China blog spotlights missing-child problem
Tom Jigme Wheat
China blog spotlights missing-child problem
By Dan Martin (AFP) – 2 days ago
BEIJING — A Chinese website that helps parents find missing children
has become a sensation, shining a light on child abductions and the
growing power of Twitter-like Internet services in China.
The microblogging site swept into the national spotlight earlier this
week when it was used to help reunite a young father with his six-year-
old son, who had been missing for three years after being kidnapped.
The emotional reunion of Peng Gaofeng, 30, with his son Peng Wenle,
was captured on video and the footage quickly went viral on the
Internet. The boy's identity was still to be confirmed by DNA tests.
Since then, parents of missing children have seized on the site, which
had 170,000 followers as of Thursday. Six more children have been
found so far, according to reports.
The microblog was set up in late January on leading portal Sina.com by
Yu Jianrong, a professor of rural issues who has gained a reputation
for activism on behalf of China's downtrodden classes.
The blog encourages people to snap pictures of child beggars and
orphans and upload them in the hope that parents may see their missing
child and track them down.
Abductions and human trafficking have become serious public concerns
after a string of revelations, including a shocking 2007 scandal in
which thousands were forced into slave labour in brick yards and mines
across the nation.
Mounting outrage spurred a government crackdown, which according to
state media resulted in thousands of adult and child victims being
rescued.
In one recent case, the operator of an unlicensed shelter for disabled
people in southwestern China sold at least 70 mentally ill workers to
work as slaves in factories across the country.
However, there is a widespread public lack of confidence -- often
expressed on the Internet -- in authorities' willingness to fully
address the problem.
Some parents searching for children have told state media that their
attempts had been routinely thwarted by inertia and indifference from
officials and police.
One follower of the missing-child blog posted a comment saying it was
up to citizens to look out for their own rights, as the government
could not be counted on to do so.
"Our government has so many failures. But activities like this provide
hope," it said.
Yu, an expert with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a leading
government think tank, said on his blog that he had launched the
campaign after a desperate parent sought his help in finding an
abducted child.
The professor was already well-known for his efforts to help ordinary
Chinese people who claimed mistreatment at the hands of officials.
Yu was not immediately available for comment on Thursday.
China's government blocked Twitter in 2009 after authorities alleged
social-networking services were being used to fan ethnic violence in
traditionally Muslim northwestern China.
A range of high-profile foreign Internet services and websites
including YouTube, Facebook and others are also blocked.
However, since the bar on Twitter, several Chinese clone sites led by
Sina have sprung up, drawing an enthusiastic following from China's
huge population of web users, the world's largest at 457 million.
Users have seized on micro-blogging as a new avenue for mass
expression in a country whose Internet and other media are tightly
controlled by a wary Communist Party.
Controversial public issues are often aired openly on microblogs, but
the experts say the discussion is kept from boiling over by government
censors who delete content or lean on providers to do so.
The missing-child microblog is at http://t.sina.com.cn/1932619445
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thomaswheat1975
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DP
Why don't you do something to me in a LEGAL sense because you are
criminals and you can only resort to criminal means since mental
illness is a SCAM! Do you understand what I am trying to say? I know
for a fact that mental illness is a scam that I am willing to put my
LIFE on the line. Why don't you put their LIFE on the line since you
believe mental illness is real? Because I have offered proof that
mental illness is a SCAM and you have been caught! You have no
confidence in you scam anymore and act like a little boy who hides
with his hands in his ears ignoring what someone is telling him hoping
that it will all go away. But as people with conscience we have to
teach the child right from wrong because people should not be rewarded
being a CRIMINAL.
Tom Jigme Wheat
> This is a good idea but better with geotagging.
what is geotagging?
DP
them)
and I have proven it(Read the website on SELF-PROTECTION).
Psychiatrists
are still bluffing the world about mental illness and REFUSE to
challenge me. Any argument you put up against me is pointless when I
have given the PROOF and offered to challenge the psychiatry
profession
by PAYING people to find me one BRAVE enough and so far they have no
"balls". I can CURE anyone of schizophrenia because it is a SCAM
illness. So which psychiatrists have any "balls"? Read the posting
"Challenge to psychiatry: Let us end schizophrenia(Mental Illness is
a
SCAM) -$5000 reward" and find me a shrink, quack, etc who has
"balls".
