From: Yuhe Liu <liu@ATMOS.UMD.EDU>
Subject:      My opinion about s1216
Reply-To: Yuhe Liu <liu@ATMOS.UMD.EDU>
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 05:18:49 GMT
Comments: To: china-nt@uga.cc.uga.edu

Dear Fellows:

     A new round of debate on this net is going on the impact of S1216
on those CSS who are not covered by the bill. Unfortunately, I have to
adopt the classification of Group A who are covered by the bill, Group B
who are not covered by the bill, and Group C who are PC, to express my
opinions on the topic. Unfortunately, I belong to Group B only because I
came here 4 months later than the deadline. Here, I am trying to be
reasonable to myself and others. I don't want to argue with anyone.

     1. Group A contains all CSS who were in US during 6.4 and almost
everyone participated in the demostrations or spoke out loudly. At that
time it was not easy for them to stand out without any hesitation.
Nobody knew what would happented to them. Group A also contains those
CSS who came just after 6.4. As I know, many of them participated the
demostrations in China before they left China and many of them has been
'blamed' on organizing demostration activities during that time, though
some of those activities might be organized by other people who were
still in China. Of course, Group A needs protection.

     2. I agree that Group B needs protection too. I participated the
demostrations on Tiananmen. I could come here totally due to the
protection of my colleagues and myself. It was a fact that I read every
thing on the People's Daily in order to make my "Jian3 Ca2" passing.
Even so, I had to draft 4 versions of that stupid "Jian3 Ca2". Now, I
can still feel the beating of my heart.

     3. But, this is America, not our own country China. The bill is an
American's bill. We cannot ask US Congress to make a law to protect all
CSS in US without deadline or limitation. If the dealine were defined at
present, those who will come here would say "it is unfair. We need
protection too." Is there an end? We should understand that it is
impossible for the US Congress to make a law to protect all CSS.

     4. To me, I think all Chinese people need protection. Can we ask
US Congress to pass a bill to protect all Chinese people? Definitely not.
I feel a shame that Chinese people have to be protected by the US rather
than by our own country. Therefore, all we should do is simply to
struggle for the return of our human rights from Chinese government.

     5. I really hope that either Group A, B, or, C stops quarrel.
Chinese neither are sands, nor selfish people. Please be happy for other
people's luck and help those "luckless" people. In my opinion, this is
the base of any communities.

     Thank you for your attention.

Yuhe Liu
U. Maryland at College Park

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  From:  Yuhe Liu
  IFCSS Council Member
  Department of Meteorology                Telephone: (301) 405-8045 (O)
  University of Maryland                              (301) 779-0350 (H)
  College Park, MD 20742                   Email:     liu@atmos.umd.edu
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