House Passes Resolution Expressing Regret for Chinese Exclusion Laws

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 On Monday, the House of Representatives, lead by California Congresswoman Judy Chu (the first Chinese American woman ever elected into the House of Representatives) officially passed House Resolution 683 – “Expressing the regret of the House of Representatives for the passage of laws that adversely affected the Chinese in the United States, including the Chinese Exclusion Act.”


For those of you who have forgotten your history, here’s a brief reminder:

“Between 1879 and 1904, Congress passed a number of laws targeting Chinese immigrants, including the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, signed by President Arthur. It barred Chinese laborers from entering the country for a decade (and later extended) and denied U.S. citizenship to Chinese immigrants already here. The law was repealed in 1943 after China became a U.S. ally in World War II.”
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Anonymous

Posted Jun 20 2012

The Congress’ apology for the Chinese Exclusion Act is only a hypocritical show. The racial discrimination by the US government has now merely changed its form from the wording of statutory laws to the execution of laws by the courts. There are virtually two sets of laws in the US. One is the statutes that talk about equal protection of law, the other set is the court made laws, which modify, nullify the statutory law towards racial minorities especially the Chinese. My story is a proof.

1991, I, Wanxia Liao, a then MA student, challenged a U of Toronto professor David Waterhouse’s theory “beauty is a European concept” and Asians didn’t have it in history, he lost and retaliated against me with a series of frauds in violation of the university’s grading rules, and further racial prejudice that the poor Chinese still want to claim historical inventions. When I complained to the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) I was retaliated with a conspired criminal prosecution.

My alleged crime was death threat to the professor as I said “If they are going to kill me, I’m going to kill them too” when answering a human rights commission’s questioning on phone. Although I never spoke of anyone’s name, a judge convicted me on a “guessing” that I “meant” the professor. And the Commission made this alleged crime happen by compelling me to testify at a human rights Commission, and then charging me for my testimony, in violation of Constitutional right against self-incrimination.

I sued US government. The court applied case laws that legalize selective law enforcement by law enforcement agencies on basis of their choice, ruled that I have no right to ask them for equal protection of law. So the White professor Cahill is free of any criminal liability for his crime against me as the US government refuses to investigate him, and then the US government is free from any liability to protect him, even by committing more crimes to me like threats of death and disappearance.

The right to free speech is also selectively enforceable in US on political basis. My Internet free speech is censored by the US government, including Department of State, and by all the major private media. When I sued, the court ruled that the private media are not “government actors” so not liable for violating my free speech rights, as for the real “government actors” like the Department of State, the court ruled they are “immune” from lawsuits. NO free speech to challenge racism in US.

The USA’s propaganda on China’s human rights serve only as a political tool to morally isolate China from the world community and eventually defeat Chinese people as a race.
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