Where are the lawyers, law enforcement, etc? They agree with me
because
they are not after my "ass". Face it people, I'm right, it is the
psychiatrists who should be watching their "ass" for what they have
done
to people. I can CURE schizophrenia and ALL sort of mental illness
which psychiatrists CANNOT say they can do. So challenge me! I have
no
financial gain in what I am doing. I am using my OWN money and time
to
help end the mental illness scam.
Tom Jigme Wheat
> Mental Illness is caused by psychiatrists (and those connected to
> them)
> and I have proven it(Read the website on SELF-PROTECTION).
> Psychiatrists
> are still bluffing the world about mental illness and REFUSE to
> challenge me. Any argument you put up against me is pointless when I
> have given the PROOF and offered to challenge the psychiatry
> profession
> by PAYING people to find me one BRAVE enough and so far they have no
> "balls". I can CURE anyone of schizophrenia because it is a SCAM
> illness. So which psychiatrists have any "balls"? Read the posting
> "Challenge to psychiatry: Let us end schizophrenia(Mental Illness is
> a
> SCAM) -$5000 reward" and find me a shrink, quack, etc who has
> "balls".
> Where are the lawyers, law enforcement, etc? They agree with me
> because
> they are not after my "ass". Face it people, I'm right, it is the
> psychiatrists who should be watching their "ass" for what they have
> done
> to people. I can CURE schizophrenia and ALL sort of mental illness
> which psychiatrists CANNOT say they can do. So challenge me!
are faking it?
Anti-DabianchenVirus
That's the least of your problems!
> I have
>
>
>
> > no
> > financial gain in what I am doing. I am using my OWN money and time
> > to
> > help end the mental illness scam.
>
> > --www.destroypsychiatry.org- Hide quoted text -
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rst9
> On Feb 13, 12:41 am, DP <danpr...@doctor.com> wrote:
> how do you help a schizophrenic who hears voices. Do you think they
> are faking it?
> I have
You have heard of voices, or
you have faked it.
Tom Jigme Wheat
I do not hear voices but I do know that schizophrenia is a real
illness. DP seems to think visa via his theory of self protection that
he can cure mental ilness. I read his theory and it is a clear example
of paranoid delusional thinking. He believes that mental illness is
caused by people tampering with his clothes, food and that this
tampering involves the use of artificial chemicals though he does not
list what chemicals they are. Also he believes that you have to be in
a room without electronics because they cause auditory hallucinations.
None of this makes sense. I found out he is chinese and probably a pro
CCP sympathyiser since he never brings up examples of psychiatrists in
china abusing their patients. I thought the article on chinese
psyciatrists surgically operating on the brains of schizophrenics
rendering them invalid would cause him to pose a theory that wasnt so
sinocentric; but I guess he's a lost cause.
Tom Jigme Wheat
wrote:
sychophant like yourself.
>
>
>
> > I have
>
> > > no
> > > financial gain in what I am doing. I am using my OWN money and time
> > > to
> > > help end the mental illness scam.
>
Anti-DabianchenVirus
Telling posters what to do huh? You really are a schizoid bigot!
Anti-DabianchenVirus
So, you claim that DP is a "CCP sychophant". Let's hear the evidence
to support this accusation of yours. Will you end up claiming that you
heard voices telling you this? Into which ear of yours did those
voices whisper? Left, or right? Middle, perhaps?
> > > I have
>
> > > > no
> > > > financial gain in what I am doing. I am using my OWN money and time
> > > > to
> > > > help end the mental illness scam.
>
> > > > --www.destroypsychiatry.org-Hidequoted text -
Tom Jigme Wheat
He only posts his paranoid ramblings in reply to my posts. Then he
also changes the subject thread.
>
>
>
> > > > I have
>
> > > > > no
> > > > > financial gain in what I am doing. I am using my OWN money and time
> > > > > to
> > > > > help end the mental illness scam.
>
> > > > > --www.destroypsychiatry.org-Hidequotedtext -
Anti-DabianchenVirus
*That* is your proof that he is a "CCP sychophant"? Bwahahahahaha!
Into which ear did you say the "voices" whispered this to you?
Anti-DabianchenVirus
Try posting a response to Chuandetu and see what happens.