From: zdlin@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (ZhongDong Lin)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Re: Protection Bill
Date: 4 Oct 92 16:10:04 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.1992Oct4.161004.12417
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.

In article <92277.214457LHGCC@CUNYVM.BITNET> <LHGCC@CUNYVM.BITNET> writes:
>       chenx@cua.edu  wrote
>/Subject: Protection Bill
>/Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 07:07:19 GMT
>
>/For the discussion of the protection bill, there is always an assumption
>/that Chinese government want these Chinese students go back to China.
>/My question is whether or not it is true.
>
>I agree. We Chinese intellectuals always overestimate ourselves, especially
>under CCP's rule. Please remember a lots of scholars went back during early
>50's after the funding of PRC. What happened to them? Endless political
>campaigns to reform them (brain wash), to harass, to torture them. Those
>who went back thought that they  were too important to the 'country', so
>they should wake up.  If anyone still believes he/she is too important
>to CCP, he/she has to calm down. Nothing is more important than the throne,
>stable surpasses anything. Suppose you guys go back. Where will you go?
>universities, colleges, etc. Even if you never take streets, you can not
>possibly keep your mouth shut. Little by little, you give your own opinions.
>What kind of opions? to whom? at where? You are trouble makers, even you
>do not realize it yourselves. It takes long time to reform you. Even you
>are very cooperative, when the job is finished, some damages are done
>already to the society.  Well. Wait until there are some changes take place
>inside China. Before that, nobody WANTS you back.
>If CCP protests the bill, that is for their faces, not for you.
>Wang L H

  Too often we asked ourselves what (or whom) we are important to, shouldn't
we think once in a while what (or who) are important to us?  Yes, CCP wants
you to keep your mouth shut.  The best you can do is to hide under the
umbrella of U.S government and wait until the situation in China all clear up?
Occasionally I would hear about Chinese being selfish, I always took defensive
side to that.  However, what happened in U.S. after '6.4' force me to think
it twice.  The only two heavy lobbies by us is for ourselves, and we are
advised to not to mention any human right improvement in China                
( not I think there's much).  I have to admire Shen Tong.  For all his
unlikenesses ( to me anyway), he is the guy dared to face the CCP and made his
voice heard, not many of our anger CSS are willing to do that.  We are only
willing to make his arrest another hard evident for our lobbying for the
'card'.  For all of us who want the democracy more than anything, why we want
to shut down the opposition of the protection bill using the words like 'mad',
'stupid'....  So this is how we build our democracy, by shout out anyone who
against our ways of thinking.  Why I feel there is a similarity between this  
  and the doing of a certain government. 
  Can we all think for a moment what is important to us?  
  I donot mean to take it out on the original article, just want to give
people my Sunday morning before football thoughts.  Thus, I apologize for
posting a follow-up article.

  Brian      
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