December 12,2001 (draft in USA)

Chapter 1. Introduction *

Chapter 2. Author’s Perspective *

Chapter 3. 10 Years of Journey in Canada 1989-1999 *

Chapter 4. One and Half Years of Alien Residency in California *

Chapter 5. Three Months in British Columbia, Canada *

Chapter 6. The Homeless in North Western United States *

Chapter 7. China versus US-Canada *

8. Capitalism at its Limit in Canada and USA *

9. Epilogue *

References *

Copyright Notice *

The West has now met the East. A full range of human rights issues must be resolved in order to maintain worldwide peace and economic growth.

I came to Canada in 1989 as a student from China. I became a Canadian Permanent Resident in 1995 and Canadian citizen in 1997. I have had the opportunity to travel to most provinces in Canada and a few states in the United States. Earlier between 1984 and 1987, I studied in Sweden for three years for a Licentiate degree. I had the opportunity to travel to England, Scotland, France, West Germany and Denmark. I thought it was an extremely good investment that Sweden offers discount rail and air travels for young people under the age of twenty five.

The standard of living is similar in all the western countries that I have been to. It includes comfortable housing with cold and hot water, air heating, matrices for bed, flushing toilets, shower, refrigerator, TV, telephone and electricity or gas powered stoves; plenty of food; and clean public places. Being from the countryside of south-central China, I was particularly interested in the environment. The northern conifer forests in Sweden and Canada impressed me the most. The integration of human dwelling with water and trees in the countryside and small towns is admirable. This integration was brought about by the popular use of automobiles. The same automobiles also made possible the separation of home from office. While this may be beneficial for some, it brings grave environmental damage if adopted by all.

These western countries share the Christian culture, science and technologies and natural resources by means of free trade and travel. Their sense of mutual cooperation is very strong. The West has achieved great advances in science and technology as well as production of material wealth. But, they have also brought about serious degradation of Nature. The West has made strides for the equality of women and the disabled, but issues like equal responsibilities (leadership and accountability) remain to be addressed. There are still wide spread discriminations against racial minorities and other minorities left behind in the economic competitions.

The West has now met the East. Modern transportation, communication and trade are molding the world into a global village in which nations are brought to close encounters. Today, most countries brand themselves democracies in which the political power rests with the majority and economic competition produces a disadvantaged minority. Racial relations and the question of minority rights must be resolved in order to maintain peace and economic growth. This booklet is more on the problems rather than the wonders of the western world. It is hoped that it will trigger a worldwide campaign for human rights-responsibilities, best governments and organizations and the natural environment.

I have seen and experienced many discriminatory practices ever since I arrived in Canada. In fact, the only discrimination that I have not experienced yet is against the physically disabled. I have no doubt that I will become physically or mentally disabled before long if the world continues unchanged. I have accepted inequalities as a way of life until September 11 when terrorists attacked the World Trade Center in New York city and the Pentagon in Washington D.C., and later the United States government waged wars against Afganistan and Iraq. It reminded me that human rights abuses are universal today fifty three years after the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. I started to write a letter to the United Nations Secretary General asking him to start a worldwide campaign for human rights. This letter in revised form was posted on the web site www.pulsehead.org. I also translated the United States Declaration of Independence into Chinese and placed on the same web site.

I was born in the White Bamboo Elementary School in 1963 and grew up in different farming villages in the East Peace county of South-Central China. I lived in the forest of Yellow Mud Hollow in my pre-school years and worked part time on farms in MaiYuan (pulsehead) village in my juvenile years. I had my Chinese education in villages, small towns, a middle city and a large city. I worked in underground metal mines in China as a graduating student. Since China is a developing large country, my national origin would represent the middle of the world nations.

I had graduate studies, conducted scientific research, worked in mines and the computer software industry, and was unemployed in western countries. I studied several languages and dialects and some religions of the world. I talked to the poor and the middle class people of those countries, and people of all colors: black, brown, yellow, white and red. Therefore, my social and natural environments have shaped me into a globalist and an advocate for full recognition and implementation of human rights.

My father was born in 1926 in the MaiYuan (Pulsehead) village. In 1948, he left his one-year old son to join the Transportation Division of the Chinese Nationalist army that was established by Dr. Sun Yat-sen, leader of both Nationalist and Communist parties. This was in the same year when the United Nations unanimously passed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the city of San Francisco, U.S.A.. In 1949, he joined the Chinese Liberation Army established by Mao Zedong, leader of the Chinese Communist party. For the next four years, he fought bandits in the 100,000 Mountains of Guangxi and helped establish the Guangxi Autonomous Region; and defended the Southern Coast and the North East of China. He returned home to work first as a farmer, a replacement teacher and then elementary school teacher until retirement. Till retirement, all his private property consisted of a two feet cubic wooden box that he made himself which contained a few clothes items, a photo album, a memorial medal of the Chinese Liberation Army, and a pair of leather army shoes that he repaired himself many times.

Figure 1. Yi Shipu (on the right hand side) in the army (propaganda staff of 401st regiment, 134th Division, 45th Army, 4th Field Army Group) prior to returning home around 1954.

The MaiYuan (Pulsehead) village is a small village built on the bottom of small hills facing plain rice fields that were reclaimed from a riverbed a long time ago. The village households are the descendents of the original Yi family whose time of settlement could be traced back to 600 years ago. There were a couple of Li families on the east edge of the village. Houses were typically built with wooden structure and dried mud bricks that were not treated with heat. The roof was made of wood logs and plates that were covered with heat-treated mud tiles. After collectivization, there were 5 production teams each with a dozen households. A winding creek used to run along the bottom of the hills closer to houses, but it was reclaimed as rice fields at the end of the cultural revolution. Instead, a new straight waterway was dug in the middle of the rice field to connect to the Ying river.

My grandmother Xia CuiYu was widowed at the age of 23 with two young children. She was one of the last Chinese women with bound feet. She could not read or walk far and often complained about pain in the feet. But she worked as a diligent home maker. She excelled in cooking, washing clothes, looking after children, spinning cotton wheels, making clothes and shoes, making rice wine, grinding rice into powder, raising domestic animals, etc.. Based on what she was doing, she was actually a combination of farmer and industrial worker. However, she never earned any monetary income. She was classified as a landlord because of her ownership of 20 Chinese acres (one Chinese acre is about one sixth American acre) of rice field or 100 m x 133 m that is the size of one football field. Some of this fields were located on top a hill that has no water source. This is no large land compared to American farmers, but it was enough to make her in the top class of the 7- class classification system for farmers when China was liberated in 1949. The households of her parents, herself and her children remained one-man households in three generations. If it were 3 men in each generation, it would have been 18 persons including wives. The average land ownership would have been reduced to 1.1 Chinese acres or 15 m x 49 m in area (a basketball court is 15 m x 30 m in size). In fact, for certain production teams of nearby townships, the average land share was less than one Chinese acre during the 1970’s.

A wife or widow was called by her last name plus her husband’s generation alias. For example, my grandma was called Sister Xia by folks of the same generation alias or Aunt Xia by folks of the next generation alias. This is different from the modern western tradition that the wife is called by her husband’s surname. In fact, the grandchildren of my grandmother called her "grandfather" because our grandfather died of sickness in 1936. She was the acting house head and took the lead in family affairs. She was a model of thrifty, hard work and generosity. She taught us not to waste one grain of rice. She had very good relation with neighbors even during the cultural revolution when she did not mind sitting in class struggle meetings guarded by a man with a shotgun. Due to her management, the entire family survived through the cultural revolution. However, her son-in-law in a township about 30 km away was persecuted and physically abused. He died of drowning and was publicly declared as "suicidal death in fear of crimes".

In my childhood and juvenile years, I had many dreams. The most frequent ones went like this:

Adults with large and long swords pursued me. I would attempt and struggle to fly up in the sky to avoid being caught. Sometimes I succeeded, but sometimes I got stuck to the ground and could not even run away. In the latter case, I would lie on the ground and pretended to be dead. But, I would feel being chopped into pieces. Sometimes I woke up from the dream, but sometimes I could walk in the same dream after the pursuers left.

The above dream might have to do with the fact that I was a grandson of the landlord class as well as the fact that my family always told me to stay away from people and disputes. In the Chinese Cultural Revolution, the landlord was considered the worst of the seven classes designed for farmers.

More than a century of Chinese revolutions were carried out to abolish the corrupt Qing empire, achieve national independence and establish a just and equal society. The goals were achieved in essence as symbolized in the three successive leaders, Sun Yat-sen, Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping. However, the mal-translation of the word "revolution" into the Chinese word "Ge2-Ming4" and the participation of western powers resulted in extraordinary loss of life and pain for the Chinese people on a worldwide scale. "Ge2-Ming4" in spoken Chinese means "Taking Life"., whereas "Revolution" in English means simply cyclic change or drastic change. Similarly, the mal-translation of the word "Liberty" into the Chinese word "Zi4-You2" which means "Freedom" has resulted in and is likely to continue to cause extraordinary pain to the Chinese people. Freedom underlines getting whereas Liberty underlines giving.

With the world being a global village, we must put away racial, national, class and geographical differences to resolve global issues. We must imaginatively travel into outer space and look back at our planet earth to find solutions to problems.

When I was in my first grade, I lived in a school that was converted from a Temple in a village called Yellow Pond Canyon. The Temple leaned on a limestone rock-hill in the back and overlooked the rice fields in the Canyon. There was a large maple tree covering a quarter of the front yard that was about the size of a basketball-court. The tree was the tallest and widest in view and it stood solemnly on the edge of a rice pad. The hissing sound and the hurling movement of the leaves, and the spectacular line up of a kind of yellow thorny worms caught the attention of many. One day, it fell in the fierce wind and thunders. I definitely felt the emptiness when I looked out.

At a later time, may be in my second grade, I lived in the school of another village called Tao Canyon. The school was also converted from a Temple. There was a large cypress tree on one side of the Temple ground. It was the largest and tallest tree and I did not see any other cypress tree on the ground. One day, it too fell. I did not hear of any expression of sadness at the loss of a good tree. Its trunk were used as construction or furniture material, pieces of it were used as chopping boards, and its branches and roots were used as fire wood. Once I went with classmates to the camellia shrub fields to collect dead brunches for firewood and contracted a disease on the hand that required a small operation.

In my juvenile years in the 1970’s, I used to return to my family village, MaiYuan (Pulsehead), to do volunteer work for the second production team. There were a few deciduous trees, about 1 foot in diameter, on a hill behind the new school. They had been used as posts for dried rice-hay storage. They actually served as centers of conversations and laughter as the farmers collected the dried hay and piled them up around the trees after the season of harvest. These trees too were chopped down and the hill was deprived of vegetation before long. Fortunately, the comet hill of MaiYuan was largely preserved green. I learned recently that this hill was once cleared of trees in the 1950’s. I saw that the hill was a limestone hill, trees grew out of the fractures of the rocks.

Figure 2. The comet hill of MaiYuan (with separate photo of MaiYuan Saucer Rock in lower-right corner).

The above scenario of Nature degradation has occurred or is occurring in every part of the planet earth. For example, in Surry city of Great Vancouver, the province of British Columbia, Canada, trees continue to be cleared for house construction, and farm land used to build residential villages. We know that trees produce oxygen, purify the air, provide shade and shelter, enrich the soil, stabilize the slopes, abate the wind, retain moisture and water, and provide a meeting place for conversations. Humans have cleared trees, killed off wild animals and fish in rivers. In the end, they would use the same tools that conquered Nature to conquer fellow humans. The American Indians said it well that if we kill off the wild beasts, our own souls will die of loneliness in spirit. Therefore, the human-Nature relation is as part of human history as the inter-human relation. This perspective on human history remains to be explored.

China has developed an advanced natural agricultural economy in her long agricultural history, and learned to reuse and recycle limited resources. This tradition is reflected in the philosophical belief that the Universe is constant but the things in it are constantly changing. The West has depended on exploration and creation of new resources and maintains the scientific belief that the Universe started from a big bang and is continuing to expand. However, the Green Peace movement of the West is in line with the Chinese tradition. I believe that the East and the West can learn from each other and coexist in peace and prosperity.

When I was in the second grade of the elementary school of Yellow Pond Canyon, I learned a card game from a friend. It consists of five cards with a character and image on one side of each card. The five cards are, Human, Chicken, Bug, Wood, and Tiger. The game is played by two persons each with the above five cards. When two cards meet, the following rules apply:

Human eats Chicken

Chicken eats Bug

Bug eats Wood

Wood kills Tiger (Note, Wood is used by Human to kill Tiger)

Tiger eats Human

If the last sentence is read as "animals eat dead humans", then the above game is an accurate abstraction of the food circles between human beings, animals, and plants. It shows their mutual reliance as well as the superiority of the human race over Nature. The later is manifest in the fourth sentence. This superiority results from our ability to make and use tools. When plants and animals disappear, humans will also do so. The western view of the linear food chain with humans on top is in agreement with the Big Bang expansion philosophy, but it is contrary to the laws of Nature.

I do not know if wild tigers eat live humans because tigers are only found in zoos in large cities. Snakes were common in the area and they were occasionally found in tombs. It is true that snakes and bugs, and possibly other wild animals, eat dead humans.

In the countryside of China, open toilets outside the house are widely used. Certain maggots colonize the toilets. In the worm form, they digest human excretion and turn it into fertilizer. The maggots were used to feed ducks and chickens and the toilet remains were used as fertilizer to produce rice and vegetable. The maggots turn into flies and seek food all around the house. The biological process may have continued hundreds or even thousands of years. One may think that the flies would bring disease from the toilets to humans. This may be true. But modern doctors intentionally inject a small amount of disease into humans as vaccine to increase human’s ability to resist the disease. The Chinese farmers use large and deep woks with tall wooden lids for cooking. These woks serve to sterilize the food and quickly extinguish oil fire in it. In addition, the farmers regularly drink a type of mild rice wine to further kill disease in the digestive system. The rice wine is also a very good nutrition supplement if taken in moderation.

The above is another good example of Human-Nature relation. In today’s industrialized world, humans have made products in imitation of Nature. In fact, we have made and used tools to such an extent that we can conquer Nature. This would imply that the human race is fully capable of self-extinction.

Our sustainable existence and development on earth will depend on the use of the most abundant natural sources such as sun light and moon light, wind and water, heat and cold. The increases of population and manufactured products have caused increasing environmental pollution. Like drug and poison, the concentration in time and space (volume) are the conditions for destroying living things or breeding disease. Therefore, we should make use of the most abundant natural resource - Time, as well as distributed ways of living and production. The use of artificial cooling in summer and heating in winter aiming at maintaining constant living conditions throughout the year consumes a lot of natural resources. It is against the laws of Nature.

From my own experience, I believe the abuse of human rights for minorities are the worst among all human rights abuses in democratic countries where the majority rules in politics and money rules in daily life. In North America where the white majority rules, visible minorities do not enjoy equal rights, freedoms and responsibilities as the white majority. On a worldwide scale, racism is still universal. The mainstream society believes the whiter the better. Blacks are believed to be good manual workers and entertainers, Asians are believed to be good technical workers, and whites are believed to be good managers.

Between September and November when I was campaigning for human rights in the Great Vancouver area of Canada, I was repeatedly harassed and jailed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), whereas a white man could write books and play jokes on TV to express political opinions. Back in 1999 when I was working at the Hemlo Gold camp in Marathon. Ontario, I was harassed and jailed by the Ontario Provincial Police who conspired with the mine management to defame me. This occurred possibly because I have the highest degree in town, from the wrong race or of the wrong national origin. I was later coerced to sign a contract to sell my copyrighted computer software product to a Canadian company, Flairbase Inc., free of charge. I finished my PhD degree in 1993 with an award winning thesis, yet I would not be considered for University, Government and industry jobs because of racism and discriminations with regard to national origin and language. Clearly, double standards and racism are rampant in Canada.

I took a job as a software quality assurance engineer at Autodesk Inc. California in March of 2000. I was fired after 6 months when the company was beginning to lay off employees. Performance evaluation tactics were used to effect the firing to disguise racial and other discriminations. During the subsequent down turn of the computer industry, I was unable to find a job even if I am fully qualified.

Later, I went to the San Rafael quarry to look for a job. The mining company is located only 5 minutes drive from where I live and the general manager told me that he was looking for a mining engineer. A few months later, he hired a young graduate engineer. I was not hired possibly because I have an advanced degree or of the wrong race or color. Again, discriminations of all kinds were playing their parts in the American society.

Mining engineering is one of the few professions that do not require licensing in California. This type of discrimination is ludicrous. It shows the ultimate disregard for Nature. I obtained the passport renewal form from Canada. I sadly noticed that professional engineers have been removed from the list of professionals, such as doctors, lawyers or police officers that can serve as guarantors.

What is different from Canada is that democratic institutions are rooted in the United States and power is divided among different institutions to ensure freedom of individuals. The police in California has at least three different systems: the city police, the county sheriff and the highway patrol. There are numerous armed and unarmed security organizations. On the federal level, the FBI and CIA are well known. I attended both the San Rafael city Citizen Police Academy and the Marin County Sheriff’s Academy. The attendees were mostly retired people. The requirement for registration was a driver’s license and no felony conviction. In the classes, police officers presented their practices. The academy facilitated the understanding between the armed police and the people, and reduced the fear of the people. I never considered getting close to the police and going to court. After I attended the academy, I went to court and I won a court case against Autodesk Inc. for mishandling my properties in the Marin County Small Claims Court.

We should not forget a handful of economically disadvantaged minority who have fallen victim of desperate family circumstance, gang violence and even police oppression regardless of race or color.

Some good people may think that a handful, disadvantaged minority is not worthy of attention because they can not cause trouble for the average resident. Other people like police officers, security personnel, and lawyers may think that they depend on them for job security. However, a Chinese wisdom said it that "a tiny spark, can burn a great forest". Disease knows not discrimination. It can attack any one. Gang violence and sabotage do cause trouble for the public and the average resident.

Here is my own story of racial encounters. In 1979 when I entered university in Changsha, the provincial capital of Hunan Province, China, I was exposed for the first time to white tourists who came to visit the famous tourist site YueLu Mountain. I did not know any foreign language then. The tourists looked, dressed and talked different than us. They all looked the same among themselves. I later realized that I failed to recognize their individual characteristics because I focused on their different color and style of their hair, eyes, and clothes. As I learned English and talked to a few of them, I started to notice their individual differences. After more than 10 years in the West, I have talked to hundreds of people of all colors and ages on different occasions. I have got used to the differences and noticed more similarities. A person of a different race and color may look, think or act just like my siblings, parents, friends, teachers or classmates in China. Indeed, dialogue and faith in equality help us look beyond our differences and work towards a common destiny.

I was educated as a mining engineer in the South-Central University located in Changsha of China. If I were to compare science to engineering, I would start by defining engineering as the application of rules or laws derived from past practices, the application of human judgement and the application of scientific principles. I would define science as the discovery of rules or laws of Nature by using measurements and abstraction of observations. Professor Zhou taught us that the rules written in the mining engineering textbook were the result of human injury, fatality, failures and successes in the history of mining. In other words, that we do better now than ever before is because we have learned from our past. As a generalization, we can do better than ever before if we learn from the entire history of the human kind. Due to the vast amount of knowledge worldwide, this can only be done through the practice of life-time-learning.

Underground mining is one of the most challenging jobs. Things that we take for granted on surface, such as air, water or light, could be absent. Engineering design must ensure that at least two escape ways to the surface be excavated in order to preserve life in emergencies. The two escape ways must make use of separate and independent power sources and they must be sufficiently apart in distance. For critical equipment, such as power supply or ventilation fan, at least one additional unit must be ready to go into operation in case the first one fails. A third one must be in stock to maintain two functioning units at all times. Similarly, for a society to function without interruption, critical political and social organs must have at least two alternatives, one of which is ready to take over power in case the standing organ becomes incapable, and the other alternative can step in to maintain two functioning leaderships at all times. For organizations whose actions pertain to life and death, the alternatives must be distinctively separate and different. A diversified social security system should ensure that justice, food, shelter, clothing, health and education is always there for everyone.

Safety measures on different scales are necessary in an open world. Children and the elderly are the most vulnerable in an unsafe and insecure environment. Here are some examples. My two children had fallen from bed to floor in sleep many times. Fortunately the floors were wooden and they did not sustain injury. My 18 months old daughter flipped through a wheel chair way fence at a mobile office in the old Coleman school. Fortunately, she rotated and landed on a concrete floor on her back without injury. If her head hit the ground instead, it would have been a serious injury. I have been using my IBM thinkpad notepad computer for a long time without any trouble. My nine year old son played on the keyboard once, the starting DOS window shrank to a small screen, and I did not know how to restore it back to the normal size. My eighteen month daughter played on the keyboard once, one of the keys fell out, but I did not even know how to pull it out. It took me some time to put it back in place. My twelve year-old nephew tried to put a new screen saver and also played games on my computer. As a result, the Windows 98 color scheme stopped functioning. Reinstalling the operating system did not help. A few months later it restored to normal somehow.

Safety and security measures on a larger scale, such as the walls, doors and fences of companies, houses or agricultural land, are also beneficial in an open society. They serve as safety boundaries for children, wind and dust screens, and insect barriers. The Great Wall of China probably served a good purpose in the ancient past. An open society can be maintained not by taking down the existing walls but by people going out and inside these walls often. In today’s world, stone and iron walls are very expensive to build and maintain. Living tree walls are being accepted by the people worldwide. It is time to build green tree walls on both sides of the Great Wall of China.

I have observed that no two trees are exactly the same and no two persons look exactly alike. This demonstrates the diversity of Nature. Friendly competition means fair or supportive competition. We know that trees need sunshine and water to grow. Some of them need wind to pollinate. But, excesses of sunshine, water and/or wind are detrimental. Three trees standing back to back have a much better chance to prosper than a single tree because they not only support each other against excessive forces of Nature but also compete for the benefits of these forces. History has clearly demonstrated that diversity and fair competition in sports, arts and literature have lead to human progress. A Chinese idiom states that things differ in comparison. There is little doubt that a society can remain healthy with diversity and friendly competition in religion and faith, politics, economy, culture, education, science and technology, sports, etc..

