AI WEIWEI Is Wowing Twitter Against China Oppression.

                                                                             AI WEIWEI

                                                                                                         

                                                     A Chinese dissident is Beijing’s top target

  … "At the beginning I was just putting photos of my artwork on my blog. Then I realized I could talk about the social conditions in China. Yew, I wanted to argued, because nobody else in China argues, my arguments become relevant. They took away my blog, the airport. The police put a black hood over me and they took me to a security detention center. The first question I asked was, Can I have a lawyer? They said no. Can I call my family? No. They let me go after two years. I was on probation. Then a person put me on toTwitter. Twitter is better than a blog. It’s faster. It’s interesting because of the fast communication immediate person-to-person response. Also, everybody is watching. There is a sharing of ideas.

      The artist Ai Weiwei pronounced “eye way way.” Ai is his surname. He is the Chinese government’s worst night mare: an internationally revered art star that uses his work and celebrity to advocate for democracy and free speech in a nation with neither. The government has employed a draconian campaign to silence him. Ai is cinder constant surveillance. He has been threatened, placed under house arrest and physically attacked by the police. Ai’s incendiary blog, in 2011 was read by thousands of Chinese citizens disappeared one day, and so did he. The state police grabbed him at the airport, threwa black bag over his head and drove him to an undisclosed location, where he languished for 95 days in a tiny prison cell. Despite these attacks, Ai has continued his virulent criticism of the Chinese Communist leadership, which he deems repressive, immoral and illegitimate.

        AL’s dissidence is particularly discomfiting to the Chinese Gov. as it attempts to retain its 

stranglehold on its citizens while also cementing its position as a global economic powerhouse. Using

art, technology and civil disobedience in his anti government camping, he continues to embarrass the

regime and threaten it.  Most observers agree that if it weren’t for his international celebrity, Ai would still be in prison, like Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Saab, who is serving an 11 year sentence, or he’s be exiled, like blind dissident Chen Guangcheng. 

      The last time Ai was imprisoned there were worldwide protests; world leader called for his release. Hillary Clinton Secretary of State made a personal visit to Peking to ask the President for his release. 

      To be continuing…The moment I saw New York City, in 1981, from the airplane on a dark star lite night I was so happy. Never in my life did I imagine it could be like that.

Dr. KARL WALLACE D.D.S

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