From: [email-masked] (Mi Mi)
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 93 10:09:24 CDT

A netter wrote:

/   Mi Mi Sr.,
/   IFCSS Council had ordered the headquarter to stop doing
/   anything about the Lads. That is real? It looks real. IFCSS is so quiet 
/   on LADS. If so, the current IFCSS Council made a big mistake. Could you, 
/   MI MI Sr, ask IFCSS Council what is happened?   Thanks!
/   S.H.

Mi Mi Sr. had learned this two months ago, and had been trying his best to call
up IFCSS Council members and e-mail them with the current situations and
analysis, including all the development regarding the undocumented Chinese
well before anyone realized the real impact of it on the LC. He even asked the
Council to hook him up for the teleconference, which the Council had invited
LC net Chairman to participate. Unfortunately, Mi Mi Sr. had been told that
if he wanted to audit the teleconference, he had to pay from his own pocket,
and without a chance to voice the concern of the lads. It is understandable
that the LC had not been well represented in the IFCSS before, so to shift the
weight towards the LC is the eventual outcome and natural development of
the IFCSS. But, in this particular case, to shut up the EC's voice realy
hurts LC's best interests. Mi Mi Sr. is at the most a lobbist to the IFCSS
organization, he does not belong to any organization except the Lad-Net
Committee, which is a volunteer network group. So he has no mandate to do
anything inside IFCSS. EC do have representatives inside IFCSS. A netter
posted his experience in contacting with IFCSS, and the V.P., an EC, did pay
attention to him. But, as a democratic organization, number does speak itself.
Even though, some lc-l members want to see the downfall of the IFCSS! It
really does not make any sense to me!
                                               
As a matter of fact, Mi Mi Sr. has been auditing the IFCSS Council's
e-mail conference for a quite long time since earlier August, and kept
communication with various members. To his surprise, many members who
realy made the decision were shocked by the arguments Mi Mi Sr. had presented
them, and wanted to investigate further more. Neverthereless, it was too
late.

Well, we are human beings. Human beings make mistakes. IFCSS Council
wants to serve the whole CSS community, not EC in particular. They have
good intention towards all the parties, we shall appreciate this. For the
past and current terms, IFCSS has been trying her best to serve CSS
in general. Those guys are the same as you and me, a foreign student
studying aboard. They spare their precious time to serve us all. Even
though there are many interest groups inside CSS, basically, we are all
seeking a better life in this land. As a matter of fact, just ask yourself,
how many of YOU had contributed to the CSPA lobbying activity? Even though
the lads are yours, what have YOU done to solve the lads problem? When
everyone is happy to reap the harvest, how many cared the crops before
the harvest? Not many. Our current survey shows a very sad tendency
of free-lunchnism. So, please do not blame anyone indide or outside IFCSS.
If you are happy with your green card, please make some little contribution
to the IFCSS. IFCSS's CSPA efforts have saved you thousands dollars and 
troubles. If you are not happy with the CSPA, just think if there had not 
been CSPA, how many more CSS would have lined up in China's EB-2 and EB-3 
in front of you? Assumming all of those EC's are garbages who can not find 
a decent job and get their green cards is a purely fantasy. Please think 
about this. Please DO NOT always demand MORE. If everyone demands more than
he contributes, then this CSS community has absolutely NO future.

As Mi Mi Sr. remembers, he recieved much less insult than those IFCSS
guys. One reason for this is the previous censorship of the lads-net. Some
such messages tried to get through the posting address but were bounced back
to their senders. Some other insulting messages did get through other public
nets. Basically, Mi Mi Sr. is not a big target for anybody. But the insulting
messages were realy disencouraging. Every body should remember how many such
messages have been posted on the public net, and everybody could imagin how 
those IFCSS guys would feel about it? 

IFCSS needs your support, guys!

Mi Mi Sr.

In New York City