Comments on: American Woman Petitions For Justice, Chinese Pessimistic

By: baidewei

baidewei — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 07:27:26 +0000

Wow – that white chick is kind of ugly – I bet she’s just doing this so she can make some movie about it, sell her story, like Richard Gere… Wait a minute, she’s not even married to the guy yet? Sounds fishy… a “neighbor dispute”? What the…

By: max

max — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:18:44 +0000

stories like this should be on the news back in the west. the chinese never stop complaining about how unfairly treated they are in our countries. we can see how much better life is in china, so they should move back there and be happier :-)

By: Mr. Potato Head

Mr. Potato Head — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:40:54 +0000

My white girlfriend bails me out of the drunk tank all the time.

White girls are useful like that.

By: someone

someone — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:02:38 +0000

The translated comments from the chinese forum sound really pessimistic. Other people might think that the people are just realistic about the situation in China. I guess both might be true at the same time. I don’t know the actual legal situation in china, since i havent clashed with the law yet while being in china, but from a theoretical point of view, as studying law and chinese law for interest I must encourage Mrs Harms to press her case and use all legal means which the chinese legal system offers her. I dont mean to judge the case itsself since there is too little information on it, but it is wonderful to hear from a foreigner to use the given legal institutions.
It probably wont yield too big a success legally seen, but if she can utilize media she might achieve a personal gain whatsoever. but beware that she is also doing something for everybody living in china. pressing the government to grant its citizens and everybody else living in china the rights which they are entitled to by the countries laws. the right to petition is good and important, politicians shouldnt be afraid of problems, they should help solve them, that is their job. suppressing problems wont make them disappear forever.

By: Arthur Borges in Zhengzhou

Arthur Borges in Zhengzhou — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 15:41:18 +0000

And, Mr/Miss/Mrs Jones: You note well when you write “supposedly a bogus charge”. ChinaSmack offers no details, as if to better leave us all maximum leeway for imagination.

Sorry, I won’t buy into this.