[PEN-L:7590] Open Invitation

["Craven, Jim" <jcraven@xxxxxxxxx>]

This is an open invitation to members of the Government of China.

Next time you are in the U.S. give me a call (I need some warning time) and
I'll take you on a personally guided tour of Indian Reservations (Yakima,
Lummi, Makah, Blackfoot, Lakota) to show you some realities that the
government of the U.S. will never show you and about which some of our
illustrious "progressive" academics know nothing and about which some appear
to care nothing.

Then we can hit some other spots on the tour. I can take you to a shelter
for refugees from U.S.-armed and trained death squads in Central and Latin
America. I can take you to some areas of Seattle and L.A. where ethnic
mafias (suitably anti-communist and formerly/still on CIA payrolls)
terrorize their "own people". After that, we'll have lunch at some missions
for the homeless and then we can do a little role reversal: you work for a
day in a Chinese restaurant run by Tong and Kuomintang types and also get to
see how white liberals really treat the help when no one is watching.

Then we go to some land fills to survey the waste and products of
ostentacious lifestyles that are thrown away. We can visit some orphanages
with unwanted/unloved/disposable children that are the products of bourgeois
decadence and the ultra-invidualism/narcissism central to the
profitability/capital accumulation of capitalism.

Then we can go to some "Think Tanks" and you can interview--in Chinese--some
of our leading "China Scholars". You can sit in their classes and see what
kind of stuff they teach and produce. Perhaps we could arrange open debates
to contrast the preparation/depth/intellect of your "America Scholars" with
"our" China Scholars. Perhaps even a tour of how the Faustian Bargains in
academia are made and secured. Perhaps some talks with actual students to
get their views about the quality of education and preparation for survival
in the real world they are getting.

Then we finish up the tour with a visit to the Court system where we can
watch "Justice" for two individuals: one rich, white and with an expensive
lawyer and one poor, non-white with a legal defender.

Call me and please bring plenty of film.

Jim Craven