2nd Letter to A.G. Garland -- Big Action Soon

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Important Introduction: This is a strong letter*, though diplomatically

worded. It respectfully asks A.G. Garland to 1) apologize to our community for the repeated wrong doings of FBI agents against persons of Chinese heritage. 2) fire the wrongful agent(s) , and 3) promise us that this kind of wrongful acts will not happen again. If ignored, 80-20 shall take resolute action.

Read this letter very carefully with your best thinking-cap on, especially its 3rd-to-last and 2nd-to-last paragraphs. You need

  (A) to be aware that BIG ACTION(S) may occur this month, since the 2-

        month period that we respectfully provided the A.G. to reply has passed,

  (B) to witness a video in which FBI Director Wray 1) humbly apologized to the

        gymnast community, 2) fired the FBI agent who wronged the gymnasts,

        and 3) promised to "never let it happen again", and

  (C) to ask yourselves if we deserve the same apology, the same firing of the

        wrongful agent(s), and the same promise that "it'll never happen again"?

        If we are not accorded the same judicious treatment, We ARE BEING

        TREATED AS SECOND-CLASS CITIZENS.

  (D) to pay attention to diplomatic language like "at this time" to appreciate

        how much the leaders of 80-20 have stuck their necks out to fight for our

        shared rights and honor.

      Finally, please search your soul if you want to demonstrate your support for 80-20 in this upcoming BIG STRUGGLE FOR EQUAL JUSTICE. Think about how your offspring will be treated, if you don't fight with 80-02 till victory!

*DOJ acknowledged the receipt of this letter on Nov. 9, 2021. 80-20 didn't release the contents of this letter until now, because we wanted to give quiet-and-reasoned-discourse a trial.

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80-20 Educational Foundation, Inc.

939 Beach Dr. N.E., Apt. 910

St. Petersburg, FL 33701

 

                                                                                                                          November 4, 2021

The Honorable Merrick Garland

Attorney General

U.S. Department of Justice

950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Washington, D.C. 20530-0001

Dear Attorney General Garland:

 

        My name is S. B. Woo, former Lieutenant Governor of DE (1985-89) and currently the president of 80-20 National Asian American Educational Foundation.

 

       I write to ask you to protect the human rights of persons of Chinese descent in the U.S., which have been repeatedly and grossly violated by FBI agents in well-reported cases involving Sherry Chen (2012), Prof. Xiaoxing Xi (2015) and Prof. Anming Hu (2020).

 

        The case of U.S. v. Anming Hu, no. 3:20-CR-00021, was particularly illustrative. The following are the exact quotes about the gross misconduct of FBI agent Kujtim Sadiku, reported by a 6/10/21 Knox News article. Hu was accused by DOJ of being a spy for China.

 

       "FBI Agent Kujtim Sadiku admitted last week in an ongoing trial in Knoxville that federal agents:

 

• Falsely accused former UTK associate professor Dr. Anming Hu of being a Chinese spy
• Falsely implicated him as an operative for the Chinese military in meetings with Hu’s bosses
• Used false information to put Hu on the federal no-fly list
• Spurred U.S. customs agents to seize Hu’s computer and phone and spread word throughout the international research community that HU was poison
• Used false information to justify putting a team of agents to spy on Hu and his son, a freshman at UTK, for nearly two years.
• Used false information to press Hu to become a spy for the U.S. government.”

 

        In spite of the gross misconduct of your agents, which is publicly reported, and a deadlocked jury in the first trial, DOJ insisted on having Prof. Hu tried again.

 

However, the U.S. District Court judge, citing lack of evidence, acquitted Hu on all 3 charges. The above was an extremely rare judgment because the judge was required to view the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution. The Chinese-American community was relieved by the judgment but remains deeply concerned and worried.

 

         We asked, why wasn't agent Kujtim Sadiku fired? Seeing no action from you, a speculation rose that DOJ may be intentionally stimulating the wrongful arrests and prosecutions against persons of Chinese descent. The purpose is to create a chilling effect on every person of Chinese origin residing in the U.S.. Is the FBI emulating the tactics of totalitarian governments? Is the DOJ induced chilling effect on our small and vulnerable minority community a violation of our human rights?

 

There are also intemperate talks of raising our human rights grievances with the outside world, since our grievance filed within, i.e. with you (my letter to you on June 24, 2021, together with letters sent by Senators Chris Coons, Tom Carper and Tammy Duckworth around the same time) and FBI Director Wray (my letter to him on 10/02/21) don't get answered. Some impatient people even suggest that we organize to make a big appeal to the United Nations in NYC. Others advocate that we advertise our plight worldwide, in Hong Kong, Taiwan and other places.