The worldwide air travel are done with airplanes of about the same design. I wondered why rockets can not be used for inter-continental travel.

After learning about different languages, I found that each one has advantages and disadvantages. Learning two or more distinctively different languages will not only enrich a person’s understanding of human creativity but also open the door to a vast amount of knowledge. I found that the visual, two-dimensional Chinese language and the audio, one- dimensional English language complement each other very well.

I spoke a Chinese dialect called the East Peace dialect as I grew up and went to schools in East Peace county, Hunan Province. I have gradually learned the standard Chinese in order to make myself understood by people from all around China. But, I have never been as standard as a native speaker of the standard Chinese. For a long time I thought that the standard Chinese was better than my own dialect because too many different characters share the same sound in my own dialect. However, the modern computer programming languages such as Java and C++ helped me correct this thinking.

These object oriented computer languages such as Java use extensively the technique of "method overloading and overriding". For the method overloading, two or more methods within the same class share the same name but with different parameter declarations. In other words, the methods share the same name but perform somewhat different tasks. For the method overriding, a method in a sub-class has exactly the same name and parameter declarations as a method in the super-class. In other words, the two methods share identical signatures but perform different tasks in different contexts. I have learned that it can be advantageous to have the same sound for many different characters as long as these characters are used in different contexts, i.e., they do not cause misunderstanding.

In my dialect, there is no single word for the word "lie" found in both standard Chinese and English. Instead, we use the combination word "devil talk". The Chinese people called the Japanese imperialist invaders "Japanese Devils" in the Second World War. This shows that the use of the word "devil" is not trivial. The usage of "devil talk" discourages lying. It supports the latest initiative by the Chinese Communist Party to "Seek Truth from Facts".

I have learned that it does not take much to learn to understand a different accent or dialect if one is willing to learn. Take English for example, the Indian or Chinese accent is as pleasant to hear as the British or American accent.

Human equality is an idea that has fascinated the human kind since ancient times, and it is so today. The problem has not been solved because generations of politicians have tried to use a simple abstract term to represent extremely complex phenomena. Simple social interpretations ranged from "equality before the Law" to "equal property per person". The former is practiced in the West. Unfortunately, those who have more money, political or military power are usually more likely to win in courts. The latter was practiced in communist China, though not completely, until the 1970’s. While individualistic competition was considered the evil of a capitalist society and it was eliminated, competition for security turned into having as many children as biologically possible. This was later corrected by enforcing the one child per family policy. Somewhere in between, the 1948 United Nations Declaration of Human Rights declared that All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. This was not implemented in the world. Beside, the definition of equality is still is incomplete.

Besides such large issues, every person uses the concept of equality every day either consciously or unconsciously. How can one person genuinely give a pat on the shoulder of another person and say "thank you, well done."? How can a person feel happy and satisfied after a business deal with another person?. All these depend on one person’s expectation of the other. For example, if the wife thinks the husband should always do more because a man is stronger than a woman, then the husband will never get a chance to be genuinely appreciated.

With a different view on equality, one might lead a happy life with the reality unchanged. For example, when a person pass by a large orchard of Uncle Ma, the person may feel delighted to breathe the fresh air instead of being envious or hateful of his property. When a convicted murderer is not sentenced to death, a person may feel relieved that the state did not seek revenge, but rather set to reform the murderer and work to prevent other similar tragedies.

It became clear to me that human equality is embed in a set of human rights and responsibilities. The American Declaration of Independence of 1776 articulated the unalienable human rights of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. The right of life means to me that no person, whether it be an individual or an organization is permitted to willfully take a person’s life. The rights of Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness are open to interpretation. The YI LING GONG PU had a broader scope. It included best governments and organizations, individual behavior, person to person relationship, natural environment, etc. One could propose that the YI LING GONG PU is a set of complete interpretation of the rights of Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

It is clear to me that everyone can indeed enjoy equal rights and responsibilities although it may not be the same at the same time. For example, a person may be a leader at one time but a follower at another time, or a person may be a leader in one profession but a follower in another profession. Equality not only in rights but also in responsibilities would require that a system of role rotation be implemented.

I was fortunate to be awarded a graduate scholarship from Queen’s University to start a PhD program in October of 1989. After nearly four years of graduate studies and research, I earned my PhD degree in mining engineering from Queen’s University in Canada in May of 1993. I spent two terms at Queen’s University, Kingston, and the rest of the time at Laurentian University in Sudbury. In the universities, I noticed that local students had negative attitudes towards foreign students.

Sudbury is a large mining city with about 30,000 population. Two major mining companies, INCO and Falconbridge, mine the Nickel ore bodies around the Sudbury Basin. The Sudbury Basin is believed to be a large crater formed due to an impact of a great meteorite in the distant geological past. Nickel was used to make the Canadian Dollar coin and stainless steel that was required by heavy war machines. Coins are used in automatic machines such as public telephones and washing machines. One could still see the bare hills devoid of trees due to acid rain from the metallurgy stacks in the past. Re-greening had occurred and was occurring due to reduced contamination and human re-greening efforts. In the 1960’s, NASA used a site in Sudbury to train astronauts for landing on the Moon.

Figure 3. Hill with small trees in Sudbury, Canada.

Like other graduating students, I started looking for a job in Canada and United States prior to graduation, but there was not a single offer. My supervisor in Sudbury kindly offered me a post doctoral research engineer position. In 1993, I did take a trip to China in Beijing and Changsha to see if there were job opportunities. My impression at that time was that I had the only choice of taking back the rice bowl which I occupied in Changsha when I left the city in 1989. Some people resented such people who went abroad and came back to China to work the same kind of job. I chose to come back to Canada to start the Research Engineer position in Sudbury in which I would be able to develop the high-in-demand computer skills.

As early as 1989 I started learning the C computer programming language on my own. I remember that an undergraduate student laughed at my eagerness at learning computer programming. The normal was that a mining student needed only to learn to use computer programs. AutoCAD version 9 was used for project work. I felt like an idiot when I did not know what it was about.

I gradually learned the Turbo C programming and used it in my research work. A postdoctoral fellow of Turkey origin gave me good advice. In 1992, I made a good investment of about $2200 in buying a zenith 286 portable computer. In my research work from 1993 to 1995, I developed a number of computer programs for data processing and numerical solutions in mechanics. A number of my works were published in international journals and conferences.

I should like to mention that there was an agreement on income tax exemption for visiting students and scholars between China and Canada signed by the then Premier Zhao Ziyang and Prime Minister Brian Mulroney (May 12, 1986 AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE OVERNMENT OF CANADA AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA FOR THE AVOIDANCE OF DOUBLE TAXATION AND THE PREVENTION OF FISCAL EVASION WITH RESPECT TO TAXES OF INCOME). I found a copy of the agreement and sent it to Revenue Canada to request exemption many times. After years of effort, my request has not been granted. I have a friend in the United States on J1 visa. He always had the exemption.

In 1995 I still could not find a professional job. I later learned that the mining industry would only hire graduates with a Bachelor’s degree. University and other research positions are scarce and they are filled in nepotism one way or the other. The various social groups would help their own members to get jobs. I moved to Montreal to try my luck. My wife was studying there at that time, I needed not to worry about living expenses. While I was receiving employment insurance benefits, I thought of starting my own business as a consultant as well as taking a Master’s degree program in computer science. Looking back, I realize that I could not have found any contract work as a free lance consultant in Quebec.

Figure 4. A residential park in St-Zotique, Metropolitan Montreal.

After spending some time trying to apply for research grant at McGill University, I finally contacted James at Noranda Technology Centre. He was a junior Manager of HongKong origin. I got a job offer as a computer analyst to work at Flairbase Inc. which was a subcontractor for Noranda Technology Centre. The job was to make improvement on the computer programs for mine design. The programs were coded in Autolisp and run in AutoCAD. By this time, AutoCAD version 12 was used.

Montreal is a large city and is the best working place for a mining engineer. Many engineers who work in the mines want to come to work in Montreal. The Noranda Technology Centre served as a technology transfer centre for the Noranda company. Engineers came to live in Montreal for a few years to learn new technologies in the centre and then go to live at the operating plants to apply them in operations. The centre effectively served to rotate engineering personnel between operations in remote areas and a comfortable metropolitan city.

After about two years, I was under pressure to go elsewhere. Again, there were no choices. Through the back door, I went to work for the Golden Giant gold mine in Marathon, Ontario. After six months, I contacted Williams Operating Corporation and eventually signed a two-year contract working for the three companies operating on the same orebody. My job was to use 3D stress modelling to aid mine design.

By correlating observations with stress contours, I found it to be a useful tool to aid both short and long term planning. Such planning considerations as mining sequence, direction of mining, opening size, support requirement could be optimized by computing stresses around simulated excavations. Three publications came out of this work. Mining engineering had been traditionally considered as the application of rules derived from past experience. But, now we have a computational tool that can be used to analyze past experience and predict future occurrences. This means that the engineering of mining has entered into the realm of science of mining.

Experience taught me that I must prepare well for my future career by diversifying my skills. Apart from working as a geomechanics specialist during normal work hours at the mines, I worked in the evenings and weekends at home to develop a mine design software using the C programming language for the AutoCAD system. There wasn’t much to do otherwise in a small town of 5000 population. The long winter can be depressing. A good user-interface and fast speed were the goals. I spent about $300 to register a federal incorporation by the name "XY RocCAD Inc.". In Canada and the United States, taxpayers are encouraged to start a secondary business by allowing expense deduction from the existing income when no income is made from the secondary business. This tax incentive is applicable for sole proprietorship and permanent residents, but not for incorporation.

My geomechanics work received a lot of attention at Golden Giant Mine but not at Williams Mine. My computer software was well received at Williams Mine but Golden Giant Mine did not use it. My diversification strategy worked. I found myself busy and happy. I registered the copyright for my software RocCAD with the Government of Canada in 1998. I made a few thousand dollars from the licensing of RocCAD to Williams Mine in 1999 in addition to my yearly salary of $60,000. I used the money to buy new computer equipment and development software. In 10 years from 1989 to 1999, I became a specialist in computer programming through self-teaching and working.

In October of 1999 when my contract ended, the price of gold went down to historic low. It appeared that it was the notorious Bre-X scandal that triggered the down turn. The Bre-X company forged a huge gold deposit in the jungle of Indonesia that caused the loss of millions of dollars for investors. This event shook the confidence of the people in the mining industry.

The mines reacted by saving in whatever way they could. The Golden Giant Mine eventually reduced fifteen people from the work force including technicians and workers. Underground rockburst problems became worse. Workers were talking about a strike. Since I was leaving, the management teams of Golden Giant Mine and Williams Mine collaborated with the Marathon detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) to make me a scapegoat for their problems. This has occurred because I stood out as being different due to different color, national origin and/or PhD degree. They believed that a Bachelor’s degree is more than enough to be a mining engineer. They also wanted to kill a chicken to frighten the workers who were laid off.

On October 30, 1999, OPP officers in Marathon bugged and intercepted my telephone calls made to the police dispatchers in Thunderbay. In the dusk of the day, two police officers handcuffed me to the Marathon Hospital where Dr. Wilson collaborated with them. The officers then took me to the jail inside the police station in the darkness of the night through the back door. The next day, they used an ambulance to take me to the psychiatric unit of the Thunderbay Regional Hospital and forced me to stay there for five days. It turned out that the step nephew of the superintendent for Golden Giant Mine was a young officer in the Marathon detachment. Since the economy of Marathon depended on the three mines, the police detachment must had close relations with the mine management teams.

There is a paper mill in Marathon on the north shore of Lake Superior. I had a visit in the factory. Yellow wood chips came from surrounding mountains. The chips were broken down into pulp in physical and chemical processes. The pulp was finally bleached and dried into snow white papers. The waste water was processed and discharged into Lake Superior. The entire factory was automatically controlled by computers. The stinky smell from the stacks was present in the town of Marathon day and night. It was particularly severe in the evenings when wind blows in from the Lake Superior. Lake Superior and the lakes in the vicinity is the largest fresh water reserve in the world. Its influence on the regional weather is similar to that of a sea. The water temperature remains at 4 Celsius all year long. Fishes in excess of 10 pounds were abundant. The paper industry was in a recession at that time. Workers were laid off. There were rumors that there were workers in the apartment building located next to the mill who were using illegal drugs like Marijuana. Police drug busts were reported on the local radio.

I went often to the pebble beach behind the paper mill to view the beautiful clear water of Lake Superior. There were plenty of pebbles that looked like goose eggs. White sea gulls were often seen. Some times, I saw police cars parked in front of the apartment building of the paper mill. I did not think much about police affairs because I always kept a distance from either the police or crimes in my life. From my experience in Marathon, I think the drug stories were fabricated in order to keep down the workers at the paper mill.

Figure 5. Fishing at a river mouth on the north shore of Lake Superior.

I moved to a basement apartment in Etobicoke in Toronto in October of 1999 and received employment insurance benefit. I could not find a job even though there were job opportunities. There were police officers in Etobicoke who had connections with the officers in Marathon. The officers in Etobicoke coerced my doctor, my landlord and his neighbor to exert psychological pressure on me. The system worked like an Italian Muffia. The superintendent of Golden Giant Mine urged me to sell my RocCAD software to Flairbase Inc. of Montreal. His personal motive was to help the company in Montreal so that he might find a job in research or university in the future.

Figure 6. Basement apartment in Etobicoke, Toronto, Canada.

In February of 2000, I got a job offer from Autodesk Inc. in California unexpectedly. Due to a combination of circumstances, I sold the source code of RocCAD software to Flairbase Inc. free of charge with the agreement that this company will support my customers. The copyright was not included in the agreement. I have longed hoped to drive across Canada and US. This would be a good opportunity. But, since I feared for my life and I simply wanted to escape to California as soon as possible. On March 3, I took a flight for San Francisco, California.

While in California, I tried to void the RocCAD software sale agreement in many ways. I wrote first to the Ontario Civilian Commission on Police Services, and then to the RCMP Thunderbay detachment as well as RCMP headquarters in Ottawa to complain about the abuses by the Ontario Provincial Police detachment in Marathon. I wrote to Ontario Professional Engineers Association to complain about the misconduct of the engineers in Marathon. No results came out of the letters. I asked lawyers in Canada about the possibility of winning the law suit, but the answer was not good and the cost would be high. To this day, Flairbase Inc. has abandoned the contractual agreement to support the current clients of RocCAD software, namely the Williams Operating Corporation of Ontario and New Britannia Mine of Manitoba. These two companies were still using the software but did not pay the over-due license fees to anyone.

My experience indicated that there is only one system of law enforcement in Canada. The police system and even the courts system all work under the elected Canadian Government. Since nepotism is universal in Canadian society, corruption could go on unchecked. More evidence will be presented later that the police simply suppressed the minority.

In the previous two sections, I mentioned that I was forced to stay in the psychiatric section of the Thunderbay Regional Hospital. After I moved to Toronto, I was under watch-over by secret people and agents. The details are presented in this section.

In October of 1999 when my contract ended, the price of gold went down to historic low. In the last two weeks of work between October 13 Monday and 28 Thursday, 1999, the mine management of Golden Giant Mine represented by David and that of Williams Mine represented by Brian were looking for scapegoats for all kinds of problems as a result of the historically low gold price. They found me to be the weakest because of my race, color, social origin, etc. and because I had to leave. They started earnestly exerting psychological pressure on me.

Golden Giant Mine announced a surprise layoff of 15 employees that cause discontent among workers and technicians. David showed me a micro-seismic plot of the mine pillar with unusually large number of events that seemed to be artificial. It caused a certain confusion in my mind. My request to spend the last two working days at Williams Mine was unusually denied by the Golden Giant Mine. The human resource officer and the security chief mysteriously followed me when I showed up at work. This event added to a couple of previous events in the town of Marathon where I was followed and watched. I called the Marathon Police about the above duress, but no follow up by the police took place. My pocket year book, in which I noted a kind of diary, was briefly taken away from my jacket hung at the washroom entrance by the elderly secretary, but it was returned to the same pocket later. Earlier, a magazine named "Human Resource" showed up in the toilette. There was an article that said that increasingly, companies put engineers in jail to train them engineering responsibility. It made an impression on me, but, I did not think it was relevant to me. Thinking back, the mine was planning to use me as a scapegoat back then.

A couple of young engineers talked about poisoning in the fountain water and coffee. David expressed personal hostility to me on my last day of work. He had red eyes and said to me that my last paycheck will be deposited in my account. He called a goodbye meeting of engineering staff where he read my resume as if reading a eulogy for the dead. His intention for reading my resume could also be to show the engineers and technicians that I had too much academic experience to work at the mine site. He gave me a travel bag as gift.

When I was driving home and passing the entrance of Williams Mine, Brian surprisingly used car horn to pull me over the road for no purpose. That added more confusion to my already confused mined cause by the day’s experience at the Golden Giant Mine. Between October 13 Monday and 28 Thursday, 1999, James of Noranda Technology Centre who effectively managed the business of Flairbase Inc. showed up at Golden Giant Mine. He called me at my apartment and tried to provoke an argument regarding my software. He knew that my RocCAD in use at Williams Mine was much better than the IBLAST software in use at Golden Giant Mine. He likely talked David into or was used by David to put pressure on me.

In the Williams Mine, rumor spread that the large rockburst in block 4 pillar might have been caused by sabotage blasting. They investigated a fire event of electrical hoses with the rumor that it might be a sabotage. Brian appeared very unhappy when I said goodbye and asked him to sign my pass out for personal books. I left all the photographs that I took underground in the office because it was company property. I did a lot of elastic boundary element stress analysis for underground drifts and stopes at Williams Mine, and correlated stresses with underground observations. I found such analysis useful to aid mine planning. Golden Giant Mine and David Bell Mine used the results for support and planning purposes, but Williams Mine was not enthusiastic about such analytical work. Engineers and technicians at Williams Mine would rather make decisions based on daily observations. The same goes with ventilation. They did not do computer analysis of ventilation networks, although they bought a ventilation computer software at $2000 for the sole purpose of having a software. The argument was usually that there was not enough man-power to do such analysis.

I found myself frequently discharging ammonia gas with bowel movement during the last month or so of my contract. This problem was particularly serious if I ate chicken and noodle with cheese. I was craving for vegetables with Italian sauce. I thought I had a medical problem. I once ordered medication on the phone from a sales company in the United States who was advertising on the local radio. I also booked a doctor in Thunderbay to do a telescopic examination (it was not done). With the psychological pressure from the mines in the last two weeks, I finally suspected that I was drugged by their network of secret people in Marathon who wanted me to leave with disgrace. One day after work, I went to the local clinic to have a check. The ventilation technician showed up in the waiting room. He was an ex- air force pilot and used to own a decoration fish tank store. He had been very nice to me. He might have connections to the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Marathon detachment. The lady Doctor of Indian origin did not do any test or check. She told me that I did not have any problem.

Mining engineer Greg oversees both geotechnical and ventilation groups. Earlier, a few of us went for a fishing trip to the summer camp of the technical superintendent Brian. Greg, Brian and I was in Brian's truck on our way to Brian's camp. Greg was reading a fishing book on the truck and I said to him that he was a good fisherman. He might have taken it the wrong way because a native man repeated exactly the same sentence to me in the Thunderbay Regional Hospital where I was persecuted. The native man seemed to have a fun time in the hospital. He played guitar and had two girl friends visit him. We did not talk about anything relating to fish when he said that sentence. Greg likely had connections with the young OPP officers in Marathon.

In one evening in the preceding two weeks prior to my arrest, I saw computer network technician Mr. Atkinson from Williams Mine in front of the entrance of our apartment building with a computer keyboard in his hand. I thought he helped the police to tap my telephone line. I do not know this was true or not. However, I am sure that the Marathon OPP taped both my telephone calls and internet email. Information from such tapping was used to induce my arrest. On October 29 Friday, I was having my car brake fixed in the Canadian Tyre store, a camera man with a TV camera came out of a van marked "Marathon Community TV" and started shooting at me. As I walked towards him, he quickly packed up his camera and drove the van away. He likely got my picture and sent it to secret collaborators in Canada and US. The mechanic drove my car for a test ride for an unusual long time until the day became dark. I suspected that he had my car key copied in another store in Marathon. This suspicion was later confirmed. For example, I went for a haircut near a grocery shop in Etobicoke, Toronto. On my way back, I found my car lights turned on and emergency lights flashing.

On October 30, Saturday, I met Brian in the post office when I was sending off my books to Toronto, but he later followed me home in his truck. He drove away when I walked towards his truck. I called the police communication number in Thunderbay, but the call was intercepted by Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) in Marathon. When I was walking towards the police station only about 300 m away, two officers came in a car and a van and intercepted me. They did not let me go to the police station, instead, they cornered me back to my apartment on the second floor and hand-cuffed me with the help of a Williams employee and another unknown man. The two officers forcefully took me to the Marathon hospital in a car.

The police called in the on-call Doctor Wilson who collaborated with the police men and wrote down whatever the police made up and told him. For example, the police told him that I hang from the balcony, but the fact was that I was standing on the balcony and hand-waved to outside people to call the police. Two young officers talked between themselves about strange things such as pulling a line to cause death on the highway. I did not know what they were after and thought they wanted the photograph film in my camera, because the harassment that I was faced with, I took photographs of my environment as evidence. I asked that either Brian or David came to see me. David did come. At the order of the police officer, David asked for my keys to my apartment in the Williams Apartments, they searched my apartment without my permission. Later the police took me to the police jail in the cover of darkness. It appeared that David was following orders of the police rather than his own will. In the jail, they call in a male caretaker. I asked for dinner. But he brought in a box of salty large chips of fried potato without any soft drink. I refused to eat. I also refused to drink the tab water because I thought they might drug me to make me look sick. I tried hard not to pee during the night so as not to get thirsty. At midnight or later, police brought in a couple women to adjacent cells of the jail. They screamed and begged to go home. I did not see them but thought they were hookers. I heard of native women working as hookers years ago in Sudbury when I was working on my PhD thesis.

