User:Jim101/rants

View on Falun Gong
They wouldn't understand democracy or human right if hit them right in the face at the speed of light, yet they love to use it to further their goals. In the west, both bleeding heart liberals and hardline conservatives would swoon over bunch of poor saps who suffers under Communism, regardless of who they are supporting. The west did became friend with Osama bin Laden and China over Soviet Union, can't say I'm really suprised with their supports towards Falun Gong.

First of all, for an organization that "promotes" democracy in China, the abuse of democracy in any form is completely unacceptable. How can anyone take Falun Gong seriously when they slap the "communist agent" label against dissents is beyond my comprehension...but then again, there was a time when people do take Joe McCarthy seriously, guess the "Red Witch Hunt" never dies.

Second, although the persecution of the Falun Gong under the guise of terrorism is stupid, what's with the ridiculous "persecution of CCP" by Falun Gong? I buy the crime against humanity by CCP, but CCP is bad for spreading the "lies of Darwin"? CCP is bad because it promotes science, which the science suppresses the belief of Taoism? Scientific method is for blind people who can't understand the truth, which the CCP uses to blind the Chinese people? I won't dig into some of the implausible claims by Falun Gong in Chinese politics (for NPOV reasons), but Falun Gong's zeal on fighting CCP by labelling science is evil makes the stupid breaucrats in Beijing look like reasonable adults.

I remember the time when I talk to few Falun Gong members who happened to be my co-workers. I wanted to talk about how to best promote democracy in China, and the benefit between a democracy slowly transformed from dictatorship and a democracy from a quick revolution, the only reponse I got was that I'll be dead if I'm in China and repeated 10 times over. Given that those Falun Gong members' political activism are exceptional during my works with them, this conversation got me thinking, what imaginations does Falun Gong have for China besides killing the CCP? If the CCP are wiped out, do they have a plan or vision to transform China into a democracy? If democracy failed to materialize in China like the failed states all over the world, what are they going to do besides kicking the dead horse and blaming CCP for every evils starting from, and including the original sin? Why are the western democracies taking them seriously when they don't take democracy seriously?

Falun Gong is wronged by CCP, that I cannot deny...but portraying them as the holy knights in the democracy crusade in China is completely childish.

View on China's Ethnic Problems
Chinese government's brutal suppression of the ethnic minorities is completely unacceptable. Yet the funny thing about this issue is that the government's brutal suppression of the ethnic majorites are also unacceptable. Which begges the question, how come Chinese ethnic minorities are portrayed as the victim, while the ethnic majorites are the aggressor, even through they both suffer together?

Those western bleeding heart activists never grasp the root of the problem. China's ethnic problem is not an ethnic problem, it is a government problem. By drawing the government problem along the ethnic lines, they use the government's incompetence to divide the local population, leaving them vulnerable for the government to divide and conquer. Even better, by portraying the suffering ethnic majority as the aggressor, the bleeding heart activists denied themselves the biggest asset on changing the Chinese government while giving Beijing the rare popular supports it needs for the brutal suppression against the ethnic minorities.

But there will be those died hard activist, sometimes outright racist, who believes that since Hans took their homeland, they need to get out. But during the Qing Dynasty, those ethnic minorities are part of China and lived with Hans in peace, what makes people say that Hans should get out? Then those people will go dig up the obscure treaties without Chinese signatures, or untold histories which every half trained historian knew it can be readily manipulated, or say that they are under the protection of some western power during a time when the same western power is also busy dumping opiums in China. All in all, they are arguing that in their opinion, not on facts, that Hans should get out. Well, in my opinion, those people are bigots and idiots who advocates that segregation and intolerance is the best solution in China, all under the guise of the minorities' right to self-determination.

On the topic of the right to self-determination. People will argue that the right to self-determination is a fundamental human right that the Chinese government should respect that with regards to the minorities. Well, that goes back to my first point, if Chinese government is denying human rights to all of its citizens, what makes those activists place the minority right over majority right?

In a final thought, China's ethnic groups, both minority and the majority, should unite and challenge the regime together as oppose to seek independence individually. Only by people's combined strength can everyone's rights be guaranteed. Listening to some bleeding heart activists and divide the people alone ethnic lines will only make the people weaker to the Chinese government.