Saturday, June 12, 2010

The fate of a little girl

A sketch of the little girl based
on the passenger's description.
The girl looks like 3 years old,
small and narrow face, big eyes,
long eyelets, curved hair.
She was wearing Adidas top,
a pink skirt and Adidas pants.
However, the clothes were very
dirty. She was bear foot.
A little girl disappeared from a packed train in Jiangxi, China on June 8. Hundreds children were stolen and kidnapped in China everyday. At any given time, hundreds of stolen children were being transported by cars, trucks, buses, and train. One of such trafficking was noticed by an alert passenger Mr. Yang. Mr. Yang attempted to dial 110, police emergence number, but was not able to connect. Mr. Yang then notified the railroad attendance, once oral, and once in writting, and the police on board. Mr. Yang took off at station of Quzhou at 8:14 on June 9, when he got hooked up and posted online, while the train was travelling at over 100mph on its way from Wenzhou, Zhejiang to Guiyang, Guizhou. The post received more than 2.5 million hits and 200 pages of threads in a matter of hours.

Hundreds of thousands of Chinese Internet readers were mobilized to contact dozens of police and national security agencies through public as well as private channels. All railroad and police agencies along the thousand mile of railroad were contacted while the K941 train was in their judiciary. National and Provincial governments were contacted, too.

And the 3 years old girl disappeared along with the human traffickers.

No single government, railroad or police department reacted to the repeated alert. It is reported that in some major cities on the route, the police emergency number were blocked because of the volume of the calls on the little girl from all over the country. The most common answer from the dispatchers was, 'we know, thank you.' And that was it.

Finally, one of the Internet readers got his brother, a railroad detective in Zhuzhou, Hunan to abroad the train when it arrived Zhuzhou at 16:36 on June 9. The railroad police on the train told the detective that the girl and the traffickers were taken off the train in Yingtan, Jiangxi by police for questioning.

The online community celebrated, only to know that the onboard turned out to be a lie, the reason of the lie (to a police colleague) was difficult to comprehend.

Police's inaction in 8 hours while the train K941 was travelling between Quzhou and Jiangtan.


Three days later, the facts we could collect at this time was, the group was on the train in Cart 11, seat 97 while Mr. Yang took off at the station of Quzhou. They were no longer seen by the time the train left station of Yingtan, a huge train hub connecting three major railroads. While media pressure mounting on, police in Yingtan checked all surveillance cameras in the station, but did not find the group. There were three stations between Quzhou and Yingtan, which were Yushan, Shangrao and Guixi.

Now you get an idea why so many children could disappear in a totalitarian police state. You may also get an idea why Premier Wenjia stated there was deeper social root to understand the multiple high profile violent unrests in a recent talk.

Stolen children were often trained to be beggars. In order to take advantage of people's sympathy, many of them were maimed. They would be broken both legs and sometimes all four limps, blinded, had tongue cut, etc. Some were sold to government infancy, where they would be sold to American adopters.

Wednesday, June 09, 2010

Too Much Education

One could have too much education, especially when you are an Asian American. According to a revealing report 'Hidden Disadvantage: Asian American Unemployment and the Great Recession' authored by Algernon Austin of EPI, the unemployment rate of Asian American is about 2 times comparing to white in the population with a college diploma. Language is not a barrier as the conclusion stays for those born in the US.

Combined with well well known and well document information that educated Asian American receives less pay than all other ethnics groups: white, black, Hispanic, it's obvious education is not a good thing for an Asian in the America.

