers in the First Amendment of the Constitution, have for years now been shuffled off to Orwellian doublespeak “free speech zones” that are little more than temporary concentration camps. In China, they are shot, sent off to a labor camp, or have their internal organs harvested.
How dare this woman interrupt our court-appointed and Diebold voting machine selected monarch and his guest, a “communist” (no relation to Karl Marx and the dictatorship of the proles) described as “a pragmatist and hard-liner as far as any effort of political reform is concerned,” in other words he has no problem killing people who disagree with his dictatorial rule (in China, if you dare speak out against the government, you are sent packing to a Laogai forced labor camp and the fruit of your coerced labor is then imported to America where thankful and semi-somnolent bargain hunters crowd like rats in a maze at Wal-Mart and other “free trade” emporiums).
Members of Falun Gong are especially outraged because the sadists ruling China have set up the Sujiatun Death Camp especially for them and then harvest their organs and sell them off to rich foreigners. According to the Integrated Committee to Investigate the Secret Sujiatun Concentration Camp and the Facts of the Persecution of Falun Gong in China, since “2001, concentration camps similar to the one in Sujiatun have been set up in multiple provinces to detain large numbers of Falun Gong practitioners. In those camps, the authorities perform organ harvesting from live practitioners for sale and then cremate the remains to destroy the evidence. The atrocities were exposed to the international community in the beginning of March. Within three weeks, the underground concentration camp in Sujiatun was quickly relocated. Meanwhile, some hospitals and transplant centers in China are rushing to perform a large number of transplant operations: A slaughter to destroy witnesses/victims of the concentration camps is happening, and we urgently call upon the international community to initiate rescue programs to stop this new genocide.”
For less threatening dissidents, psychiatric hospitals, part of “China’s notorious Ankang system,” suffice. According to Human Rights Watch, political dissidents are diagnosed with an odd malady called “political monomania,” a condition “not found in any internationally recognized list of psychiatric illnesses,” and forcibly drugged and electroshocked. “The Communists are cruel. Inside the Ankang, there is nothing but terror and fear,” Qiu Jinyou told Die Zeit magazine (see previous link). “Not even the murderers there were treated as harshly as inmates of my category—people who had filed complaints or petitions with the authorities. During my time in the Ankang, I was tortured three to four times a week. I thought I was going to die there.” Meng Xiaoxia describes a “system of punishment and forced medication in the Xi’an Ankang. She was forcibly held there for altogether 10 years, without even once receiving a medical or psychiatric examination. She was given electric shock treatment, with electrodes placed on her forehead, on three occasions, and she was also subjected to insulin coma therapy—a treatment that is elsewhere almost unknown today due to its dangerous side effects. More generally, Ms. Meng described everyday life in the Ankang as being one where inmates endured severe punishments on an almost routine basis, creating an atmosphere of constant fear and anguish among them.”
Instead of asking the “pragmatist and hard-liner” Hu Jintao why he condones torture and organ harvesting of dissidents, “Bush, standing next to Hu, leaned over and whispered to Hu, ‘You’re OK,’ indicating the Chinese leader should proceed with his opening remarks…. expected to focus on trade, human rights and the diplomatic standoff over Iran’s nuclear program.”
Jintao and Bush are OK, but the rest of us are screwed. In addition to our globalist rulers selling out the country to China in return for low-interest loans (newspaper op-ed scribes like to call this “fiscal irresponsibility”) and flooding our multinational and mega-corporate chainstores and strip malls with cheap products manufactured by slaves and political prisoners, it is obvious to those of us who pay attention the United States under the rule of the neoliberal and neocon elite is in the process of transforming itself into a totalitarian state that will one day (and sooner before later) become as brutal and sadistic as China. Government—unchecked, unbalanced, and left to its own devices—always becomes a tyrannical leviathan
and why not ? That's exactly how they operate . Ask any Tibetan
Yeah, and not a peep from the Cindy-was-thrown-out-of-the-State-of-the-Union crowd.
Terror in Chinatown [Attacks on US Citizens IN US By Chinese Agents]
Source: The New American
URL Source: http://www.thenewamerican.com/artman/publish/article_3676.shtml
Published: Apr 20, 2006
Author: Roger Canfield
President Bush calls Communist China a "partner" in the war on terror, but some Chinese Americans are accusing China of bringing its own terror campaign to the USA.
Roger Canfield, Ph.D., the author of China's Trojan Horses, is an associate editor for Military Magazine.
President Bush calls China a "strategic partner" in the war on terror, but some Chinese Americans are accusing the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) of bringing its own terror campaign to the USA. They believe the CCP ordered the murder of Allen Ngai Leung, 56, an admired community leader in San Francisco. The day after Leung's murder, an anonymous caller to the worldwide Sound of Hope radio said, "You want to know who killed Allen Leung? Call Chinese Consulate and Chinese Chamber of Commerce." And then hung up.