I suspect that the police collaborators in Marathon had access to my apartment in the Williams Mine apartment buildings. They likely drugged my food with nerve chemical to cause fear in me and also drugs to cause large amounts of stinky gas in bowl movement in the last two weeks.

The Ontario Provincial Police used an ambulance at the expense of the public to forcefully transport me to the Psychiatric Section of the Marathon Regional Hospital on Sunday morning, October 31, 1999. In the hospital, they called in a psychiatrist of Indian origin to give me a preliminary check. They told me that the next day, the resident psychiatrist would give me the diagnosis. Because I was anxious to move to Toronto, I asked if he could help me get out. He said that would depend on what I say. I later realized that he had been instructed to coach me to say what they wanted me to say. He was merely one of those who wanted to make money on me. The nurses drugged me for five days between October 31 Sunday and November 5 Friday 1999. The following are examples.

1. A nurse gave me a red candy. Upon contact with the lips, it immediately caused numbness in the head. I could not think and I did not want to do anything. If I saw a picture or a page of a book, I would not know what it was about. Prior to this, I saw an apparently slow young man in the corridor. But, after I was drugged, I was walking and talking with him slowly, with twisted tongue, as if we were in the same situation. This candy drug was very much like the "Curse Ring" that the Monk Tang-Sen used to control Monkey Sun WuKong in the Chinese novel "Journey to the West". A second candy of the same shape and color on lips would release the Curse Ring and "wake me up" suddenly. With the wakeup, my mind became clear and I wanted to make phone calls. In the hospital, I was only allowed to talk to a designated person outside who was David’s wife. All other calls would not go through.
2. Many a time after drinking the juice or eating the food provided, my heart beat accelerated and I felt I was going to die. One of the male head-nurse would rub his handkerchief against his own forehead to show that he was so concerned that he sweated. Immediately after I was transferred from the observation room to a care room, I saw two police officers carry a big man into the observation room.
3. Many a night, the sleeping pills that I asked for induced me to have a sexual desire and made me sleepless on the contrary. Young lady nurses would often show up for the night shifts. There was a large TV room on the same floor for the patients. They had different magazines in there. One magazine by the name "Madamoiselle" was conspicuously placed on the chairs. On cover and inside were full pictures of beautiful women. I soon believed under the influence of the drug and the environment that I was been pressured to have sex with someone in there in order to get out of the hospital. I even thought that I was being trained to join some kind of Muffia. Fortunately, I did not lose control to let that happen.
4. They mixed drugs in food or juice to induce either a low-cast feeling so I did not want to talk or do anything, or a hyper feeling when I wanted to sing, play piano or play table tennis. The drugs would also make me search for past events and the associated people with suspicion. It appeared that different drugs would magnify memories of different times in the past, i.e., in the near-past or far-past. For example, I was made to believe in my mind that past deaths that I heard of were most likely murders by persons closely connected to them. I once firmed believed that I was being subjected to a psychological evaluation administered by the government of Canada for new citizens. It came into my memory that friend Joe once told me that every new citizen of Canada had to be evaluated psychologically. I now do not believe that he told me so. I also believed that such evaluation was a counterpart of the so-called "Underground Induction", a training procedure that mining companies consider mandatory for people to go underground to work.
5. One day I ate a piece of beef in supper and some cookies in the evening. During the night, I had continuous discharge of ammonia-smelling gas. My roommate, who was an alcohol addict of Austria origin, was annoyed.
6. Psychiatric doctor, Dr. Hutchinson, initially said that I would be immediately released. But, after conferring with Dr. Wilson, the police collaborator in Marathon hospital, she diagnosed me as psychic. All the doctors tried to consider my love of photographing as an abnormal behavior and a psychological problem. She made sure to me as well as to David’s wife that I must find a psychiatrist in Toronto after I was released.
7. There is a corner in the dinning room where there were brochures on Christianity. I had not noticed its existence because I was under the influence of the Curse Ring drug most of the time. One day, I felt a sudden relief in the mind after a meal that was likely drugged. It created a deep desire in spirituality. I saw the brochures and began to read about God. A native Indian man brought in a Gitar and played a Christian song. I started following him in singing and felt great joy.
8. There was a man in his 50's with only one arm. He said he was with a group of volunteers from Thunderbay to help people with problems. Therefore, some of the patients in the psychiatric section may be such actors or actress. He was reading a bible, and I was interested in what he was reading. Once day, I said I needed to change underwear but could not go outside to buy due to hospital restrictions. He gave me a shirt and refused my payment. I felt greatly indebted to him. The following day, I cried loudly with full tears when he said he was leaving the hospital (he came back sometime later). I knew later that I was under the influence of some kind of drug since I normally would not cry in tears in that situation. It was probably Thursday evening, I was accompanied by a nurse to have a walk around the hospital. Back to the hospital, I had some salad. A drug in the salad put me into a deep cry immediately afterwards.
9. I used to make notes in my palm size calendar. Inside, I noted events and names of people when I was harassed and coerced in Marathon. Once, a girl patient came up and told me how to erase those notes. I did not erase the notes at that time, but later I realized that I would not get my freedom unless I did so. In the basement of the house in Etobicoke, Toronto, I finally erased the notes which included the names of the OPP police officers who arrested me. I also threw into the garbage the roll of film that had photographs of people who were witnesses to my arrest in Marathon.
10. One day, I was released to go to the stores in the vicinity of the hospital to buy underwear. I felt high in spirit at that time. I felt happy to give two one-dollar coins to a man who was begging for quarters (I did not have much cash with me). I took the exception to buy a pair of leather shoes at $70 which was a high price to me at that time. I felt I was undergoing a psychological test. But the test did not stop in the hospital.

After I was released from the hospital on Friday evening, November 5, I was provided with a bus ticket back to Marathon. Nurse Gloria accompanied me to Greyhound Bus station in Thunderbay. On the bus, when I went to the toilette in the back of the bus, I saw a Young lady sitting on the laps of a young man in a sexual gesture. Inside the toilette room, I saw condom-like square sealed pads on the bench, but they turned out to be sealed wet napkins. I arrived in Marathon close to mid-night. I was provided with a Motel room in Marathon. It was already snow in Marathon, but the room's air conditioner did not start. The pub was closed and there was nothing to eat. I felt an irresistible headache when I started to sleep and saw a candy under the bed lamp on the bedside table. I ate the candy and it caused sleeplessness and sexual desire. I called Motel attendant Lori, a fat girl. She said the air conditioner did not work and then brought in a few blankets. I realized my persecutors were still after me.

The next day, I got the car key from the Motel attendant and checked the safety of my car parked outside the Motel. I found that the engine oil cap was missing. I found it on the car and secured it properly. Relating this to the police talk of "pull a line on the highway to cause death on the highway" in the evening of my arrest in Marathon, it made me fear for my life. After a visit to David's house, I drove my car from Marathon to Toronto with hotel stops in Sault Saint Mary and Sudbury. On the highway between Marathon and Sault Saint Mary, a man pointed a shot gun at me from a distance.

When I arrived in Etobicoke, Toronto, at my rented basement apartment on cloverhill road, I was relieved. I went to the nearby school to find a phone to call my landlord. A man appeared moments later. But he turned out to be a neighbor by the name Rob. He lived in the adjacent house which had a cylindrical boxing cushion hung from the ceiling. The basement was dark with only one window on the ground surface that was fitted with steel bars. The re-ceiling work of the apartment was barely completed. I could smell the odor of the wood during the first night. The first day I arrived, I helped the landlord clear the leaves in the backyard. The landlord wore ear pads for protection against the wind. This reminded of David’s wife who wore the same thing on the day I left Marathon. That was my first suspicion that my landlord and the David's family had connections. In the first night of my residence, the landlord brought in a large dog that had a piece of skin removed in the heap from a cancer operation. The dog wore a cylindrical shell around the head to protect it. Since I was just released from the hospital, I had the fear that the dog was used to frighten me.

Neighbor Rob did not go out to work but had a new van and a new car. He played a role of a Muffia and exerted psychological pressure on me during my stay at that address. One day, the police placed a parking ticket on my car that was properly parked on the side of the road in front of my basement apartment. Rob once called me from his house and said that my driver side front wheel was flat. But, I found it to be fine. He put on his one-eye black mask after returning from the Christmas vacation and this caused a little fear in me in that particular environment. The landlord also played a role of Muffia. He had a wife and a two-year old boy. He said that there was Italian Muffia in the area but he was not Italian. He said his wife grew up in the Ottawa area that happened to be where David of Golden Giant Mine grew up. Things that I found missing after I moved from Marathon to Toronto showed up gradually days later in my basement apartment. I received strange phone calls inquiring about the landlord's son. He gave me the impression that if I decided to move out, he would cause me arrested by the police by false accusation.

The rent for the basement apartment was $600. It has a used electrical stove which could not deliver enough heat for frying food. The stove was somehow disconnected many times. There was an Italian Restaurant at 5 minutes of walking distance from where I lived. The police officers were frequent customers of fast food there. I had to have one meal of $5 of fast food every day and a dinner of $20 every week there, otherwise, I would be somehow drugged with the "Curse Ring" drug that I experienced in the Thunderbay Regional Hospital. The drug blocked my ability to think and work. Once, I was given two boxes of lighter matches as gift after a $20 dinner. I thought they either wanted me to burn the house I was living in or start smoking.

I tried very hard to fight drugging by the Muffia. I asked the landlord for permission to lock the basement apartment. He denied it on the ground that the house was always locked. I bought only canned soft drinks so that I could discard it once it was opened. However, I continued to be drugged some how. I collected those cans which I felt was mixed with drug, but never had the courage to take them to the authorities. I thought the landlord might be able to mix in drugs in the tap water. So, I went to the Canada Federal Building by bus to fetch water from the fountain. However, there was no effective way that I could prevent myself from being drugged in isolation.

Once I was jogging on the sidewalks of the streets for physical exercises, I heard the sounds of pistol gun firing. Further on, I found girls following me and at the same time talking on a cellular phone. There was a front page story on Toronto Star newspaper at that time about finding the bone remains of a baby stolen by a couple of criminals in Etobicoke. My thinking at that time was that the police could make up anything to keep themselves busy at work. All those added fear to my mind.

My search for a job in Toronto did not result in any result. I was mainly looking for computer software development jobs, but I also went to University of Toronto to see if there was any research opportunities. The landlord man was a mechanical engineer, and his wife was an interior designer. When in Sudbury, I thought I might be able to find AutoCAD contract jobs through them. I once asked the landlord and his wife about this. I also asked if he was a professional engineer. He said it was not necessary to be a professional engineer because he was moving into managerial position. He said he was once unemployed and worked to repair bicycles when looking for a job. His wife also said that there was no contract work available. I suspected that the network of secret agents prevented me from finding a job in Toronto.

During my stay in the basement apartment, my daily life may have been monitored secretly. I felt being followed and watched where ever I went. It was even possible that my apartment was monitored with hidden video and audio devices. For example, when I wrote about my experience on the computer, I would hear noises upstairs that would indicate disapproval in my mind. A few times, when I went out of the apartment, I would meet with the landlord who happened to be going out at the same time. I was looking for rental apartment on the newspapers and tried to move out. Once I went into a small Chinese restaurant near my apartment. There was no one else except for myself. A man came in a moment later. I ordered a small lunch and asked the waitress for the Chinese newspaper to look for rental apartments. She said she did not have it. The man pointed out that there were newspapers on the table. I looked at the newspaper and found no rental apartments, which was unusual. I thought that the man was a Muffia man or secret agent. His gang could even influence the Chinese newspaper to prevent me from moving out.

During the Christmas of 1999, I went to New York city, where my wife was working. I went to Flairbase Inc., Montreal from New York to give a demo of the RocCAD software as invited by Flairbase and encouraged by David. Luc, Gaetan and Hung of Flairbase and James, Les, and Ken of Noranda Technology Centre were present to see the demo. Ken was also a new Canadian citizen. I asked him whether or not it was true that new citizens of Canada had to be subject to a psychological evaluation. He said he never heard of it. I asked James and Luc if they go church. They said they did not go church. I was told that Luc reprogrammed the SECTION module of AMINE with the Delfi programming language in a month. I was also told that a former co-worker John reprogrammed the MINEGRID module of AMINE with the Object ARX programming language. I was skeptical of these exaggerations in my mind. I was looking for a job but they told me that there was no funding at Flairbase Inc.. I went back to New York city.

I went for a few interviews on Manhattan island with the help of the Atlantis Job Placement company. I went to many interviews. Some companies were looking for junior programmers or technical workers, and some large corporations used the opportunity to brand or advertise their company name. Once, on my way to interview with the H2O music software company, I bought a cup of coffee from a moving stand and became intoxicated with the "Curse Ring" drug and some other toxicants. During the interview, I was unable think and had nose drops all the time. After the interview, I went to the washroom and found my legs vibrating by themselves. The front door of our apartment building in Brooklyn got damaged again and again by vandalism and the police showed up on the street often. Our apartment was once broken into and the locks were damaged. The neighborhood locksmith store appeared to be the beneficiary of such vandalism. I felt that the police and the gang were connected.

After a few talks with the placement company, it became apparent that I was prevented from finding a job in New York city by mysterious forces. I left New York city back to Toronto ahead of schedule because I was unable to sleep under the influence of the "Curse Ring" drug. On the Amtrak train from New York to Toronto, I was still unable to sleep. A man displayed both American and Canadian passports. While it is not legal to have double citizenship in the USA, but it is a common practice. I had a sausage and a Pepsy can drink for lunch from the canteen on the train, the "Curse Ring" was immediately released and my mind became clear. I was then able to fall asleep. At that time I received a cellular phone call from the Atlanta placement company in Manhattan. I was told that an interview was awaiting me. I felt it was strange and that they belonged to the same gang. The underground gang can do wonders in Eastern America! I must admit that I would not be able to sense being intoxicated if I did not have the experience in the Thunderbay Regional Hospital.

As asked by Dr. Hutchinson and David’s wife, I found a psychiatrist, Dr. Pajawani in Etobicoke. I did so in order to avoid further arrest by the police. In my appointments with Dr. Pajawani, he prescribed an anti-depression drug, which did not do good or damage to my health. I figured that it was how the Doctors in Canada helped each other to get money from the Government Insurance Plan. It was David’s wife who predicted that I would have a period of depression in Toronto. She expressed that she had a period of depression during her youth. On January 10, 2000, at the request of Flairbase Inc. and as its representative, I, in the company of James, went on a trip to Brunswick Mine of Noranda Inc. to see if I can transfer the geology software from Bentley MicroStation to AutoCAD. I could get the job if the contract was signed. I felt it was a difficult job to do. The contract was eventually not signed.

I called David and his wife many times about my situation in Toronto including the strange experience on the Amtrak train. David’s wife urged me to go to the Salvation Army church and the Baptist church. The David couple eventually asked me not to call them again. He likely conveyed my depressive situation to James of Noranda Technology Centre because they kept frequent telephone calls between them. James told me that David was also looking for a job to get out of the mine. James effectively managed the business of Flairbase Inc.. Since I did not know who was causing all the problems for me, I suspected that Jehovah's Witnesses played a hand behind. I was making calls about my concerns to Rod Zalesky in Sudbury who was a Jehovah's Witness known to me and my wife for many years. He gladly talked to me many times until I left Toronto for California. I also made a visit to Dave Mullola, another Jehovah's Witness who moved from Sudbury to Toronto. I talked to him on the phone many times until I left Toronto. Rod and Dave knew also that I was in a confused mental state during my stay in Toronto.

On January 18, I received a surprise phone call for interview from Johnny Prewitt at Autodesk Inc. of California. I had a successful interview with a few junior Test Development analysts and the manager David Lein at Autodesk Inc. on February 4. After I returned to Toronto, I felt I had to escape the basement apartment in Etobicoke, but feared that I might be arrested if I moved out. On the weekend of January 5-7, it took me the courage, equivalent to that of an escaping prisoner, to finally pack up my belongings in my car and drove slowly onto the highway towards Mississauga. I feared that the police might stop me at any time and arrest me with false evidence or accusation. I was relieved when I made it to the house of a Chinese family from HongKong. The rent for one room was $300. But, shortly afterwards, I went into depression again because I feared that the police in Mississauga would be the same as in Etobicoke and they could arrest me any time.

Before I moved to Mississauga, I mailed an application for an increase of life insurance to Manulife. After obtaining information about my illness from Thunderbay Regional Hospital, Manulife decided to decline my application for insurance increase. During that period in Toronto, I thought of different ways to commit suicide. Firstly, I once jogged to a water front park and stand on the bank of Lake Ontario. I looked into the water, but I thought of my son Jimmy. I knew for certain that he and his mother would be worse off if I died, because I witnessed my Aunt's family suffer long after her husband was said to have committed suicide-for-fear-of-crime in the cultural revolution of China. My wife repeatedly assured me that psychic is a mild mental illness and that I would be fine after recovering from it. She said her father once suffered psychic. She said that she was not able to take care of Jimmy alone. Secondly, I thought of crushing my car into a policeman on duty, but that policeman who left himself unguarded was not likely a bad one. In most cases, policemen hide inside cars armed with steel bars in the front. There was one occasion when a handsome young police man stood in the middle of a four-way intersection to direct the traffic when the traffic lights were out. The really bad cops hide themselves in the dark. Some Canadians said that the day cops are good cops but the night cops are bad cops. Thirdly, I thought of starting a fire in my basement apartment, but the landlord would collect insurance to buy a new house.

During the Christmas of 1999, I received phone calls from old Chinese friends. I dared not to talk about my situation, because I believed that it would do myself or friends no good. My persecutors were too big. It was against the above background that I signed the RocCAD sales agreement with Flairbase Inc. on Feb. 11, 2000. The fees that Flairbase paid to me was the same as that Flairbase would collect from licensees of RocCAD software immediately. In other words, RocCAD was sold to Flairbase Inc. free of charge. I expressed clearly that Flairbase Inc. was to support the RocCAD licensees. Copyright transfer was not discussed whatsoever. Looking back, I was mentally incompetent to sign the sales agreement.

Above experience shows that drugs that affect human thinking in a way that is unbelievable do exist in the world. Like many other human inventions, they are powerful and can do either good or bad or both. It is imperative that human society control their use effectively so that they do good only. Canada is still under a monarchical dictatorship where a powerful minority uses the powerful police and Hi-Tech equipment to control the people. If a powerful and legitimate organization such as the police pursues an individual with determination, the individual will collapse no matter whether the individual is innocent or guilty. This is because the organization is not only paid generously, equipped with powerful gears, but also rewarded and promoted upon the success of such pursuing, whereas the individual will be busy not only at avoiding his/her pursuers, avoiding the public but also finding food and shelter. The individual has no chance of fighting back.

In the ten years in Canada, I found the Canadian society to be peaceful, well organized and prosperous. Canada was twice rated by the United Nations to be the best country to live. Bearing in mind that Canada has rich natural resources and has only the amount of population of Taiwan, I searched for additional reasons. I explored various aspects of the Canadian life and came into contact with a few religious organizations. The Jehovah’s Witnesses organization was the first one I got in touch with. The organization is an incorporated not-for-profit society with headquarters in Brooklyn, New York. The final authority therefore rests in New York.

The Jehovah’s Witnesses organization preaches God’s Word by knocking on doors. Most members are from the working class of the society. It brings together people of all ages, sex, race and color into the same meeting room. For the basic organization unit, the congregation, a group of elders act as leaders. They take turns to chair meetings and give Sunday talks. They construct simple houses as meeting places with their own hands. They regularly clean the houses themselves. Many congregations may share the same house. Therefore, their operating expenses are very low. Revenues are from voluntary contributions and possibly from real state buy and sales. So, the monetary burden on each family is very low.

There are three meetings every week, one family book study in the evening that lasts for one and half hour, one speaking training school in the evening that lasts for one and half hours, and one Sunday meeting that lasts for two hours. The family book study is normally held in a member’s house where books relating to the bible provided by the organization are studied word by word. The speaking training school is usually held in the Kingdom Hall where people of all ages are trained to give bible related talks. The Sunday meeting is held in the Kingdom Hall where someone from a different congregation gives one-hour talk and the other hour is used to study the Watch Tower magazine. Singing to the recorded melodies is performed before and after each meeting.

Religious studies are mostly about ancient history, moral standards and inter personal relations. Current events and modern science are sometimes integrated into these studies. A member is bound to improve on literacy, knowledge, interpersonal communication and trust. In addition, being a part of an organization, an individual will have the moral and economic support to pursue peaceful and lawful remedies if persecuted by powerful individuals or organizations.

Three radical positions distinguish Jehovah’s Witnesses from other religious organizations. The first is absence from voting in political elections, the second is refusal to join the army, and the third is reluctance to accept blood transfusion. The ultimate punishment for not adhering to these rules is expulsion from the organization subject to later reinstatement. The first two positions place the organization at a neutral and peaceful position internationally. The third position has brought in controversy. As far as blood transfusion is concerned, each congregation has a medical liaison committee made up of adults who would visit the patient and talk to the doctor if the question arises. They would press for non-blood operation. My understanding is that the existence of a non-professional medical group has broader purposes than the blood transfusion issue. They keep in touch with both the patient and the doctor to facilitate good communication, cooperation and due diligence. The members of the medical group would gain knowledge from former members, learn current medical technology, and pass the knowledge to later members. The fact that women are considered as secondary to men is a result of the western mainstream Christian culture.

I went to a Chinese Missionary Church in Sudbury for a couple of years on Sundays. The pastor was an elderly person from Singapore. Supporting members were mainly Cantonese speaking restaurant owners and workers. There was a saying that he preached the good news from East to West. He spoke both Cantonese and Mandarin dialects. A chemistry professor of Taiwan origin interpreted for him from Cantonese to Mandarin. Because it was an independent church, it lacked the benefits of a large international organization.

