From: zdlin@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (ZhongDong Lin)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: What leads to a democratic nation?(On the awakening of the protection bill)
Date: 20 Aug 92 17:14:14 GMT
Distribution: alt.culture.china
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.


  It has finally come down to the Bill.  Is this the kind of thing we
could do to help China on its way to the democracy?  
  What could make China a democratic country?  Maybe a better question is
what prevents it from getting there.  A bureaucratic government doesnot
help.  A country full of people who have so long been subjected to the monarch
system and depend on the emperor's mercy to get their limited freedom
doesnot help as well.  It needs a whole new generation of thinking, a whole
new generation of leaders.  And we have finally seen some light from the
Chinese student movement.  However, it is not their duty alone, it is also
our.We are the ones who claim to have the new ideas, who vow to we could
change China for better.  But what have we done so far?  We have been
trying our hearts out to stay out of China.  Yes, we are shouting the
slogans.  We are shouting loud and clear to the people who might have these
ideas long before we do.  And now, we are begging to stay.  Some of us call
themselves the freedom 'fighter's. but aren't you ashamed.  The students in
China are sacrifying their bodies and souls, you are just sitting here
comfortably.  Ok, you pulled your lung?  But where is your batterfield, 
Local TV?
  Yeah, we did a lot.  We even donated 5 bucks and spent one whole
afternoon marching the street of Chicago.  We have various kinds of 'free'
papers which dig the dirty of Communist leaders' personal histroy with some
added on free thinkings, link every possible disasters and accidents to
Chinese government, use whatever kind of bestial language we know to
attack Deng.  Is that what we really want?  Biased propogandas which more
close to People's Diary than any other people.  Why couldn't we just tell
the truth?  Is Chinese people still live in a fire pit, not in most of the
parts. Is China human right condition improving?  Not anywhere close to
what we want, but it does take some tiny steps.  It is what we should do to
help the nation that would count, not how many times we spit on it.
  I used to be as enthusiastic as the next Chinese.  But so far I yet to
run into a so called democracy 'fighter' that really want to go back to
China and fight.  Some of those who shouted loudest are the ones who
have the most to gain, personal benefit.  Some of them gained it and since
quiet down.  Some of them are still 'fight'ing for it.  Sometimes I just
have to turn my face away in disgust when that happen right before my eyes.
You believe you are the one whose name is in the Chinese govenment's
blacklist, you believe you are the one who would be arrested once you step
on China.  But I would think you are the one who is going to make to top
faster than anyone else if somehow you have to go back to China. 
  Yes, I think we do need some protection right after '6.4'.  But why are
we lobbying for conditioned 'MFS', you think China would bent its kneel and
release all political prisoners, or you just want anything that could break
down Sino-America relationship in hope of staying.  Have you ever stopped
to think what it will bring Chinese people, freedom?  Now we want more, the
big one.  An automatic ticket to comfort.  What would you think this would
do to Chinese democracy, what would this do to the people who want to get
out and study?  Or you already lose every bits of your concern for other
peopleof your country.
  A powerful, free country should be full of people who are patriotic.  If
we love our country so much, we should really do something about it, not
just sit here cheerleading.  For those who lose all their love of their
motherland, I just want to say: get your greencards the hard way, donot
stand there and block other people.  Afterall, you are not qualified to be
any freedom fighters, you are simply a coward.  For those who still love
China, I think the good future is near, it only takes one more generation,
and that is us.  
  
  Brian Lin   
  
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