There's money in th'am th'ar hills especially when it comes to China and China bashing. The imagery of those little yellow demons operating dungeons and water-torture reinforces all the stereotypical racist pictures many Western gweillos hold about the yellow people.
For over two decades, the gweillo human rights lobby in the West, bent on demonizing China, has relied on one Harry Wu, the "icon" of supposed exiled Chinese dissidents who sought political assylum in the West.
Harry Wu, it appears, is still around, kicking and still alive. And his new cause has now been hitched to the new "cause celebre" of Zizang, aka Tibet.
Some years back, Harry Wu proclaimed himself as an alumnus of China's Gulag prison system. Supported by a publicist and riding on the Post-Tiananmen China-demonization campaign mounted from the West, Harry Wu went about publicizing his alleged 20-year stint in the dark dungeons of China's prisons, being subjected to "lao gai," i.e. the psycho-brutalizing experience of being subjected to "brain-washing" under the most draconian conditions, where prison guards act as clones of Marquis de Sade.
Never mind that nobody has bothered to vet his story, or that there were any factual bases nor truths or veracity to his version of and "spin" to his alleged "lao gai" experience.Nobody, least of all the Western shills in the mainstream Western press, would bother to check or verify the story. It is just good business; besides, it reinforces what the West has known all along and conjured up in their warped minds about the Chinese and China.
For the Western gweillos, the stereotypical imagery of "Fu Manchu" and all the sinister, sneaky, squinty-eyed yellow tormentors amplified by Hollywood movies, and the devilish "yellow horde" was enough to reinforce and validate their worst fears about China and its people, especially its communist officials.
Never mind that Harry Wu unabasedly was getting financial support from the AFL-CIO, the American labor movement hell-bent on destabilizing China because of the perceived threat of cheap Chinese labor flooding the American market with "prison-made" goods, thus adversely impacting the highly-paid American workers, and in turn destabilizing the American labor movement apparatus.
Never mind that Harry Wu's Lao Gai Museum in Washington D.C. is housed under a building belonging to the AFL-CIO, it pays to be a China basher, and to pass oneself off as a Chinese dissident.
Not unlike Alexander Solzhenitzin, until his disillusionment over his spiritually vapid life in exile in the state of Vermont, the Soviet dissident wrote about the Soviet Gulag, which endeared him to the WEST and the naive gweillos.
Ultimately, Mr. Solzhenitzin saw that he was being "used" by the West, as a prop, as their poster boy in the service of the Western "human rights" special interest lobby.
Lately, the "menu du jour" of the Western human rights lobby has shifted from China's prison systems, organ harvesting, etc. towards the issue of Zizang, aka Tibet, and the political monk with a separatist/ secessionist agenda passing off in the guise of "autonomy."
Gweillos have this fanatical devotion to a fantasy 'Shangri-la," that far-away spiritual land which serves as a "crutch" apart from the spiritual vapid and morally decaying lives many Western gweillos live under in the West and especially in America.
Talk about the Dalai Lama, and the Western gweillos oozes over in a blind worship of this Demi-God who can do no long, thread water, and levitate like those Holy men only seen in Hollywood movies.
The opportunist that he is and continues to be, Harry Wu saw that it is timely and politically expedient to jump onto the Team Tibet-Shangri-la "bandwagon."
The Western gweillos would like nothing better than to see a Han 'Chinese dissident' in the person of Harry Wu joining the "cause celebre" of the Dalai Lama and their maniacal-fanatical quest for Shangri-la.
What a crock of "mi-tian-kung," now that Harry Wu has jumped onto the bandwagon and lend the Dolly a hand by promoting and hyping up an Exhibit in his Lao Gai Museum in the heart of America's capital, Washington D.C.
Click on the link below on the latest adventure of Harry Wu, the poster boy of China's human rights lobby in the West:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iF1o9kBRmGexGmc-1bI3H1RPjOEQ