I went to a few other Christian churches. They resemble clubs of people with similar interests. The churches generally talk about morality among people of all ages, serve as places for interpersonal communications and provide a learning environment for children.

California became a state of the United States 150 years ago. The state has a white flag bearing a red star, a black bear and the words "California Republic". What is unique in California is that great effort has been taken to preserve the fresh water resource to support the most advanced industries in the world and a diverse agriculture in a land short of fresh water. Small and large dams have been built to collect rain-water. The reservoir areas have also been developed as recreation centers with camping, boating and fishing. There is usually a fish nursery attached to each large dam where salmon fishes from the ocean are collected for seeds and numerous seedlings are raised, which are then released back into the streams and reservoirs. Electricity is also generated at large reservoirs.

Large industries have developed to support outdoor recreation and living. Boats, campers, tents, fish tackles and camping grounds are the examples. Fruit farming and new communities have been established on highlands around the reservoirs and natural lakes. These are the places where residents from the cities spend their weekends and vacations.

California is a rare place in the West where rice is farmed. They have learned that the rice field produces much less dust than the wheat or corn field. I saw many whirlwind that carry dust into the sky on the dry and flat wheat or corn farm land during the ploughing season. Tornado is often reported on TV.

California is most famous for its redwood trees. They can grow to a maximum of many feet in diameter and more than 30 m tall. It is a hard wood of exceptional quality. It has been used to construct large ships, railway bridges, railways and houses in the past. However, the harvest time is 60 to 100 years. With clear cutting, new trees would not be able to grow as big as the original ones in hundreds of years.

Marin county is a hilly country North of San Francisco across the Golden Gate Bridge. It is located between the Pacific Ocean and the San Francisco Bay. It is mostly a residential area covered by a lot of trees. The China Camp State Park was located on one of the many hills. Other than the park, the valleys and the hills are full of resident houses. Many houses are hidden in the trees. Deer can be seen running around in the trees. Residents who used to live in San Francisco now live here or further north. Some of the world’s most wealthy people live here. An ordinary house with three good trees costs at least half a million dollars.

One could often see tall Chinese pine trees. Tangerine and lemon fruit trees are popular as decorations around houses. One can also find loquat trees. These trees often stand by the roads and pedestrians can reach out to grab a fruit. However, I have not seen any one do so. Myself and my 7 year old son walk by these trees often. The fruits are sometimes partially harvested and some hang on the trees around the year till the next harvest.

Figure 7. Chinese pine beside a swimming pool (photo was taken shortly before it was cut down)

In the valleys of Mount Tamalpais, cascade dams were built to collect rain-water which supplies the county all year long. The reservoir and the forest provide habitat for wild life. Air is pumped into the water in the hot summer to keep it clean.

There are all kinds of service industries. House protection and renovation is my favorite topic because too often I have seen old houses being torn down in order to build new ones. Most of the old houses are made of wood here. They have learned that constructing new houses costs more than renovating old ones. The wooden houses are subject to deterioration in rain and wind. Trees are planted to protect them. If there is space, large and tall trees like the redwood and the needle-leaf Chinese pine trees and others provide excellent shield. If there is no space, tall but narrow trees like the hedge cypress, white birch, bamboo provide protection against windy rain. If there is no space at all, ivy type of wall climbing vegetation is used. There are also numerous artificial materials that can be painted or sprayed on walls. New synthetic material such as glass fiber plates provides excellent protection against weathering effects. Rock and ceramic tiles are popular and expensive material for floor renovation as well as wooden and bamboo plates.

Since California is build on earthquake active zones, buildings must be able to stand against earthquakes. Apartment buildings made entirely of wood are being constructed. Tall and large building made entirely of steel are also constructed.

Fire prevention and fighting are of course important business in this county with a lot of trees. Each house is provided with fire extinguishers and alarms. Fire stations have mobile trucks to cope with emergencies. I have seen helicopters being used to carry buckets of water to spray on forest fires. I was told that they were private helicopters. The owners formed an association that agreed to offer voluntary help in fire emergencies.

As in any other metropolitan area, traffic jamming is a problem for every one. Although bicyclists have the same right as motor vehicles on the streets by law, I have not seen many brave bicyclists. Single-person three-wheel battery powered cars are being sold in San Rafael. I predict that this type of small vehicles will become popular.

Spanish speaking Hispanics are the largest minority here. Large companies like telephone, utility and shopping centers provide Spanish service as well as English. Unfortunately, there are negative attitudes towards those Hispanics who are poor or look dark. They engage in labor intensive work such house renovation and construction. Hispanics from South America are not very different from Chinese in appearance.

We live in a two-bedroom apartment in a small three-storey building. The same landlord owns the two apartment buildings of a total of 20 units at the same address. He was a graduate of civil engineering and a musician. He earned most of his money while working in a night club. He managed the property very well. The lighting and ventilation in the kitchen and the bathroom are better than at other rental properties. He is always happy to offer help even if it is not his responsibility. He and his wife helped me move from one apartment to another free of charge. He helped boost my car. There is a small outdoor swimming pool that utilizes solar energy for heating. It is fenced with chain-link steel meshes. Large needle-leave Chinese pine trees decorate the front yard. These pine-trees generally branch side ways to provide large areas of shade, but are not straight. What is unusual is that in the same front yard two trees that have grown on the same spot side by side are both tall and straight. I found many exceptionally large and tall needle-leave pine trees that grow to the same height and diameter as the redwood behind the San Rafael city hall in a well forested valley. This is in contrast with the usually short pine trees elsewhere. While the broad pine trees provide very good shade, the rosin may be a problem for parked cars.

My neighbors are very friendly. We give each other assistance whenever it is needed. A elderly Caucasian lady who is retired and live downstairs gave my family much help. She helped pick up my son from school or look after him at home many times. We exchanged gifts and food on holidays. Our doors need not be locked. We walked in the San Rafael city during the night without any problems.

Since my father is a veteran of China’s liberation, I have paid attention to the treatment of veterans in North America. The Memorial Day holiday is mainly for veterans. The United States government considers veterans as a separate class that needed special treatment on many government forms. The Department of Veteran Affairs oversees special hospitals and research centers across the country.

The city of San Rafael has two public high schools, a public middle school, and many public elementary schools. The city also runs public pre-schools and after-school children’s centers. I have visited the middle and high schools. They are quite spacious. Besides classrooms, they all have indoor as well as outdoor basketball courts. They also have outdoor soccer and track fields. Unfortunately, the school compounds have all been cleared of trees that would provide necessary shield again the strong summer sunshine. Schools run from 8:30 to anywhere between 14:00 and 15:00. While schools are free, after school daycare are not.

My son went to the Gallinas School when he transferred from New York city to California. His school in Brooklyn, New York was in a large multi-storey building with tight security. On the contrary, nearly all elementary schools in San Rafael are on large and open grounds. There are both indoor and outdoor sports grounds. Basketball, soccer, running, and Monkey bars are the most common sports. Gallinas is a mixture of middle and elementary schools with grades from 1 to 8. As a result, they have a good indoor basketball court, a large outdoor soccer field, and outdoor basketball courts. What interested me was that they have a special basketball court with lower baskets. My 7 year-old son enjoyed it very much. I myself enjoyed dunking the basketball like the MBA stars.

My son transferred from Gallinas School to Coleman School in second grade to be closer to home. Coleman School is a small elementary school. There are both kindergarten and after-school children’s care on the same compound. Classrooms are one-storey simple structures, but a variety of beautiful trees surround them. They have computer laboratory and arts laboratory. Lunches are provided in school at a cost and students take turns to help allocate the lunch. School administration consists of a full time principal and a full time administrative assistant. Other than regular teachers, there are part time special programs teachers who travel to different schools to help certain students who need special care. School management comes from two different sources, the Marin County Office of Education and the School Site Council. The latter is made up of parents, teachers and administration. In addition, the Parent and Teacher Association of Coleman help organize special events and programs such as the Coleman International Festival to raise funds to fund special programs. The organization of San Rafael Schools manages student bus transportation, sports facilities and others. Unfortunately, the entire Coleman school was taken down along with a few trees in 2003-2004 in order to construct a brand new school made of wood.

More and more people are interested in China. More and more made-in-China products appear in stores. After school Chinese language classes are offered at both elementary and high school levels.

The American people sacrificed blood to achieve unity from the Atlantic to the Pacific. They wave flags of all sizes on a daily basis to marshal unity. Students recite the Pledge of Allegiance in class every morning to cultivate the sense of unity. The pledge reads like this: I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

I came to the United States to work for Autodesk Inc. in California in March of 2000. Autodesk was best known for manufacturing AutoCAD. My job was a quality assurance engineer for the AutoCAD 2000 version. The job involved using scripts to automatically test AutoCAD and programming an internal IIS web site to present test results.

I started to be more seriously involved with the organization of Jehovah’s Witnesses. I participated in the Tuesday evening family book studies, Thursday evening speaking school and Sunday meetings. I also studied the book "United in Worship" with an elder, Dick. More importantly, I started reading the bible from beginning to end.

I happened to see an advertisement brochure for the San Rafael Citizen Police Academy. I was curious about it and joined the Year 2000 fall class. Any one with a California drivers license who does not have a record of felony can participate in the class. I was told that such class has been held throughout United States for fifteen years. It is a three months class with one evening class every week. The police officers came to the class to talk about what they do on their jobs. I was told that the officers, young and old, rotate their jobs as street officers, detectives, and on specialized teams such as the rapid response team, the precision shooting team and the hostage negotiation team. I thought this was a very good practice to keep officers sharp at all times. There are officers of different ages, races, sex, and stature. Officers also go to the schools to teach about illegal drugs. An officer by the name of Joe studied and obtained for a Doctor of Psychology degree without being absent from work. We got the chance to visit jails, ride in police cars and a police speed boat, try pistol shooting in an indoor range, and play the electronic shooting simulator. The city mayor and the police chief showed up at the graduation ceremony. On December 6, I graduated with a certificate. One important concept I learned was that a criminal offense is a crime against the state rather than the victim. Seeking justice is therefore a service to the state rather than the victim alone. I realized that the world Jewish people who have sought justice against the Nazi criminals decades after the end of World War II provided service to humanity.

Encouraged with the experience at the San Rafael Citizen Police Academy, I also joined the Marin County Sheriff’s Academy. They do more or less similar work except for the Bailiff duties in the county courts and duties in the county jail facility. The jail facility was built underground inside a hill at the civic center to preserve the natural hilly landscape. This facility houses those waiting to be tried and sentenced in courts. It is spacious and clean. A group of us also had the opportunity to visit the California State Prison, the "San Quentin Prison". It is an old and crowded prison. Murder convicts are jailed in there. I saw that three guards with steel hats and pepper spray accompanied a prisoner outside the jail cells. There was an execution chamber inside the prison. We were told that execution methods evolved from hanging, electrification, gas execution to lethal injection. California was one of the few states in the United States where capital punishment remains.

Both the city police and the county Sheriff use a few trained dogs. The purchase price plus the yearly maintenance costs for a dog would amount to as much as the salary for a junior police officer. The dogs perform tasks that are dangerous or impossible for humans to do. They also aid officers in their regular duties. One sheriff told that he dealt with a fake suicide attempt on the Golden Gate Bridge. The suspect would not surrender until he threatened to let loose the dog. There is a common understanding that those suspects who would not give up to the police officers would do so if the dogs were released.

The San Rafael city fire department also conduct training courses for residents on a voluntary basis. Between February 13 and March 14, 2002, I attended the introductory courses on disaster preparedness. Pictures of past earthquakes were shown. Fire fighting and emergency rescue methods were taught and practiced. It was well understood that the people themselves are the solutions, not the professional firefighters because (1) it is difficult for the professionals to be on site on time, and (2) the professionals could not help if the fire is beyond its initial stage. I reflected on the Chinese way of cooking with a couple of woks that have tall and tight cover. Oil fire in the wok can be easily extinguished with a tight cover that cuts off the oxygen supply. High vapor pressure in a sealed wok helps kill micro-organisms in the food. It also helps temper the food to the desired flavor. For example, hot pepper can become mild vegetable in a wok. More importantly, the houses in the countryside are constructed of mud bricks that do not transmit heat, good for fire prevention.

I was fired from my job at Autodesk on August 15, 2000. I was escorted by the security officer out of the building and told not to come back. The company used tactics to disguise the act of discrimination. I went to the Marin County human rights commission, the California Board of Labor Relations, and the Chinese for Affirmative Action group. These organizations could not help me at all because of the tactics used by Autodesk Inc..

My personal property such as books and software CD’s in my office at Autodesk Inc. were later sent to me. I found certain things missing and filed a law suit in the Marin Small Claims Court for missing personal property. I won the case.

In the year after I lost my job in California, I was unable to find a job that would bring in income. I could not get employment insurance benefit or any other social assistance. Fortunately, the international office of the Human Resource Canada provided me with the remaining half year of employment insurance benefit. The amount was about CND$400 or USD$267 per week. I started a computer software business and hoped to make money in a year. However, I used up all my retirement savings and credit cards that amounted to a little more than USD10,000 without making any money. I kept on working on software development for three years without making any money on it.

Since I did not have a work permit in California, could not find professional jobs that qualify for the TN visa, and used up all my savings and credits, I had to depart for Canada. Since I am a Canadian citizen, I would be legally eligible to work any type of job. I drove north towards British Columbia of Canada on interstate Highway 5. The US interstate highways are high speed divided highways. The island between the two ways in opposite directions is usually cleared of trees. Due to high speed and heavy traffic, one could not do much sightseeing. I stayed overnight on park-like camp grounds located in outskirts of urban areas. I went to the meetings of Toastmasters International as much as I could.

Earlier in April, I had a trip to Victoria on Vancouver Island of British Columbia. I drove north from California on the picturesque Redwood Highway 101. This highway is narrow, undivided and winding. It runs deep in the redwood trees, on rocky cliffs, and cross numerous rivers and creeks along the pacific coast. The ferry at Port Angeles of USA transports cars and passengers across the Strait of Juan de Fuca to the city of Victoria of Canada. The Olympic National (forest) Park at Port Angeles was fascinating. The rocky, folded mountain ranges are the demonstration of the great geological forces that broke and built up the region and created the island and the bays. Water reservoirs had been built in the valleys. I drove up the hills on paved road and then walked on deserted narrow path to reach the snowy sources of the streams. There are numerous slope failures and fallen trees along the path, which would interest many geomechanics, geology and biology professionals. High on the mountains there is an area with many milky hot springs where men and women bathed themselves.

I arrived in Vancouver from California on Aug. 17, 2001 and started tent camping in the Dogwood Camping Ground in Surrey. The cost was about $20 daily. The host provides a wash room and shower facilities. There was an outdoor swimming pool and a hot swirl pool. The Ground was covered with tall trees. It was adjacent to the Fraser River but there was no access to the riverbank.

During the time between August 17 and September 20, I stayed on three different camp sites, the North Vancouver camp site near the Lion Gate bridge, the Peace Arch camp ground near White Rock and the Tynehead Camp Ground adjacent to the Tynehead Park in Surrey. All camp sites charge the same amount of fees but vary in services and landscape.

The Tynehead Park was like an original forest. There are creeks of clear water running through the park. Trees grew out of the stubs of previously cut down trees. Fallen trees exposed their shallow roots. Rich red soils came out of the dead pine roots. One could taste the wild blackberries along the road. Walking through the park and breathing the oxygen rich air, it was such a pleasant feeling. Plots of forest like this are being cleared for construction of houses and buildings in Surrey.

Figure 8. A campsite beside a large river in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Rains and steep mountains are the characteristics of Vancouver that caught my immediate attention. The rainy season is all year long. Two days of sunshine is usually followed by several days of rain. Fresh water, softwood lumber and minerals are important resources in the area. On my way to the Myra Falls Mine, I drove once more to Vancouver Island and further to Campbell river in the north of the island. I camped in deep woods under handsome cypress trees and beside clear, singing mountain streams. I came across a small town called "Gold River" where I saw white snow on hilltops and clouds rising from the trees. I found for the first time the heads or sources of rivers where one stream flows to the east and another to the west.

It is hard to imagine that Taiwan has the land area similar to the Vancouver Island but the population nearly that of Canada.

I planned to travel across Canada and United States to conduct market research for my computer software. Due to a lack of income, I applied for B.C. social assistance in the Canada Human Resource office in Fleetwood of Surrey on September 11, 2001. It was in this office that I heard of the news that terrorists crashed planes into the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington D.C..

After the September 11 terrorist attacks, security on the Canada-US border tightened. In the afternoon of September 16, I drove to the border at the Peace Arch cross point on highway 99 in order to mail a US postage-paid envelop full of photo films to San Francisco of U.S. I was pulled in to see the immigration officers out of a busy line of cars. I was questioned for two hours during which time only another person, a German tourist, was pulled in. The senior officer searched documents in my leather carry on bag and records on their computer systems. I was denied entry on the ground that I did not have the advance parole document for aliens. I was not asked to apply for one in the office, but, I knew later that they do issue advance parole document on the border.

In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks, I came across the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights on the internet. This declaration was passed in 1948 in the UN General Assembly. It is ironic that wars and violence have continued for the 53 years since then. Article 1 declared that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights, and are endowed with reason and conscience. The only thing that is universal today is the violation of human rights all around the world.

I remembered reading the United States Declaration of Independence of 1776 back in 1984 when I was learning English in the Beijing Languages Institute. I found this document on the internet and proceeded to translate it into Chinese on my web site. The American forefathers declared 225 years ago that all men are created equal and are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights such as Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

The declarations echoed the positive and moral declaration of Confucius that humans are created good. Despite the fact that the words "equality" and "happiness" are subject to different interpretations, the above two declarations differ from the 19th century prediction in Europe that humans were destined for a mutual slaughter between two opposing classes before the victor can enjoy a paradise. This prediction was similar to the bible’ prophesy that Armageddon must happen before Christ’s reign takes place. This prediction had to do with the fact that European imperial expansion was doomed with the American Revolution and the founding of the United States. The two world wars may have had something to do with this kind of "Darkness before Dawn" prophesy.

Having being under the most powerful and cruelest tyranny on earth, the people of the United States established a new form of government that is democratic and representative. The American Revolution set in motion worldwide revolutions that have in less than two centuries overthrew major feudal and imperial empires around the world.

The United States Declaration of Independence reasoned at the beginning that the independence was justified by the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God. This reasoning was of historical importance because it shaped the United States as it is today. Firstly, the physical laws of nature as discovered by humans from time to time, i.e., scientific laws, were to be respected in the running of the country; secondly, divine laws of God or good faith were to be followed in charting the direction forward; and thirdly, the characters of God such as invisibility, love, wisdom, justice and power were to be imitated.

After studying the two declarations, I became confident of the belief that discrimination of any kind is detrimental to human kind and is unacceptable. I decided to do something about it. I started to draft a document of proposed amendments to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and wrote an open letter to the UN Secretary General Mr. Annan on human rights and terrorism. I started promoting my political opinion at the meetings of Toastmasters International, churches and on the road.

My application for B.C. social assistance was denied on the ground that I could not provide my wife’s financial statements. My argument was that I and my wife have filed separate income tax returns under the category "married separate". I filed for an appeal to the manager of the HR office but the previous decision was upheld. Then, I appealed to the next higher level, a tribunal which would consist of a representative from B.C. Department of Health, a neutral person and myself. I was told that the majority votes would decide the outcome. Unfortunately, I was forced out of Canada by the police before I could find someone to support my position.

When I applied for B.C. driver’s license on September 20, 2001 at the Driver Services in Surrey, My California and Ontario driver’s licenses were confiscated. I later phoned the headquarters of ICBC Driver services (800-950-1498). and told her that my California Driver’s License was the property of the state of California. But, she insisted that only B.C. driver’s license was allowed to be kept in B.C.. It should be mentioned that after I returned to California, I immediately obtained a California driver’s license.

By November, I nearly used up my additional CND$2000 credit card and could afford no longer to stay in a campground. I had been sleeping in my car parked outside a gas station. On Friday, Nov. 2, I went to the Canada Human Resource Fleetwood office in Surrey. The office had an internet computer as well as a laser printer. Since the internet was restricted to predetermined sites, it stood idle nearly all the time. There were two telephones and a fax machine but they only allow local calls.

I had to check my emails using the telephone line with my laptop computer. The worker there called the RCMP police officers to come. They escorted me out of the office. This seemed odd considering the fact that no officer came when my car window was smashed and a camera set was stolen from it. It should be noted that I eventually obtained a compensation of nearly USD$900 from Amica Insurance Company in California in the year 2003. I used the money to buy a plane ticket to China.

The police officers ordered me to change my car registration from California to B.C.. I went to the Drivers Services to change the plate registration but was told that I had to go to an ICBC insurance agent instead. At BCAA, I was told to go to a certified garage to have the car checked for safety. At Canadian Tyre, I was told that I had to import the car from US in order to get registered. Being late in Friday afternoon, I put this matter down for the weekend.

In the morning of November 4, Sunday, I drove to climb the hills of the Cypress Provincial Park in West Vancouver. West Vancouver was such a nice small community located on the steep slopes of the Pacific Coast. Houses were hidden in the trees and clouds hover on the hills in view. The Cypress Provincial Park was full of slender Cypress trees. In a valley area, awesome trees having diameters of more than a meter stood. I could not believe there were wild blue berry trees as tall as the cultivated trees on the farms of Surrey. I climbed one small hill beyond the end of the automobile road. Fresh snow covered the slope half way up. On top of the hill, I could see beautiful wavy snowy mountains standing up on a lake. Earlier on October 28, I also climbed the hills of the Mount Seymour Provincial Park in North Vancouver. These hills constitute part of the continental mountain divide that runs through Idaho, Utah, Colorado and Arizona.

