Chapter 32 Act 30 Trial of Hoover

The scene is the same as Act 1. God Li: (Stands up, knocks the gavel) Now announce the opening of the 30th court of the "Last Judgment" (sit down).Biography accused the 31st President of the United States Herbert Hoover (Herbert Hoover). (Hoover stands.) God Lee: You are Hoover, born in 1874, the 31st President of the United States. Hoover: Yes. God Lee: Of all the presidents of the United States, you have the most connection with China, don't you?When you were running for president, your political opponents said that you made a fortune in China by illegal means, and your first million dollars was sent from China—Mr. Hoover made his first million in China. No ?

Hoover: I made my fortune mining in China, but legally. Shen Li: But Chinese official records do not support your legitimacy. Hoover: Then I can't help it. God Lee: You have been in China for 3 years, and even your wife can speak Chinese. Hoover: Yes, we were 25 to 27 years old at that time, we liked China, and we went to China less than 10 days after we got married. God Li: You earned your first million in your life in China. Hoover: Yes, 1 million dollars around 1900 is equivalent to hundreds of millions! God Li: The problem is that you not only make money, but also invaded the Kaiping coal mine in China.

Hoover: (embarrassed) Calling encroachment sucks. God Lee: Isn't it encroachment?You left China in 1902, and you were sued by the Chinese government to London in 1905. The court can rule that China wins the case.However, you manipulated and used another court at the same level in the UK to announce the cancellation of the judgment of the original court without the participation of Chinese representatives, no court session, and no trial.The Chinese government has never been able to take back the Kaiping coal mine. Hoover: That's your Qing government. God Li: What about the Qing Dynasty?All dynasties belong to China.

Hoover: What else can I say?The Kaiping Coal Mine now belongs to China, and I am just a "historical counter-revolutionary". God Lee: Do you like Chinese Boxers? Hoover: (with a wry smile) I don’t dare to like the Boxers. They specifically killed us foreigners. God Lee: Why did they kill you foreigners?Is it because foreigners bully Chinese people?Because you are imperialists? Hoover: When I was in China, the fashionable term "imperialism" was not popular in China. At that time, the Chinese didn't need imperialism to kill us. All they needed was blond hair, blue eyes and a big nose.

God Li: Don't blondes and big noses do bad things in China?Shouldn't he be killed? Hoover: At least I didn't.I am the chief engineer of the Mining Bureau, and I help China mine resources, shouldn't I be killed?I'm not a missionary, I'm not a soldier, I'm a good guy. (Laughter.) God Lee: Have you ever killed a Chinese? Hoover: I never killed a Chinese. God Li: In 1900, the last year of the 19th century, you were in Tianjin to help defend the concession and resist the Boxers. Did you not shoot? Hoover: Oh, maybe I shot, maybe I killed the Chinese. God Lee: Have you ever killed an American?

Hoover: Oh, how should I put it, I didn't kill it myself. God Li: You have no eloquence when you speak, and you rarely take your eyes off the manuscript.But watching you answer in court, you are eloquent.You don't say that you have killed, you just say that you have not killed with your own hands. Few people understand this. Hoover: All the American presidents here understand.Presidents kill people according to the law, but not with their own hands. God Li: Your words are a bit dishonest. Let's look at the record. Let's look at the record. Hoover: (smiling) What a familiar phrase.

God Lee: These are the words that the "Happy Warrior" (Happy Warrior) challenged you back then. Hoover: But he was beaten by me. God Lee: You only beat his presidential campaign, you didn't beat his campaign evidence.Now I want you to look at the record, not the little things that the "Jolly Soldier" exposed, but a big thing.The big event I mean is the Bonus March. Hoover: Oh, that pledge to World War I veterans, I'll never forget, I'm so wronged.That was the mess left by the Congress during the Coolidge era. In order to please the veterans, members of Congress at that time promised each of them a certain amount of money after 20 years, but it would be 20 years later, because you are still young, so you just promised to give, not Really, it was only given in 1945.However, during the great economic panic in 1932, veterans came to ask for it, saying that they would pay in advance, but it was the veterans who were untrustworthy and insisted on money.There were 15,000 of them, and they ran to sit down in front of the Central Government Plaza in Washington, D.C., and stayed there, day and night, refusing to leave.