 

We are well aware of Director Wray's apology & promise to the gymnast community at the Senate Hearing on Sept. 15, 2021, for the FBI's failure to timely prevent the sexual abuse of gymnasts:

 

“….  I am deeply and profoundly sorry .... I'm sorry ....

I am sorry ....I am especially sorry ... that never should

have happened & we are doing everything in our power

that it never happens again .... the kinds of fundamental

error should never have happened, period! .... Never.

happens again. "

 

“… the Supervisory Special Agent in Indianapolis ... that

individual no longer works for the FBI in any capacity

…people who engage in that kind of gross misconduct

have no place in the FBI …"

 

          Are the 5 million Chinese Americans just as worthy of a similar apology and promise by you and Director Wray? Shouldn't agent Kujtim Sadiku be fired?

 

          We, the Chinese American community, decidedly reject the idea of going outside at this time. We much prefer to hear from INSIDE! May we get a similarly clear statement from you and Director Wray so that such devastating tragedies, like those having befallen Sherry Chen (2012), Prof. Xiaoxing Xi (2015) and Prof. Anming Hu (2020), should never happen again and that agent Kujtim Sadiku has been fired?

 

         We'd like to hear from you in 2 months so that our planned national appeal for our human rights, as persons of Chinese descent, can be cancelled. If 3 months have passed and you still deem that our requests to you should not be honored, would you schedule a meeting with us to explain your rationale?

 

         We feel strongly that while America proclaims to the world the importance of human rights, the human rights of persons of Chinese descent in the U.S. are frequently and severely trampled upon. We seek prompt and certain relief.

 

Sincerely,

 

S. B. Woo

President, 80-20 National Asian American Educational Foundation, Inc. 

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S. B. Woo

President and a volunteer for the past 22 years

80-20 Educational Foundation, Inc, a 501 C-3 organization,

http://www.80-20educationalfoundation.org/index.php

Lieutenant Governor of Delaware (1985-89)

80-20 EF Mission Statement

        80-20 gratefully acknowledge all donors, including

$2,300 from C.C. and Yin-An Tsai, Houston TX;

and $1,000 each from

Kalina Wong, Fremont, CA, Harold H. Lee. Mission Viejo, CA, Chen Chen &

Tuohui Zhong, Greensboro, NC, Dean Lee, Lake Forest, CA, and a "VA donor."

 

80-20's UNIQUE position in "China Initiatve"

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80-20's Reasoned & Unique Position On "China Initiative"

Q1: What is "China Initiative"?

A: Click here to read DOJ's official definition of China Initiative. It has 10    

components.

Q2: 80-20 has NOT joined the call to terminate "China Initiative", why?

A: 80-20 does NOT object to the rationale behind the existence of "China Initiative". Such a project is, unfortunately, an unavoidable consequence of a bad U.S.-China relationship. To illustrate this trend, 2 months ago CIA established a "China Mission Centre." Our National Security Council has a Senior Director for China in Jon Czin who was 1 of Biden's 6 staff in his virtual meeting with Pres. Xi of China. To ask DOJ to terminate China Initiative is politically unrealistic.

Even if one were to succeed in "terminating" it, such a project will exist underground. Our community will suffer more, because a covert program has NO transparency & accountability!

However, DOJ has grossly violated the human rights of the 5 million persons of Chinese descent in the U.S. in its EXECUTION of "China Initiative", as is documented in Q4. We must strenuously fight against such violation.

Q3: Isn't there a racial profiling issue in the "China Initiative"?

A: NO. If DOJ were investigating illegal transfer of technology to France, and

it focuses on Chinese, that is racial profiling. For DOJ to pay more attention to the Chinese community in its execution of "China Initiative," it is only common sense.

Q4: Are there evidence of DOJ violating our human rights?

A: Yes. First, I'll provide anecdotal evidence, and then statistical evidence.

(1) Anecdotal Evidence

The FBI has long engaged in the non-physical but extremely punishing torture of INNOCENT individuals of Chinese descent. FBI agents had lied, cheated & made incredibly stupid mistakes to incriminate our innocent individuals through the legal grinds of arrest, indictment, and court trials.

Examples are the well-publicized cases of Sherry Chen (2012), Prof. Xiaoxing 

Xi (2015) and Prof. Anming Hu (2020). The terror & plight brought to these INNOCENT individuals and their families have created a terrifying Chilling Effect on our community.