Sunday, June 06, 2010

21 Brothers, Where Art Thou?

Feng Congde, one of the 21 student leaders who were haunted by the communism regime after the massacre in 1989, wrote about the thereafter stories of his comrades 21 years ago.

name affiliation in jailacademicdwelling
Wang DanBeijing University1989-1993, 1995-1998Master(Harvard, 2001)US
Wuer KaixiBeijing Normal UniversityHarvard University
Dominican College
Taiwan
Liu GangBeijing University1989-1995Master(Columbia University)US
Chai LingBeijing Normal UniversityMaster(1993, Princeton University)
MBA (1998 Harvad)
US
Zhou FengsuoQinghua University1989-1990Master(1998, University of Chicago)US
Zhai WeiminBeijing College of Economics1989-1993China
Liang ChedongBeijing Normal UniversityBrigham Young University
University of San Fransisco
Taiwan
Wang ZhengyunThe Central University for Nationalities1989-1991China
Zheng XuguangBeijing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics1989-1991
1995
China
Ma ShaofangBeijing Film Academy1989-1992China
Yang TaoBeijing University1989-1990
1999-2003
China
Wang ZhixinChina University of Political Science and Law1990-1991China
Feng CongdeBeijing UniversityMaster(1995, France Higher Institute)
Leiden University
PhD (2003)
US
Wang ChaohuaChinese Academy of Social SciencesPhD (2010, UCLA)US
Wang YoucaiBeijing University1989-1991
1998-2004
Master(2006, UIUC)US
Zhang ZhiqingChina University of Political Sciences and Law1991
Zhang BoliBeijing UniversityMasterUS
Li LuNanjing UniversityMaster(Columbia University)
MBA(Columbia University)
JD(Columbia University)
US
Zhang MingQinghua University1989-1992
2002-2006
China
Xiong WeiQinghua University1989-1990
Xiong YanBeijing University989-1992Bachelor(NC Fayetteville)
Master(Covenant Theological)
Master(Trinity Christian College)
Doctor(Gordon Conwell Theological)
US

Being 'too yellow', Chinese American denied passport



Chinese American Mr. Li of New Jersey was denied US passport because the officer at the State Department found his photo 'too yellow'.

Friday, June 04, 2010

21 Years Ago


An illustration published by Southern Metropolitan, an influential newspaper 3 days before the anniversary. The author is Xiangma, a column cartoonist of the paper.

Some people argued the biggest lost of the Tian'anmen Massacre was the entire generation of those born in the 1970s. Elder generations were not impacted as bad because they had gone through many, such as the Great Cultural Revolution. Younger generations simply did not know, thanks to the brainwashing by the communist Party.

Among the 1970s population, they were exhausted and desperate. Some went oversea to hide themselves away. Some retreat to a life style with no moral value, but money value.

However, every year this time, some people still try to remind the world. There was a massacre happened when government used tanks and machine guns to kill hundreds of peaceful protesting students in the heart of the capital city, Beijing.

Sunday, May 30, 2010

A Slip of the Tongue

The Ministry of Public Security held the national involuntary mental hospital conference in Wuhan, Hubei Province from May 26 to 27.

Involuntary Mental hospitals in China are controlled by the government, and have been used to jail political dissidents and real mental patients alike. However, they are more and more frequently used by local government to jail minor offenders or personal enemies.

The Ministry of Public Security emphasized on the conference that a mentally normal person could only be jailed after the police department approves. The message were reported by many mainstream media, including TV, newspaper and magazines. The 'a slip of the tongue' accident confirmed the long time rumor that these hospitals indeed had been used by local government as jail houses.

There are 22 involuntary mental hospitals in China in eighteen provinces.

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Chinese Legal Immigrants Filed Complaint Discriminatory Practice by State Department Officials

Five Chinese EB3 (Employment-Based Category 3) immigrants filed class action lawsuit in US District Court of Western District of Washington, challenging the mistaken procedures used for establishing cut-off dates in their immigration cases.

The Center of the issue is an official who is in charge of setting the cut-off dates for each country. The plaintiff alleged the method currently used is flawed, unconstitutional, against rules of the State Department itself, and discriminatory against Chinese legal immigrants.

Li et al. v. USA, No. 2:10-cv-00798-RAJ, W.D. Wa. at Seattle. click to make a donation.