In the afternoon at about 2:00 PM, I went to the Canada Customs on the US border at Pacific Highway to import my car. I was told to get export papers from the US Customs. I walked to the US check points and into the Customs Office building. There I was told that I must submit an application form two days prior to departure. In addition, a permission letter from my creditor, Toyota Financial Services in the US, as well as the original purchase paper were required. Since I could not import the car. I had to walk back to Canada Customs to explain this to the officers. The Canada Customs officers told me that I had to leave my car in the US because it was registered in the US.

Canada Customs officers ordered me to drive my car to the US border and leave it inside US. At that time I decided to enter US and drive to Eastern Canada through US. At US immigration, I was asked to fill out an application form for the Advanced Parole. It was a pleasant surprise because I didn’t think one could obtain the document immediately at the border. I filled out the application form and submitted it to the senior officer on duty. He asked me to pay about $90. Since I already applied for the Advanced Parole about 3 weeks prior to my departure from California and I was short of money at that time, I decided not to pay for the document. Therefore, I was declined entry and drove back to the Canada border.

The Canada immigration officers would not allow me to drive the car into Canada. They ordered me again to drive to the US. When I arrived at the US immigration, the senior officer told me that he already gave me a chance to apply for the Advanced Parole. He would not give me a second chance. This time, a towing company from Blaine towed away my car and I was escorted back to Canada along with my luggage which included a suitcase, a travel bag, two sleeping bags, an IBM Thinkpad Computer 1400, and a leather carry on bag.

It was about 3:00 PM at the Canada Customs. I felt that both the US and Canada customs officers acted in a discriminative manner and decided to fight it out. I announced to the Customs Officers that I was starting a hunger strike to protest against discrimination. I called the local English newspapers, Singtao Daily (Chinese), and the Globe and Mail newspaper to announce the hunger strike. Since it was Sunday, there was no one available. I left phone messages to ask them to come the next day.

In the evening, Customs Officers called in RCMP officer Mr. Chris Languay. I reasoned with him patiently. Armed with the knowledge of police operation from the San Rafael Citizen Police Academy in California, I was not afraid of the armed police. I talked to him about human rights and how society can become safer even for the police. He appeared to agree with what I said.

At that time, the humming of my left ear was bothering me. This problem started two days ago on Friday, November 2. I called for an ambulance and was taken to a Hospital in White Rock. A woman doctor who came from HongKong examined me and told me that there was no prescription for the sickness. At about 10:00 PM, I was released. I started walking back to the Canada Customs about 10 km away from White Rock. Fortunately, a young man drove by and gave me a ride. He told me that he just returned from study in Japan. He looked like one of my neighbors in MaiYuan.

I continued my protest outside the Customs Office. At about 11:00 PM, I started sleeping in my sleeping bags in a sheltered corner outside the offices. I had slept for half an hour before I was awakened by the RCMP officer Chris Languay. He told me that he had found a homeless shelter for me in Surrey. I refused to leave because I was planning to talk to the news reporters the next day on Monday. However, Chris and a Customs Officer literally lifted me up together with my sleeping bags and put me in the back seats of the police car. I asked to go into the Customs Building and get my cellular phone which was being charged. The two officers would not let me. I cried out for help in the silence of midnight but no one showed up.

Officer Chris Languay drove me to the South Fraser Community Services building at 10667 - 135A St. Surrey, V3T 4E3. He was unloading my luggage when another RCMP officer of Native origin came. They urged me to walk into the Front Room, but I wanted to call 911 to find out if Officer Chris was acting on his own. I went around in the vicinity of the building to find a public phone. Finally, I found two public phones at a gas station a few hundred meters down the road. I dialed 911 from the two phones but both failed to work although a warning sign read that only 911 calls can be made after 10:00 PM. At that time, Chris Languay changed to an unmarked car and followed me there. I then went into the gas station store and asked the Chinese attendant to let me make a 911 call. On the phone, I complained about officer Languay to the dispatcher. She gave me the phone number of officer Launguay’s supervisor for me to talk to.

I walked back to the Front Room. Officer Languay and another RCMP officer of Caucasian origin confronted me and had me handcuffed. I and my luggage were loaded into the back seats of Officer Languay’s car. I was taken to the Memorial Hospital of Surrey. A receptionist of Chinese origin checked me in. I waited in a room with my handcuffs on until a nurse came to check my blood pressure. At that time I asked that my handcuffs be taken off. I slept in the room for a while until a doctor asked me questions regarding my sanity and released me. I was freed from the hospital at 6:00 AM, Monday, November 5.

I decided to go back to the Canada Customs to continue my hunger strike. I walked to the King George Highway near 104 Avenue and moved my luggage in two batches to the Robin Donuts shop. I had a cup of hot water there and asked for a ride from the customers that went in there, but was unsuccessful. I then waited for a ride on the road side of the King George Highway. The rain became heavier gradually but no one stopped to offer me a ride. I finally got on a bus to White Rock. At the last bus stop, I waited again for a ride but no car stopped. I had to spent the last $5 cash to take a taxi to the Canada Customs.

It was 11:00 AM. A new shift of officers were now on duty. A senior officer approached me and asked me to leave. I asked if any news reporters had come, but the answer was No. Since I could not find the business card that the towing company gave me, I decided to go to the US side to ask about it and also make a phone call to my creditor Toyota Financial Services with a US only 1-800 number. As usual, I walked to the US border guards on the left side of the drive way.

This time, I was intercepted by one young angry guard of Hispanic origin. He ordered me to turn back and go between the lines of waiting cars to the other side of the road. Just as I arrived at the other side of the road, two senior guards went after me and handcuffed me at a location technically inside my own country Canada. One of them wore the name tag "Clement". They pushed me towards the Canada border and deliberately twisted the handcuffs to cause me pain in the wrists. They released me to the Canada Customs Agents. I cried in outrage and then rested on my luggage for a nap.

Some time after 12:00 PM, I woke up to the sound of a young woman. She was an RCMP officer of Korean origin. Later on two additional RCMP officers of Caucasian origin came to talk to me. At the beginning, I refused to talk and kept on sleeping. After a while I thought that the hunger strike would not lead to anything since the news people would not come and the police would come to remove me anyway. I decided to retreat and ended the one-day hunger strike. I took the offer to be transported to a shelter in the police car driven by the officer of Korean origin. I was transported to the Front Room shelter building of Surrey. Since the Front Room closed until 5:00 PM, I waited in the corridor. In the same building, there is a medical office, a youth shelter and a needle exchange office. I later learned that there are three rooms of double decked bunker beds on the upper floor of the building.

At 5:00 PM, November 5, I moved into the Front Room as soon as the door opened. The Front Room was quite large. There were tables, chairs, a counter table with dish sinks, two cloth washers, two cloth dryers. There were two washrooms with showers and one large washroom for handicapped people. There were two video cameras mounted on the ceiling, one pointing to the back, and the other pointing to the front of the room.

40 to 60 homeless people came to the Front Room to eat dinner. There were two attendants per shift and three shifts per day. Dinner was brought in by church organizations. Pasta, sandwich and soup were the most common dishes. Coffee and donuts or cake were provided as snack after dinner. People lined up for the two shower rooms and laundry which were free. Those who wished to sleep went upstairs between 10:45 and 11:00 PM. People who came in later than 11:00 PM had to sit on the chairs throughout the night. Each room had up to 20 double decked single bunker beds. Pillow case, bottom and top sheets were provided and they were returned for washing the next morning. They had to get up at 6:00AM after a total of 7 hours sleep. At 7:00 AM, all had to move out and the Front Room was locked up until 5:00 PM. All homeless must carry all luggage with them at 7:00 AM. No wonder all they had was a small carry on bag.

I got up at 6:00AM on November 6 and spend the previous night in the Front Room shelter without trouble. I did not have the provided coffee and donuts for breakfast. When I left the room at 7:00AM, I was warned to take all luggage with me, otherwise they would be thrown out. I could not carry all luggage, so I left behind the suitcase, travel bag, and two sleeping bags on the shelves. I carried my laptop computer and the leather document bag with me.

During the day, I took a bus to the Human Resource office in Fleetwood, Surrey. I was told that if I provided my current bank statement and credit card statement, my application of social assistance that was declined would be reconsidered. This softening tone may have had something to do with my one day hunger strike at the Canada Customs on November 4. The RCMP police and the Human Resource Department are both agencies of the same government. They would help each other out. I learned later that former US president Clinton was to visit Vancouver on Friday, November 9 in the week. The increased security may be a result of this.

I spent the rest of the day of November 6 in the library where I could read books, check email on the internet and develop computer software on my computer. I returned to the Front Room at 5:00 PM. I did not find my luggage on the shelves. I asked the attendant and was told that the luggage had been thrown out. My electrical engineering books were in the travel bag. Therefore, my self-education opportunity was taken away. The attendants warned often about thieves in the homeless people. But, it was them that really stole my personal property and my educational opportunity.

After dinner at 7:00 PM, I placed my computer on the counter table and started enter the business cards that I have collected into a database software called Pulsehead Finder. I was showing the document "Open Letter to the United Nations Secretary General" to the homeless people on my computer.

At about 10:00 PM, as I fell asleep at the table, two RCMP officers came and woke me up, one on each side of my chair. One of them had the name tag Sandu. They said they wanted to ask me questions. The hold me facing away from counter table where my lap top computer sat. They started to harass me and then handcuffed in front of the homeless. They pulled me out of the room and put me in Sandu’s police car.

Sandu appeared to be of Indian origin. I think they did so in front of the homeless to frighten the homeless. I was driven away. They stopped the car at an unknown place near the Front Room building and checked every page of the document in my leather bag. They were also asking questions about my open letter. They harassed me for more than an hour and released me after 11:00 PM. When they handed to me my computer bag, they told me that there was no computer in the bag.

It was possible that the officers stole my computer in the car. It was probable that their informants stole it inside the Front Room while they were harassing me. If it was stolen in the Front Room, the computer was right under the eye of the monitoring camera pointing to the back of the room. It would be easy to find out who did it by reviewing the recorded tapes. The police often warn people about thieves in the homeless people, but they themselves were the thieves. Now they took away my work along with my education opportunity and other personal property. I phoned the police at 604 599 0502 located at 14355 - 57 Avenue, Surrey to report the loss. The lost IBM Thinkpad laptop computer had a serial number of AA-D2YA2. It should be noted that later in California in the year 2002, I was paid USD$1000 by the Amica Insurance company for the computer loss.

After officer Sandu released me, I returned to the Front Room, it was past the 11:00 PM, the time to go upstairs to sleep. I had to sit in a chair for the entire night. There were a few other people who were siting there through the night. Some of them were elderly men who simply did not bother to go upstairs to have a good sleep. Some of them were coming in and going out during the night. I sat on a chair and bent my back forward to sleep on my wrists on the table.

After a while, I had muscle cramps in the legs. I then pulled over 4 chairs to the wall and slept on them. The senior attendant by the name "Jean" came and pulled the chairs away one by one. I then lay on the ground to sleep, but Jean kept on harassing me and a man kicked my head. Jean then called in two PCMP officers by the names of Dwayne and Reed. These two PCMP officers handcuffed me in the Front Room. I cried for help but no body came forward to help. The homeless had been conquered.

The two officers put me in the back seats of the car but there was no seat belt. They drove me to the police headquarters of Surrey and locked me up in a jail in the basement of the police building. The officers on duty searched me and put away my belongings in storage. The police had the right to check every bit of my personal property. The cell was about 12 square meters and has a ceiling that is at least 4 m high. It has a toilet and a protruded concrete block as bed. There was a soft pad on the concrete block and I was given a blanket to sleep with. It was cold and I slept barely until 10 AM the next morning. No breakfast was provided to me.

I came to realize that the homeless people were the forgotten people in the society. They were hidden from the public eyes to make the public feel better. There are possibly more police officers than the homeless people, such that the later could not protest. On the other hand, the existence of the homeless leads to theft and vandalism, this provides job opportunities for police officers who not only have good salary but also good equipment.

I am grateful to the homeless people in the Surrey Front Room shelter who helped revise the "Open Letter to the United Nations Secretary General" and the "Proposed Amendments to the UN Declaration of Human Rights".

The Surrey civic center was located in the suburbs surrounded by trees. There were four large buildings which are the city hall, court house, police station and correction center. After I was released from jail after 10:00 AM, I thought of finding somebody to complain about the police. Since the RCMP was contracted by the Surrey city, I went into the city hall. I was told by the security officer to contact Ms. Dianne L. Watts who is a city councilor for community security. I call her both at home and work and left messages as well as my cellular phone number for her to call me back. It happened that there was a meeting of Toastmasters International at 12:00 noon in the councilor’s chamber. I participated in the meeting. I described my unfortunate experience with the police and talked briefly about the importance of recognizing and implementing human rights. The meeting lasted for about one hour. In the afternoon, I took a bus on King George Highway back to the Front Room shelter.

In the previous evening, I talked to a few homeless people about going to the meeting of Toastmasters International held in the Surrey Chamber of Commerce at 7:30 AM in the morning. A few agreed to go with me. However, in the morning of November 8, 2001, Thursday only one man of 27 years old was willing to go. We walked along 104 Avenue towards the Surrey Chamber of Commerce. He told me that he was from the interior of BC and was paroled from prison. He said he would like to hitch hack with me across Canada. I paid for breakfast for him in a small restaurant on the opposite side of the Chamber of Commerce.

We arrived for the meeting on time. The round table was full with about 20 people. I had the opportunity to talk briefly about the homeless and theft problems in Surrey and suggested that they can only be solved by fully recognizing and implementing human rights. However, The homeless man that came with me left the meeting during the break. After the meeting, a senior man by the name "Ian" approached me and told me that they were only interested in the spirit of toastmasters not politics.

At 1:00 PM, I went back to the Surrey Chamber of Commerce to register the sole proprietorship of Yi Technologies. The registration fee was $30. With $50 for the name search, the total cost was $80. The registration fee for a corporation would have been $300.

November 9, 2001, Friday was the day former US president Bill Clinton came to Vancouver to give a fundraising speech for the Children’s Foundation. The harassment that I have experienced in the previous days may have to do with tightening security in the Great Vancouver area.

I took a bus to the police station at the civic center to report the loss of computer in person. The person who took the report was a man in his 50’s. There appeared to be no record in the police computer on my telephone report made on November 6. I made a new report with the report number #2001-118807. He referred me to call a RCMP officer in the station close to the Front Room shelter to inquire about my lost computer. I used the pay phone to phone him and left a message for him to call me back. Some days earlier I talked to this receptionist about opening the door of the police to the public to learn from their United States counterparts, he said it would be a monumental task. He suggested my talking to the community liaison officer about this, but liaison officer never got back to me.

I got out of the police building and went into the court house to fill a Small Claims case against the South Fraser Community Services of Surrey for the lost computer and software on it. Unfortunately, I did not have the $156 required to file the law suit.

The RCMP officer to whom I left the telephone message called me back. I suggested that he review the video recording tapes in the Front Room to find out who stole my computer. He simply said that it was not possible. I later met this officer at the police station close to the Front Room shelter. He looked like a man of Indian origin.

I was told in the Front Room that dinners were donated by churches. I thought of finding a Chinese organization to provide a Chinese dinner for the homeless, but there was no such listing in the phone book. I thought of buying chicken and eggs and vegetables to cook a dinner for the homeless myself, but could not find a restaurant that would let me use its woks to cook.

In the evening of November 10, 2001, Saturday, I bought three boxes of Chinese mandarin tangerines in the Safeway store and brought it to the Front Room shelter. It happened that there was no dinner provided that day. I gave three tangerines to each person. Everyone enjoyed the tangerines.

I picked up a small book on the book shelves entitled "Breach of Faith" about US former president Richard Nixon. There were also National Geography magazines on the shelves. At 11:00 PM, I was following the line to go upstairs to sleep. The two attendants, one woman and one man, prevented me from going upstairs. They appeared to be under external pressure to exhaust me. I knew I could not sit in a chair and sleep, so I had a cup of coffee and read the book through the night.

Richard Nixon was from a poor store owner’s family. Young Nixon had to take odd jobs outside to support himself. He came back from his failures in politics and won the most popular votes for the American President in American history. He was a world war II veteran. But, he vowed to achieve peace regardless the cost. The book wrote that he was a road scholar learning from people whom he talked to, would come back from failures, and was resentful of the politicians who were Harvard graduates from rich families.

I finished the book "Breach of Faith" later in the Spokane shelter on November 18. Richard Nixon was finally forced to resign because sound recordings showed that he lied to the people in the watergate case and erased a segment of the recording to cover up the lie. This was the first time in history that a president was held responsible for what he spoke on tape. Interestingly in the year 2000, I heard of a law in the United States that forbids telephone recording being used as evidence in courts. Today, there are numerous secret agents. I wonder if their work can someday be judged by the public.

The homeless people told me that there was usually good dinner on Sundays. At dinner time at about 7:00 PM on November 11, 2001, Sunday, a long line of about 100 people were waiting to get the food. I started reading aloud a revised version of my open letter on human rights against violence. The attendant of the shelter did not like it and asked me to stop. But, I continued. When I was finishing reading the letter, two RCMP officers came and took me to the nearby police station. I was introduced to an officer of Indian origin whom I talked to about my missing computer on the phone. He said that my missing computer was not found yet.

A psychiatric nurse questioned me to test my sanity. I instead talked to them about the importance of human rights. I told them that the police officers would be in safer environments if human rights were fully implemented. I was released after questioning.

I walked from the police station to the Front Room shelter. It turned out there was only about 100 m distance between them, only separated by the King George highway and the street houses. Close to the police station, there were an adult XXX store and a gun store. The gun store was heavily fortified and appeared out of business.

It appeared that the police and the underworld are in the same business. The police depended on the underworld for secure jobs and the underworld could do nothing but lead a shabby life. I wonder if police officers were recruited or promoted based on the number of crimes and arrests.

Once I was back in the Front Room, I started to write a letter to the manager of the Front Room requesting improvement in living conditions. Among the requests are longer sleep time and allowing luggage storage. Before long, a RCMP officer of Singapore origin came in and drove me to the outside of the nearby police station. He spoke standard English. He told me that I could not go back to the Front Room, but he did not want to send me to prison. He became busy looking for a shelter for me. After some negotiation, he found a men’s shelter in Westminster, a small city adjacent to Vancouver. He drove me there. He told me that there was no racial discrimination in Canada. He told me that if I wanted to find a job, I must go and talk to employers instead of writing letters.

I checked in at the men’s shelter in Westminster run by the Salvation Army. It was an old brick building. Again, there was an adult XXX store adjacent to the shelter. I was given towels and soups as well as vouchers for meals. There were four beds in the room. I was the third person. The linen appeared really used-up. It was cold inside. One person was a drug addict and smoked cigarette inside the room. The other person had problems with his wife. He stated an interesting idea that if marriage is governed by license, it would expire if not renewed. The existing life-time license would still be the best option for most of the people. I checked out the washroom shared by all the rooms. There were three toilets, two wash sinks and a bath tub. The bath tub looked dirty and there was no shower. There was no laundry facility. This place was definitely worse than the Surrey Front Room.

It was the Memorial Holiday on November 12. I got up at 8:00 AM and went into a nearby IGA store and used all vouchers for a big breakfast. I bought cold salad and a small piece of fish. The food was placed in a plastic bowl. When heated in a microwave, the lid of the bowl stretched to a domed shape without any gas escape. This type of plastic bowl was of good design. It kept the flavor of the food inside the bowl and prevented dirt accumulation in the microwave.

I did not want to stay in the men’s shelter any longer and took the sky train back to Surrey. I stayed in the food court of the Surrey Place Mall for most of the day working on a revised open letter to the United Nations Secretary General. I sent an email to CBC (Canada Broadcasting Corporation) special investigator Enza Uda using the Internet Stand in the food court (address enza_uda@cbc.ca). I also called her at 604 662 6819 and set up an appointment in the downtown CBC building.

I went to the recreation facility at 6:00 to swim for an hour. The facility is moderate in size and located adjacent to the Surrey Place Mall. There was a hockey arena, and a swimming pool. There was a small hot whirl pool adjacent to the swimming pool that is used to warm up prior to swimming. It was the first time that I saw a Rocky Climber panel erected on the edge of the pool.

Swimming pools together with hot whirl pools are very common in Great Vancouver due to the damp weather. Many camp sites have them. There is a huge private sports facility in Fleetwood of Surrey city. This facility housed two hockey rings, a large swimming pool, a water slide play area, and a large whirl pool. Parachuting style jumping as well as stage jumping was trained there. I paid about $5 each time I went there. The hot whirl pool was relaxing, but one would not be refreshed without the swimming.

I was back in the Front Room shelter at 7:00 PM. A church by the name "House of the Good Shepherd" provided soup and bread for dinner in front of the building. I told an elder that I nearly finished the bible except for the chapter of Revelation. I told him that I did not understand the beginning pages of that chapter. He shared his thoughts on the chapter with me. I finally asked for a bible so that I could finish reading this chapter. I was given a small bible named "New Life - Living New Testament".

I started reading the chapter of Revelation in the Front Room when the attendant Jane approached me and asked me to leave. When I refused, she called in two Caucasian police officers. They tried to find a different shelter for me but did not succeed, so they drove me to the basement jail of the police headquarters in Surrey Center. They simply charged me with "Causing a Disturbance" on the paper work. I was placed in a large cell without a toilet, but this cell was warm. I slept on a soft pad for the night and read the chapter of Revelation.

I had a good night of sleep in the jail and woke up early on November 13, 2001, Tuesday. Breakfast was provided. But, when I asked to leave, they simply ignored me. When I asked to use a toilet, they transferred me to a different jail with a toilet. I understood that they wanted to test my stool to determine if I took illegal drugs. Some time later, I was taken to see a detective in a small room. He said he was a detective assigned to investigate Asian gangs. After he listened to my story, he said that I was a victim of circumstances.

I felt fortunate that there were good people in the police department. I could imagine that it would be easy for individual police officers to forge a test result that would indicate illegal use of drugs.