Leung's murder "is spreading terror … [to] warn [those who] … dare to oppose the CCP," the Epoch Times reported on March 8. "We have now seen the long arm of the Communist regime infiltrate the United States itself.... It is … a frightening escalation of the Communists' plans to silence and intimidate the overseas Chinese people, in San Francisco, here, and around the world."
These accusations seem well founded. In mid-2005, Chen Yonglin, the 1st secretary of the Chinese consulate-general in Sydney, Australia, defected and revealed his network of 1,000 spies and enforcers whose job it was to intimidate people of Chinese descent. And the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed a resolution urging the U.S. attorney general to investigate Chinese consular officials in these actions on U.S. soil.
PRC Flag Flies Over Chinatown
The CCP's presence in America is growing and becoming entrenched, especially in Chinatown, which historically has been very anti-communist.
Allen Leung fought the CCP's efforts to make inroads in Chinatown. A Chinese- language reporter told The New American, "Without Allen every flag in Chinatown will be red." A well-placed source, claiming to be close to Allen Leung, told TNA that the Chinese Consulate pays money to organizations to fly the communist flag as a show of support for Communist China and has paid perhaps a million dollars to major organizations to do so.
Our source said that the CCP desperately wanted control of the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association, also known as the Six Companies, to further its influence. The Six Companies is a single entity representing most of the highly influential traditional Chinese family fraternal organizations. Evidently, the CCP has been having success in its efforts. According to the Associated Press, in March 2004 Daniel Hom, the newly elected president of the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association, ditched his own organization's ceremony -- which uses the flags of the United States and the Republic of China -- to attend a pro-communist event. Hom and friends went to a restaurant, displayed flags of the People's Republic of China, and sang the national song of Mainland China with the consul general of the PRC, according to an AP report of June 30, 2004.
Leung was openly critical of Hom's actions.
A city official, insistently nameless, told the San Francisco Chronicle that the CCP was trying to unify all overseas Chinese under the PRC flag. "Five years ago you could see flags of the Republic of China.... Today there are many communist China flags. Communism is the newly rising political power."
Enter the Red Queen
The CCP is making gains in areas heavily settled by Chinese not only through large payoffs, but also with the aid of well-placed people. In the San Francisco area, that person is Rose Pak. The Los Angeles Times once described Rose Pak as the single most powerful person in San Francisco without benefit of having been elected to a public office. In that city, you don't have to say Rose Pak. Just say "Rose." Or just say "she." Everyone knows who you are talking about. A Chinese-language reporter told TNA, "In Chinatown, Rose is treated like royalty. 'She' enjoys city-subsidized low-income housing" overlooking the Bay Bridge. And "when 'she' goes to a beauty salon she does not pay."
Rose Pak's visible means of income is being a general consultant to the Chinese Chamber of Commerce. She receives 12 percent commissions on entry fees of reportedly as much as one million dollars from participants in the annual Chinese New Year's Parade. As a formidable fundraiser and organizer, she helped elect at least two mayors of San Francisco -- Art Agnos and Willie Brown. In return, she expects political "favors." A political activist told TNA that both mayors helped Pak -- a Chinese national and former Columbia University student - - solve an immigration problem. A community leader told TNA, "Rose is so well connected to the police chief, district attorney, and city attorney" that she can get away with almost anything. A political activist said to TNA, "No one is above the law -- except Rose Pak in San Francisco."
Pak has a still darker side. "Rose Pak is known to be the spokeswoman of [the] Chinese Communist Party, as well as a special agent for the Chinese Communist Party," according to the Epoch Times. Backing that assertion, the Singtao Daily reported in 2001 that Chinese Premier Jiang Zemin once honored Pak for defeating a resolution by San Francisco Supervisor Chris Daly condemning China's persecution of the practitioners of Falun Gong, a Chinese system of exercise and meditation: "President Jiang was very happy … with the work done by the Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Rose Pak." Friends of Rose Pak told a Chinese-language reporter, "She came to San Francisco with a clear mission to go into Chinatown." And a Chinese-language reporter has recently discovered that circa 1970, while she was in Australia, Pak made frequent contact with none other than Li Peng, who between 1998 and 2003 ranked second in the Communist Party of China behind Jiang Zemin on the Politburo.
A series of setbacks for Pak may have signaled the demise of Allen Leung. Pak began hitting some roadblocks a couple years ago. San Francisco's ultra-liberal mayor, Gavin Newsom, who would seem to be a natural ally of Rose Pak, surprisingly replaced Pak's allies on city boards and commissions. This included appointing Allen Leung to the Chinatown Economic Development Group. Then the Falun Gong sued Pak and the city-funded Chinese Chamber of Commerce for not allowing the anti-communist Chinese group to participate in the Chinese New Year's Parade. By early 2006, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors took up a resolution condemning Communist China's persecution of Falun Gong. The Chinese Consulate, wishing to quash any negative commentary about Mainland China's human rights atrocities, warned that "passage of the resolution will affect Sino-US relations." Rose Pak ran full-page ads in the Chronicle publicly threatening the political careers of Supervisors Chris Daly and Fiona Ma. The resolution passed nine to two.
