> Who is a pure Chinese? All are Mongolian bastards in PRC.
> Mongolian fucked your morther's mother. CCP village branch secretary
> is fucking your mother.
>
>
>
> xld wrote:

>> They bark at the Chinese because they fear to finish in the casserole.

>

>> Or may be they prefer to rest in a stomac rather than to rot as a caron or
>> be eaten by maggots.

>

>> Salutation

>

>> "." <....@home.com> wrote in message
>>news:f7bigd$vbl$1@reader01.singnet.com.sg...

>>> Hong Kong's Media Ignore Falun Gong's Marchers
>>> Our Correspondent
>>> 04 July 2007
>>> Scores of trained observers fail to see hundreds of banner-waving
>>> demonstrators
>>> for freedom.

>

>>> Somehow one of the biggest, noisiest and most colorful groups to

>> participate

>>> in
>>> Hong Kong's July 1 march for freedom and democracy never got a mention or

>> a

>>> picture in either the local or the international media. A conspiracy of
>>> silence
>>> appears to exist over the name Falun Gong.

>

>>> It may be true that the sect practices tactics that turn off more people
>>> than it
>>> attracts. But despite the fact that dozens of its supporters, mostly
>>> arriving
>>> from Taiwan, were detained at Hong Kong airport and returned whence they
>>> came,
>>> the Falun Gong managed a large and well-organized turnout numbering in the
>>> hundreds at Hong Kong's pro democracy rally to mark the 1997 handover of

>> the

>>> former British colony to China.

>

>>> The Falun Gong formed up near the rear of the procession, variously
>>> estimated at
>>> between 20,000 and 60,000 strong, which marched from Victoria Park to the
>>> Central Government offices. They were thus not in the van of a march that
>>> had
>>> Catholic Cardinal Zen near the front, rubbing shoulders with flamboyant
>>> publisher Jimmy Lai. Lai's Apple Daily newspaper had been urging support

>> for

>>> the
>>> demonstration, an exercise in Hong Kong's people's right of assembly and
>>> protest
>>> as well as a demand for more democracy.

>

>>> But no group was as prominent or disciplined, with a contingent led by a
>>> drum
>>> band in smart light blue uniforms, marching with a precision that

>> indicated

>>> that
>>> they had had plenty of opportunity to practice. It was noisy, colorful and
>>> impressive to any onlooker, regardless of how they may view Falun Gong
>>> practitioners or the group's motives and beliefs. Impressive too was their
>>> huge
>>> banner that read "Heaven destroys Chinese Communists."

>

>>> So it was all the more interesting that none of the three local television
>>> channels carried any of this in their evening news broadcasts. What was

>> more

>>> surprising was that the following day not a word or picture of the

>> marchers

>>> appeared in any of the leading local newspapers, not even Apple Daily,
>>> despite
>>> the prominence it otherwise gave to the march and the participation of Zen
>>> and
>>> some leading local pro-democracy politicians.

>

>>> Nor indeed was the sect's appearance reported by the international media,
>>> whether through a deliberate decision to ignore them or because their
>>> reporters
>>> were more concerned with the front of the demonstration and the role of

>> Zen

>>> and
>>> other well-known local figures.

>

>>> But it would not be the first time that the Falun Gong could reasonably
>>> claim to
>>> be deliberately ignored by a media that otherwise regularly gives strong
>>> coverage to protests and demands for freedom and democracy in China.

>

>>> The fact that some Falun Gong supporters had been detained at the airport
>>> was
>>> reported locally and internationally. But the extent of the actions

>> against

>>> them
>>> remains little reported. Taiwan human rights lawyer Theresa Chu, who was
>>> deported on June 25, made public what was said to be an internal document
>>> from
>>> an airline company stating that during the July 1 period, Hong Kong
>>> Immigration
>>> would provide airline companies with a blacklist and requested that the
>>> airline
>>> companies flying from Taiwan to Hong Kong cooperate to ban Falun Gong
>>> practitioners from boarding.

>

>>> What is not clear is where the few hundred practitioners who made up the
>>> Hong
>>> Kong contingent came from. Some from Taiwan surely beat the ban, some
>>> (including
>>> non-Chinese) were from North America. But how many were from Hong Kong and
>>> how
>>> many indeed from the mainland?

>

>>> The organization itself claims that mainlanders were among those prevented
>>> from
>>> entering Hong Kong, but this cannot readily be verified.

>

>>> Certainly the movement has been known to make exaggerated claims for the
>>> size of
>>> its membership. But there is no doubting its presence on July 1, and no
>>> doubting
>>> the media self-censorship that deprived the movement of the coverage its
>>> display
>>> warranted. That should come as a particular shock to Cardinal Zen who said
>>> several years ago that if the Falun Gong could be silenced today it would
>>> not be
>>> long before Catholics got the same treatment.

