Jun 03 2008
The common sentiment
Happened to be in Flushing this past Saturday, caught a glimpse of Fa Lungong - streets were closed with heavy police presence. I see them linger in Flushing a lot, around the main library. The drums were loud to the point you wanted to tell them to get lost. The surrounding businesses were impatient. The shoppers in the stores were agitated, temper rose. Many people were cursing them, loudly. It must had some adrenaline rush scenes in the past, otherwise why the large number of police for such small gathering?
Few people said that those yellow shirts who pass fliers on the streets are being compensated $50 (some say $60) a day. I’d think those slush funds are from well endowed human right groups in the west? I think the right thing to do at the moment is sum up your supporters for donations, and help out at the quake hard hit area .. .. 天灭中共？Sorry to be cynical - do you have plan B? I think they are here to stay. If anything, Falun gong would be the one to go first. After all, the majority of that 1.3b people want and need the party. Pretty 蚂蚁撼树.
Ruby’s brother got involved with Falun gong. The whole family are worried. When his wife had cancer, they even worreid more: will she seek medical treatment? When Ruby’s mom called, I could hear the bemusement in her voice. I was surprised. Because the few people I’ve seen on the streets wearing yellow, most part, looked like jiafu 家妇, uneducated and unemployed or unemployable. Ruby’s family, in contrast, is very well educated: her dad was the head of Institute of High Energy Physics, mother was botanist with Institute of Botany, both at CAS in Beijing. She’s a biochemist, first at Beida, then Salt Lake City and got her PhD in just little over four years at Cornell. Her little kid brother has a computer science degree from UMD. So how on earth they became believers? “I don’t want to know .. but she’s seeking normal medical treatment ..”
I’m not sure the China hands or the western human right groups know that Chinese are passive, peaceful race. We don’t look for a fight, we don’t start fight, we don’t expect Emperor Yongle (1360-1424) reborn. All we want is an average sensible Deng or Hu who allows us to have bowl of rice (fuller the better) and eat it in peace. Al Sharpton and Martha Burk are nonsense that China neither have tolerance for nor a luxury it can afford at the moment.
Unlike many other nations, we take the biased criticism seriously. Although many would claim it aims at the government, but we the people nevertheless feel blacken eyed as well. No one nor government is perfect, we live within our means or circumstances, finding the solutions to improve and reaching our goals. The fact that most people in and out of China despise the dissidents and Falun gong followers is because most of them are just opportunists: we’re for what’s good for China, might not necessary be good or right in the eyes of the west or the rest of the world - that’s ok.