In Canada, one could read stories in the newspapers and listen to radio reports about Russian gangs, Vietnamese gangs every now and then. I wondered if they were real or simply fabricated in order to generate revenues for the newspaper and job security for the police.

I was released at 1:00 PM and was given a one zone bus ticket. I later found out that my Canada Citizenship card was missing. I missed my appointment with the CBC investigator because it would take an hour to get to Vancouver downtown by the Sky Train. I finally arrived at the CBC building close to the Vancouver public library. There were no conductors for the sky train, so I went downtown without a ticket.

It was raining continuously as I walked from the train station to the CBC building. Ms. Enza Uda was not available. Her assistant came down to meet me. I told her that I would talk about my experience with human rights abuses on Camera. She listened to my brief experience with the police and advocacy for human rights. But, she said she would convey what I said to Enza Uda.

I was not going to leave empty handed. I waited in the lobby of the CBC and asked if I could talk to any reporter, a black or Quebecois reporter. No one was interested. Finally, Enza Uda came to me and said I needed to write down what I wanted to say and sent it to her in email.

At about 5:30 PM, I had to leave, not knowing where to go. I went into a cellular phone store to buy a charger for my cellular phone. But, they did not have it in store. On a street, I saw a large bill board advertising the "News at 6:00" program of Global Television. The bill board wrote that "the homeless" was one of the topics. I phoned the news editor of Global Television which actually had been sold to a different company. The person was not interested in human rights at that particular time. At 9:00 PM, I ended up spending the night in the apartment of a Chinese Alma Mater in Vancouver.

I finished reading the last chapter of the bible in the jail under the Surrey Police Headquarters on November 12. As far as I understood it, the bible was an excellent ancient history book about the rise and fall of the ancient small nations of Israel and Juda. Both successes and failures in wars and peace were documented. Failures were always attributed to the failure to do God’s will. Such documentation as well as the practice of one day of rest every seven days indicated a strong spiritual tradition. The unyielding faith in the invisible, powerful and righteous God made the Israelites ever adamant in their pursuit of righteousness regardless the cost.

The Old Testament is about the Israel history before Christ was born. Strict laws and punishments were strictly enforced. The Mosaic principle of punishment was "eye for eye and tooth for tooth" (Deuteronomy 19:21). The Israelites believed that they alone were God’s people.

The New Testament presented new ideas such as "Forgiveness of Sins" (Colossians 1:14) and "Love Your Enemies" (Matthew 5:44). It went as far as advocating Faith in Christ rather than subjection to the Mosaic Law (see Galatians 3:23-25). It was called to preach the Good News to all nations. The declaration of equality regardless of nationality and sex was evident in Galatians 3:28: "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor freeman, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in union with Christ Jesus". In the bible, God represented an invisible being with knowledge, wisdom, love, justice, and power. He interacted with human kind through his son Jesus Christ as well as his spirit.

The bible is the foundation of the prevailing Western Culture. England, for example, has a small land area compared to the world at large. It may have seen itself in similar predicament as the ancient Israel. This may have been the reason why it started the rapid industrialization and the fierce worldwide expansion.

In the morning of November 14, I went into a Human Resource office in Vancouver and asked about my appeal to the tribunal for social assistance. I was told that the lawyer that I selected as the neutral judge decided not to attend. I asked my Alma Mater the second time if he was willing to support my independence assertion, he declined. Since I was short of money and had no place to stay for the night, I decided to try to enter the US the third time by train.

At about 4:00 PM, I went to the Pacific Central train station. Since it was 2 hours away from train departure, I went to visit the Science Museum about 500 m from the train station. The museum is housed in a globe shaped structure composed of shiny triangular segments. The domed IMAX 3D theater impressed me. I watched a story on the extinct dinosaurs. It was about the excavation of the Albertasaurus in Alberta, Canada and the imaginary world of dinosaurs. The screen covers part of the interior of the globe in about 180 degrees left to right and up and down. It was really fun.

At 6:00 PM, I boarded an AMTRAK train for Seattle, Washington. There were attendants of African, Chinese, and Arabic origin. I checked in with just a BC driver’s license. A movie entitled "Evolution" was shown on cable TV on the train. It was a fiction about the accelerated evolution from cells to animals as a result of a meteorite impact. It was a funny story.

At the Blaine border crossing, immigration officers came on the train to check identities. Again, they were satisfied with my BC driver’s license. This experience echoed the Canadian myth that good Canadians used the underground railway to smuggle American black slaves into freedom in Canada. This myth has not been contested to date. I have noticed that there are not many blacks in Canada.

Between 1973 and 1975, local performing arts combining singing, acting and gymnastics became very popular in the countryside of China. I was in the elementary and middle schools of Deer and Horse Bridge, DongAn County during that time. Students sang songs before each class began and did Tai Chi type of physical exercises once every day. Sports and arts competitions were often held. I have noticed that the West is catching up with this type of routine.

Gymnastics attracted the boys most and we definitely wanted to be able to do the forward and back- hands springs performed by the professional actors from the County. In the forward-hands spring, one flips forward 360 degrees with both hands briefly touching the ground and finishes standing straight. Whereas in back-hands spring, one flips backward 360 degrees with both hands briefly touching the ground and finishes standing straight. We practiced on our own on a harvested seed-grass placed on the threshing ground. Later, a few of us practiced on palm fiber matrices that were placed on bamboo meshes under the guidance of the physical-education teacher of the middle school. None of us except Mr. Zhou learned to do the back-hands spring. The fear that our heads could be injured beyond cure prevented most of us from achieving our goal. Mr. Zhou was about the same age as myself and we got along very well. He once showed us the back-hands spring on a hardened sand ground. However, some people said that he was a little foolish because he seldom talked but always smiled. My experience at the Surrey Gymnastics Club to be described later shows that he was the only boy who overcame the fear. This demonstrated the power of human spirit.

While in Surrey, I went to the Surrey Gymnastics Club located in a high school to pursue my juvenile dream. The club has excellent facilities. The floor is made of wood placed on cushion blocks. We practiced on cushion matrices on top of the floor or on top of a pile of cushion blocks. A spring-net helps jump high. The likelihood of head injury is almost non-existent. There was a one-time charge of $20 for the insurance and $6 for each training session that lasted 2 hours. I learned the back-hands spring at the end of the third session. The teacher said that gymnastics was as much about overcoming fear as about improving physical skills. I have realized that a person’s life is also as much about overcoming fear as about improving abilities.

There is a story about a Foolish Old Man who removed the mountains written in 1945 in the Selected Works of Mao Zedong. The Foolish Old Man and his sons began to dig up two huge mountains with their hoes. In reply to a Wise Old Man who thought he was silly to do so, the foolish old man said "When I die, my sons will carry on; when they die, there will be my grandsons, and then their sons and grandsons, and so on to infinity. ...". God was moved by this and sent two angels to carry the mountains away on their backs. The author declared that the two mountains were like imperialism and feudalism and the God was none other than the Chinese People. Mao Zedong was talking about the power of the human spirit and an organized people. The Foolish Old Man worked not just for himself and his family but the future generations. Dr. Sun Yat-sen once said that the disorganized Chinese people was like a pan of loose sand. The old Chinese saying that "One monk shoulders two buckets of water, two monks shoulder one bucket of water, and three monks have no water to drink" expressed the hopelessness of a group of men, each of whom cares only about himself. It is the spirit of the Foolish Old Man that has helped the Jewish minority to prosper in the United States (see book entitled "Race and Economics" by Thomas Sowell, Publisher David McKay Company, New York).

The popular Christianity views God as three things in one: Father (in heaven), Son (on earth) and Spirit. The ancient Chinese have pursued three things: Heavenly Time, Earthly Advantage and Unity of People. Modern humans have learned from experience that three things are of paramount importance: Nature, People and Spirit. This modern wisdom is a combination of the above two. In plain language, humans must observe laws of Nature, stand united, and respect freedom of individuals.

It was over 10:00 PM, November 14, 2001 when I arrived in Seattle, Washington. At the Union train station, I asked a Taxi driver if there was any homeless shelter in the city. I was told that the shelter would not accept people at that late hour. With $4, I was taken to the Seattle International Hostelling located only about 5 minutes of driving away.

The Hostel was halfway up a hill in downtown. It charged $20 per day, the same as a camping ground. The first floor consists of a reception room, a large activity room, a large kitchen, and toilets. There were four pay phones and two automatic vending machines. One could also buy milk and bagels from the reception. The activity room had a TV, two internet stations, and many dining tables. The internet stations accepted credit cards and bills. The kitchen had a large refrigerator, storage shelves, two gas stoves with four units each, a few electric rice cookers; and lots of dishes, bowls and silverware. I asked a young man for something to eat in the kitchen and was kindly given a bowl of rice. It tasted delicious. He was a visitor from Japan and was working in the kitchen for a few days as a helper. An elderly Caucasian man from Alaska later came in. He also enjoyed a bowl of rice.

The second floor had several rooms with double deck wooden bunker beds. There were toilets with showers that were free. I entered my room with a card key. There were four bunker beds in my room. Beds were numbered and my bed was #4. One single large white sheet was provided along with a blanket.

The next day on November 15, 2001, I took a bus from downtown to the University of Washington for a visit. A small portion of the electric bus route downtown was in underground tunnels. I walked through the campus to the Civil Engineering department. I was looking for a mining engineering faculty but it did not exist. On campus, I saw a huge handsome redwood tree in contrast to many cypress trees. Under the redwood tree, a young tree was growing up. I thought that the red wood tree would look like a cypress in subsequent generations due to the damp weather and the influence of the surrounding cypress trees.

I phoned the American Lenders Service Company in Seattle which was holding my car (Ph. 253 835 0393) to see if I can retrieve my personal property stored in the car, which included a tent and several music and language CD discs. But, I did not have the means to get there and they would not deliver it to me that day.

I planned to travel through the states of Washington, Idaho, Utah and Nevada to find out if there were any work opportunities or any use for my mine design software. At 6:00 PM, I took a double decked train from Seattle to Spokane. There were simple chairs on the first deck where the toilets are located. The couches in the form of adjustable chairs are on the second deck. The chairs were large and there was ample space between rows of chairs. Besides the adjustable back support, a leg support could be swung out from under the seat. A dinning car provided refreshments. The cost was a hefty $70. Unfortunately, I was unable to enjoy the landscape from the second deck in the dark night.

It was 11:00 PM when I arrived in Spokane, Washington on the border of Idaho. I took a taxi to a men’s shelter called "Union Gospel Mission Ministries". I checked in at that late hour because the reception worked three shifts. I took a shower, changed to pajamas that was provided to me and slept on a soft pad placed on the floor.

The next morning at 6:00 AM, every body got up and got back their clothing from baskets in a storage room. The space in the shelter was large. There were two floors. On the first floor, what appeared to be a basketball court was divided into two compartments, one as canteen exclusively for dinning and the other as a parish for worshipping. There was a large activity room with a TV set, tables and small book shelves. The homeless could read, play pokers and talk in there.

There was a large shower room with ten shower heads and five toilets. Adjacent to the shower room was the storage room with stacks of baskets, one for every person. Beside it there was a laundry room with large washers and driers. The dormitories are on the north side of the building. Each dorm had twenty double bunker beds. Two white linens and a blanket were provided for each bed. The second floor had dormitories as well. I learned that the compound used to be an industrial plant.

To my surprise, the universities in Spokane had no mining faculties and there were no mines there. I was told that I had to go to Couer d’Alene to visit mines. Since I had no money left, I had to stay there for a couple of days.

Three meals were provided every day. Every meal that I had was wholesome with meat, salad, soup, and desert. Food was donated by community organizations. The facility has a large kitchen and it appeared that some food was cooked there. It was told that the shelter received $400 dollar cash every month for food, but a lot of food was donated directly to the shelter. The shelter was run by a combination of full time attendants and homeless volunteers who lived in there. Everybody must take a shower and change to provided pajamas before going to bed. The bedtime was flexible after dinner.

Every one must go to the one hour worship every day. The worship was conducted by outside churches of different denominations. I attended three worships. One was conducted by a young man preaching his story of converting from a gangster member to a Christian man, the second by a family of four including parents and two daughters in a singing concert, the third by a local church of elderly men and women singing carols. As in a church, voluntary donations were collected from the he attendees. I thought many people like myself saw the value of free giving there.

November 16 was a Friday, an old projection movie was shown. The movie told an American family story in the First World War. The elder brother went to war as a soldier while the younger brother became a gangster at home. The elder brother became physically disabled and returned home from the war. The younger brother killed others and was eventually killed by gangsters.

The shelter was run in a very efficient way with strict routine. The homeless took turn to help in the kitchen, the dinning room, the cleaning and the laundry. The laundry was done before sleep after pajama time. The laundry volunteers placed the clean clothes in the person’s basket that were available the next morning. Smoking was allowed outside the facility. Every body seemed content and in good shape. In the three days when I was there, there was no quarreling and smoking violations.

On November 18, a homeless young man by the name Mark asked me to go with him to a kind of "new tide" Church. We walked for at least half an hour to reach there. The church interior had a stage in the front and a balcony in the back as in a theater. There was a lot of Rock and Roll type of singing praising God prior to a preaching by a pastor.

I finished reading the book "Breach of Faith" in the Spokane shelter and then exchanged it for a book entitled "My Enemy the Queen" by Victoria Holt (Publisher Doubleday & Company Inc. 1978) in the shelter. This book is 348 pages long. It told stories about the affairs of the English Queen Elisabeth (1535-1603) and her friends. The book exposed the vicious struggles among the royal families and between kingdoms. It indicated the inevitability of the decline of monarchical tyranny.

I talked to a man who worked on the Pacific coast in the fishery industry. He said that the fish in the ocean was fished out and fishes were being farmed on the shore. In general, the homeless men in the shelter were in good spirit and ready to work if work was available. Like myself, the homeless will get bored of the monotonous routine in the shelter. They would be happy to go to war if called.

On November 18, Sunday, I received $200 from my wife in California at the Western Union inside Rite Aid store. It was a fast way to send money but the fee was too high. The next morning, I took a bus to Wallace, Idaho. The bus fee was $17. The highway ran in the valley of a mountainous region. The forest was beautiful. There are many mines in northern Idaho. Northern Idaho lies just to the west of the Continental Mountain Divide that runs from Vancouver through Montana, Wyoming, Colorado to New Mexico.

The bus driver kindly took extra effort to bring me to the Lucky Friday Mine site in Mullan. The lead and zinc mine is located right off the highway. A geologist told me that the highway used to be a military road that connects the East coast to the West coast of the United States. Minerals were found when the road was constructed.

The mine site included mining and mineral processing facilities. Mining was done by mechanized cut and fill methods to alleviate rockburst problems. Due to the current low metal prices and high mining cost, 80% of the usual work force had been laid off. On this particular day, no engineering personnel was present. I talked to the mine superintendent Fred and technician Steve.

I was told that no money was available for any kind of engineering services. I helped Steve download my RocCAD software from www.pulsehead.com to install it on his laptop computer. Since all mines in the area use cut-and-fill mining method, the drill and blast module would not be required. I talked to the receptionist about using the mine as an educational mine for international students traveling in field study trips in the United States. Wallace is a beautiful small mountain town. Inexpensive hostels could be set up in the abandoned miner houses for accommodations.

At 3:00 PM, I got a ride from Steve to Couer d’Alene in order to catch a bus to Moscow, Idaho where University of Idaho is located. We talked about how mining industry could rebound. Underground highways and bridges would require a lot of stainless steel. Battery powered machines would require lead and zinc. These structures would provide exceptional security against earthquakes and terrorist attacks. The use of underground roadways would help green the surface. On the road, I saw again an area of the hills void of vegetation as a result of smelter smokes in the past.

I got on the bus at about 5:00 PM for Moscow, Idaho and arrived at about 9:00 PM. The bus fee was $23. Moscow is a small city with only a few streets. I was looking for a homeless shelter to spend the night but there was none. I phoned the police and was told that I could get a voucher for a motel from the County Sheriff. It was 10:00 PM, I found the county sheriff’s building on a hill. But, when I said I had $120 in my pocket, they refused to give me the voucher. I paid $32.24 for the motel at the bus station.

The university is only 5 minutes walk from the bus station. It is a small university. I was looking for the School of Mines. On the road, I came across the school of natural resources that specializes in areas of wild life and forestry.

On my way to the School of Mines building, what interested me were the pictures of the evolution of the earth painted on the walls along the stairs. The paintings depicted the land and the ocean from Triassic when there was a single continent to Jurassic, Cretaceous and today.

The school of mines has faculties of geological engineering, mining, and metallurgy. The curriculum for mining engineering is soviet style. The graduates are expected to work in mines after graduation. The next day was the Thanksgiving holiday, so the school was in recess for the week. The secretaries were there along with the Chairman of the school, Mr. F. H. Froes, professor in materials. I talked to him in his office. He found Professor Hung who taught rock mechanics and blasting. He said he was from Korea and had been there for more than 10 years.

At lunch time, I got on the bus to Boise, the capital of Idaho. The bus climbed treeless mountains. The mountains were tilled to plant grass for dairy cows. The bus had a break in a river valley city with a paper mill. As the bus descended from the barren hilltop to the river valley, I saw heavy smokes hovering over the city. The bus later stopped at a gas station on a barren hill. I felt strong wind due to the lack of trees on the hills. I arrived in Boise at 6:00 PM and went to a Chinese restaurant to have a bowl of rice. The owner was from Shangdong province. He kindly offered me a tea free of charge and let me watch TV in the back room.

At 12:10AM I boarded the bus to Salt Lake city, Utah. I bought the bus ticket from Boise to Reno at $50.50. I had only a few dollars left in my pocket. Sitting beside me was a retired veterinarian. He said he liked to live in the high mountains if Idaho. He said large salmon fish from the Pacific could be caught in the river in the mountains.

Arriving at 7:00 AM, I immediately found a restaurant for breakfast. A toast with two eggs and milk was about $5. The Salt Lake city is located in an valley. The barren hills around it reminded me of a desert. On higher mountains, there was some snow.

Since I was short of money, I asked if I could obtain government assistance. I was directed into the Utah Department of Workforce Services. This department provided computers for searching jobs and writing resumes. I said I wanted to apply for food stamps. I was given a form for Application for Financial, Medical, Food Stamp and Childcare Assistance. It consisted of 10 pages. All incomes and expenses in the household must be accurately stated. Since it takes 7 days to process the application, I gave up the application. However, I was given a bus pass valid for the day to go to the University of Utah.

I walked up a sloped street towards the University that is situated on small hills. No bus was coming because a new electric rail bus line was being constructed in the center of the street. It took me about one hour to walk to the University. Trees of the broad leave types stood well on the hill. There were apparently planted. A huge football stadium of steel structure stood eminent on the campus.

I was directed to the building of College of Mines and Earth Sciences which included Departments of Geology and Geophysics, Metallurgical Engineering, Mining Engineering, Meteorology, Environmental Engineering, and Geological Engineering. A photograph of the Kenneth Copper Open Pit mine was prominently displayed in the exhibits on the first floor.

Although it was Thanksgiving holiday, I met two graduate students, Xianhong Meng from China and another one from Peru. I met also Prof. Michael G. Nelson and William Hustrulid. William Hustrulid whom I first met back in 1987 at Lulea University gave me information about mines in Utah. The state hosts many coal mines, both open pit and underground.

There was a homeless intake house at walking distance from the bus station. At 6:00 PM, there was a line of about 50 people waiting outside the intake room. Since I was at the end of the line, I went to a dinner in a Salvation Army canteen about two blocks down the street. Girls and women as well as men served soup of vegetable and meat as well as sandwiches. Tables have seats attached to them and they are foldable. The tables were cleaned and stacked up immediately afterwards.

At 7:30 PM, I went through a weapons check at the intake house and then was transferred in a mini-van to a suburb shelter at the periphery of the city. The shelter had a width of one basketball court and a length of one and half. Steel arches supported the arched and insulated roof. There were 150 stretchers used as single beds. Heating air tubes as well as fluorescent light tubes were hung overhead. There were toilets and five showers in one attached room. There was a separate room for early risers who must get up before 5:00AM.

There was one big pile of sheets and blankets. Each person took one of each and then went to a stretcher to sleep. The things were returned to the pile the next morning. It appeared that the sheets and blankets were not washed every day. Pajamas were not provided. There was a small pile of new but cheap pants and shirts on a table for us to take away freely. I picked up a used pajama and a new pant because I did not have change clothes. I became proud of my earlier donations made to the collection boxes outside the Kmart store in Sudbury of Canada. At 6:00 AM the next morning, we were transported back downtown. The homeless were expected to look for work in the city. The attendants at the shelter were young man and women who wore the badge of "American Corps of National Services".

I took the bus for Reno, Nevada in the morning. It was raining. Highway 80 passes through the south edge of the Great Salt Lake. I had an impression of this highland lake that was like a dead sea. The highway passes through the mush land of the lake. To the west of the Great Salt Lake, there were fields of cover material that looked like white snow. I wasn’t sure whether it was salt or snow.

The road within the boundary of Nevada towards Reno was on dry, windy and brush land. Only scattered grass was seen in the open field. There are shrubs, one to two meters tall, in the valleys where it is shielded from the wind. Cows and horses can be seen throughout the land. There were snows in the mountains in close view. The mountains were connected to the cloud.

At 7:00 PM, the bus arrived in Reno which in Spanish means kingdom. I phoned a friend who worked as chief engineer in a gold mine in Winnemucca. The mine was about 2 hours drive away. I did not realize that our bus passed it by on our way. Her husband told me that the gold mining project that he was working on was suspended for several years due to low gold prices.

I was directed to a shelter named "Gospel Mission" in the city. I was told that they check in people before 2:00 PM. I was directed to a church to sleep over the night. I found the church on Bell street, a couple of blocks from the Greyhound bus station. I went in the back door into the basement and paid $4 for it. The floor was carpeted and measured only about 10 m x 10 m. Two blankets were laid on each sleep spot. People simply slept on the floor. After occupying my spot, I went out to have dinner in a Chinese fast food hut beside the railway tracks. With all the US currency I had, I ordered a bowl of rice and a fried Wanton. There was no regular Wanton and I wished I did not order the fried one. I figured that they simply fried the left over Wanton.

