[CTRL] China Says Jump, Seattle Asks How High?

1999-12-06 Thread Das GOAT 

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China says Seattle scraps Falun Gong endorsement

By Matt Pottinger

BEIJING, Dec 2 (Reuters) - The mayor of Seattle has scrapped plans to honour
the leader of the Falun Gong spiritual movement under pressure from China,
Chinese state media said on Thursday.

U.S. followers of Falun Gong said on Monday Seattle Mayor Paul Schell had
agreed to designate days honouring Falun Gong and its Chinese founder, Li
Hongzhi, the China Daily said.

But Chinese Ambassador to the United States Li Zhaoxing, attending World
Trade Organisation talks in Seattle, met Schell and persuaded him to revoke
his endorsement, the newspaper said.

Schell told the ambassador he was ``embarrassed by making such a careless
proclamation,'' the newspaper said in an article titled ``Falun Gong Muffled
in U.S. City.''

He later told the ambassador in a telephone call the endorsement had been
cancelled, the newspaper said. Schell also offered to send a formal letter of
apology to the Chinese government, it added.

Seattle city officials were not immediately available for comment.

China outlawed the popular movement in July after practitioners demanded
government recognition of their faith in a series of bold protests, including
a gathering of 10,000 followers at the central leadership compound in Beijing
in April.

CHINA SEES GRAVE THREAT

China has said the group poses a grave threat to Communist Party rule and
foments social instability by spreading superstitious beliefs.

It has mounted a sweeping campaign against the group and arrested at least
150 of its leaders. Several members have already been jailed for up to 12
years and an unknown number sent without trial to labour camps.

Li Hongzhi founded Falun Gong in China in 1991, but moved to New York six
years ago. He is now China's most wanted man.

Falun Gong mixes elements of Buddhism and Daoism with Chinese physical and
breathing exercises.

Li Hongzhi says adherents can cure diseases and acquire supernatural powers
by harnessing the force of an invisible revolving wheel he places in the
abdomens of followers.

He has railed against a world he sees as corrupted by science and immorality
and near the brink of catastrophe.

U.S. mayors are routinely swamped with requests by groups for honour
proclamations and other forms of official recognition.

Mayor Schell told the Chinese ambassador he knew nothing about Falun Gong
when he signed the order proclaiming ``Falun Dafa and Li Hongzhi days,'' the
China Daily said. Falun Dafa is another name for Falun Gong.

In July, San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown also cancelled a proclamation
honouring Li Hongzhi just days after China banned the group, citing fears the
proclamation ``would be misinterpreted.''

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Re: [CTRL] China Says Jump, Seattle Asks How High?

1999-12-06 Thread TenebrousT 

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In a message dated 12/6/99 6:10:40 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:

 China says Seattle scraps Falun Gong endorsement

  By Matt Pottinger

  BEIJING, Dec 2 (Reuters) - The mayor of Seattle has scrapped plans to
honour
  the leader of the Falun Gong spiritual movement under pressure from China,
  Chinese state media said on Thursday.

Then there is this latest article by I. M. Fatuous of Independant News
Service:

The President has desided to scrpa parts of the Constitution when
visiting Chinese dignitaries displayed their chagrin at the "individual
freedom" that was intended in the document.  The Chinese stated that this
freedom was tantamount to anarchy and did not allow for normal order and
state control which are essential to the running of any good fascist police
state.
The President went on to apologize for having kept such provisions as
freedom of speech for so long a time without considering the consequences.
He went on to beg the Chinese for forgiveness.  In related news the President
has finally reached an unprecedented agreement with the Chinese which he
characterized as "of immense importance to the United States and our National
Security in the years to come".  The Presidet authorized the Chinese Military
to link up with our law enforcement agencies to root out "extremists,
religious wackos, right wing commandos, freethinkers, intellectuals, or 'any
one else having ideas contrary to that of the Central Party Apparat'",
although not yet authorizing the use of deadly force in the apprehension of
such groups the use of Non-Lethal weapons has been authorized.
A spokesman has poo pooed the ideas expressed by some members of
Congress, under requests to remain anonymous, that this represents no threat
to American sovereinty and damages our security.  The spokesman did admit
that technically the Chinese WERE put IN CHARGE and that they have the power
to make all law enforcement decisions, they have nonetheless agreed to abide
by some restrictions that we have placed on them to satisfy some old
fashioned members of the citizenry.  He said he hoped that in the coming
years such restrictions could be lifted and security for the US would be
assured. . . .

**
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"Welcome to the desert of the real."  Morpheus, "The Matrix".

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human
mind to correlate all its contents.
  We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of seas of infinity,
and it is not meant that we should
  voyage far.  The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have
hitherto harmed us little; but someday
  the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying
vistas of reality, and of our
  frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation
or flee from the deadly light into the
  peace and safety of a new dark age."  H.P.Lovecraft; "The Call of Cthulhu"

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