>

>>> Certainly for those who watched the Hong Kong march the Falun Gong was not
>>> silenced. But do not expect to see it in the local newspapers or see
>>> pictures of
>>> banners proclaiming that heaven will triumph over the communist party.

>

>>> Comments (11)

>

>>> Show/Hide comments
>>> Tienanmen, Magic Numbers & Sidewalk Reality : Arthur Borges :
>>>http://arthur.translatorscafe.com
>>> The record needs to be set straight about Tienanmen Square. For starters,
>>> when I
>>> want figures, I go to Reuters. The last reference I saw to the event said
>>> "where
>>> hundreds, perhaps thousands" were killed. The most commonly cited estimate

>> I

>>> see
>>> is the same magic number as for Pearl Harbor and 9/11: 3,000. It seems the
>>> minimum number needed the media need to whip up world attention and

>> justify

>>> an
>>> act of war. After that, the next symbolic number jumps straight to
>>> 6,000,000.
>>> Did the US/Vietnam War leave 2,000,000 dead or 4,000,000? Nobody much

>> cares.

>>> Not
>>> even a fair share of Vietnamese youth, who just want to move on. But 3,000
>>> and
>>> 6,000,000 are newsy.

>

>>> For background, China's shift into a market economy had created average
>>> inflation of 20%% per year since 1984. That was cumulative of course.

>> People

>>> were
>>> suddenly dipping into savings to cover daily living expenses and it was

>> only

>>> getting worse. Tough, cheerful and optimisitc, Chinese are thrifty and

>> hate

>>> doing that. Moreover, the best & brightest aimed for postgraduate degrees

>> in

>>> an
>>> economy where the president of an SOE only netted three times more than
>>> his/her
>>> production line workers. However, the president had perks and that made

>> all

>>> the
>>> difference. How did these students react when they saw a Rolex on the

>> wrist

>>> of a
>>> noodle stall owner with an uneducated rural accent? How did they react

>> when

>>> they
>>> saw a truck belonging to, say, the foreign ministry help him haul his

>> pots,

>>> pans, stools and tables to and from the sidewalk outside the school

>> entrance

>>> where he operated? Why was that? Well, private vehicles were illegal until
>>> 1990,
>>> so he worked his personal network, found an in-law who was a driver there
>>> and
>>> they did a deal. When you saw that happening all over town, you pretty
>>> naturally
>>> figured that was the source of skyrocketing living costs. This was the
>>> corruption against which folks demonstrated. To think this country is 1.3
>>> billion people yearning to enact a Chinese translation of the US Bill of
>>> Rights
>>> is naive at best: they wanted a return to stable prices in an honest
>>> economy.
>>> The other sort of article you read about China many Western media
>>> redecorates
>>> them in a cloak of evil intention, poising to take over the region and the
>>> world. This too is naive: the Chinese are intensive social networkers who
>>> know
>>> the power of social capital (i.e. the material value of family & friends
>>> bound
>>> by strong ties) to help you survive when times get rough and prosper in

>> time

>>> of
>>> peace, which is what we are fortunate enough to see in Sino-Western
>>> relations.

>

>>> Nobody seems to notice the contradiction between these two views.

>

>>> July 12, 2007
>>> ... : Sane Man
>>> Never mind that a CCP that lies, is zealous of feeding 1.3billion Chinese.
>>> What
>>> record has FLG and Cardinal Zen has, other than open their ugly

>> dirty-laden

>>> rubbish mouths?

>

>>> July 10, 2007
>>> With equally serious humour, though : Arthur Borges :
>>>http://arthur.translatorscafe.com
>>> Fact is, FG has American financing for American purposes, it claims to be
>>> Buddhist and "certainly" isn't. The threat is its potential to evolve into

>> a

>>> political party but sorry, you don't govern 1.3 billion people the way you
>>> govern Finland (5 million people/17 political parties).

>

>>> Like the USA, China's only option is a "two-party state".

>

>>> July 10, 2007
>>> Aw C'mon : Arthur Borges :http://arthur.translatorscafe.com
>>> I've this lovely friend in Hong Kong. And one day I asked her about Falun
>>> Gong.
>>> And she said: "Ha! His followers dying for him in China. He having great
>>> time in
>>> California."

>

>>> I love the Chinese language: so succinct!

>

>>> July 10, 2007
>>> ... : Colleen
>>> The Chinese communist party rule the country by lies and fear.Everyone

>> knows

>>> they lie. Look at Tiananmen Square Massacre. The whole world knows about

>> the

>>> blood bath that happened there.It is well documented.The Chinese communist
>>> party
>>> does not want people who believe in truth, compassion and forbearance it

>> is

>>> the
>>> opposite to what they are.How could they rule.They are terrified of Falun
>>> Gong
>>> and people who have good principals and care about other human beings.

>

>>> July 8, 2007
>>> misinformation causing hatred : a guest
>>> There is so much

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