I went back to the basement of the Church to sleep, there were more people coming to sleep after me. I counted 22 people sleeping side by side the next morning. The church would have collected $88 for the night. If it was like that every day, the church could collect $2640 per month, more than paying the mortgage of the house. I reported this potential sanitary problem to the police located inside the Greyhound bus station, the officer told me that health problems were not the police’s business.

I got up at about 6:00 AM and took a shower in the homeless shelter. A homeless person told me that I could have a breakfast at $0.99 in the Cal-Neve Casino. I went to look for Cal-Neve and found it in the center of the city. Cal-Neve is a Casino with machines and service personnel for gambling. I was directed to the restaurant on the second floor. I first asked at the cashier if they accepted Canadian dollars because all I had was $10 Canadian. I ordered Ham, two eggs and a glass of milk to have a nutritious breakfast. I paid $5 Canadian and got back $4 US that was equivalent to $6.4 Canadian. So, I made more than one dollar by having a good breakfast there. I figured that they wanted me to spend the money on gambling, but I would never gamble.

The entire city of Reno appeared to be in the business of gambling. The skyscrapers are lighted with all colors all night long. The casinos were open 24 hours. The city is small. It takes only 20 minutes to walk through the city from one end to another.

After breakfast, I walked towards the University of Reno. The university is located on a small hill. It is only about half hour walk from downtown. Planted trees grow tall on a land otherwise barren. I wondered where the water came from, but later found that there was a river flowing through the city of Reno. Since it was Friday after the Thanksgiving holiday, there was hardly any one on campus. I found the mining compound where the Mackay School of Mines statue stood. The old Mackay School of Mines building is now a museum. There was a new Mineral Department building adjacent to it.

The school includes departments of geological sciences, metallurgical and materials sciences, chemical engineering and mining engineering. Nevada Seismological Laboratory and Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology are housed in the same building.

I went into the new faculty building. On the walls of the first floor were posters of publications on earthquakes, Yoka Mountain nuclear waste repository, and chemical engineering. I read the articles on nuclear waste repository. The health issues with nuclear waste repository in the massive hard rocks in Nevada were of two kinds (1) direct intake by humans of contaminated water in the local area and (2) ground water contamination that affect a larger area into which the ground water spreads. The director of the program walked into his office at that time and I took opportunity to exchange a few words with him. I mentioned whether the bentonite soil has been considered as host material for nuclear waste. The soil is a poor conductor of seismic waves from earthquakes. It is also quite impermeable as shown by ancient tomb excavations in Changsha and Xian. He answered No.

I went upstairs to the floor for the department of mining. It happened that the chair for the department Prof. Jaak J.K. Daemen was there. We had a short discussion. He told me that the mines in Nevada are all gold mines. He kindly gave me his publication on blasting research and a brochure of California cement producers. I said I would read them on the bus. He also introduced me to a Chinese scholar Yonghong Wang in the laboratory. Mr. Wang invited me to his apartment for lunch. I encouraged him to start a business besides his normal work.

I now had about USD$5 and CAN$8 in my pocket. This was not enough for a $36 bus ticket from Reno to San Francisco. I was told to ask the police officer in charge of homeless liaison inside the bus station to get a free bus ticket. But, the officer on duty told me that he helps only those homeless people with mental problems. It is the same scenario over and over again: you think the service is there, but it is actually not. Many agencies and people would present a false sense of security to the public in order keep their own jobs. At about 4:00 PM, I had to go back to the Gospel Mission shelter to check in. The attendant reluctantly checked me in because it was too late. He told me that I must attend the church at 7:00 PM or else I would not be permitted to come in afterwards. I saw that the tables were already set up with silverware for the 6:00 PM dinner. The room for dinner was also to be used for church.

After a shower, I went around the city to see if I could get a ride home in the tour buses that came from San Francisco. I found two buses with Chinese characters on them. I talked to a senior Chinese man who came from San Francisco with the bus. He told me that the bus would leave at 6:30 PM. He came from South Korea more than 15 years ago. He commented that South Korea today is much better than before.

I went back the Gospel Mission to have dinner. There were about 30 people eating there. We had fish sticks and French fries, salad, soup and juice. At 6:30 PM, I went to wait at the loading area outside the Harrah’s Reno Casino for the tour buses. The first bus came. I waited for other people to get on the bus and then I talked to the bus driver. The bus driver directed me to the lady conductor. I offered to give all my money to get a ride. But the first bus left without me. I talked to a few Chinese waiting for the second bus. I also talked to the lady conductor about my plan to start an international tourist business in San Francisco. The second bus came and there were only a few people to get on the bus. Finally the lady conductor agreed to let me get on the bus. I gave her all the coins in US and Canada currency totaling about USD$10 and she gave me a boarding pass. Tour buses usually charge $20 for San Francisco.

The bus arrived in San Francisco at about 10:00 PM. The bus dropped passengers at different locations. I got off at a Shell gas station at the cross point of Highway 1 and Lincoln Street in the Sunset district. It was warm like a spring day with fog-like rain. I looked for a homeless shelter in the phone book but found none. The cashier let me make a phone call to the police non-emergency number. The police dispatcher transferred the call to a police officer in the local area who gave me the phone number 928-4120 to call. It turned out that this number had been disconnected. There was probably no homeless shelter in San Francisco.

I got on a bus supposedly heading for the Golden Gate bridge, the black driver was kind not to insist on payment. The bus stopped going forward on Gerry street west of Park Presidio Boulevard. I got off the bus and met a Jewish young man on the street. We talked a bit and he offered to give me a ride. He phoned a friend in Marin county and found about the bus schedule from Golden Gate bridge to San Rafael. He gave me a ride in his car to the Golden Gate bridge where I took a bus for San Rafael. Since I did not have a penny, the black driver let me get on without pay. The bus went around in Marin county and stopped at every possible stop. By the time I arrived in San Rafael, It was over 12:00 AM.

I arrived at home and my four months old baby Jenny was awake. She looked like the moon with a much larger face than three months ago. I was delighted to see her.

In the West, there are no conductors on buses and the bus drivers do not handle cash either. There is a cash-box beside the driver and passengers either drop in tickets purchased elsewhere or pay the exact amount of cash. Extra cash is accepted but not refunded. I once before paid a five-dollar bill for the fare of three dollars.

At the end of November, I started writing this document. Since China is a country upholding Marxism as the official philosophy, I would be expected to know about Marxism in its entirety. Nonetheless, I have not read the famous books of "Communist Manifesto" and "The Capital".

I did not have to look far to find the works of Karl Marx. In San Rafael library, I read the American Edition (1948) of the "Communist Manifesto" authored by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. When this work was published, the brilliant Karl Marx was only 30 years old. He was born German in an intellectual family, had his law degree from Berlin University, and lead an exile life in England. Friedrich Engels was the son of an industrialist in England who was of German origin. Both of them are fluent in German, English and French. The American Edition was reprinted in 1977 possibly in large quantities. The preface for the American Edition was nearly as long as the manifesto. The preface played down the tone of the proletarian revolution advocated by the original authors.

I also glanced through the book "The Capital" found in the San Rafael library. This thick book was written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels after the "Communist Manifesto" was published. The authors treated the subject as a scientific analysis of capitalism as it occurred before and during his time and mostly in England. I immediately realized that I had learned most of the concepts contained in "The Capital" in university courses on political economy in China.

Back in September to October while I was in B.C., Canada, I found a variety of books in the Surrey library. I read a large book on American History, an English booklet on Confucius, a booklet entitled "Modern China: A Topical History" by Su Kaiming, and glanced through the four volumes of the English translation of The Selected Works of Mao Zedong.

It is evident that the above books were in the library for any one interested in those subjects to read despite the official anti-communist positions in the West. The western societies are not afraid of learning from their opponents. Besides literature, the people are encouraged to visit other countries in person to learn about other societies and culture. As the ancient Chinese said it: "knowing you and me, a hundred percent victory".

The majority of the ten goals of communism as written in the "Communist Manifesto" appears to have been partially achieved in the United States of America if the word "state ownership" used in the manifesto can be replaced by "collective and state ownership". To substantiate my assertion, the following achievements in the United States of America are listed:

1. Political power derives from citizen adults on the basis of one person one vote.
2. Heavy and progressive taxes to generate revenue for public use.
3. Heavy inheritance tax, tax incentive for donations, property taxes and inflation to reduce the value of inheritable and inherited material property.
4. Credits are in large banks insured by governments.
5. Communication and transportation are centralized in large corporations.
6. Social and economic development is planned by representative politicians and business people.
7. Equal pay for equal work. Bankruptcy liabilities are eventually shared by the people.
8. No distinction of the standard of living for agricultural and industrial workers.
9. Free public school education up to 12^th grade and abolition of child labor.

In the year 2002, Anti-Terrorism initiatives overwhelmed the new Bush administration and the American people. Talks of wars against Iraq once again are on the top agenda of the American government. On the surface and in very short term, certain groups of people stand to benefit from world conflicts and wars. But, we do know that all people of the earth stand to loose to the resulting starvation, disease and degradation of Nature.

Jimmy Carter did a positive campaign in 1976-1977. The pressure from world communism may have helped the United States to elect him as president in 1977. Here are a few ideas that caught my attention most. Regarding the lives of rural people, he said "Now I don’t care if a hundred years from now we still have less than a thousand people who live in Plains. That would suit me fine. But I want to make sure that my children and their children have just as good an education, have just as high a standard of living, have just as much right to control their own lives and their own destiny, as the richest child who lives in the biggest city.".

About a great nation, he spoke "I want my country to be number one. I want the United States of America to be the pre-eminent nation in all the world, but I do not equate pre-eminence solely with military might nor with the ability to subjugate others or to demonstrate prowess on the battlefield. We must have adequate forces to defend ourselves. But, in addition to that, an accomplishment in truth, a recognition of the equality and worth of man, a constant searching for honesty and morality, an openness of government, the ability of all men to control their own destinies and a constant recognition of the values of compassion and love among all our people – these are the proper measures of a great nation.".

About individual sacrifice for the common good, he spoke "We have learned that ‘more’ is not necessarily ‘better’, that even our great nation has its recognized limits, and that we can neither answer all questions nor solve all problems. We cannot afford to do everything, nor can we afford to lack boldness as we meet the future. So together, in a spirit of individual sacrifice for the common good, we must simply do our best.".

In the year 2002, I obtained YI LING GONG PU from MaiYuan village, East Peace county, Hunan Province, China. It likely originated in the Xia dynasty more than 4000 years ago and has been used as a naming convention for generations of people. It contained all the important ideas found in the Christian bible and the American Declaration of Independence of 1776. The western culture as represented in these two literary works is more about negative warning, in other words, they are used to show people what would be like if God is not obeyed. YI LING GONG PU is more about positive encouragement. It tells people to follow the right path. These two types of culture are mutually complementary. More details on this topic are presented in other articles.

The Chinese ancient book "Yi Jing" (I Ching) which originated 5000 years ago talked a lot about bifurcation or "one splitting into two". The first bifurcation was from Tai Chi (Tai Ji - invisible energy flow) into the Sun (positive energy) and the Moon (negative energy). Subsequent and consecutive bifurcations led to diversity of Nature. Our human cells grow in the same fashion of bifurcation. Binary digits in computers build up diverse literary applications.

An underground mine is one of the most extensive and complex human construction on earth. Tunnels have been driven to depths in excess of 2000 m. The things that we take for granted, such as light, air, and means of escape, may be absent. For miner security, at least two distinct and separate escape ways to the surface must be constructed. The escape ways must depend on separate and reliable energy sources or no energy source at all. Normally, three escape ways are provided, such as an electricity-powered shaft cage, a fuel dependent vehicle ramp (which also allows walking), and a climbing ladder way.

In human society, political and economic organizations are vital to peace and security and all other aspects of community life. In an inter-connected world, political and economic diversity ensures security for the people. Diversity in all other areas ensures well being and happiness for the people.

It should be mentioned that the philosophy of bifurcation was the earliest and most simple system of thought of human culture. It is a simplification of reality and was directly linked to the paired organs of the human body. The natural environment is diversified in reality. Given that the philosophy of bifurcation is deeply rooted in human society, the idea of looping may be incorporated into the philosophy to be more realistic or true. Looping means that a bifurcated branch joins the main branch at a point further ahead (Yi Xiaoping 1987 and 2004).

Ancient Chinese derived such wise idioms as "Watching tigers fight, the Monkey rules atop the Mountain" and "Oysters fight, fishermen benefit". We have seen that Sweden gained during the second world war and the cold war, Soviets and Americans gained while China was fighting the civil war, Japan gained while the Americans were fighting the Chinese in Korea, and Taiwan gained while the Americans were fighting the Vietnamese. We have now realized that there have been no real human winners. Fighting between humans have resulted in the gain of virus and disease but the degradation of Nature.

In the year 2001, wars on a large scale seem to be in the distant past. Has the knowledge of war passed from our forefathers to us? The answer is No. Most of us think that our forefathers happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Are we helping to brew a new war atmosphere? Till today, I have experienced a full range of false security in the west. The equality, liberty, and the human rights promised in the American Declaration of Independence two hundred years ago have failed to materialize in my case.

Williams Operating Corporation of Barrick Gold of Canada in Ontario and New Britannia Mine of Canada in Manitoba still owe me license fee for my RocCAD mine design software for the years from1999 to present. I phoned the mines in the years 2003 and was told that they stopped using RocCAD. This has not been verified. Toyota Credit Corporation repossessed my car and auctioned it at a much lower price than the blue book price and charged the difference to me. My cellular company charged ridiculous out-of-city rates and sent me the bill. My long distance company tricked me into a business contract and charged hundreds of dollars. I lost my credit rating as a result of their irresponsible fee charging.

There was an agreement on income tax exemption for visiting students and scholars between China and Canada signed by the then Premier Zhao Ziyang and Prime Minister Brian Mulroney (May 12, 1986 AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE OVERNMENT OF CANADA AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA FOR THE AVOIDANCE OF DOUBLE TAXATION AND THE PREVENTION OF FISCAL EVASION WITH RESPECT TO TAXES OF INCOME). After years of effort, my request for exemption has not been granted.

The West is trading with the East, such as China, on an unequal basis. High-tech monopoly products flow from west to east, whereas low-tech and raw material intensive products flow from east to west. The unequal US dollar to Chinese Renminbi exchange rate prevents ordinary Chinese to travel abroad to learn about the West. Media negative reports of Chinese culture and people have effectively reduced the market price of Chinese products. China needs her own high-tech enterprises to effectively conserve and beautify Nature. The degradation of Nature anywhere on earth will inevitably affect us all.

In the spirit of science, I have put forward the argument that the Human-Nature relation is as part of human history as the Human-Human relation. This perspective on the history of the human race remains to be explored and compiled.

I believe a comprehensive People and Nature history will lead to the conclusion that human equality and peace are inevitable and irreversible.

With the breakup of the Soviet Union and the alignment of China with the West, the world apparently started to move towards political and economic monopoly that is headed by the United States of America. The strategy that the George Bush administration used to bring down the soviet communism was to encourage Western Europe to send economic aid to the Soviet Union openly, whereas the Americans worked secretly to transform the Soviet institutions. As James Baker, the Secretary of State of the Bush Administration, put it "The more unified and bipartisan American policy was, the more unified and cohesive would be the Western Alliance writ large. The stronger West-West ties were, the more leverage this would put on Moscow to adapt peacefully to the realities of its decline. And the more we could move the Soviet Union towards our interests and values, the better". (The Politics Dilplomacy. 1995).

The republican George W. Bush won the year 2000 Presidential election over democratic vice president Al Gore in a tight race by a very narrow margin. A monopoly requires a strong president. This may be the reason why he started the military anti-terrorist campaign in the year 2001 to marshal unity and support.

My personal experience with technological monopoly is breath taking. In the computer software business, Microsoft Corporation has a world monopoly on the personal computer operating system and other application software such as word processing. The company changes the Windows Operating System in a fast pace simply to change a name, increase software size and break application compatibility. After Windows 95, the operating system software was licensed as OEM with the sale of new computers. Only a recovery CD was provided to the customer, not the software product CD. The recovery CD can only be used with that particular computer for which it was made. The newer brands incorporate application software products such as text and image processing, communications and device drivers. This makes the software products an integral part of the computer. If the customer loses the computer, all these software components are also lost. The newer brands use newer technologies but also introduce new bugs.

Take Windows XP for example. It changed the user interface familiar to Windows 95 users such that these users would have to spend time learning it. It changed the multi-tasking scheduling method such that a simple timer is unable to keep the time. It does not recognize a computer running Windows 95 on a network. It gives the impression that it starts faster because it is configured not to check the hard disk. Windows 98 can be configured to do the same. It permits multiple users to log on but permits only one user at a time. This permits the users to keep application software open while they are not being used with the result that less RAM is available to the user who is using the computer. For example, I could not load up my Java Applet software when my son is logged on with a fancy desktop wall paper. In summary, Windows XP asks one central processor to do more than it is able to do. This author has found the following bugs (i) the computer shuts down when there is still a user logged on; (ii) Java applet files with the jar extension can not be deleted sometimes with the error message that they are being used but they are not; (iii) Java applets can not be loaded up from the hard disk when other users are also logged on; (iv) the computer automatically dials and connects to the dial-up network without user input; and (v) the user interface is different from Windows 98 but not better.

I used to be able to download language additions for the Internet Explorer as shown in the following diagram (Figure 9). But, in the year 2002, this no longer works. Instead, the user is forced to upgrade to IE 6. For Windows 95, 98 and XP, the internet explorer can not be uninstalled, nor can two versions of IE co-exist on the same machine. Different versions of IE would be useful for software testing purposes. Windows can not be uninstalled. An unexpected automatic shut down occurred often on my Windows XP computer as shown in Figure 10.

Figure 9. Automatic downloading of software component in Microsoft internet explorer but it failed because the web address was no longer valid.

Figure 10. Unexpected shutdown message in Windows XP Home Edition.

There is nothing wrong with marketing newer brands, but existing brands, such as DOS and Windows 95 and Windows 98, should be available and continuously debugged, so that the customers would have a choice whether to upgrade or not. The better option would be to use DOS as the basic operating system, other operating systems may be added or removed.

What is ridiculous is that Microsoft Corporation made the PC into an equivalent Sun workstation or Macintosh in the five 7 years since 1995 by spending billions of dollars of people's money. The same quality of software was available in a Sun workstation or Macintosh back in 1995. The advantage for Microsoft DOS was that it was small and application software ran fast. With Microsoft Windows, the DOS prompt would not allow old DOS applications to run, forcing users to buy upgraded applications. The main difference between the old DOS and the Windows DOS was the character length for file names. Waste of resources on such a scale is apparently a crime against Nature.

The North American computer industries have advocated inter-continental or even space communications a great deal. Unfortunately, simple communication between two computers sitting next to one another, with a parallel, serial or telephone cable, can not be done. Windows 95 had a Direct Cable Connection that required the network software and cards being setup on both computers, but unfortunately most personal computers are not setup for networking. Making a parallel cable communication should have been a very simple matter for Microsoft Corporation.

On October 25, 2003 I went shopping in Changsha of China for a files backup device for my notebook computer. I had in mind an external CD writer or a mobile hard drive. I had shopped for a CD writer earlier in January in San Rafael of California. The external one was five times as expensive as an internal one, so I bought an internal CD writer to be installed in a personal computer. The cost difference is the same in China. This time I had in mind the 20G or 40G mobile hard disk drive. I went through a few shops on the East Liberty Street and found the price was from 1000 to 1500 Yuan. After window shopping for while I found an external USB box that can be used to host internal devices such CD writer and a hard drive. The USB box was 220 Yuan. An internal CD writer (Sony CD-R/RW 52x24x52, model CRX225A) installed in the USB box costs a total of 615 Yuan, but it is equivalent to an external CD writer which would cost a few thousand Yuan. Hence, I made a good purchasing decision to buy the Rainbow III USB box made in ShenZhen of China.

After I bought the USB box I was not able to install the software CD because my notebook does not have a CD ROM drive. To transfer the installation software to my computer was a big problem. I tried to install a USB memory driver but it failed because my notebook computer has English Windows 98, but the driver only worked for Chinese windows. I tried to network with the computer at the shop but it did not work because the shop’s computer has Windows XP Chinese Edition and it was not setup for networking. Fortunately, each of the files of the USB box driver was less than 1.44 MB. I was able to use a floppy diskette to transfer files a little at a time. It would have been much simpler and inexpensive to use a serial, parallel, telephone line or USB line connection to transfer files between two computers sitting next to one another. The newest USB connection is only 20 % faster than the old parallel connection.

Large corporations in the United States have dictated the production of computers and computer equipment. Although computers are also made in other countries, the US corporations probably make the major decisions. By introducing new technologies, they stopped supporting the existing ones. For example, new notebook computers are now made without the 1.44 floppy diskette drive to force users to buy the USB memory at a much higher price. The technology to increase the memory many times on the same size floppy diskette exists, but it was not commercially implemented. New computers are shipped with the newest operating system, but old software products do not run or do not run well under the new operating system. This is another type of waste of natural and human resource.

The Netscape browser of Sun Microsystems has been advertised to compete with Microsoft Internet Browser. Unfortunately, Netscape does not even include all the components of Java VM and Live Connect made by the Sun Microsystems itself. Microsoft Internet Browser 4.0 and higher has both components. Java JRE 1.3 was made to attach to Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 and higher, but only to Netscape 6. This makes lower versions of Netscape, which were better than IE in certain aspects, unusable for new Java applications. The reason for this is that Microsoft bought the rights of Java from its developer Sun Microsystems. The two effectively worked together to eliminate competition.

