I never blogged about last week’s idiotic story about dangerous Chinese terrorists slipping into the US to set off a dirty bomb in Boston. Everything about it smelled right from the beginning, and I’m delighted to see the whole thing exposed as a hoax. It’s a great example of our terrorism hysteria, where all you have to do is whisper the T-word and journalists will eat up whatever BS you try to sell them.
January 26, 2005
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By j.j.
Terrorism hysteria.
I hope I won’t see you and many other people attack Bush administration for lack of prevision if another attack happens.
Regards.
January 26, 2005 @ 10:48 am | Comment
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By richard
jj, we should all be concerned and diligent about terrorism. We should never be hysterical, because hysteria leads to bad judgement, hasty decisions and sloppiness. Just look at this terrorism hoax — if we allow every idiotic hoax to make us go nuts, the real terrorists will have it easy, we’ll be so over-extended. I’m glad you believe in hysteria — it was pretty obvious from the start.
January 26, 2005 @ 12:07 pm | Comment
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By j.j.
Until last sentence I agreed with you, Then the insult.
Is it the new trend of this blog? To be kind toward intolerants and insulting toward the others…
January 26, 2005 @ 12:20 pm | Comment
4
By richard
Sorry for the insult, but your last few posts have really pissed me off (“Your Marxist friends, Richard”). So if you are going to antagonize and taunt, don’t be surprised to get some of it thrown back at you. Visitors here know I rarely insult, and that you have to try hard to get me annoyed. Congratulations on your persistence.
January 26, 2005 @ 12:27 pm | Comment
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By bellevue
31 US marines killed in Iraq helicopter crash
Responding this is major headline, sina.com.cn has 65 pages of reaction in less than 12 hours. A verbatim translation of every posts of the earliest 30 minutes is as follows:
Just watched Fahrenhite/911. Too miserable for G.I.s. US government is pervert.
Too good!
very good, wonderfull. (original in English)
Sofa (Chinese online jargon: great show, let’s sit down and enjoy)
Good!
Why? Good if it’s due to Iraqi attack.
What cause? Not under attack.
haha, deserve it!
I think it’s God’s hand. Good! Invader’s deserve.
One word: Good!
Cool!
Ah! 31 gold medals!
Too good!
My condolence …
Blast!
Great joy, retaliation
Great, sofa!
Poor quality copter
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA, so cool
good
Great joy
American ghosts go to hell
Cool, better all Americans die
Mouring the martyrs! Hope US soldiers eliminate terrosists.
Present for election, present for (Condi) Rice
So happy to learn the news
Too good, the deadlies hahaha
31 marines! Great loss
War makes dead, no surprise. More died in Korean War
Ok
You probably won’t be so sad when your daddy dies (reply to “My condolence …”)
This is sad, but if you stay back at home in the US, how could this happen?
Best if they were shot down!
A long way to New Year’s Day, and Iraqis don’t eat pork, what if they (bodies) are rotten?
Too careless, those G.I.s
Nonsense (reply to “what cause, not under attack”)
Very good, congrats, una mas!
Welcome, welcome, all China welcomes!
Viva, Viva, viva the Iraqis!
Praise (reply to “Just watched Fahrenhite 911. Too misrable for G.I.s.”)
Hard to say (reply to “American better go home, remember Vietnam”)
Praise (reply to “Great joy”)
31 lives destroyed by Bush. G.I.s, go home!
Wonderful if it’s 310 thousand!
The sina comment page is here.
January 26, 2005 @ 6:55 pm | Comment
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By bellevue
j.j.
Just for your information, when I alluded to Karl Marx for his resentmant to Prussia censorship, I got punished by my high school teacher right away.
And in more recent years, dissenting protesters were detained and prosecuted in Shenyang and Hongzhou for alleged Marxist views. I think even Mark can’t be too open with his Marxist analysis when teaching in China. The heaven for him would be Harvard, Yale or UC Berkeley.
China is now run by Stalinists pushing a nationalist agenda. Marx would roll in grave seeing those self-proclaiming Marxists.
January 26, 2005 @ 7:03 pm | Comment
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By bingfeng
enjoy Mr. B’s another work in Daiwai and, my comments on his “accomplishment”:
http://blog.bcchinese.net/bingfeng/archive/2005/01/27/8751.aspx
January 26, 2005 @ 8:35 pm | Comment
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By Bingfeng Tea House
Mr. B works hard
Mr. B works hard
January 26, 2005 @ 8:36 pm | Comment
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By Bingfeng Tea House
Mr. B works hard
Mr. B works hard
January 26, 2005 @ 11:22 pm | Comment
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By salty
I like j.j. He acts nasty and if someone acts nasty in return, accuses them of being intolerant and insulting. Read your own posts, j.j., and see if they express the kind of respect you seem to believe is due to you. As the Bible says, do unto others . . .
