Wen Jiabao's Tears

Premier Wen Jiabao is a typical example of a communism leader who grows up from the lowest class. His parents live an extreme low profile in a poor neighborhood of Tianjin. They have been known to their neighbors as nice old people, not many were aware of that Wen had been a senior Party official. Wen is very sympathetic towards the pains and daily struggle for living of the lower classes, and he never hesitates to show the emotion whenever he heard of the misfortunes of people. Whenever Wen is mentioned in a conversation, the first thing people think of him will be his tears. He cried for migration workers, cried for poor kids. However, after 5 years of seeing his tears on TV, and reading about his tears in newspaper every month, if not every week, people start to ask, when will he stop crying and start doing his job as a premier?

For more than 10 years, hundreds of thousands school age kids were kidnapped from roadside, store front and playground to be thrown in many private brick factories in Shanxi province. They were sold from one broker to another, until finally they found themselves modern slaves confined in the factories that are guarded by dogs. They were allowed to eat 15 minutes per meal, and work 16 hours per day. When they get injured, they are told to place earth to their wounds. If they can't keep up with the hard work, they are beaten and sometimes buried alive. Even so, the life in a brick slavery is rosy compared to those kids who were sent to mine slavery. Many live in underground caves forever, until there's no more to mine, and the slave master will simply explode the entrance and bury all the secrets. Their age? from 8 to 13.

Parents of 400 kids ask for help. A brave reporter, Mr. Fu Zhenzhong of Henan TV is outraged, and determined to help. He made 21 special reports after trips to Shanxi. 20 were aired, and the last was censored, and banned. Not only local government and police in Shanxi didn't give any assistance, but they touted, threatened and intimidated the reporter and the parents who were looking for their kids. In one instance, a child was saved from a slave factory, only to be sold by the local government to another slave master. The local government even stripped the child of the 300 RMB ($75) before sold him again for another $80. It's not until the online community was outraged that the central government step in. However, the real irony just starts.

The top inspector Tian Chengping sent by the central government was Shanxi's Party boss only two years ago. It was under his rein that evil slavery was fostered and protected. Whatever could people expect out of such a comedy led by clowns? They central government's propaganda arm claim they found some contract violations. Not even one single official is charged or even 'investigated'. It's merely a dispute over contracts (or lack of contracts). That's all.

What happened to the law enforcement officer (Mr. Shang Guangze of Yongji city) who sold the child rescued by the reporter from one slave camp, and caught on tape that aired to millions of houses? He was reprimanded and scolded for 2 levels of salary, roughly $4 per month. Nobody knows the fate of that child today.

People have learned not to trust politicians even as they speak into your eyes. When people watch Wen spoke with his tears, people thought they could trust in the tears. Although Wen Jiabao is very likable and cute, but people need a premier who acts upon people's need, not just crying over it.

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Who Killed Bian Zhongyun?

From this youtube video, we hear two names: at 6'00", Song Binbin, daughter of Song Renqiaong, a senior CCP official, and at 6'40", Deng Rong, daughter of Deng Xiaoping. At the time, August 1966, Song and Deng are both students in the Girl's High School of the Beijing Normal University. Bian Zhongyun was the deputy principle.

Bian committed two crimes. The first: a few years ago she did not admit Liu Shaoqi's daughter, because Liu's daughter was two points short of the admission standard. Liu Shaoqi was the President of China at the time. The second crime was that when the school was exercising an earthquake drill, she didn't take out Chairman Mao's pictures from the classroom.

Deng and Song, both students beaten Bian and other teachers with sticks, knifes and fake guns (for military training). Bian and other teachers were beaten for the whole day on August 4, 1966. She went to school again in the morning of August 5 and was beaten another day. Bian died of wounds. Bian was the first teacher to be killed in the Great Culture Revolution from 1966 to 1976 launched by CCP.

Song Renqiong was the party boss of northeastern China. Deng was deputy premier.

Song Binbin changed her name to Song Yaowu (taking violence), suggested by Chairman Mao when Song met Mao in Tian'anmen on August 18, 1966. Later she changed her name again to Song Yan (rock). At one instance, Song killed an old lady with boiling water; in the other day, Song forced a son to kill his father with dumbbell. According to various sources, Song had beaten at least 5 people to death by herself when she competed others on how fast they could kill a person with only a military-issue waist belt. Song Binbin is a resident of the US.

Deng Rong is a writer, a resident of Hong Kong.

Neither receives any judgment for what they did. Further reading: 卞仲耘是李纳邓榕们的老师, 宋彬彬打死过多少人？

Cheap TIME

On page 22 of the June 11, 2007 issue of the TIME magazine, there's the 'Numbers' column as usual. Read on, a subtitle: PRODUCT SAFETY in red, where you first see a bold black number of 20% for the estimated percentage of Chinese-made toys that are blow standards, and then the $5.79 billion, value of Chinese toys sold to the U.S. in 2005.