The Java programming language developed by Sun Microsystems has been advertised as the best programming language. Universities offer courses on this language. The Java API is for free download. I took the Java Programmer Online testing three times and paid $450 that should have covered the cost. Unfortunately, developing Java programs for real-world applications is like playing the maze game. Jdk 1.1.8 compiles Java programs that can not save files. Internet explorer 4 and earlier, and Netscape 4.7 and earlier can only play AU sound files that are obsolete completely. The two internet browsers do not allow data saving, and they do not load up programs with any jdk 1.2 codes. The two browsers are optionally provided with a "Java Console". I thought it would print program messages for debugging the software on the internet, but it does not. Debugging on the internet is extremely difficult. Sun Microstations developed the HotJava browser specifically for saving data, but it does not have sufficient functions to be used as an internet browser. It is an additional computer memory occupier for the software user. In short, to have decent internet browsing and applications, one must install the Microsoft IE, Netscape navigator and Hotjava browser. They occupy 200MB memory.

Java Applets have also been advertised as a type of internet "COM" program, that is, a program module placed on the internet can be used by other programs on the internet. Unfortunately, this is so only if the code and data are combined into one single JAR file. What is needed is that the same code could be used with different data files placed in different storage locations. The Java language can not make use of the mouse right button. Till day, one could hardly find websites that use Java Applets, not even that of Sun Microsystems.

For one topic in a programming language such as C++ and Java, there are numerous books published by different publishers. A book may cost up to $100. This is a strategy to advertise the software rather than teaching readers how to program. Job placement agencies also join the advertisement campaign by requiring skills in these new technologies. When I was looking for a job in Toronto, Canada, I bought several hi-tech books which turned out to be of no practical value. We know that books and other advertisement papers are made of trees and toxic ink.

One may think that big corporations like Sun Microstation and Microsoft Corporation are private companies. They are so only in name. In substance, they are all funded by the people in terms of financing by financial corporations, banks and the government.

The cellular phone companies sold services with their particular brands of cellular phones. These cellular phones have been deliberately made not to be mutually compatible. Some of the companies quickly went bankrupt due to excessive charging to the customers. But, new companies would pop up like the bamboo shoots. Existing cellular phones could not be used with new service providers. Waste of this kind is only one of the numerous examples. Such waste is a crime against Nature.

My IBM notebook computer (serial number of AA-D2YA2) was lost at the Surrey Homeless Shelter, British Columbia, Canada in the presence of RCMP police officers. The computer cost nearly CND$4000 in 1999. The Java software codes that I developed during a period of about one year may have been stolen and used for their own business. I was unable to get it back because the RCMP in Canada has law enforcement monopoly in the country. The operating system software Windows 98 was lost with it because the recovery CD would not work with a different computer. I also bought Windows NT 4 and PCAnywhere software with the computer. My former employer, Autodesk Inc., confiscated illegally an album of my software CD's with the above software CD's included. Autodesk Inc. has a world monopoly in CAD software for personal computers. The Superior Court of California in Marin County yielded to its monetary power and protected it against my law suits.

Fortunately, I obtained US$1000 from my automobile and property insurance company Amica for the computer loss. I later bought an IBM slim notebook computer, TP560X (Serial Number 78-AKK80), at only US$300 from Renew Computers Inc. of San Rafael. The original computer was installed with Windows 95. But, this used computer does not have an operating system. This was likely because the original owner, a large corporation, reformated the hard disk so as not to lose the company's digital data. I installed Windows 95b on the slim notebook. However, the drivers for the PCMCIA slots as posted on the IBM website failed to activate the slots. The modem and network cards could not be used. No recovery CD was available for this computer from IBM. This is probably typical of computer makers worldwide. They keeping on making new models but would not support or make replacement parts for the sold ones. For example, batteries become dysfunctional on a large scale but replacement for a specific model may not exist.

In recent years, technology companies in North America have taken extraordinary measures to prevent the spread of technology into other countries and maintain technology monopoly. Companies and organizations helped one another in their efforts. I was fired from Autodesk Inc. probably as one of their measures to get rid of senior technology personnel. The Canadian interests headed by the Noranda Technology Center took unthinkable measures to illegally possess my Mine Design software RocCAD (please find details from the article entitled "Yi Xiaoping vs. Flairbase Inc." on the same website).

There is a single credit system either in the United States or in Canada. The system keeps information on financial and social information on individuals and other entities, such as debts and loss in court cases. This information is used to decide whether or not to lend by creditors. In my case, I went into financial difficulty due to injustice of my social environment. Governments and corporations persecuted me, stole my intellectual property, and failed to pay my social security entitlements. I lost all my financial credits, and therefore can no longer obtain financing. This system helps maintain an economic dictatorship.

Internet purchasing has become the fashion of the day. The customer enters the credit card number and receives the ordered Goods in the mail. I once found a website in Alberta that advertised guaranteed job finding in he oils industry at a fee of $100. I paid the fee and downloaded a list of the oil companies. That was the end of it. I send a letter to the address provided on the website, but received no reply. I sent a letter to the FBI field office in San Rafael to investigate possible internet fraud. The reply said that it did not fall within their jobs. I then sent the letter to the Sheriff of Marin County, no reply was received.

I once went to the Net2Phone website and attempted payment three times because failure messages showed up. It turned out that my credit card was charged 3 times with $50 each time. I never even tried to use the service. The website does not even give the company address. The only contact information is a phone number (1-800-541-1147). On January 6, 2003, I phoned this number, but an answer machine was on the other end. My advice is that a website that does not give the company address should not be trusted. Another advice is that suing a large corporation is extremely difficult. One must travel to the defendant’s business location to sue. Often the defendant has chosen a small city and the local economy depends on the company. The odds against winning a law suit are great.

My wife was moving from New York City to San Rafael, California. She talked to a moving company in New York City to help move furniture and belonging (in & Out Moving & Trucking Inc., 131-11 Atlantic Ave. Richmond Hill, NY 11418 Tel. 718-850-5599). She negotiated a fee of a little more than $2000. On the day the moving company came to her apartment, the fee jumped to $4356. She had to catch an airplane on the same day and had no other choice. In California, I found a place to complain. I entered a complaint with the Better Business Bureau of New York on its website. Nothing was heard of after that.

I had a great plan to drive across North America. The opportunity came when I was hired by Autodesk Inc. in March of 2000. A $5000 bonus was available to me for moving to California. Unfortunately, I feared for my life in Etobicoke, Toronto at that time and did not have the mind to drive all the way from Toronto to San Francisco. Instead I took the trouble to drive my car to New York to leave it with her and flew to San Francisco. For the job at Autodesk Inc. and to find an apartment in San Rafael, I needed a car. I rented a car at the San Francisco airport and used it for a few weeks. The rental cost was more than I could afford besides the $5000 bonus (heavily taxed). After seeing an advertisement on a Chinese newspaper, I went to Melody Toyota car dealer close to the airport. I phoned the salesman and asked for a price. The quoted price for Toyota Camry was a little less than $18,000. I drove my rental car to Melody Toyota and planned to buy a new car to replace the rental car. When I was in the Melody Toyota dealer, the financing department charged an outrageous interest of more than 12%. They also cheated and pressured me to paint an additional layer of oil called " a touch of class". The final price for the car came to be about $21,000.

After I lost my job, I was unable to pay for the car. During my trip to Vancouver, British Columbia. The car was repossessed by an agent of Toyota Credit Corporation. They did not bother to give me back my personal belongings stored in the car, which included a tent, a camera tripod and a few language and music CD’s. Later, they sold the car at lower than the standard blue book value and charged an additional $4000 to me. Since I did not have the money to pay them. It merely served to damage my credit record.

Internet domain names with two letters and ending with .com, .net and .org have all been reserved. The internet domain name registration system works in such a way that a reserved name is not available to others even if the original owner does not pay and use it. Many companies did domain name registration as a business and most likely they borrowed money from banks to occupy those names. The banks get money from the government who make paper money out of wood and printing shops. The self-serving system works like this: The government makes money by taking from Nature, and then lend the money to both the domain name hosting companies and the domain name reservation companies. The more domain names the latter reserve, the more money the former make. But, no value is created in the process of transactions. The lucky users of domain names likely borrowed money from the government. The government appears to be the provider of all.

The reserved names are not available for others to use except for an outrageously high transfer fee. The company Interland Inc. (P.O. Box #409111, Atlanta, Georgia 30384-9111. Tel. 877-887-3864) found a good way to make money. They searched out those reserved but not used domain names and offered to renew them at a discount price. They quoted me on pulsehead.net and pulsehead.com. Since I had used up all my credit and closed all bank accounts by that time, I bought a money order in the Rite Aid store and sent it to this company. The company did not renew the requested domain names but did not refund my payment. I phoned the company and was asked to fax over my receipt which I could not find.

With the down fall of the former soviet union, there is now one single superpower, the United States. The US is trying to become the only political, economic and political headquarters of the world.

I was born a Chinese citizen and became Canadian citizen when I was 34 years old. The Chinese Department of Foreign Affairs refused to extend my Chinese passport after that. On the other hand, the US government accepts multiple passports in practice but not in the laws. Due to persecution by the Canadian system of government and the fear of gradual personal disintegration under the US system of government, I went to seek asylum in the Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China located at 1450 Laguna Street in San Francisco on Monday, January 13, 2003 at about 3:30-4:00 PM. What I had in mind was that I would stay in the consulate for a few days most to change back to Chinese citizenship.

I went in initially to talk to the education consul Wang to inquire about applying for Chinese government funding to work in China. I was told that I was not eligible. I then talked to the passport consul about getting a Chinese passport. He said the official policy was for me to cancel my Canadian citizenship with the Canada government, go back to my birth place in China, and apply for passport in the public security department of the local district. This procedure is effectively a different way of saying "no" to citizenship change.

The door keeper of the Chinese Consulate General had a TV monitor that displayed multiple windows from video cameras. The door keeper would not let any one suspicious into the building. I decided to take refuge in the building. The staff tried hard to push me out of the building. Since I had my 9 years old boy and 17 months old daughter with me, I managed to stay inside. I asked to talk to the Consulate General, Mr. Wang YunXiang but was told that he was in Washington DC. The deputy consulate general Tian ChunYan decided to call in the police to take me out against my advice that if the police come in once, they will come in any time without invitation.

It was late for the day. The Fa Lun Gong protestors outside the consulate must have went home. San Francisco police officers in black uniform came into the Chinese Consulate General, which is part of Chinese sovereignty. Initially there were three officers. They were Sgt. A. Manfreda, Officer Pera, and Officer Amoroso. I told them that I was seeking political and economic asylum peacefully, and should be dealt with according to international laws and conventions, and that the police had no reason to be there. Eventually, three more police officers came including a lady officer. They lifted me up from the floor and carried me outside the consulate and put me in jail. The said they would charge me with tress-passing (occupation of premise without owner’s consent). Earlier in October of 2001, at the Canada-US border in British Columbia, the US border guards arrested me inside Canadian Sovereignty of which I am a citizen. These are only two examples of the effects of US global dictatorship.

In the San Francisco county jail, I was searched and changed to jail uniform. Two layers of clothes were provided, a T shirt and a cover cloth. I was asked to sign a paper to indicate that I was arrested in suspicion of possession of contraband. I refused to sign it. The sheriff officers searched me for illegal drugs. The jail rooms are empty, tall and cold. I was given a sandwich for dinner that included 4 loaf of bread, a loaf of cheese, a paper-box fruit drink, and a jam. During the night, I was switched to 4 different rooms. In the first two rooms, there was a toilet but nothing else on the cold concrete floor. In the last two, there were wooden benches. I was in athlete health but felt really cold. I asked for an extra cover cloth but refused despite the fact that I saw stacks of cloth out there. I managed to get some sleep by rolling myself together or on the bench. In the third room, I met some other detainees waiting for finger prints. Most of them were Hispanics from South America. Two Chinese young men came in. They were stopped by security in a clothes store for shop lifting, but they actually paid for their purchase. They do not speak English. One of them showed me the paper and he was charged with "conspiracy". I tried to call the Chinese late night talk show number 1-888-705-1888 in there, but this number was prohibited on the jail telephone system. There was a number for the district attorney but the system does not allow it to go through either. A person with a good health would likely get sick after spending a night in there.

On the next day, Tuesday, breakfast was provided at 5:00 AM. Food was the same as last night. At about 8:00 AM, we were handcuffed together in two’s or three’s to the court. By law, a detainee must be appear in court before a judge and the district attorney’s representative the next working day. There were about 10 of us together in a small room next to the court room waiting to appear. One person vomited severely sending bad smell all over the room. I talked to a young person from Brazil who was to be deported. There were a few homeless people. One of them was a homeless black American. He went to Sweden to seek political asylum in the 1970’s from West Germany as a US army deserter. He has both Sweden and US citizenship

A lady lawyer from the district attorney’s office came to our room to get familiar with each person’s case. Each person talked about how he got arrested. I appeared that the police make many arrests in order to keep themselves as well as the lawyers busy. I gave the following talk:

"I am a Canadian citizen. I was persecuted by the Canadian police. The Canadian government put me in a psychiatric hospital to drug me and use me as an experimental object. I escaped to US but lost my job due to racial discrimination. If I continue like this, I will gradually become homeless and then end up in prison and die. I went into the Chinese Consulate General to seek political and economic asylum, but was taken by the police to jail. The police invaded Chinese sovereignty and broke international laws and conventions."

I was waiting to appear in court, but everybody else went except me. At last, the accompanying sheriff told me that I was released with out appearance. It looked like that the district attorney and the judge did not want to embarrass the police. On my way back to jail, a white sheriff told me not t go back to the Chinese consulate.

I was given lunch in jail at about 1:00 PM, the same food as before. I was given back my cloth and let go at about 1:45 PM. At the exit door, I found that the sheriff did not give me back the money in the wallet. I was told by the police that the jail cashier reopens at 2:15PM when I could get my money back. During the mean time I wrote a letter to the sheriff of San Francisco county asking him to start a citizen’s sheriff academy.

When the jail cashier did open, a long line of black people were waiting to send in money to their relatives and friends in jail. They said the inmates needed money because the inmates did not have enough to eat. I told them that the government should take care of them if it wants to keep them in jail. The sheriff delayed to give me back my money until 4:00 PM. At this time most official businesses are closed for the day.

California claims to be the 5^th largest economic entity in the world in dollar terms. This claim has more to do with the mighty US dollar and the value of real estate than to material production. It has to do with the image of a prosperous America in the minds of the people all over the world. This image does the following: (1) attracts commercial and personal investments in terms of business and real estate, (2) human power investments in terms of immigration and migrants and (3) purchase of American goods and services from other parts of the world. A lot of jobs depend on this image.

On January 16, I became ill in the morning, feeling discomfort in the stomach. It became fever and headache, and stool discharge in the afternoon. My entire body became slack and lost strength. I had a lot of hot water, ate rice soup, and applied the MaiYuan method of pinching the neck to relieve fever. I had hot rice soup at 12:00 PM and 4:00 AM during the night. The fever went away the next day. I took mostly water and rice soup for the next two days. By January 19, I started eating solid food again.

I am sure that a disease developed in jail will spread to the entire society. The medical and man power cost to the society is much more than the money spent improving the jail living conditions.

In the city of San Rafael, banks are the most prominent business. There are over ten different banking corporations. Their business is to transact money that is manufactured by the government. The government set an annual inflation goal of say 4 %, and an economic expansion rate of say 5 %. The government therefore has to increase paper money annually at 9 %. In other words, for each ton of American bills in existence, the government mints manufacture an additional 90 kg of bills each year. Trees turn into papers and the manufacturing process causes degradation to the natural environment. The same goes with coin money. Devaluation of money causes a waste of money manufacturing material, more storage space for money in the bank or on individuals, and the desire for money. Economic expansion activities such as making a missile and exploding it in an unoccupied building cause an increase of revenue but double degradation to the natural environment.

Further more, government agencies promote the pursuit of money and power in order to achieve its goals. Such non-productive work cause additional degradation to the natural environment.

It is helpful to understand the above explanations by analyzing the money flow diagram. Certain types of trees are cut down and turned into small chips. The chips are transported to the paper mill where it is ground into fine powder. The yellow wood powder are mixed with acidic chemicals in liquid to produce white paper pulp. The paper pulp are further processed mechanically to produce high quality paper. Color minerals come from the mining, mineral processing and metallurgy of minerals. They are turned into color inks through further chemical processing. Patterns are printed on papers to make money in high security government mints. The money is then distributed to different banks to be divided among various sectors of the economy, such as salary, loan and investment. If money were the goal for the entire world, then we would have person who make, distribute, earn, spend, give, steal, cheat and rob money.

There is a Chinese idiom that there are philosophers in each and every one of the 72 professions. With the proliferation of science and technology in the West, there are now thousands of professions. A handful of professions are placed above other professions in social status and it is impossible to cross professional boundaries. Usually, a four year college education divides young people into different professions. They are stuck in that profession for the rest of their life. For examples, a mining engineer can not work in civil engineering or computer industry. A professor in mining engineering can not work as an engineer in the mining industry.

The rationale for division and specialization is that every person needs the service of every profession one way or the other, but a person does the work better by focusing on a narrow field. This rationale was established at the beginning of industrialization. This may still be valid for a period of time in a person’s life, but definitely not the entire life. As a person’s physical and mental capabilities change, a different profession may be a better choice.

Knowledge, skills and experiences are interconnected. All professions share certain common ground and specialties. It takes about a year of practice to work in a different profession. It takes multidisciplinary cooperation to do a better job in any profession. Therefore, diverse work experience not only enriches one’s own life but also that of the society.

Here is an example to illustrate why one way of doing things is not good. There was a senior mining engineer by the name of Doug. He was the chief ground control engineer in a big mining company that owns a few mines. He had a Master’s degree by education. Due to peer pressure, he enrolled in a PhD program at a foreign university while working at the mine site. He had more than 20 years of experience and was regarded as an authority in ground control in mining. He once told us that a uniform drift support system using shotcrete and rebars would not only be sufficient for supporting the ground but also most cost effective in deployment. But, he met resistance in the company and could not implement it.

He left the mining company and started his own consulting firm. In the year 2001, I went to Myra Falls mine on Vancouver Island for a visit. I learned that the uniform shotcrete and rebar support system was deployed for drifts and cut-and-fill stopes at the advice of Doug in an effort to reduce mining cost. I found in my visit that the support system was less than satisfactory because the broken shotcrete pieces pose a safety hazard. I was told that the sharp ends of rebars caused flat tyres occasionally in the cut-and-fill stopes. This lead and zinc mine closed down shortly after my visit due to economic difficulty.

As mentioned earlier I could dunk a basketball like the MBA stars at Las Gallinas school, San Rafael, California, where the basket was lowered for the school boys. Humans vary in height and weight to a large extent, but in sports competitions from community games to the world Olympic Games, there is only one standard with few exceptions such as weight lifting. Tall people have an unfair advantage in sports like basketball, volleyball, high jump and long jump. Men vary in height from 1.5 to 2.2 m. Shorter people are left out in these kind of games. It is time to have a bifurcation according to height. There is two ways to do so: (i) maintaining the same basket or net height but divide men or women into two different groups; and (ii) lower the basket or net height for shorter people. One rule should be that shorter people may join the taller group but not the reverse.

Illegal drug use is prohibited in sports competitions. But, there are many other performance enhancing tricks that have not been paid attention. Examples are the type of shoes to wear and the sports ground design. In October of 2003, I tried different shoes in distance jumping. On October 20, I used a type of rubber shoes with rubber buttons on the bottom (soccer training shoes) and jumped 4.5 and 4.6 m that was 0.2 to 0.3 m longer than my usual 4.3 m. Such illegal technology use should also be exposed as well as illegal drugs.

Some overseas Chinese may think that Chinese are a minority like any other minority groups such as the Jewish, Italians, Irish, blacks and Hispanics. However, the Chinese operate under special social prejudices and government policies. They are to be used but not trusted. While other minority groups are to be protected, the Chinese are yet to be converted, divided and conquered. This being said, there are good people in the western countries who also want human rights, best government and natural environment.

The Chinese people from mainland China have got used to working as employees of large organizations. They are used to working in a closed work unit, feeling belonging in that unit, and being responsible to superiors and fellows in that unit. Since co-workers are also neighbors in China, this mentality is not different from the Christian teaching to love your neighbor as yourself. But, in the capitalist countries, neighbors are not necessarily co-workers, and this teaching has a different meaning.

With the mentality of a Chinese worker, it is hard to survive in the capitalist countries where a company undergoes changes constantly in terms of products, services and personnel. To be looking for jobs all the time is not only time-consuming but discouraging. Most people in the capitalist countries want to be entrepreneurs who must be leaders both inside and outside the company. However, Chinese as a minority would find it extremely difficult to obtain funding from financial institutions in term of loans and investments. Today, the successful and large companies are actually funded by the people and government one way or the other.

Due to the pursuit of short term profits, technology products become obsolete quickly and poor quality products that would not stand up for tests in time. Furthermore, some products are single purpose or useful only as a whole. In other words, if a tiny part fails, then the entire product become useless. Obsolete and poor-quality products are shipped to landfill sites that not only occupy land space but also pollute the water and air resources. The cumulative waste for such products is tremendous.

Therefore, making high quality, multi-purpose, components based or distributed products as well as using used products is extremely beneficial to humanity in the long run. The popular pursuit of new products is a blind pursuit of short term gain.

In a time of peace, prosperity and monopoly, one tends to loose vigilance and indulge in false security. The matter of the fact is that each and every one of us feel insecure in the bottom of the heart. We have fallen short of our full potential. We desire to travel all around the world, live more than a hundred years, participate in physical and mental work, live in a healthy environment and love one another. All these can indeed be achieved if we try. In today’s world, all countries are inter-connected. Global issues must be resolved collectively with the participation of all nations and peoples. In order to prevent world wars in the future, it is the right time to join me in a campaign for human rights-responsibilities, best governments and organizations and the natural environment.

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