a lovely story: escape of the blind lawyer

This guy is important.....why? I watched all the news coverage about this last night.....and kept wondering why I was supposed to care? > > The ending may not be happy. > > > http://ca.news.yahoo.com/china-activist-leaves-us-embassy-xinhua-075514246.html > > China activist appeals to Obama to get him to US > > He also accused US embassy officials of pushing him hard to leave the > safety of the embassy on Wednesday where he had sought refuge for six days > after fleeing his home in the eastern province of Shandong. > > "The embassy kept lobbying me to leave and promised to have people stay > with me in the hospital, but this afternoon, as soon as I checked into the > hospital room, I noticed they were all gone," Chen told CNN by phone. > > > There seems to be an a growing undercurrent of tension between the US and > China these days.  I wonder if the administration is worried about > ratcheting it up even more. > > We'll see.  Hope everything turns out for the best. > > J > > - > > Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. > - Henry Kissinger > > Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, > go out and buy some more tunnel. - John Quinton > > >