Blicero (was NP the "millison method", or how to use some gratuitous piece of anti-Catholic propaganda as a foil to take vindictive potshots at people you disagree with)

[jbor]

A further example of millison's idea of "nuanced" reading and "reasonable"
interlocution.

By his absolutist style of logic all US public servants are Indian-killers
and slave-holders.

Blicero is the character most venerated by other characters in GR. He is
nowhere in the novel depicted as a "child-abuser".



millison:
> Continuing to enjoy my day off. The Vatican's argument in the article
> below ("The Vatican says those to be made saints died for their faith
> in anti-Christian massacres between 1648 and 1930, while Beijing says
> they were agents of Western colonialism who deserved death") reminds
> me of rj's defense of Weissmann the child abuser and rj's denial of
> Weissmann's status (seen from the Herero point of view, as in this
> article we see the Catholics from the Chinese point of view) as a
> colonial. Keep up the good work on that Weissmann/Blicero
> hagiography, rj.
>
>
http://www.scmp.com/News/China/Article/FullText_asp_ArticleID-20000928162644
861.asp
>
> (the South China Morning Post may require registration to access this article)
>
> Thursday, September 28, 2000
>          Beijing accuses opposition of plotting
>
>          Updated at 4.30pm:
>          The mainland on Thursday accused its various internal
> dissident and opposition
>          groups of acting in concert and working with foreign powers
> in a plan to overthrow
>          the government.
>
>          ''Falun Gong is not only ingratiating itself with Western
> anti-China forces, but also
>          ganging up with overseas and domestic pro-democracy groups as
> well as Tibetan
>          and Taiwanese separatists to form an anti-Communist Party
> united front which is
>          plotting to overthrow the government,'' said a state media
commentary.
>
>          The lengthy Xinhua news agency commentary, printed in the
> People's Daily, said
>          China's various enemies gathered twice last March in support
> of America's ''plot'',
>          at US Congressional hearings and at the annual UN human
> rights debate in
>          Geneva.
>
>          That Tibetans, Taiwanese, Falun Gong adherents and well-known
> exiled dissidents
>          Wei Jingsheng and Harry Wu all came out together to back US
> human rights
>          criticism ''made perfectly clear their common stance'', the
> commentary said.
>
>          The vehement attack on disparate groups united by their
> grievances against the
>          Communist Party came amid a bitter spat between Beijing and
> the Vatican over a
>          Holy See plan to canonise the 120 Chinese martyrs on October
> 1, the mainland's
>          National Day.
>
>          The Vatican says those to be made saints died for their faith
> in anti-Christian
>          massacres between 1648 and 1930, while Beijing says they were
> agents of Western
>          colonialism who deserved death.
>
>          October 1, the 51st anniversary of Communist rule, is one of
> many ''sensitive
>          dates'' in China, when those with gripes against the
> government try to stage public
>          protests.
>
>          Next month will also bring the first anniversary of China's
parliament
>          rubber-stamping a draconian law against ''evil cults''.
> Beijing banned Falun Gong in
>          July 1999 and says it has jailed about 150 organisers of the
> spiritual group.
>
>          Falun Gong, whose members continue protests against the ban,
> say thousands of
>          adherents are in labour camps without trial. A Hong
> Kong-based human rights
>          group says at least 52 adherents have died in government
> custody since the July
>          1999 ban.
>
>          Xinhua's commentary repeated Beijing's assertion that the
> practice of Falun Gong
>          meditation had caused 1,500 deaths and 600 cases of mental
> illness. The group is
>          a political movement and a ''threat to national security'',
> Xinhua said.
>
>          The agency voiced particular alarm at the notion of democracy
> activists and ethnic
>          separatists copying Falun Gong's persistent campaign of
> peaceful protests.
>
>          This month, exiled poet Huang Beiling called on China's
> intellectuals to follow the
>          example of Falun Gong meditators by fighting government
> oppression with civil
>          disobedience.
>
>          ''When they're beaten, they don't hit back. The intellectual
> community should do
>          the same thing,'' said Mr Huang, who writes under the name
> Bei Ling and was jailed
>          last month for distributing a literary journal and freed
> after international pleas.
>
>
>
> P.S. I had the pleasure of meeting Wei Jing Sheng and talking with
> him for about a half hour last year, when he spoke at UC Berkeley,
> together with my wife (she's Chinese) and some Chinese acquaintances
> of Wei. And I was in China last July when the Party cracked down on
> Falun Gong -- amazing to watch that Big Lie propaganda machine swing
> into action.  Last July, the Party was attributing only a handful of
> suicides and cases of mental illness to Falun Gong (I saw the first
> broadcast of the Party-produced TV documentary that leveled that
> charge), now the Party's saying 1,500 deaths and 600 cases of mental
> illness.  I realize that it's grandiose to make this comparison, but
> it also reminds me of the way The Three Stooges (Mackin, Malign, rj)
> swing into action to revise and rewrite my pynchon-l posts as they
> have in the past few days.
>
> P.P.S. Welcome back, David Casseres!
>
> P.P.P.S. Malign, anything to offer by way of rebuttal in addition to
> your lame "No, Pynchon didn't do that"? In my copy of GR, Holocaust
> slave labor manufactures the V-2, and is therefore at the center of
> the novel.
>