Within weeks, Allen Leung was brutally murdered. Killing Leung would make sense to the CCP because in Chinatown only a few stalwarts stand in the way of the CCP's goal of being the dominant influence in the community, and Leung was one of the anti-communist stalwarts. Several sources told TNA that Leung was systematically organizing opposition to the CCP just before his death. A Mr. Lin told the Epoch Times, "Allen Leung … was listed on the CCP's blacklist." Norman Yang, executive president of the Cross Strait Prosperity in Peace Association, told the Epoch Times, "His death … is a big blow to the anti-CCP … groups."
Leung did much to make himself a target. He reportedly raised "several million dollars" to form a new association of overseas Chinese to counter CCP influence operations. A Chinese-language reporter told TNA of planning to meet with Leung about his new organization, but Leung was killed before the meeting could take place.
As part of Leung's efforts to stop CCP influence in Chinatown, he fought to stop the CCP buyout of the Six Companies. He believed that the CCP planned the buyout so that it could put a stop to the annual October 10 celebration of the Republic of China's founder Dr. Sun Yat-Sen. A local resident told the Epoch Times, "The CCP bought off … community leaders … [and] … wanted to abolish the October tenth parade. It was Leung who … enabled the continuation of the parade. The CCP faction has always … wanted to get rid of him."
The Crime
In the late afternoon on February 27, Allen Leung unlocked the front door of his business, Wonkow International Enterprises, in Chinatown. A masked Asian man of about 30 entered, walked past Leung's wife, feigned a robbery, refused money, shot Leung four times in the head, and fled the scene. No witnesses are known to have come forward despite the fact that up to seven gunshots were fired in late afternoon and a masked suspect fled from the scene on a typically busy street that is crammed with as many as 40 businesses.
San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) spokeswoman Maria Oropeza told the World Journal, "It wasn't a random act.... This victim was an intended target.... This was not a robbery."
The most widely whispered theory, besides the belief that this was a CCP- ordered execution, is that Leung was the victim of criminal gang warfare. In 2005, Leung told the FBI his life was threatened after he refused to give $100,000 to two young members of the Hop Sing Tong. This is the story being promoted by the pro-CCP newspapers in Chinatown. An anonymous senior Chinese- American community leader told the Epoch Times, "At present, Singtao Daily, the China Press, and Ming Pao Daily … [blame] disputes between gangs. Do not believe it." Skepticism is warranted because evidence suggests that the CCP either owns outright or controls these newspapers. And the remaining independent Chinese newspapers are intimidated.
A well-placed source told TNA, "It had to be planned. The day after Allen's murder all three CCP-controlled papers told the same story." They claimed that Leung's murder was a dispute among the "black societies" and emphasized that Allen Leung had gone to the FBI for protection and ended up dead. "The message is you are not safe anywhere." The message of fear seems to be working. People are refusing to talk, or will talk only if they can remain anonymous. But it isn't for fear of gangs. It's fear of the Chinese Consulate.
TNA's well-placed source believes the CCP had hired an out-of-town contract killer to murder Allen Leung. Far fetched? Brian McAdam, a retired Canadian foreign service officer who is a specialist in Chinese organized crime organizations called Triads, told TNA, "Allied with Communist China's tyrannical … regime, the Triad's wealth and power have been helping China buy and spy" -- and kill. McAdam quoted Martin Booth, the author of two books on Triads, as saying: "In some diplomatic circles, it is being suggested that the Triads are … being asked to engage in 'wet work' [assassinations] on behalf of the Communist Chinese secret service." With the huge trade surplus China enjoys, they can certainly afford to hire out their dirty work.
This is hardly the first time that such claims have been made. Justin Yu, former president of the Chinese Language Journalists Association and a longtime reporter for the World Press, one of the largest Chinese-language newspapers in the United States, told The New American in 1997: "In the U.S. the Red Chinese government and their security forces use triad groups to … intimidate the Chinese community.... In San Francisco … the gangsters intimidate ethnic Chinese who are critical of the regime. They attack them on the streets, vandalize their property … to punish and silence them."
Our source said that he knew from discussions with Leung's friends and with police officers that the Chinese Consulate's "purpose is to make San Francisco a safe haven for high-level corrupt CCP officials escaping from Mainland China.... Allen Leung's murder is … preparation for establishing a more 'friendly' environment for a CCP power base in the United States."
Subsequent investigations may find a personal, business, or gang motive behind the killing of Allen Leung, but no matter who killed Leung, one thing is sure: the CCP is glad he's gone
Not shocked.
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