Texas Hotel tosses out Falun Gong reservations - China Jiang Visit

Houston Chronicle ^ | 10-23-02 | DALE LEZON

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

Let them know we do not appreciate them acting as point man for the Chinese Communist regime.

This is silly. If you ran the hotel, what would you do if you found out that dozens of guests publicly stated their intention of disrupting the stay of one or more other guests?

Forget politics. It would be bad for business (long after the Chinese president leaves).

[TopQuark]

Thank you for your link. I have just hung up my phone after leaving an extended and very strong message om the Hotel Manager's answering machine (I was quite smoothly transfered by the operator).

[DAnconia55]

Leaned on by the Bush administration, no doubt.

But "everything will be better if we just elect Republicans"...

[Frances_Marion]

The Falun Gong are weird, but I don't see how their money is any different from anyone elses...

[wideawake]

Thank you. An enormous candlelit vigil swamping the front of my hotel doesn't exactly make it convenient for the other guests.

Jiang is a totalitarian scumbag. These people are cultist whack jobs.

[Dog Gone]

I wonder if our Secret Service has ever hinted to any foreign countries that we wouldn't really appreciate anti-American protestors staging protests adjacent to the place where our President is staying.

[weegee]

Have there been any reported incidents of hotels cancelling anti-WTO/anti-American-war protesters reservations?

[BabsC]

That cult is worse than the Heaven's Gate group over in Cali.

I don't understand. I was under the impression this practice was about the individual and introspection. Why are you comparing them to a suicide cult. They didn't all poison the subway with sarin, possibly a radical branch. What else have you read or heard to make you so intolerant?

[Dog Gone]

Have there been any reported incidents of hotels cancelling anti-WTO/anti-American-war protesters reservations?

I'm not sure dumpsters and cardboard boxes qualify as "hotels."

[txjeep]

I don't know much about the Falun Gong, but I have been driving by these demostrators for two days now. They have been very well behaved as far as I have seen. I have not witnessed any screaming and yelling or lewd behavior. I have seen some of them politely talking to policemen on the street. There was some music playing loud at one point yesterday afternoon, but the police were standing right there ignoring it. This morning I drove in at 6:30am and they were all just sitting there with their signs. I have seen far worse stuff from the liberals.

[tallhappy]

This is silly. If you ran the hotel, what would you do if you found out that dozens of guests publicly stated their intention of disrupting the stay of one or more other guests?

They didn't say this.

They protest a fair amount and never do that.

You are making things up.

[tallhappy]

Thank you. An enormous candlelit vigil swamping the front of my hotel doesn't exactly make it convenient for the other guests.

You are simply inventing things. There is no indication there would be any inconvenience for any other guest.

Probably less so than the Jiang visit itself. That would be more inconvenient.

[tallhappy]

Re 31.

Falun Gong are extremely considerate, polite and peaceful in all their demonstrations. They even clean up everything after themselves.

Your comments just reinforce this impression.

[wideawake]

The article says hundreds were gathered outside the hotel for a candlelit vigil. I don't know if you travel on business often, but the last thing I'd want to do is wade through a huge crowd of New Age weirdos after a long, uncomfortable flight.

And no American business should take a dime of Red Chinese money.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

They didn't say this.

They protest a fair amount and never do that.

Not in those exact words -- but the fact of their protest at the hotel, no matter how peacefully, is disruptive to the other guests (not just Jiang). Remember -- I'm asking you to look at this from the perspective of the hotel's owner.

You are making things up.

You're such a meanie for saying that.

[tallhappy]

The article says hundreds were gathered outside the hotel for a candlelit vigil.

That can occur by people without booking a room.

It's still a free country.

And how was their conference room going to bother other guests?

And, if this is a problem, a visiting head of state will make more problems for guests than people hanging around with candles.

Jeez, that's less hassle than 99% of conventioneers you'll get.

You guys are full of it.

[tallhappy]

see 37.

Your arguments are stretching it and don't hold water.

[Larry Lucido]

Note to Falun Gong: Avoid Sonic and K-Mart as alternate protest sites.

[Man of the Right]

Somebody forget to tell the Intercontinental Ziang's a lame duck, so they debased themselves for nothing. He's probably on his way to Zurich to make a deposit into his numbered bank account.