Democracy and human rights are tactics to disintegrate a family,
a society, a nation, and enemies. These protesters are merely covert agents of
the white man of the West. Their mission is to prevent the raise of the red star (more precisely, yellow power) and
to starve 1.5 billions of our people so that they can be slaved. Study the history. This is what the West has done
to the rest of the world in the past. The tactics and goals are the same but less brutal.
I came to live in Europe and US for democracy and human rights after my naive participitation of
the Tiananmen square demonstration, but I found discrimination, police brutality, and injustice
and the media (Chinese media, too) are silent. Wake up! Don't be fooled! Support our government's actions!
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'Excessive Response'
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Did you get a sense of how China would have normally responded? Were they easier or harder on you, do you think, because of the Olympics?
The impression I got was that the security situation was much more excessive regarding everything during the Olympics. There were a whole slew of people who were arrested for scalping and arbitrarily given 10 days at Chong Wen—and I was told by several Europeans, at the detention center, that European governments were up in arms over this. A lot of it was just people trying to trade tickets because their country had less tickets than others. One of the guys in my cell, his best friend was on the Dutch fencing team. Even the guy's mother and sister weren't able to get tickets to see him fence because China refused to allow family members to get tickets ahead of time. Everything was excessive.
How were you treated once you were detained?
As an American, I definitely was treated much better than the Chinese or even other Asian detainees. We got more food than we were interested in eating. We would pool all the food for the Chinese. The whole thing was really bizarre. It was like a bad kid's summer camp. All the rules were geared toward accepting that you've done wrong and making yourself better, by working hard and being polite to your cell mates and supervisors. Every morning we had to get up and address the guard and say, "Good morning sir, how are you?" and sound off when our names were called.
Your firstborn is due at the end of October. Were you worried that you might not make it back in time?
A little bit. Not really. They were going to hold us till a week after the Olympics initially. I was told that's the shortest sentence that any foreigner received.
There must be people who are still detained there.
I expected to be one of the last people released from my cell other than a Korean guy who was a political prisoner. The Dutch guy should be home now. A German guy, a guy from Cameroon, a guy from Lebanon—all these people who had visa issues—may have been released since the Olympics are over. It's really unclear.
Did you witness any violence at all?
I was hit a number of times at the airport, just before leaving, but other than that there wasn't really anything.
As I understand it, you were hit for giving a cop the finger. Right?
They were constantly taking pictures of us and filming us to show they were treating us well. I was sick of it. Looking back I recognize it wasn't a good idea. I was tired—I had been awake for 30 hours.
Were you told why you had been detained?
The Chinese authorities made it very clear that the reason we were given 10 days administrative detention and not simply deported, as the activists had been, was because we were doing media work and because we were insuring people outside, [that] China saw dissent happening inside China. There was no bones about it—because we were doing media work we were targeted for excessive response.
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