It is because I came from mainland China which has been under the dictatorship of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for over half a century. By both my age and experience, I can fully understand and thus enjoy this historical event that Iraqi people destroyed the big statue of Saddam Hussein in the central plaza of Baghdad, which meant the end of another dictator and its evil regime. The oppressed people eventually got their chance to compete to trample on the broken statue, beat it with their shoes, and pulled its head all round to satiate their long hatred of the dieing regime. Among the angry crowd, we noticed that a child was chasing and beating the head.

It is no doubt that the event has given a good lesson to all the remaining dictators and their followers. I hope that their days are numbered and every nation in the world will follow the great mainstream of democratization into political civilization.

People in almost every country evidenced that event on detailed live TV programs. Unfortunately, having complete monopoly in China, the China Central TV Station continued to deceive Chinese people with so few deliberately edited frames that people could not figure out what was happening. The Chinese dictator dares not to disclose the truth of the collapse of its accomplice. It just like a feeble old man with greedy hope of life dislikes any news of other's death. Being familiar with the wicked tactics of CCP regime, I still got angry at it and had my dreams of long ago vivid in my mind.

I have a dream that one day China will be reborn in politics, culture and social behaviors of the people. It is the people instead of the dictators who will really stand up, breathing in the fresh air of democracy and freedom. The constitution will never be a beautiful sign bearing no practical meaning. The law will never be a bar waived by the very minority to suppress the majority. Unlike those selected by the old tyrants in a black box in the past, such as, Zemin Jiang and Kim Jong-Il, the state leaders will be elected by the people.

I have a dream that one day people in China will truly enjoy the freedom of belief. There will never be persecution because of their belief. The religions that teach individuals to be aspiring as well as philanthropic will be respected as the spiritual motivation of the society. They can help reshape people's behavior and thus have the community filled with love instead of hatred. Since the communism regime has twisted and persecuted Christianity and other orthodox religions for scores of years, the present situation in China is that most people have no belief at all except belief in money, which is the reason why there are so many corrupt officials, tremendous volume of deceits, and endless false and inferior products.

I have a dream that one day people in China will truly enjoy the freedom of speech. Falsehood will never be the dominating policy of the officials and the necessary way of individual survival. It is claimed that Saddam regime was defeated by the false reports from the lower level commanders to the higher level ones. Indeed, falsehood and deceit are the inherent characteristics of any totalitarian society. In the crazy years of 1950s, we indulged ourselves ridiculously in our false ability to harvest 30 times more food than what the farm land can produce, which caused a horrible famine in the whole country which took away some 40,000,000 lives within three years. In spite of the strong warnings from most of the renowned scientists, the regime preferred the falsehood of laymen and arrogantly started to build the huge Three Gorge Dam. No body knows what horrible natural disasters will be brought to the nation in the future. What we can do now is to pray. May God bless China!

I have a dream that one day all men in China will be born equally. There will be neither political, economical and social discrimination against peasants, nor invisible walls between metropolises and small towns. People will be given freedom to decide where to live. The state will provide people with equal health care and equal opportunity of education and employment, without leaving one child accepting no vaccine injections, without leaving one child having to abandon his/her compulsory education because of poverty. It will be illegal to force the old peasants without working ability to pay exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous levies. We accuse current regime of the fact that there are more than 200,000 young men and women committing suicide each year because of survival pressures, and will try our best to provide young generations with endless hope.

I have a dream that one day people in China will be free from fear. So far we have lived under the control of fear. In fact, not only citizens living in mainland China but also those living in the foreign countries live in fear. Last October, several days before going to President Bush's ranch at Crawford, Texas, to protest Chinese President Zemin Jiang's visit, I had the promise of my friend that he would let me use his cellular phone to contact my friends at the ranch. However, he broke painfully his promise the night before I went to Crawford. Why? He was afraid that his phone number would be intercepted by Chinese agents, which would make it impossible for him to return home and even bring tragedy to his family members still in China. Yes, he was right. Chinese agents seem to hide wherever a Chinese citizen may go. We still have fresh memory that last June Dr. Bingzhang Wang, a spiritual leader of Chinese dissidents, was kidnapped in Vietnam when he was planning to meet other dissidents there. It is possible that Chinese agents may kidnap us in North America, isn't? Let us take a look from other aspect. In these 13 years under dictator Zemin Jiang, almost all the movies and TV plays were stories about ancient emperors, illusive Gong-Fu and dull loving affairs since no one dared to produce art products reflecting reality. It is so dangerous an area that the playwright might not be allowed to publish his works any more, and might even be sent into jail!

