Friday, April 30, 2010

What's Going on in China?

I don't have the time nor the deeper interest in China to consider the following, but the following cases are not isolated, they are not random, and they are very much indicative of a much deeper issue in China, one I don't have a great deal of insight to figure (although I can see it when I see it and I see it pretty clearly now).


March 2, Mazhang, Guangdong province. A 40-year-old man believed to be mentally disabled attacked five children and a grandmother at a primary school. Two children died.  (He wasn't mentally disturbed - it was easier to claim he was than to admit a normal 40 year old just started killing people.)



March 23, Nanping, Fujian province. A 42-year-old man attacked 13 children and a teacher at the entrance to a primary school. Eight students died. The attacker was a former medical worker believed to have a history of mental illness. He was executed for the crime on April 28.  (Swift Justice!!)


April 12, Hepu, Guangxi province. A 42-year-old man stabbed a second-grader and an 81-year-old woman to death outside a primary school. His family was scheduled the next day to commit him to a hospital for psychiatric treatment.  (Yeah, I bet they were - right after it was suggested to them they say that or lose all their food)

April 28, Leizhou, Guangdong province. A teacher on sick leave for mental illness broke into a primary school and stabbed 18 students and one teacher. None of the wounds were fatal, though two of the victims are in critical condition.   (Another mental person - geesh, what is going on with these people.  Were they always or do Chinese suddenly become killers. )

April 29, Taixing, Jiangsu province. A 46-year-old unemployed man attacked 29 four-year-old students, two teachers and a volunteer security guard. Caijing magazine reported that four of the students died, but officials said there were no deaths. The suspect later called it his "revenge on society."

April 30, Weifang, Shandong province. A 45-year-old farmer used a motorcycle to break down the gate of a kindergarten before he attacked five students and a teacher with a hammer. He then burned himself to death while trying to hold on to two children, who were both injured. None of the injuries to the students or teacher were fatal.

And we shouldn't forget the 40 year old Chinese citizen who went to Canada in 2004 and in 2008, he killed and beheaded (and chomped on) the guy sitting next to him on a bus. 









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