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The Falun Gong practicioners would like for Pasadena not to allow China to enter a float into the Rose Parade, is that right? I am a little bit confused about this, but very interested.

Posted by: Jill | June 28, 2007 10:55 AM

Great read, Todd - always good to read your blog and get the updates. Congrats to Larry Wilson..or as his asteroid is named "larrywilson" (according to the plaque in his office).

Posted by: Aaron Proctor | June 28, 2007 7:33 PM

Hi Jill: I am one of the Falun Gong practitioners who spoke at the council meeting on Monday. I spoke because my mother was arrested last December in Beijing for her practice of Falun Gong. I hope that the city council can help me to rescue my mother, i.e. write to Beijing government and request them to release my mother who is now jailed in Beijing female labor camp. Regarding the Rose Parade, I just want the Mayor and council members to be aware of the serious human rights violation of the Chinese communist regime when they deal with the communist party government. A lot of people think that China has changed. It is no longer a communist regime. It is rising “peacefully”. Internally, the Chinese communist party (CCP) is still persecuting mainstream Chinese people, including Falun Gong and other religious groups, political dissidents, independent journalist, etc. The CCP still tightly controls and censors all media and the Internet. Externally, on May 11, 2006, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the leading research institute of the communist government in the People's Republic of China (PRC), issued the first Yellow Book on Socialism in the World. It laid out the Chinese strategy to spread socialism worldwide and replace the United States as leader of the world in the 21st century. Meanwhile, China’s communist regime intentionally brainwashes the Chinese people with nationalistic and anti-US propaganda through carefully crafted media campaigns. You must have seen the news about contaminated food and drugs from China. Although this is the first time that it has reached Western society, it has been going on in China for years. It is just one manifestation of the moral destruction in China due too decades of CCP rule. Those who believe in “Truth, Compassion and Tolerance are being persecuted, what are the Chinese allowed to believe in? If we keep on ignoring the human rights situation in China, similar problems will come out of China more and more, thus bringing harm back to us.

Posted by: Jenny | June 29, 2007 12:09 PM

Hi Jenny, I would love to email with you directly, and to include information about this on my blog. Could you email me at jilldoughtie@gmail.com?

Posted by: Jill | June 29, 2007 4:50 PM

"Chinese take outs"? That's sensitive. I wonder what the headline would have been for a group of black or Latino speakers.

Posted by: Reader | July 1, 2007 2:41 AM

Uh-oh, Todd, you're "projecting racism". ;-)

Posted by: Aaron Proctor | July 1, 2007 2:12 PM

Brown outs? Black outs? Probably not, because it wouldn't make sense. But certainly Mexican/Cuban/Ethiopian take outs, if it applied to 'take out' excerpts from the meeting on issues with those respective governments.

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