I have a dream that one day people in China will be free from want. Let's not mention the notorious years from 1959 through 1962 when some 40 millions of people died of starvation. How about the present status in China? To many citizens living in the metropolises, the supply for civilian life seems to be marvelously abundant. Back from several weeks of journey in China, my friend excitedly described Beijing, the capital, almost as wonderful as a heavenly city. However, he faltered while asked whether he could have had such an impression if peasants and poor city citizens, the overwhelming majority of the population, were able to consume. Both coming from the remote country side, we are not strange to the reality that, say, farmers can not eat eggs while raising hens since eggs can help make money for their survival. In fact, there is tremendous volume of 3-to-4-member families of which the income is less than $2 per day each family. There is also tremendous number of children whose families can not afford their preliminary education.

I have a dream that one day people in China will have the right to know the truth. They will not be cheated, deceived and oppressed so easily by the government. The people will stand by the righteous and far away from the evil. They will be content, thankful and of thanksgiving, which prevents them from becoming ignorant and radical nationalists and being used by a tyrant regime. They will be altruistic and be welcomed guests and citizens wherever they go.

I have a dream that one day the thought and creativity of people in China will be completely liberated. Civilians follow the law and compete to contribute their wisdom to their community, the nation and the mankind, while the government takes its duty to the people and the outside world instead of deceiving or even using brutal troops to suppress the people, such as, twisted history and Tiananmen Square Massacre, instead of taking a cheating, ambiguous or subservient policy toward the outside world, such as what the CCP government did with the SARS, the first Gulf War, and the signing of treats about the border issues between China and Russia.

I still have many more dreams about the future of China. I know that all my dreams are far from reality. To turn them into reality, we have lots of things to do. We need people of great talent of leadership. We need many more friends and comrades. We even need sacrifice.

To fulfill the dreams, I had a concrete dream right at the sight that Saddam's statue was destroyed. It is that

--- What happened in Baghdad will happen in China soon!

In China, there are lots of huge marble statues of Zedong Mao, the evil of the evils in the world, on many campuses of universities, such as Tsinghua University, Beijing University of Chemical Industry, and Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Mao's evil thought and his dead spirit are still controlling Chinese people everywhere, which is the major barrier to prevent China from becoming a democratic nation. Thus, if China wants to join the democratic mainstream of the world, the most important things we must do include destroying the huge picture of Mao's on the Tananmen Gate Tower, moving away and even destroying the crystal coffin for his corpse in the dedicated memorial building on Tiananmen Square, and destroying all his statues all over the country.

Whether we do it ourselves or just wait for alien forces to finish it is a touchstone for testing both our culture and whether China is really a great nation. Unfortunately, in the past half a century, most of us have been too selfish and cowardly to take care of the fate of our nation because of the brutal regime. In Mao's almost 30 years of unmerciful rule, without saying rebellions, many people even tried their best to show their loyalty to him like a dog to its lord. Having fiercely suppressed peaceful student movement for democracy using tanks and machineguns, Xiaoping Deng could still peacefully live his life without meeting any threat from the suppressed people. Today, even nonentity like Zemin Jiang can oppress people in any way he likes. He suppressed and is suppressing scores of millions of people practicing Falungong for better health. He could and can stop any effort to carry out political reforms without meeting any strong challenge. In this awkward situation, each Chinese should ask himself if China has lost any hope. Do we have to be cowards and do nothing but waiting for others to be our saviors? In the past half a century, we indeed had no dignity to be boasted of. Brutal as Saddam was, Iraqi people had rebellions against his regime. Comparatively, we had no recorded rebellions against the evil CCP regime. Our people were too obedient toward the totalitarians. It's hard for us to find any pride in the past. Therefore, we must recover our dignity by ending the rule of CCP in the future with our own hands.

That the statue of Saddam was destroyed also seriously warned present dictators and the descendants of former dictators. Yes, the corpse of Joseph Stalin was finally exposed on the Russian street. Saddam is dieing painfully (he and his two merciless sons may have been smashed to pieces on this Monday). Dictator Mao locked in the crystal coffin would never know that his corpse is doomed to be thrown away and exposed for angry people to trample on. Thus, muddleheaded Zemin Jiang, you had better destroy your huge pictures in Dalian and Shunde so as not to take humiliation in the near future! Also, descendants of dictators Zedong Mao and Xiaoping Deng, you had better clean all the debris of your predecessors so as not to let them be objects for people to lose their anger at!

Indeed, how grand and strong the pictures or statues of dictators are made does not matter when even a little child can waive his little shoe to slam them. All the oppressed people will win since righteousness is to prevail.

China, my home country, I have felt your hopeful future in the ecstasy of Iraqi people at their liberation!

April 10, 2003