Petition-letter for Yang Jianli and many others in Chinese prisons

Cecilia Linda Lee Gemma Rose Fabos-of-the-Szecsenyi-Becker

San Jose, CA

To the President, officers and Congress of

The People’s Republic of China

This is a belated humanitarian petition on behalf of one or more prisoners in your country. Please forgive me for being later than others from whom you recently received a humanitarian petition. Since the middle of February, we have experienced the deaths of two close family members and two friends. We have been in mourning, and when not occupied with memorial services, have been dealing with some severe financial crises due to the continued recession in Silicon Valley, and the slow recovery of our little business in the town of Julian, California whose economy has suffered greatly from two large wildfires adjacent to the town in 2002 and 2003. We have been confronting and enduring much tragedy and a request for my assistance for one more little tragedy was difficult to respond to quickly.

Recently you passed some new legislation and resolutions stating or renewing your commitment to humanitarian behavior and human rights and dignity. After what I’ve seen lately, the world could use a lot more of that. Compassion and humanitarianism is especially needed to be seen more from the great and the wealthy to the small and those who suffer.

Yet, my family saw this once from you in 1986, when my mother, Wilma Maie Wallace Fabos had but one year to live. She was dying of cancer and her last request for travel was to see China again, a reborn, and happier land than the war-torn land she saw when she was a young American naval non-commissioned officer helping supply the Chinese and helping to fight the Japanese often alongside the Japanese and doing so behind enemy lines, even though she was a 4th or 5th cousin of soon to be President Truman and his wife. You honored her greatly and made her trip very comfortable and pleasant.

She had had a terrible childhood, growing up the youngest, and unwanted child of a family that suffered during the Great Depression. She knew how important it was to learn to forgive and give people a new life, a second chance. Because she had wanted others to care, she learned to care for others, even at great risk. She could be tough and temperamental, too, and she sometimes had a hard time understanding and tolerating the differences and dissent from her children or even some people around her in other situations. Yet she did not condemn, and when her temper subsided, she listened, understood, and when it was right, forgave. She was also always a lady, even when her temper had been provoked. I almost never heard her swear and she seldom shouted at even her children, and she NEVER shouted at or used profanity toward another adult. Not once. Yet, she could bend a city, and even a nation to her will if she wanted to do so -- and she did. She organized and led the first major strike in the nation on the issue of "comparable worth" and helped women make the first major economic gain in nearly a century. By doing so, she was a dissident to the majority rule and its ways of treating people. What she did, however, she did peacefully. When she died, every elected official from city councilpersons to Congresspersons, Senators, in Silicon Valley honored her and sent flowers, commemorative gifts, and made public tributes to her.

But your government and people did something even more important. You gave her some of the happiest days of the last year of her life, while she yet lived to appreciate that. I thank you for that.

Sometimes we (your government officials and the CCP and I) have not agreed on how to achieve, or what are, the best wishes and future for China, but I have learned from my mother to always, despite great adversity, hope and work for the best as I understand the best, and hope that change, even great change, can be made peacefully.

We have not always agreed on the forms of government for China or how a change of government may be peacefully achieved. From my father’s country and family I learned how important it is for the people, that major changes occur peacefully. I have had reason to reflect on how important it is for peace, even with differences, in families and nations, because it was two members of my father’s family who were very close to me who died recently, and they hadn’t always gotten along well in their last few years. It was a tragedy that only added to their suffering. As a nation, we Magyars (Magi of Ur, is what Hungarians have always called themselves) suffered under foreign invasion and occupation, and one-person or one-party leadership that too often forgot it was human, and thus fallible, also. At times, these human leaders could not tolerate dissent, nor forgive those who cared about their country but who differed from them in how to improve it, and sometimes did not know how to make constructive, helpful and mild-tempered criticism that gave suggestions for change and did not condemn people completely or lost control of their emotions and behaviors. Hungarians, in general, are not known to be "mild-tempered people" -- ask the Russian/Soviet army, or the Germans.

