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I have recently watched an interview on Larry King live, and one thing stuck out at me is something the interviewee said, the reason a lot of Americans don't support the current Health care reforms is because they consider it socialist/communist..., really?
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/23009/
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/24538/
Btw, John Liu won his election in NY.
I don't get it.
I've lived in the US for 5 - 6 yrs, but I haven't had the chance to visit it for a while now. I thought I had a good feel of some of the sentiments of the country, but I guess I've been out of it for too long. Are Americans really anti-socialist/communist? Or is that just a misunderstanding? Are people really against Health Care Reform because it's socialist/communist?
Edit to add: a quote to emphasize a pt.
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/23009/
NEW YORK—An extraordinary scene played out in Comptroller candidate John Liu's city council district in May 2008.
A young man pushes his way into an angry crowd to rescue his lone friend. The chants of “traitor” ringing in his ears disturb him as he hears his friend being denounced as a political enemy.
“I started to pull him out—which seemed to anger some of people in the mob,” said Zenon Dolnyckyj. “They began to hit and kick and punch both of us. My friend ended up with a bloody ear and I was kicked in the back of the legs, kneed in the ribs, and punched and kicked in the back.”
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Falun Gong practitioners sought help from their local council member, John Liu, a current contender for the comptroller position in NYC.
“Instead of meeting with the victims—practitioners of Falun Gong, who are U.S. citizens—John Liu chose to meet with the villains who assaulted Falun Gong practitioners,” said Erping Zhang, spokesperson for the Falun Dafa Information Center.
Zhang noted that Liu had met with some of the people who had been arrested in the attacks.
“It's quite disturbing,” he said.
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/24538/
NEW YORK CITY—New York City has an election next week and, however cynical many of the city’s voters may have become about politicians, one candidate should shock them.
John Liu is the Democratic Party candidate for Comptroller, the city’s top financial officer. Voters might have doubts about Liu because of his shaky hold on the truth or his too close relations with unions, but they may not know even more serious reasons for concern.
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John Liu is the chosen candidate of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and his election would be a very risky experiment for the people of New York City and the United States.
That the CCP has campaigned for Liu is no secret, although much of the evidence lies unseen in plain view for most New Yorkers, in the form of Chinese-language newspapers that are controlled or heavily influenced by the CCP.
For instance, the China News Service (CNS), the Party’s mouthpiece for overseas propaganda, has run 24 special reports on Liu's campaign for the city election, 13 of them after Liu's decision to run for the city comptroller.
When the CCP engages in this kind of propaganda effort, it is directed from the top. In this case, it would be directed by a Party organization called the United Front Work Department.
On March 30, 2007, on a trip to Beijing, Liu met with Xu Yousheng, vice director of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council, which takes its orders from the CCP Central Committee.
Xu’s office acts as an intermediary between the United Front Work Department and the CCP’s foreign embassies and consulates. The United Front is a strategic initiative that aims to expand CCP influence by infiltrating foreign countries.
Liu’s 2007 trip to Beijing was sponsored by six associations known to have close ties to the CCP. The high point of the trip for Liu was perhaps the presentation to him of “The World Is More Beautiful Because of You” award at a banquet sponsored by CCP-linked media companies. He was heralded as a rising political star.
Btw, John Liu won his election in NY.
I don't get it.
I've lived in the US for 5 - 6 yrs, but I haven't had the chance to visit it for a while now. I thought I had a good feel of some of the sentiments of the country, but I guess I've been out of it for too long. Are Americans really anti-socialist/communist? Or is that just a misunderstanding? Are people really against Health Care Reform because it's socialist/communist?
Edit to add: a quote to emphasize a pt.