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作者：Anonymous 在 罕见奇谈 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org
Dear Dad,
For the last few weeks, the Chinese have been engaging in massive protests against Japanese falsification of history and religious reverence for convicted war criminals. This first started with tens of thousands of Chinese rioters trashing the outside of the Japanese embassy in Peking and breaking the windows of the residence of the Japanese ambassador in this city.
During the second weekend, Beijing was kept under iron control but the protesters targeted the Japanese Consulates in Shenzhen, Shanghai and held massive demonstrations over the rest of the country.
Typical behaviour besides racist/nationalistic posters and burning of the Japanese flag were appeals for the Japanese to honestly face their own history and that Japan should not be allowed into the Security Council until it has done so.
More violent actions involved beating up (two) Japanese students unfortunate enough to be in China and throwing rocks, garbage, paint bags and excrement at diplomatic symbols of Japan. This activity also included trashing Japanese advertising billboards, autos and restaurants. All rather reminiscent of the 1920's campaigns for boycott of Japanese products with the Youth League of the Communist Party taking on the role of the KMT of (perhaps) orchestrating things. In any case, if there is one thing that unites the Mainland Chinese, it is their hatred of Japan. The CCP had to strike a balance between allowing such demos and not allowing these issues to spread to other areas of contention. Thus, for this reason the Party has clamped down this weekend...
About a week ago I was informed that the Chinese would be demonstrating in Dusseldorf (the provincial capital of North-Rhine Westphalia. So I informed the people in a Chinese forum that I would probably be taking part in this. In 1999, I did not take part in the anti-American demonstrations held after we bombed the Chinese embassy (I might have gotten beat up), but I figured that there would be little moral problem with demonstrating against an ally of my country: after all, the Japanese are clearly in the wrong with their falsified text books.
Then I had fun during the week "innocently" asking Chinese people if they would be taking part in the demo and then laughingly accusing them of "race treason" if they said they were too busy. Chinese are similar to Germans in the 1930's in their racial pride; thus in a sense I was playing with fire...
Saturday morning after advising a freshly baked Catholic that he might want to wait a few years before joining Opus Dei, I realized that I could not do any more philosophical meditation (preparing a speech about Locke) so I went down to buy a Doener (Turkish pizza). It must have been about 12:00 when I got to the place where one waits for the subway. There I saw a Chinese man who seemed to know whom I was (remember I post my photo in the Internet to prove my "whiteness" and to make myself a security risk for our Empire) so I laughingly asked him if he was a patriot. On his reply that yes, he was going to the demonstration, with slight hesitation I accepted his invitation to come along. The way I figured it was even thought this was excellent weather, I was not about to go ALONE (too boring) to Düsseldorf (and too embarrassing if no one came from Bochum) but doing this in company of Chinese who knew me would make the time pass like a breeze.
In total, about 20 people came from Bochum: roughly 2% of the students here. Most had their student IDs because this meant free transportation for the hour+ ride to Dusseldorf, but no one besides me had thought to bring their passports. This was not wise, for if things had gotten violent, then most of them would have been arrested for not having a valid identity card with them. Nor did people exchange telephone numbers so that those arrested would be quickly able to leave administrative detention. (Under the law in this province, people can be held up to 24 hours if their identity cannot be determined.)
However, I did not emphasize this factor as I did not want to spoil their good mood. They were puzzled as to why I was taking part in this demonstration. My answer that I *usually* have different political opinions than them seemed to amuse them highly: most of them knew me from the pro-Chinese democracy postings that I have put in the Bochum Chinese forum.
Getting to Dusseldorf, we made up a crowd of what eventually was about 350 people from all of the province (when someone said on her cell phone that there were about 200, she was quickly corrected by a concerned but motherly activist).
We were surrounded by a crowd of extremely grim looking German border paramilitary police. "Grim" is an understatement: some of these soldiers looked like they wanted to kill us. Found out later why: they were all pumped up about being sprayed by machine gunfire earlier in the morning. It seems that the jewelry thieves then blew up their first car on a Rhine bridge to impede pursuit and then fled over the Dutch border. While no one was injured, the paramilitaries (who are present on all German train stations and airports - just think of American Nazi films to get the idea) were probably not pleased to be in the role of shepherding a mass of non-Aryans carrying hundreds of small Communist flags and seven or eight giant red banners.
Germans are extremely allergic of signs of nationalism in any sort or manner and the sign of hated communism (remember: we are in West Germany) blocking the traffic probably did nothing to improve their spirits.
On the other hand the Chinese seemed real pleased to have a pale face among them (there was only one other honky marching along: his Chinese wife lead him by the hand in a metaphorical sense) but were not exactly satisfied that I refused to carry a poster denouncing the crimes of the Japanese or carry a PRC flag. All the same, they took innumerable pictures of me: I imagine that I am now all over the net saluting behind Red Chinese banners. No problem here: this may cause the FBI to get interested in me but will cause Military Intelligence to spurn the idea of forcing me to become a spy should the draft be reinstated.