However, a nation divided cannot stand, but there can be even greater chaos when there are many divisions and much anger and frustration without attempts at communication, understanding and efforts to find ways to cooperate to make situations better. When others were not pillaging us, we Maygars were tearing our own nation, our own people, apart-- and making it easier for others to destroy us. We were wrong to do that, all of us, great and small. We survive much better when differences in politics don’t lead to anger, violence and murder. We will always have tempers and heated debates, but it is better that our words are sometimes intemperate followed by mutual apologies and better cooperation with one another, than burying one another and weakening ourselves so others can take over. By cooperating with one another, even if in varying degrees, we can save our armed forces for the real problems -- beyond our borders, or just to defend the borders, instead of wasting time and money on controlling our own people. No army can expend many resources to control its own nation and simultaneously handle foreign threats or goals effectively. Stalin proved that to all of us in East and Central Europe. So did Hitler. You are making progress in understanding this, and are showing this in several ways.

Thus, I am asking you to show your increasing humanitarianism, and your maturity, once again, to release, and even forgive, Yang Jian-li for his mistakes. Encourage him and others to learn new things, like "constructive criticism" that doesn’t condemn people, and how to work and live among ordinary people so he can learn to understand them and be a better representative between people and nations and help resolve real needs. He is intelligent but he needs to remember the experience of real leaders and heroes as Mao Tse Tung once was. Real leaders first serve and live among the people and share their day to day ordinary work and struggles to survive and care for their people, unselfishly, without many thoughts to use the services to achieve power. Mao Tse Tung succeeded where Chiang Kai-shek did not because he was one with the people and treated his soldiers, and all who supported them, well, and equally to himself. However, Mao Tse Tung did not learn this in prison.

Therefore, I am asking that you release and deport Yang Jian-li back to the U.S., first, for the sake of his wife, and his child, who miss and need their husband and father. It is not good for a son to grow up in this land, or any land, without a father, another man to teach him how to become a man. The second reason I am asking you to do this, is to make him a better man, to encourage him to learn to live and work among ordinary people so he might also learn from them. Don’t make him appear a martyr or hero for having endured a prison. He needs to live, learn and do more than just follow a prison routine if he is ever to use his intelligence constructively to help people and nations. I am also asking you to release other prisoners who did not kill, did not take the property of others, and remember their wives or husbands and children and parents, and how much they are loved and needed by them, also. Set a new standard for justice tempered with mercy. In the words of my own Ancestor, "as it is done on earth, as men do to one another, so it will be done in Heaven and so it will be done by Heaven to men."

Thank you for your attention.

Respectfully,

Cecilia Linda Lee Gemma Rose Fabos-of-the-Szecsenyi-Becker, Countess Szecsenyi,

(born dual national: U.S. citizenship and Magyar (Hungarian), descendant of the last Sumerian priest-emperor Sze Csen also spelled Tse Csen -- 2000BCE -- 500 years before the first emperor of the Shang dynasty)

(Through Tse Csen, also a recognized descendant of the ancient Tseyi a clan that included the ancient shaman-leaders of the Navajo, Apache, Comanche, and Shoshone, etc. (The Athabascan-speaking nations), and friend to the shaman of the Apache, also a descendant of the families of/in the Judex Regis Curiae, also a "citizen" of the Eastern Cherokee People)

(Co-convenor and life-time voting directorate member of Clan Wallace of the Scottish Clan Societies, contributor to historical research and writing and events for Clan Campbell and Clan McLeod, (our Scottish/Celtic “festivals are attended by anywhere from 15,000 to 100,000 Scottish and Irish Clans’ members and friends—the U.S. is over 25% of Scottish and Irish descent…), member and supporter of the "Highlander Warriors" commemorative historical swordplay re-enactment troupe)

(Semi-retired General Secretary of the Americans from East Central Europe Coordinating Committee, member of the Julian Chamber of Commerce--it’s a small town in San Diego County, California whose economy has been devastated by two large wildfires nearby but it has achieved some interesting notice by people all the way to Washington DC, and semi-retired activist in general)

(and also known as Li2n Xi1ng)

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Source: "yangjianli.com".