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[derien]

I could have started telling this story on Friday, but I didn't feel as though I had enough information, yet.

Friday we had a girl from China who didn't have proper ID and didn't speak much English, and a variety of people got involved in the case. When most of us were leaving for the evening she was still sitting there with a cop and a translator who'd been brought in, and we were told Immigration had sent an agent. Last night we got more of an update from the cop, K-of-BBQ, who was involved.

Turns out her parents are in prison in China for having the wrong religion (we don't know what), and she escaped by getting hooked up with an illegal prostitution ring who got her to the U.S. She made some money with that in New York, but got arrested eventually. She made her bail and was given a court date to look into her request for political asylum, and until that date she's free to go anywhere in the U.S. If she doesn't show up they don't seem to have any particular plan to go out and get her - I'm sure they've decided she's not really any sort of threat.

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[kryptyd.livejournal.com]

That's sad. The parents are probably Falun Gong, which is pretty hateful, but it's dreadful that the girl was forced to leave and ended up in prostitution. I hpe she smehow manages to make a life for herself.

P.S. I don't think putting people whose religions I don't like in prison is the answer. Just thought I'd better slip that in!

[derien.livejournal.com]

Another Master Li. What is it with that name? Well, my brother's Master spells it Lee, and goes by Ilchi Lee and Seong Heun Lee. I naturally mistrust any religion which encompasses all things about one's life and takes it's direction from one person, it smacks of cult to me. But what do they do which is 'hateful'?

[kryptyd.livejournal.com]

They think Black, White and Asian people go to different heavens. And multiracial kids will cause the end of the world. And it's a homophobic belief system. Is your brother into Falun Gong? I'm not saying he believes all that stuff! The leader guy preaches it though. But it's also possible I have it wrong. I mean, the amount of people who thought my old boss had several wives when they heard he was a mormon! I had to explain to them that they got rid of that part long ago (hmmm, mormons also used to think black and white people had different heavens and updated their beliefs). So maybe I've got FG wrong. Then again they've only been around since 1992 so they don't really have any excuse for EVER thinking those horrible things. If they did. It's quite possible that I've been reading commie propaganda (this is me, after all)

[derien.livejournal.com]

No, my brother's into Dahn. Which may be somewhat related - it seems to be a different branch of Qigong.

[derien.livejournal.com]

This is the small school/center my brother, Eightball, runs:
http://www.dahnyoga.com/center/center_profile.asp?id=440