Chinese Blogger Attacked When Giving Speech in Bookstore
It was February 14 yesterday, the Valentine’s Day, and it didn’t end up like a day of love, but fear. Chinese liberal blogger and author XU Lai (徐来) a.k.a. ProState (钱列宪) on the Web was attacked by two unidentified men with knives when he was giving a speech at One Way Street Library. Soon after that he was hospitalized and had a surgery. I sincerely wish he will recover soon.
Although nicknamed “ProState”, on most cases the blogger writes “against” the State. Because of his witty satires and sensitive news postings, his blog “ProState has Something to Say” has a large reader base, and has been taken down by the State for many times.
No one knows who did this, and probably we’ll never know. As noted on this blog, Mr. ProState is very much liked among the public. The attackers are not likely to be those who have different opinion, because it is “politically correct” in this country to challenge liberal opinion, you don’t need a knife. Probably not the government either, an assassination in small bookstore is not quite terrifying to the public. The most likely attackers are the evil individuals and companies that were criticized by ProState on his rather influential blog.
What I have to say is, if it was really the government, I’d say democracy is an inch nearer.
