I understand that the whole China is on the Wang's side. I also understand that the Chinese law is currently facing a seemingly un-resolvable dilemma: if Wang is killed, millions of farmers would feel no hope and no body really care about their situation and organized crimes might be highly possible. In other words, rather than surrendering to authorities and make confession of crimes, they would choose to win justice in their own way; they would follow Peng Dehuan's example. On the other hand, if Wang is not put to death, what Law would do in the coming similar situations? Could life sentence show enough punishment for some one who kills? Would we encourage some one to kill? Therefore, the question is not just about one Wang, it is about many.

The solution of the current dilemma lies in your power and wisdom. It lies in your power because, as the president of People's Republic of China, you have the power to pardon Wang from immediate death penalty without setting a legal case example for the later comers; it also lies in your political wisdom, because the solution of the current legal dilemma by using your presidential power would lead to a way to improve the increasingly worsening situation of the millions of farmers that has been being developed in the past twenty years. (boxun.com)

The situation has become so bad and dangerous that the insightful people call our society sitting on an awaking volcano while what you might have heard is praise, praise, and praise.. There are many reasons that we should pardon Wang as an individual so that farmers would feel the hope; and that we should establish a system to protect the farmers' interest so that our country would prosper in a healthy way. But let me just point three of these reasons. First of all, the current social power structure in our country owes its existence to the farmers, and at their sacrifice. The farmers were originally promised land; that's why they voted for the current system with their lives; when "election" was over, they got the land, but then the land was taken away almost immediately.

Many years later, they were given back their land, taken back again for building houses or for other industrialization purpose; and this time they permanently lost their land. Now they have no land. But their Hu Kou is tied to the land: they are farmers, not city people. They are tied to something they never own. They are slaves of an invisible field they could not feel with their hands. Have we as a society let them down? Sure we have. A promise is a promise, a promise should be kept. Debt should be paid back, one way or another, now or later. The later the debt is paid, the greater the interest would be accumulated. Let's pay them back now. Let's be debt free.

Secondly, the social stability and country's unity and harmoney lie in their trust of our government, not in the judge's sharp knifes. The Chinese government has lost farmers' trust in recently years.. Let's get it back.

Every body knows the plain truth that losing people's hearts means losing power. But the governing class rarely pays enough attention until it is too late. Suppose it were Mr Jiang Jieshi, not Mr. Mao Zedong, who, an umbrella in hand, bare-footed, walked in Hunan province for months, visited farmers and their families and asked for their needs; suppose it were Kuo Mindang, not CCP who organized the farmers' unions and then placed heavy taxes on the rich (call landlords) and distributed the collected wealth to the poor; suppose the farmers had enough to eat and did not worry next day's meal¡­then would people follow our party's call to "kill landlord to get land"? Remember that's a crime for death penalty. Who would like to risk their life if their life is not in danger? Who would like to die in prison if they are not going to die even without getting in? If Mr. Jiang did as we imagined, don't you think he still need to run to Tainwan and die sadly in that island? Isn't a shame that Jiang lost his power when he was many times stronger than his enemy?

Let's follow Chairman Mao's footsteps to travel in Hunan first, then Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, etc., without being guided by your local officials; let's talk to the farmers and ask what they need from us. Let's avoid Mr.Jiang Jieshi's mistakes. Lets tell the farmers: no need to ask what the country WILL do for you, just watch what the country IS doing for you! Thirdly, farmers are our hope for fighting corruption. People might laugh at my suggestions. But I'm talking seriously. I know that you and your colleagues have tried so hard to fight the corruptions. But what about the result? Have we ever seen any real success of fighting corruption in the whole Chinese history? Why so? Because we can never lift ourselves with our own hands grabbing our own hair. To rely on the system itself to correct it's mistake is to find fish on the roof of a house.

A real workable checking system cries for helps from outside the power system. The farmers can provide these kinds of help. Because the corrupted officials are taking their money away; because their life is at stake; and because in fighting the corruption they have nothing to loose but the iron-chains woven on their bodies by the corrupted officials! Educated, united, and organized, farmers can independently work as a checking balance system. Let them set up their unions according to the law. Let these unions fight the corrupted officials. Let the lawyers and reporters and professors help these farmers. Give them enough power to fight the corruption and to threaten the officials while avoid giving them too much power to overthrow the government (if power if a big concern for you and your friends). Let the union, not Premier Wen, help the people collect their debt!

Therefore, here are my following humble suggestions: 1) Pardon Wang as the first step; 2) Cancel the Hu Ji system so that farmers will move freely and will have equal rights as the people who live in the cities (don't you think the farmers are just too nice to let this going on, on, and on?) 3) Help the farmers establish the independent unions, at least independent from the local government.

Well, my humble suggestions might look too naïve for even your secretary to look at. And many of my dear friends would laugh that I'm begging for the impossible. Still I strongly believe that establishing a checking system is the right direction to go whether my specific suggestions work or not. Also, once accumulated, a social force will need to be released, either in a regulated order so that the society will get least hurt or in an un-organized, unprepared way so that the society will pay an extremely high price. Which way to release the social force? Depend on the power and wisdom of the current leaders, especially you as the President of People's Republic of China.

To kill Wang is to kill people's hope; to save Wang is to save China's future. Blood from Wang's knife only warns the corrupted officials; blood from a judge's knife would freeze the nation's heart. To kill or not to kill, that's Law's question. To be or not to be, that's our nation's question, that is certainly your question, my dear President. (Please enjoy your stay in USA, and wish you a great success of your visit; by the way, I have no interest in politics and no relation to any body or organization here or there in writing this---not even with Wang Binyu). A Chinese in USA whose heart is still with China and with his chinese farmer brothers and sisters.

an overseas Chinese

09-13-2005 (boxun.com)