Subject: [[email-masked]: CBS Incident Committee has been established]

From: [email-masked] (Mi Mi)
Date: Mon, 30 May 94 20:40:15 CDT

Subject:      CBS Incident Committee has been established

Welcome to the fcbs-l. This listserv is dedicated to serve the general
CSS community who are angered by biased CBS evening news, "Eye on
America", aired on May 19 1994. As a more or less silent minority in
this land, we Chinese have long been the best target of injustice,
wrongfully stereotype and racial discrimination. Last year, when Golden
Venture went aground, the exposure was pushed to its maximum. No one
asked how many Chinese actually had illegally entered U.S.A. compared to
the other nationalities. The fact is, although New York City has the
highest concentration of illegal Chinese population in the country,
however, its illegal Chinese population ranks barely tenth in the City.
The leading illegal immigrant group, however, is from a European
country, and no body wants to mention it at all. Further more, the
media, intended or not, has portrayed Chinese communities as filled with
gangs, kidnappings, people smuggling and slave labors. While we admit
there are crimes in our community just as in any other communities,
however, most Chinese are law abiding people and more often than not are
victims of various criminal groups.

Now came the CBS report. While the previous hot topic was focused on
illegal Chinese, it seemed that we legal Chinese were exempted from the
biased attack. No way! Legally entered? You are potential spies for the
Chinese government! Are these claims made by Connie Chung the truth? Not
likely.

Now, the CBS made a blatant allegation that any ordinary Chinese could
be a potential spy. It is said that Beijing is the starting point. When
"A Chinese student or scientist or businessperson applies for a visa to
go to the US. Then the Ministry of State Security starts asking
questions: What can you learn in the States? Will you be working with
computers? Will you be loyal to China? And most importantly, can you be
patient?" What is the fact? Such a spy was caught when stealing American
secrets for China. He was portrayed as "Chen di yu", or, "sleeper
agents". His name is Kao Yen Men, who came to the US "twenty-three years
ago". Twenty-three years ago? It was then 1971, when there was no
diplomatic relation between China and US. Chinese students, scientists
and businessmen began arriving in US in 1978, more than seven years
later than Mr. Kao Yen Men ever did. This Mr Kao, even might not be a
Chinese national. Even so, most of the Chinese students and scientists
were J-1 visa holders, or exchange visitors, who were subject to the
vigorously imposed "two-year-home-residency" requirement by US
Intelligence Agency and Immigration And Naturalization Service. There
was no way for these potential "fish" even to think of the "bottom". By
deliberately putting Mr. Kao's isolated case together with ordinary Chinese
people, CBS was implying that the later could be all potential spies.
How to control this army of spies? "Ministry of State Security  will be
watching their family members in China". So, no one can refuse to work
as a spy. They wait to be contacted even it is against their wills. So,
CBS is inspiring a wild imagination. Any Chinese, no matter how innocent
he/she looks or is, could be a potential spy. How come? they have family
members in China, and patient to wait. They have to.

Can we tolerate this kind of allegation? Can you? Please join our fcbs-l
network. Please join our CBS Incident Committee, and fight any
discrimination against we Chinese people. Justice must be served and our
names must be cleared. We will resort to any actions appropriate to the
last ditch. Legal actions, protestings, demonstrations!

United, we stand.
United, we can fight discrimination.
United, we must make a difference!

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