Mark Crispin-Miller – News From the Underground Oct 16, 2022
Check out the lede to this Times piece about the CCP’s swift crackdown on the “chatter” over those two banners posted on the Sitong Bridge. According to the Times reporters, the “column of smoke” above the overpass “drew attention to [the] protester” who’d hung the banners that caused all the online fuss, which China’s “Internet censors” then rushed to “quell.”
China’s Internet Censors Race to Quell Beijing Protest Chatter
October 14, 2022
When a column of smoke appeared on Thursday over the Sitong Bridge overpass in the Haidian district of Beijing, it drew attention to a protester who had hung banners openly bashing China’s top leader by name and criticizing the country’s “zero Covid” policy, including one calling for “freedom and not lockdowns.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/14/world/asia/china-internet-protest-xi-jinping.html
Not to be pedantic, but that “column of smoke” did not “draw attention to the protester,” who was (of course) no longer there. What the smoke did “draw attention to” was those two banners which said dissident had hung before s/he fled the scene, being eager not to “draw attention” in the act.
Since the Times is, nowadays, a badly edited and, therefore, poorly written paper, that stupid lede was surely unintentional; although it does betray a certain odd unwillingness to focus on the content of those banners, which, except for one wee snippet (“freedom and not lockdowns”), the Gray Lady’s minions failed to translate for her (ever-dwindling) Western readership.
Here, then, is the translation that the Times did not provide (but that a former student sent one of my colleagues):
“No Covid test, we want to eat. No restrictions, we want freedom. No lies, we want dignity. No Cultural Revolution, we want reform. No leaders, we want votes. By not being slaves, we can be citizens.”
“Go on strike at school and work, remove dictator and national traitor Xi Jinping.”
Why, then, no full translation in the Times? Did its editors consider one not “fit to print” because it doesn’t really matter what the protest said? Or did they decide that that full protest wasn’t “fit to print” because it matters greatly, and not just to the Chinese people? After all, would not that first, and longer, protest resonate with millions in the world’s “democracies,” who also want not to be slaves, but citizens, respected by their governments? Perhaps somebody at the Times (or CIA) did not want that full protest sparking “protest chatter” over here (and elsewhere in the West)—“chatter” which our “Internet censors” would then have to “quell.”
Was that full protest translated anywhere? If so, please let us know. In any case, let’s do our best to share it far and wide.
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There have been several attempts at liberating China from the grip of cultural ownership and ideological conditioning for decades. The spell Is wearing off.
Whenever I see something like this from China, I immediately recall Justin Trudeau’s words that communist China is the model nation of the world.
The people who hung this banner if they were caught would likely be hung in the same way. Here we see that there is real resistance even in one of the most repressive nations on earth, where the resistors simply want openness to the facts, so there can be freedom from all of the government deceptions, fear and oppression, and basic reform so that there can be integrity in their government.
As we know, this corrupt and oppressive communist government in China is little different from any of the murderous regimes of the West which helped carry out all of the Covid crimes ordered by their masters, and which governments are still coercing their people to take their toxic jabs. In fact, all of our governments are a part of a huge globalist network controlled mainly by money and the mainstream media networks in each nation.
The Xi government has reverently declared to chip all of its people for absolute control their every move. That is exactly what our own governments are also trying to impose on us. Either fundamental reform on how we are governed or revolution.
THANKS ! it is important to know that
the chinese people are on our side !
If you are able to straighten the image out on your computer, you can put the image into one of many image / text translators. It will show you what the Biden Regime does NOT want the American public to see.