A heckler from the Falun Gong spiritual movement who disrupted a White House appearance by Chinese President Hu Jintao was charged in federal court on Friday with harassing, intimidating or threatening a foreign official.

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=politicsNews&storyid=2006-04-21T180817Z_01_N21214768_RTRUKOC_0_US-CHINA-USA-PROTESTER.xml&rpc=22

first of all, surely those charges won't hold, will they?

secondly, fucking good for her.

4/21/2006 3:06:22 PM

evidently freedom of speech is illegal in this country as well

4/21/2006 3:13:58 PM

it sickens me how the rest of the world just rolls out the red carpet for them and ignores issues like this.

then again, we cant get by w/o them right now.

4/21/2006 3:14:41 PM

Chances are she won't be taking any trips to China to visit her family anytime soon.

4/21/2006 3:29:20 PM

Politicians aren't scared of you. They'll just do what they want.



And i'd say maybe some need to get capped to get the point accross, but you stupid fuckers would just try to ban guns.

4/21/2006 3:32:40 PM

i actually mentioned that to a friend of mine the other day

the occasional assasination reminded politicians that they weren't untouchable

4/21/2006 4:21:43 PM

im not advocating violent revolution (yet), but some of these folks drive me absolutely nuts.


On the one hand they are so against oppression of free speech (and rightly so)

but on the otherhand they're more than willing to give up the only thing they have to protect that freedom.


All for a false sense of security.

4/21/2006 4:28:52 PM

when china was a young communist country and was fermenting revolution within cambodia, vietnam, latin america etc etc...it was a common assertion that when the masses were willing to fight the most powerful militaries in the world with little more than knives and clubs the governments would be doomed to fall. this proved true in vietnam, and elsewhere. apparently the idiots in charge of china need a small history lesson from mao and friends.

4/21/2006 4:36:17 PM

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"the occasional assasination reminded politicians that they weren't untouchable"

I laughed, but there is some serious merit in that idea

4/21/2006 4:58:18 PM

dont fuck wit the people

4/21/2006 5:37:41 PM

^^^ i dunno man

after tiennamen, i'm not sure too many would rise up

i think they're actually walking the line with their people within china, since their economy has opened up and become more capitalist. it's just politically oppressive at this point.

probably the average citizen is upset but not enough to really do anything.

4/21/2006 5:55:08 PM

I wonder if GWB has ever read books and literature from those who escaped the great leap forward. I'm thinking that's where he gets his policy ideas

4/21/2006 11:09:08 PM

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"charged in federal court on Friday with harassing, intimidating or threatening a foreign official."

foreign official?? ...that murderous little turd of a dictator ..more like it. The heckler should get the medal of freedom.

Does anyone think that GWB had his people set that heckler up in order to send Wu a message?

4/21/2006 11:39:13 PM

She should go to jail.

4/21/2006 11:48:19 PM

it seems like every country has a grip on the us's balls or something

4/22/2006 12:44:27 AM

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"She should go to jail."

For a misdemeanor offence? Utterly rediculous. That would be like sending someone to jail for walking on the grass.

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"The heckler should get the medal of freedom."

I watched the event, I was fairly embarrased by it. I know why she did it, and I would have supported her otherwise, but I didn't feel that time/place was appropriate.

4/22/2006 1:39:13 AM

freedom of speech doesnt give anyone the right to pose as a journalist as a front to verbally assault a visiting head of state during a white house ceremony.

if she has a legitimate issue with the way the president of china runs his country, then she needs to go through the proper channels.

of course, theres only one legitimate channel to the president of china, and that's the STFU Channel.

So, good on her. took some big balls to do that. Yes, what she did was illegal, but it's also called Civil Disobediance.

We used to see that a lot in this country, when we still had balls.

4/22/2006 1:51:47 AM

PMITA Prison

4/22/2006 2:04:40 AM

there is no appropriate time or place to tell a dictator he's wrong

4/22/2006 8:55:32 AM

^
Yes, dictators have feelings too.

4/22/2006 11:01:59 AM

Eh, I give them the right to force her out of the event. Throwing her in jail is way too much. Maybe a fine or something if she does it again.

4/22/2006 10:42:15 PM

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"if she does it again"

Secret Service Agent: "Well, you sure caused an international incident. I guess we're gonna take away your white house press pass."
Falun Gong Woman: "No please, I'm really sorry. I won't do it again. I promise."
Secret Service Agent: "Oh. Okay. If you promise."

really, she should be made to write "i will not heckle the communist leader of the most populous nation on earth" 100 times.

4/22/2006 10:49:49 PM

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"I wonder if GWB has ever read books "

only since I helped him brush up on his reading comprehension

4/23/2006 11:13:11 AM

http://mediamatters.org/items/200604210012

its a stretch by media matters at the best.

4/23/2006 1:01:43 PM

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"there is no appropriate time or place to tell a dictator he's wrong"

4/23/2006 2:47:58 PM