Subject: Two protection letters to CBS

From: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 24 May 94 10:11:14 CDT

Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 03:26:36 GMT
>From: Xiao Hong Wang <[email-masked]>
Subject: A Protesting Letter to Connie Chung
Message-ID: <30940524032403/[email-masked]>

In addition to IFCSS's collective action against CBS, I think everyone
should do something individually in the meanwhile. Since we have got the
fax # and email address of Connie Chung and the address of CBS president,
we should all send a complain letter to them, just to let them know that
not only IFCSS's president has a "deep concern", but everybody who has
a chinese origin are angry.

So I just did that. Here is the letter I sent to them:

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Dear Ms. Connie Chune:

I watched your CBS news report on a chinese spy on May 19th and I was very
upset about your comments in the report.  Your comments are sending a
misleading message to the America that every people who has a chinese origin
is a potential spy. It is totally untrue and irresponsible.

Can you say that every American in China is a potential spy because a CIA
agent has been found in Beijing? Can you say every anglo-Amercan is a
potential racist because one white man was found painting anti-Semitic
graffiti in public place? Can you say that everyone African-American is a
potential rapist because one black man was found guilty of raping?  No! Any
sound-minded person would not think so and would not say, or even suggest
such viciously irresponsible, racial-hatred provoking comments.

All the people with a chinese origin whom I know have a deep love and sincere
respect for this country. They treasure human rights this country entitle
them to have, which they were deprived of in many other parts of the world.
Many of them have even become an US citizen or a permanent resident, just as
you and your parents did before. Now your comments in that CBS news report
has put me and all other people who has a chinese origin in a trial stand
and made all of us look guilty of spying without a chance of defending
ourselves. We feel that we have been alienated from American society and we
have been terribly violated of all of our rights by your allusive comments.
The image of the hard-working and law-abiding model minority community has
suddenly been distorted as a "potential spy" community.

The damage your comments has done is serious and beyond estimate. How many
jobs will be affected because of the "spying" suspecion? How many people
will be rejected of employment because of this rediculus allegation? How many
children will grow up in a hostile shadow of this "spying" hallucination? How
much racial hatred and distrust will grow due to this irresponsible allusion?
How many families have been beried in grief since May 19th? ...

I am sad, Ms Connie Chune! I am sad and indignant. I demand an apology for
what you said in May 19th CBS news report. I believe that I and all people
who believe in human rights deserve an apology from you and CBS.

Sincerely,

Xiaohong Wang
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Date: Mon, 23 May 1994 21:08:48 -0500 (CDT)
>From: Muguang Wu <[email-masked]>
To: remote-printer.Connie.Chune/[email-masked]
Subject: Gross Generalization in Your May 19 Report on Chiniese Spies

Ms. Constance Chune/CBS:

I strongly protest your gross generalization in your report on May 19
CBS evening news. It is a utterly irresposible act by CBS News. Surely
there are some Chinese spies in this country and even one of the closest
allies of the U.S. spied in this country. However your gross generalization
that every ordinary Chinese who residents in this countries could be a spy
is utterly unfair.

Indeed, in theory no one knows one hundred percent if his next door
immigrant neighbor or co-worker is a spy for a foreign government, but
even to imply that hundreds of thousands of Chinese here are protential
spies for the Chinese government is outrageous. Do you dare to say that
every non-U.S. citizen Jew in this country is a protential spy for the
Israeli goverment? Do you think every Cuban in Florida is a potential spy
for the Cuban government? How about a Russian? A Chinese is a potential spy
just because he is from China? Yes, how do we know Ms. Chune or one of her
family members is not a spy for the Chinese goverment since the Chune
family was originally from China (just because they were Nationalist)? I
strongly hope that CBS will not again resort to sensationalism in its news
report as it did on May 19. CBS News owes the Chinese community here an
apology.

Sincerely,

Muguang Wu

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From: [email-masked] (Xiao-Liang Xu)
Date: Tue, 24 May 94 11:17:40 CDT

It is Connie Chung, not Connie Chune!

Some people must have never watched CBS.