(2) Statistical Evidence

       (a) In a joint research project conducted by C-100 & the Univ. of Arizona, it is found

      that 50.7% of scientists of Chinese descent feel considerable fear and/or anxiety that

      they are being surveilled by the U.S. government, compared to only 11.7% of        

      scientists of non-Chinese descent.

         (b) Normally less than 5% of Asian Americans would donate anonymously.  To verify,

       click on http://www.80-20ef.org/SELF_results.html, which shows names of 2600

      donors. However, more than 50% of the 995 donors to Prof. Anming Hu's family to

       help them buy food chose anonymity! Why? Likely, the donors feared that the U.S.

       government might not approve of their donations.  How sad for our government!

       While advocating "human rights" worldwide, it scared its own people to such an

       extent.

         

Q5: DOJ worried about "non-traditional collectors" for China, is that why it is creating the Chilling Effect to scare the hack out of the Chinese community?

A: Yes, that is our guess. FBI director Wray has a preference for using totalitarian methodology. He advocated repeatedly in his Senate testimonies that we need to use "whole-of-society response" to catch Chinese spies - a not-so- subtle hint that there are Chinese spies everywhere in the U.S.

Could Director Wray be correct? NO! FBI's own record has clearly disproved the above myth. After a 3-year effort under China Initiative, DOJ

has gotten less than 10 convictions on individuals of Chinese descent. Hence the ratio of bad folks in our community is NOT 1 in 10 or 100 or 1,000. It is 1 in 500,000 in a community of 5 million.

DOJ needs to drastically revise its "China Initiative" playbook in order to stop the gross misconducts against the Chinese community in the EXECUTION of its China Initiative.

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S. B. Woo

President and a volunteer for the past 22 years

80-20 Educational Foundation, Inc, a 501 C-3 organization

Lieutenant Governor of Delaware (1985-89)

80-20 gratefully acknowledge all donors, including

(1) Wei-jing Zhu, Palo Alto, CA, $10,000 using his much appreciated 

    shares of stocks to get tax advantages.

（2) Jing-Li Yu, New York, NY, $2,500 ,

   (3) Steve & Terry Chan, Montville, NJ, $1018,   

   (4) William Shih, Palos Verdes Estate, CA, $1,000, 

   (5) Astrid L. Szeto,Laguna Niguel , CA, $1,000, and

   (6) Minfend Xu, Ballstone Lake, CA, $1,000.

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Gratitude At Year's End

 

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To post your view, click here.      DONATE Alice Huang, David Lee, Yueh-Ting Lee, S. B. Woo, Jing-Li Yu, and Wei-jing Zhu, Volunteer Board Members of 80-20 Initiative, composed of 80-20 Educational Foundation, Inc, a 501 C-3 organization, and 80-20 Asian American Empowerment Political Action Committee.

Your Most Powerful Political Tool

 

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Professional politicians ("pols" from here on) used to think that the above table didn’t show sufficient correlations between 80-20’s 3 kinds of endorse-ments and the results in the rightmost column.       Pols maintained that the huge increasing in advantage for the Dem. pres. candidate up till Obama’s 2nd election is simply the trend of all immigrant communities. When refugee immigrants first came to the U.S., they always favored the Republican Presidential candidates, because the GOP candidates are more anti-communism. Examples are the cuban, the Korean and the Vietnamese voters. However, gradually the immigrants realized that Dem. Party provided more economic benefits to the immigrant community so they began to favor Dems. The pols maintain that the slight decrease for Kerry was simply fortuitous. When the big decrease for H. Clinton came out in 2016. The pols explained that immigrants were always more supportive of an incumbent president. Hence, H. Clinton’s is expected to enjoy a lesser margin of advantage than Obama’s 2nd election.       In 2020, however, Biden's margin of advantage from AsAm votes has shrunk to 20 points less than Obama's 2nd term. If there is another shrink of that size, AsAms may be reverting to favoring a Republican presidential candidate again. We hope that the Democratic pols will wake up and start urging Democratic presidential candidate to pay much more attention to the CLOUT of 80-20, which desires nothing more than equal opportunity for AsAms. Pass this e-newsletter to pols! To post your view, click here.      DONATE S. B. Woo President and a volunteer for the past 22 years 80-20 Educational Foundation, Inc, a 501 C-3 organization, http://www.80-20educationalfoundation.org/index.php Lieutenant Governor of Delaware (1985-89) 80-20 EF Mission Statement 80-20 gratefully acknowledge all donors, including      (1) Clark & Shirley Chow, Huntington Beach, CA, $3,000,      (2) "IRA Charitable Rollovers", Sunnyvale, CA, $2702.63,           (3) Zinmay Sung, Hillsborough, CA, $1,000, and (4) Gary Tang, Albany, CA who shall put 80-20 EF into his will.

