From: Shizhong Chen <chen%molly@SDSC.EDU>
Subject:      Re:  Open reply to a friend
Reply-To: Shizhong Chen <chen%molly@SDSC.EDU>
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 02:48:45 GMT
Comments: To: china-nt@uga.cc.uga.edu

My impression on lix's post is: Nao 3 Xiu 1 Cheng 2 Nu 4!

Anger makes one illogical; and lix's post is just full of that. Example 1:
 Claiming "not interested in fighting fighters" while acknowledging "my
words may be very offensive". Example 2: Making up a story of Shizhong Chen
correcting Jinghong Li while the two didn't even exchanged any e-mail.
Example 3: Making modified quotes and "summarization" of Zhang Yun Fei's
mail while overlooking the fact that all posts on the China-net are archived.
Example 4... As if it was not enough to show his anger through illogicality,
lix decorated it more with some choice of words, from "D-fighters", "GaoGan",
"former GaoGan", to calling other of "have no father, no friends". Lix's
mail is indeed, by his own words:"more funny than any possible reply".
Actually, lot worse than funny.

Well, some years ago, a friend taught me:"When someone is angry, his
behaviour may not be that of himself." So I will try to be understanding
and not to argue with the illogicality of lix. Instead, I will make some
comments on other lix's points which is apparently well thought out by him
and hence may have a better chance of being logical.

1. "Shame on you, the small report maker(s)!!!" Lix speaks out against
the injustice to Raymond Luh. What a friend! Raymond Luh should be very
 grateful. But, wait a minute. According to lix, Raymond Luh was in trouble
as early as July 31, 1992, and the small report(s) must have been made
even before that. Now, if lix is against "small report", he should have
spoken out then. Why wait till Raymond Luh has been partially cleared to
jump up to show the comradery? Maybe it was a "big report" at first and
only became a "small report" after Raymond Luh is partially cleared? Maybe
it is unsuitable to speak out against "big report"? Also, if lix is against
FBI investigation, he still should have spoken out then (and against FBI).
Maybe there was a risk to speak out then? To me, injustice is injustice.
That is why IFCSS speaks out against any arrest and jailing of political
 prisoners in China, irregardless whether they are "convincted" or not.

2. "Shame on you, the small report maker(s)!!!" Lix is pointing fingers.
But when Sanyee Tang asks:"It is your guess or you have hard evidence that
someone on this net snitched him?" lix shuts up. When someone tries to
suspect others of being CCP agents without hard evidence, there is a nice
name for that: spy-chasing. As far as I remember, lix is very much against
CCP-spy-chasing. However, he seems not to mind FBI spy-chasing at all. Oh,
by the way, not all the CCP-spy-chasing are cursed. I remember that at the
early stage of the S1216 lobbying, there was one round of CCP-spy-chasing.
It was started by a well known "political moderates" and supported by many,
 publically. That effectively silenced the culprit who dared to express
dissension and organize a letter campaign against the S1216 lobbynig (too
bad, he did not make a name for his campaign, or it would be as easy to
refer to it as to refer to SUMC or SUMFN) .

3. "Shame on you, the small report maker(s)!!!" Lix is angery about the
consequence of "small report", as he also said about the consequence:"It is
tiny to you and me, but his wife and two kids may not think so." However,
on the other hand, lix is quite indifferent to other kinds of consequences,
as he wrote:"IFCSS is collecting reports about harrasement of CG to CSS's
family, your poor imagination is certainly not helpful for this purpose."
While lix can not offer any evidence (maybe he can through "believe...in
fact..." as he so skillfully did before) for the "small report" he hates,
we CSS are all too familiar with phone calls or visits from CCP consulate
officers:"We know all what you are doing..." (And they do know!). I wonder
why lix still is against "collecting reports about harrassment of CG to
CSS"? While Raymond Luh is facing some inconveniece and lix shows great
concern, far too many people in China are suffering much more. Yet, lix
always tries to tell us that long term national interest is more important
(than what?). Did lix care if the wives and kids of the political prisoners
think so? The wife and daughter of Ren Wanding are living on the streets
of Beijing, did lix care if they think so?

4. "Shame on you, who love China FROM ABROAD ONLY!" I conclude with quoting
Xiong Bo.

Shizhong Chen
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