As to the idea of me carrying a Commie flag, I simply smiled and pointed to the discrete flag of the Republic of China (Taiwan) on my cap. Since they were convinced that this was the KMT party flag, I did not disabuse them of this notion...
The march went down from the Dusseldorf Main Train Station along the Japanese Street to the Consulate. To make the parade look longer and not to overly hamper traffic, we were asked to go in rows of three. Yellow Guards (distinguishable by the yellow cloth bands on their arms reading roughly "Preparation Committee" kept for order and fired the marchers on to periodic chants and songs against the Japanese. Some people in the ranks also would shout out a slogan (mostly nonviolent) and the others would follow up on this. My contribution to this was to translate some of the peaceful slogans into simple German so that the (sparse) spectators could understand what was going on. Simple slogans, because some of the marchers had problems with German. However, publicity was hampered by two factors: first: most of the potential German spectators were probably at the machine gunfire crime site and the megaphones used by the Chinese were of pretty lousy quality: one had to be pretty close to hear what was going on. (About five years ago, I took part in an other demonstration against Neo-Nazis and they made a respectable noise.)
The march started out with about 30 paramilitaries in five police vans behind us, about two or three police men on the side for traffic control and an indefinite number of police vans in front of us.
I deliberately stayed at the back of the demonstration because when one got to the Japanese Consulate, it would be easier to walk away if things got violent: one would be on the outside.
Since all the people from Bochum also collected at the back of the parade, this made things less embarrassing for me: I was getting stares from the security forces and passerbys who were probably wondering what the heck this dwarf Aryan was doing among the Reds.
However, things remained peaceful (about 50% of the protesters were female) and the number of paramilitaries (armed with pistols, body armor and electric shock guns) decreased to about twenty people people when we arrived at the Japanese Consulate. Near the end of the demonstration in front of the Consulate (one could hardly hear the speeches) they were joined by about five German police(wo)men (distinguishable by their khaki uniforms as opposed to the green paramilitaries with kepi) possibly because five Chinese people went into the embassy to give whoever was there a protest letter. Since the Consulate is not open on Saturday, perhaps they found a janitor...
During this whole time, the Chinese were extremely careful to behave themselves: at least where they could be understood. About four songs were beat out: the national anthem, and the Internationale (?) (both which most people knew) the Yellow River 1940's war song: - and "We will chop off the heads of the Japanese devils". They had to give up on the last song after a few lyrics because no one knew the words.
However, it should be stated until a Aryan student of Japanese culture began to intellectually heckle them, they were in an excellent mood and even the threats against the Japanese were done in a laughing manner. Certainly, the Japanese tourists who came by were not harassed in any manner.
The German guy in a fine Lenin leather cap who started posing difficult questions to the Chinese seemed not to be particularly intellectually honest but more interested in confrontation with the Chinese than in intellectual exchange. He basically asked in a somewhat sneering manner why the Chinese did not protest for democracy. (He already knew the answers to all the questions he posed.) He ended up "debating" with about six different Chinese about Taiwan, Tibet, Tian'anmen, etc., and in a culturally specific sense made the Chinese look somewhat like fools. (This was being taped for German radio: none of this demonstration has appeared on TV or in the Internet.)
He was quite irritated by the flags of course, and the rhythmatic shouting of slogans (most of which he fortunately could not understand) lead to him feeling that this was a purely nationalistic demonstration and contrary to the claims of the posters had nothing to do with human rights, etc.
As to which, I had to mostly agree with him. As I said to him later, after the Chinese went away in pretended disgust (he was chewing gum while talking about the Nanking massacre and thus "disrespectful",) this rally was similar to those in the 1930's held in Germany against the mistreatment of Germans in the Sudetenland and Poland. In any case, I gave him my email so that I could send him the addresses of some German-Chinese chat sites so that he could discuss these affairs with ANONYMOUS Chinese - no way he was going to get an open answer in public where the Chinese might have to fear represailles from their compatriots and government.
What I figure is that he is going to irritate the heck out of the Chinese, but since he only knows Japanese, they can improve their reading skills while debating with him.
As said before, the Chinese were extremely anxious not to get in trouble with the German military (to be honest, these people looked so threatening that I was careful to avoid eye contact - even before they started filming us.) This went so far that when refreshments were handed out, the same people went around later to collect the garbage personally from each person. And the Chinese deposited their flags and banners in a pile in front of the Consulate rather than taking them back to the train station: after all the permit for the march was probably only TO the consulate.
I could not find the group I went with so I memorized Chinese handwriting on a slow train back to Bochum. In any case, quite an interesting event. While my ethnic origin will be probably be utilized to indicate to the Chinese that "we have friends all over the world" (the Chinese often suffer from a cultural inferiority complex) this will have the personal advantage for me that their hatred towards a guy who supports the democratic part of China will lessen. The only thing that makes me morally uneasy about the whole thing is that the CCP is now using the demonstrations to put pressure on Japan to back down on their pledge to help the Republic of China in the advent of an attack from the Beijing regime. Thus, I will probably not be taking part in any more such "human rights" demos.
Love,
stephen
作者：Anonymous 在 罕见奇谈 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org |
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