Tips on when to apply to Harvard

 

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However, in 2014, when Student For Fair Admission, SFFA, sued Harvard for discrimination against AsAms in Boston's District Court, its AsAm enrollment increased to 20%. In 2018, it further increased to 23%. In 2020 i.e. class of 2024, it increased "by 6% to 28.6%". Click here and scroll down to the paragraph entitled "Demographics" to verify that Harvards' class of 2024 increase to 28.6% AsAms.     Let's reflect on the above info. Do the rapid increases in AsAm enrollment, during SFFA's law suits against Harvard, convince you that Harvard was clearly discriminating against AsAms during the 2 decades from1991 to 2011? Of course. Can you be sure that Harvard is not discriminating against us even today? Of course not, remembering that Harvard has a discriminatory personality rating in its "wholistic evaluation" of applicants?     Do you now clearly understand what Harvard responds to? Yes, legal pressure! Whom do we thank for Harvard's apparent improvement?     Our thanks should go to SFFA which is led by Ed Blum, who is a friend of 80-20.

80-20, and therefore YOU, have supported Blum since 2012. 80-20 may even have played a role in inducing Ed Blum to sue Harvard for discrimination against AsAms. EF has donated $10,000 per year to SFFA for the last 4 years, although that amount is only a pittance compared with the millions of dollars of legal fees that Blum had raised to wage the legal battle against Harvard on behalf of AsAm youth.     Don't relax. Think! Could Harvard back track, if the Supreme Court doesn't make a permanent ruling to stop discriminatory college admissions??? Forward this e-newsletter: Apply to Harvard Now!     You and your friends must act fast and apply between now and Jan. 1, 2022. Seize the opportunity. The legal pressure is at its highest on Harvard Now. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -     If you are a SFFA member, we urge you to vote for Jing-Li Yu, who is running for a SFFA Board position. He is also on 80-20's Board and is a very capable, very honest and public-service-minded lawyer. Thank you. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 80-20 is Hiring. Click here to find details. To post your view, click here.    DONATE S. B. Woo President and a volunteer for the past 23 years 80-20 Educational Foundation, Inc, a 501 C-3 organization, http://www.80-20educationalfoundation.org/index.php Lieutenant Governor of Delaware (1985-89) 80-20 EF Mission Statement

Build Trust with the DOJ

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Careless Research or Fake News?

Recently some AsAm orgs. (NOTE: we are not naming names) have been circulating untruthful stories against DOJ's China Initiative.

They reported that Prof. Anming Hu's case was the first court trial under DOJ's "China Initiative", and yet the prosecution failed. They went on to

infer that China Initiative chased phantom crimes and therefore should be terminated.

The above claim is NOT true.

Prof. Hu's case was NOT the first case or the first academic case. Even Hu's lawyer agrees with 80-20. The DOJ has won cases under China initiative, including the 2019 case against Adjunct Prof. Yi-Chi Shih of UCLA who was tried and convicted.

There is another untruthful story about China Initiative - its sole purpose is to stop "economic espionage or trade secret theft". Click here to read the official definition of "China Initiative." It has 10 components, Its mission is quite broad.

Making Up Stories to Accuse the DOJ is Counter Productive

We hope that our fellow AsAm orgs. will agree with us that circulating unfair and untruthful stories about China Initiative will likely be counter productive. We need to build trust with the DOJ.

80-20 is far from wanting to kiss up to the DOJ. Please read letters from 80-20 President, S. B. Woo, to Attorney General Merrick Garland and to FBI Director Christopher Wray. In those letters, Woo pointed to DOJ agents' gross misconduct against Prof. Anming Hu. Indeed, he explicitly asked Director Wray to fire agent Kujtim Sadiku who lied and cheated to incriminate Prof. Hu.

80-20 hopes thats all AsAm orgs will be fair to the DOJ and build trust. Then and only then will the DOJ correct its excesses in its EXECUTION of "China Initiative".

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S. B. Woo

President and a volunteer for the past 22 years

80-20 Educational Foundation, Inc, a 501 C-3 organization,

http://www.80-20educationalfoundation.org/index.php

Lieutenant Governor of Delaware (1985-89)

80-20 EF Mission Statement

80-20 gratefully acknowledges all donors, including $1,000 each from

(1) Rowland W. Chang, Chicago, IL, (2) Nancy Lin, Acadia, CA, and (3) Chen Zong, Princeton, NJ.