I am not discussing the students and scientists and such. I am talking about the people who come and open a restaurant, which costs at least $10,000 to get going. And they do not have credit established.
Now, on the Beltway Boys I just heard that a bunch of Chinese journalists were seen and heard laughing and cheering as the WTC came down. Thankfully, this is the Bush Administration, and Armitage had them thrown them out of the country immediately.
I do not think that the Chinese like us one bit. I also know they have been up to no good with many of the Islamic groups. This has made me think about a SECOND group of cells being here....non-Arabic.
Please tell me to remove my tinfoil hat. Please.
China is picky about who can go and who can't. But some can go.
Now's not the time to be taking off your tinfoil hat and in addition to it, you should have your gas mask ready to put on.
One of my early thoughts the morning of the 11th too.
My company has four servers on the internet. Two are DNS servers, one is a web sever, and one is an email server. Last May 25 our servers were attacked by the Chinese. Each web site had a page that said common word for "fornicate the United States" It had a fake Chinese Email Address at the bottom. They wanted us to know they were Chinese They had tried to get control of my email servers but they failed. They did bury a worm on the main Web server. They had used the Microsoft IIS bug to get access. The worm was hidden and we did not find it at first. Two weeks later they did it again. We had installed all Microsoft Security fixes, Microsoft said they could not break in. But they did. We didn't know it but they had never been kicked out. The ms fixes locked the door but they were still inside.
I replaced the server and checked it over I found the program they had installed to continue hacking us. I wrote some trace code track the full extent of the hack. Our checks on May 25 took us to a computer in the Math department of the Univeristy of Wisconsin.
I let them continue to attack us. They did agains attack on June 15nd. It was traced to the Aeronautical University of Nanking China. I wrote and lanunched a counter attack, and they have not been back since July 2nd. There is no doubt that it was a chinese attack and sponsored by the chinese goverment. The Chinese do not like us. Mainland china is in transition. I am not sure if they will turn into our good friends or our worst nightmare. I urge extreme caution.
But the chinese are not a monolith. Many of the Chinese in the united states came from Taiwan. Many others came to Canada from Hong Kong. Many left Hong Kong for Canada when the mainland took over china. They tend to be socialists.
About 25 percent of the Vancouver population is Chinese. Crossing the border from Canada to the USA by car is a piece of cake. It is very open.
As I said the Chinese are not as monolithic as are Arabs. Blood is thicker than water. They have not been subjugated for much of their history. The Arabs have been conquered people for several thousand years. As a result the Arabs are filled with hate. The Chinese respect force. We need to throw our weight around. I suggest we throw Rosie O'Donnel as our first missile. Now that is real weight... Excuse me. I am a nasty individual that digresses.
People have organized into groups called races or nations for all of history. There have been wars and rumors of wars for all of recorded time. We as a nation have come to believe that Mr Rodgers neighborhood is the real world. We have a generation raised to think that we're the reason Sesame street is not reality. I have never seen any convincing proof that evolution applies to human nature. Even if you only accept the bible as history, then you will find in it the men and women next door and the people across the world. Humans in 2001 are not much different than in 1000 BC.
This is not Mr Rogers neighborhood. It is our soft spot surrounded by a desert that has no human kindness... only thirst. Every preditory nation thirsts for what we have. They would slit our throats and suck the blood out of our jugular veins to make their cheeks rosy. Nothing that I can see has changed in human nature for thosuands of years Such behavior has always existed. I suggest the bible are my source. Even athieists can believe it is historically true.
During and after world war II we fantasized about the resistance to the evil Germans. The Germans ususally killed 10 times as many of the resistors as the resistors killed Germans. If a German was knifed last night, then ten random villagers were killed this morning on the public square. The movies showed how the brave resistance fought back. But the truth is much different. It took only a hand full of Germans to manage millions of conquered Europeans. There were far more colaborater than resistors. Fear is safety.
The Germans under Hitler were bad guys. But the safety in if you kill one of me, and I will kill 10 of you is undisputeable. It always has been. It always will be. Human nature does not change.
We need to learn that nations are people. A nation is not a single leader. No nation can surive if its people want to overthrow it. Even in totalitarian nations people choose their leaders. Even in the Evil Empire, when the people wanted them gone they were gone.
Stalin did not lead Russia against its will anymore than Roosevelt did the USA. Surely the collapse ofthe Soviet Union proves it.
I have some posts on an other thead that says the goal is never the rule of law or the selection of the leaders or the document that founds a nation. The key is always the hearts and minds of the public. Freedom is only possessed by those that want it. It has nothing to do with words written on paper. If the public does not value freedom it is gone with the wind.
The Taliban have the hearts and minds of the Aghanistan people nearly was well as Bush hs ours. The Chinese leaders have the hearts and minds of the Chinese people as well as our leaders have ours. Failure to understand that and act accordingly results in the loss of a nation.
We are the worlds only superpower. The number of nations that hate us is unimportant. It is large and the longer we are the only superpower the longer the list will grow. The number of nations that fear us is of crutial importance. That list must contain every nation on earth. Only then will we be secure.
One final thought.