What makes TIME cheap is that this is two irrelevant information putting together to make you think of something that does not exist. Anyone familiar with the Chinese toy expert, and any Chinese goods export to the US know the fact that product for export were build on different line, with different materials, following different standards. That's the reason rich Chinese are buying from the US, from luxuries to cheap daily consumer products, because you can buy them in China even with money. Comparing the quality of products in China, and those imported from China are like suggesting Saddam has something to do with the World Trade Center: easy to get applause, cheap politics indeed.

3 Year Old Girl Killed Under Mother's Watch

A three year-old girl was killed by a driver while her mother was watching. The incident happened on May 31, 2007, one day before the International Children's Day celebrated by Chinese children.

According to eye witnesses, a busy market place in Baiyun District of Guangzhou, the mother and daughter was playing at the market when a car knocked down the girl, but then the driver backed up and ran over the 3 year old girl the second time. Then the driver tried to fled by foot, but was subdued by angry witnesses in the market.

Last week, another driver was sentenced to 5 years jail time for ran over an old lady 5 times, a crime happened to be recorded by a surveillances camera. Some Chinese drivers said they would prefer to kill a person than to injure one because of possible long term medical costs. Drivers who kill a person usually only pay a $1000 flat fee.

High School Students in a Harmonic Society

While the official theme of the Chinese society is 'harmonic', the nation was shocked watching a YouTube video depicting high school students walking around in class while mocked, ridiculed and hit an ailing teacher.

The incident happened at a vocation training high school, Beijing Haidian Art Vocation High School. While most kids in large cities go to college, this type of schools offer opportunities for the few who don't. Nevertheless, the scene where a teacher was abused by students were so shocking that thousands, and perhaps millions of Chinese Netizens used Internet to show their shock and anger. Some offered bound for physical discipline of the kids involved, and some went to the school to confront the principle. An online forum dedicated to discussion of the incident was set up. Local medias sent reporting groups to the school, and local police patrolled the school.

A formal student of teacher Li wrote:

孙老师，您还好吗？

哭着看完了那段不想再看第二遍的视频，心理十分复杂。孙老师~~您现在还好吗？我是您在清河中学时候的学生，您教了我三年。孙老师是一个精通地理和历史的老实人，从来没有和我们发过脾气，红过脸，有什么问题老师总是把责任自己承担起来。转眼已经将近10年了，我也从一个小毛孩变成了大人，有了自己的家庭，毕业后我们还曾经回去看过您，可是听说您已经离开了那个学校，这么多年过去了，万万没有想到会以这样的方式再次看到您，得到您的消息，您还站在讲台前，继续着您的事业，服装没有改变，口音没有改变，还是和当年一样，记得我上学时候您就已经退休，后来是返聘回来继续给我们教书，我们也知道您的家庭有一些困难，还需要您这些微薄的收入来支撑，一位70的老人，本应该享受天伦之乐，安度晚年的，现在确没有得到您应该享受的内容，反而被推倒了风头浪尖，希望大家，包括媒体，包括学校，所有人不要再去给这么一位可敬的老人再增加压力，为难老人，让老人能享受一下真正的晚年，媒体记者，你们多关心一下老人家里的困境，为什么70岁的老人，现在还要出来教书，帮孙老师解决一下家里实际困难好不好。不要再为难孙老师了。真没有想到一群乳臭未干小毛孩居然如此对待年已70的老师。你们还是人吗，你们有爷爷，姥爷吗？你是真么对待你的长辈吗？你们的父母是怎么教育你们的！借用郭德刚的一句话：要不是法律不允许，我早打死你们了！.

The news was first blocked in China as it's against the harmonic society the CCP advocating. Then it was uploaded to the YouTube, a popular website and a Google subsidiary out of control of the CCP. It occupied many YouTube rankings in no time, including No. 1 most viewed Chinese and No. 1 most viewed film and animation, and many others. However, YouTube/Google's handling of the event is equally remarkable then the event itself. Although the video claimed 330 thousands clicks and 3 thousands comments in 3 days while occupying more than 2 dozens of YouTube 'honors'. It was taken off the cover page of 'most viewed' videos so that people who wondered into YouTube won't be able to see it.

Although it's clearly an embarrassment of the collapse of education system on moral values, the incident is nowhere close to the Tiananmen massacre or a scandal of government bureaucracy. For many concerned, it's such a chilling revelation that YouTube is collaborating with the CCP propaganda department in building the harmonic society online.

For an 8 year old gril Anna Mae He

Please come to this website to make a donation for the Baker family in their legal fighting for welfare of 8 year old Anna Mae He. Yes, we Chinese care about fairness, and we care about the wellbeing of the little girl.

Recap of the event: Anna was abandoned by her biological parents after born. The father, 'He', a human smuggler and sex offender, suspected Anna was not his biological daughter. The mother, 'Qin', entered into the US with a fake document suffers in difficult financial situation. They begged the Bakers to adopt Anna.

Now, Anna is an 8 year old daughter, the 'He' family wants her back, and they win. The Tennessee Supreme Court bent to the Chinese political power. The 'He' family was depicted as hero standing high against greedy American rich who steal Chinese babies. This is unfair to the Bakers family, it's unfair to the girl, and it is not good for the wellbeing of the girl.