From: underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe)
Subject: Legal System: Vincent Chin vs. Henry Liu (Re: racism on campus and off: the police.)
Keywords: racism, double standards, Chinese-ge
Organization: Miners for a Heart of Gold
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 01:47:36 GMT

In article <1gj6o2INN1du@cat.cis.Brown.EDU> ST701852@brownvm.brown.edu
(carole e mah) writes:
>[slow response time of the legal authorities]
>  And what about the judicial system? How much time
>did Vincent Chin's murderers get?  ...

Note that Vincent Chin's supporters, principally very loud Chinese-Americans,
are apt to point out 2 avenues of racism in his murder:

(1) The murderers killed Mr. Chin because he was non-White although
    the murderers were White.
(2) The American gov't (and its entire legal system) is guilty of racism
    for its inability to "get" the culprits; this legal system is supposedly
    racist because it would have responded better if Mr. Chin had been White.

I have seen the heavily slanted (in favor of Chinese-American bias) 
point-of-view program on PBS, called something like "Who killed Vincent Chin?"
In fact, I've seen it twice.  There is no indication whatsoever that the
murderers killed Mr. Chin because he was non-White.  The fact of the matter
is that the two murderers were drunk and would probably have killed Mr. Chin
even if he were not Oriental.

Mr. Chin's being Oriental is incidental.

As for #2, there might be some truth to that assertion.  I won't comment
on it just now.  Instead, let's move to the murder of Henry Liu.  He was
murdered by two Chinese-ge thugs hired by the Chinese-cu gov't on Taiwan.

Note that in his case, the murderers were Chinese-ge.  So, there is no
comparison with #1.

However, the American gov't was also equally slow to respond to his murder.
In fact, there hasn't been much of a response.  Note the steely determination
to find _and_ _PROSECUTE_ the terrorist murderer of Klinghopfer (spelling?),
who was a handicapped individual killed on board a luxury liner in the Middle
East.  He was White.

Why don't Chinese-Americans accuse the gov't of R.A.C.I.S.M. in the
case of Henry Liu?  Here we have the same setup as in point #2 concerning
Mr. Chin.  Perhaps, they are pardoning his murder because Mr. Liu's
murderers were Chinese-ge.  This is so incredibly hypocritical.

Note that the poster, Ms. Carole E. Mah, did not bring up the matter of
racism on the part of the murderers; however, she did bring up the matter
of racism on the part of legal system and the rest of the American gov't.
As long as she is going to bandy Mr. Chin's name in "proving" racism on the
part of that system, then she must also, in fairness, mention Henry Liu.

(Note that Henry Liu's murder was premeditated 1st degree murder, the 
highest capital offense.)

Why the double standard?

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