January 27, 2005 @ 12:09 am | Comment
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By ACB
In Britain, the IRA and its opponents often caused more havoc making bomb hoaxes than they did by planting actual bombs.
Once a terrorist group in Britain managed to get a major horse racing event called off (A big Horse race in Britain is like the superbowl in the US), which cost betting shops a fortune, disrupted television schedules, blocked roads, cost the security services a packet, and panicked half a million people. They did it all with a single telephone. They didn’t even need to get off of their couches.
Imagine what would have happened if somebody called New York PD during the morning rush hour and said that there was a bomb on the metro. It would paralyse the city and cost businesses millions of dollars, and it would require no terrorist experties at all.
If real terrorists want to hurt America, then they can do it by making hoaxes that the CIA and FBI can’t afford to ignore. Responding to hoaxes costs millions of dollars and get the US nowhere, its almost as damaging to the America’s moral and economy as an actual attack, but with a fraction of the risk.
Remember, for every federal agent that you tie up on a wild goose chase, there is one less person to hunt you.
January 27, 2005 @ 1:35 am | Comment
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By ACB
Bellevue, yes, nice list of anti American phrases, what exactly is your point?
January 27, 2005 @ 1:40 am | Comment
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By bellevue
ACB:
You now know their existence. That’s the point.
Disclaimer: The sina.com is a not a scientific poll, nor is it intended to be one. Sina is just the most visited portal site in China.
January 27, 2005 @ 2:33 am | Comment
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By JR
“31 US marines killed in Iraq helicopter crash
Responding this is major headline, sina.com.cn has 65 pages of reaction in less than 12 hours. A verbatim translation of every posts of the earliest 30 minutes is as follows:
Just watched Fahrenhite/911. Too miserable for G.I.s. US government is pervert.
Too good!
very good, wonderfull. (original in English)
Sofa (Chinese online jargon: great show, let’s sit down and enjoy)
Good!
Why? Good if it’s due to Iraqi attack.
What cause? Not under attack.
haha, deserve it!
I think it’s God’s hand. Good! Invader’s deserve.
One word: Good!
Cool!
Ah! 31 gold medals!
Too good!
My condolence …
Blast!
Great joy, retaliation
Great, sofa!
Poor quality copter
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA, so cool
good
Great joy
American ghosts go to hell
Cool, better all Americans die
Mouring the martyrs! Hope US soldiers eliminate terrosists.
Present for election, present for (Condi) Rice
So happy to learn the news
Too good, the deadlies hahaha
31 marines! Great loss
War makes dead, no surprise. More died in Korean War
Ok
You probably won’t be so sad when your daddy dies (reply to “My condolence …”)
This is sad, but if you stay back at home in the US, how could this happen?
Best if they were shot down!
A long way to New Year’s Day, and Iraqis don’t eat pork, what if they (bodies) are rotten?
Too careless, those G.I.s
Nonsense (reply to “what cause, not under attack”)
Very good, congrats, una mas!
Welcome, welcome, all China welcomes!
Viva, Viva, viva the Iraqis!
Praise (reply to “Just watched Fahrenhite 911. Too misrable for G.I.s.”)
Hard to say (reply to “American better go home, remember Vietnam”)
Praise (reply to “Great joy”)
31 lives destroyed by Bush. G.I.s, go home!
Wonderful if it’s 310 thousand!
The sina comment page is here.
Posted by bellevue at January 26, 2005 06:55 PM ”
Just another example of typical bellevue’s manipulation of data to advance his “Chinese are evil” agenda.
January 27, 2005 @ 6:47 am | Comment
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By Plum Blossoms
Did We Scare Ya?
Trying to rationally deal with that sick feeling (relief? disgust?)from knowing that the whole Chinese Boston terror plot thing was a big hoax.
January 27, 2005 @ 11:29 am | Comment
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By ACB
Bellevue
Right, now that I know that a small number of the 1.3 billion people in China don’t like America, please explain how it relates to this post.
January 27, 2005 @ 8:05 pm | Comment
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By bellevue
ACB:
It reveals a facet of real Chinese life, just in the same way as a few persons got beaten up by Chinese government. It gave you an important angle.
January 27, 2005 @ 10:43 pm | Comment