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Protesters outside City Hall by Ed Ou/AP.
With the Beijing detainees now out of reach of the Chinese government, they're doing some talking. Animal spoke with New Yorker Jeffrey Goldin last night, one of the ten American activists released earlier this week. Like James Powderly, Goldin was also taken in V for Vendetta-style, but he goes further into the details about the 2 a.m. wake up call, saying the eight secret police were asking a lot of questions about “Earth Mouse."
Goldin had met with Powderly and the others earlier in the day in Beijing to discuss the high tech L.A.S.E.R. protest, but eventually trouble came. "That's the night they picked us up." After being taken to a basement of a hotel and interrogated one by one in conference rooms, the six were then put in vans and told they were going to be deported. However, the mini-caravan drove past the airport and continued on, straight to a prison.While he denied knowing anything about this Earth Mouse character (during the 6-10 hour interrogations a day), Goldin says he was the guy that wasn't in China, "helping coordinate and organize the Students for A Free Tibet's actions via Twitter."In the end, they were released early and receieved all of their personal belongings back (you know, besides their cash and digital cameras), and their credit cards were charged $2,000 each--all in all the NY Sun reports about $20,000 stolen from the group. Powderly also told the paper, "They threatened our lives, threatened the lives of people we know, of our family members, and they told us that they could get us, even outside of China." At LAX they were greeted by embraces from 4 monks, and 40 women dressed in traditional Tibetan garb."There was a metal chair with a metal belt that they actually strapped you down to." One of the most pressing questions the interrogators repeatedly asked them was "who is Earth Mouse?"
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I smell bullshit! This is like Jessie Jackson smearing MLK's blood on himself.
bunch of attention whores
Hey China...if you're reading this ( and I know you are) come and get me. You can't. You. Can't. Touch. The. Man. Bat.
buncha ChiCom punkasses....
Yes, this was exactly how the fall of USSR started, by the detaining of American artists who went to Moscow to protest for a Free Latvia or some other breakaway republic.
One of the stuff white people like, protesting the fad cause of the month. I guarantee no one will talk about Darfur nor Tibet a year from now. Maybe it's some unconcious guilt they feel since it's been white people who caused the most misery in the world for the past 1000 years?
I know who Earth Mouse is.
Will they come get me?
Is he related to Danger Mouse?
Mighty.
I saw the story in the Chinese newspapers too. The headline read: "Assholes return to U.S."
It may lose something in translation.
call it artsy, a fad, sposnored by their parents trust funds, etc., but these people were just exercising some very basic free speech and were thrown in jail and interrogated. they may be dbags, but it's kind of scary that you all are responding as if they deserved it or governments should be able to do this. i'm not one of those "we live in a police state" people, but we are honestly not that far from this type of thing
can't they just dispute the charges?
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Fuckin' hipsters.
I think they got off easy.
sounds like the protesters during the RNC were treated worse. they probably thought it was funny being interrogated by the little chinamen, red chi com, mr. lee, we need more calgon...insert spanish basketball team slur here.
Free Iraq
Free Secaucus
Free NYC and SF!
You can't decide that just because you were born in a country that grants you free speech that you have the freedom to exercise it wherever you want. These protesters aren't the villains from Lethal Weapon 2; that is, they didn't have diplomatic immunity.
And why is "Free Tibet" such a hot button in the west anyway? The Dalai Lama was a slavemaster, and Mao getting rid of his brutal caste system there was one of the best things that ever happened to the overwhelming majority of Tibetans; that is, the extremely dirt poor who weren't of the priest class. Why do so many people over here want to Free Tibet, just to enslave the Tibetans?
i wish china would of kept these douche bags for the hell out of it. to teach them a lesson.
typical of this group flaunting it.
red china is not the only country that prohibits foreigners from participating in domestic politics.
Anyone who knows this guy "James" knows he is a fake. I’m sure he was only protesting lack of attention…to himself