God Lee: The result? Hoover: (embarrassed) Tragedy turned out. God Lee: Did you shoot? Hoover: Shots fired. God Lee: Veteran wives in solidarity with husbands, you tear gassed women. Hoover: Tear gas was fired. God Lee: Some babies were killed by gas, and some children were stabbed with bayonets, and the children still held Teddy Bear in their arms. Hoover: There were children killed and wounded. God Lee: You drove out tanks, sent out infantry and cavalry, and charged forward to deal with your comrades who died for the United States in World War I? Hoover: We are deeply sorry, especially General MacArthur, who was leading the team at that time, and he was in the European battlefield with the veterans, and Brigadier General George Patton (George Patton).

God Lee: There is also a young major Eisenhower who has never fought in a war. He later became the president of the United States (pointing to Eisenhower who is sitting on the side).Right, and you, right? Eisenhower: (Nods.) God Lee: According to MacArthur's memoirs, the veterans who were killed were not killed by the soldiers at the scene, but the police.President Hoover, it turns out that you sent soldiers and police to kill people? Hoover: Probably not the police.Things were chaotic. God Lee: According to a Reuters foreign message on July 28, 1932, it clearly stated: "A large group of infantry, accompanied by tanks, searched houses and drove them away." They also drove out a camp 5 miles away, where veterans were stationed. There were 7,000 people, 488 women, and 380 children. The women and children had withdrawn first. Under the command of Chief of Staff MacArthur, the army released gas and burned tents, and more than 50 people were injured.

Hoover: U.S. officials believe that the fact that the veterans can make such a fuss for two months is because the Communist Party fanned the flames.Afterwards, the FBI said that based on the fingerprint comparison of 4,723 veterans, 1,069 of them had criminal records and 829 were convicted. God Lee: Ha, so there are so many Communist Party members among you veterans!As soon as it was brought to the head of the Communist Party, did you get away? Hoover: I really can't do anything about it. No country in the world can bear the fact that the masses in front of the Central Government Square cannot go for two consecutive months!

Bush Sr.: (standing up) I am ashamed. What President Hoover did reminds me of June 4, 1989, at Tiananmen Square in Beijing. The Communist Party’s methods were originally learned from us Americans.I am ashamed that we have wrongly blamed the Communist Party. God Lee: (surprised, smiling) President Bush, it seems that it is not your turn to be ashamed, right?Don't forget that in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, you were not the president of the United States at that time, but you were already killing people.China is popular, but on June 21, 1989, Hong Kong's "South China Morning Post" published Deng Xiaoping's speech, I read it to you (take out a piece of paper).Deng Xiaoping said: "The United States has begun to criticize our suppression of students. In the 1950s, the United States also occupied rioting campuses. In the 1960s and 1970s, many student movements and riots occurred in various parts of the United States. In addition to mobilizing the police and the army In addition, are there other life-saving pills? Didn’t they arrest the people and shed blood. They (referring to the United States) are suppressing students and people, while we are suppressing counter-revolutionary rioters. What qualifications do they have to criticize us!” Bush Sr.: Thanks to Deng Xiaoping's point, the Communist Party also strangely failed to promote this point of view in depth, otherwise we would lose face in the United States. God Lee: The problem is that you, the United States, have the face to promote others all day long. Bush Sr.: (laughs) What is the purpose of our powerful media power in the United States?The same thing, when others publicize us, the world cannot hear it; when we publicize others, the world hears it, and we, the United States, take advantage of it.Occasionally we expose ourselves to our own ugliness, unless we're trying to grab the news.Take the 4 students of Kent State University (Kent State University) who were shot dead on May 4, 1970 as an example. One of them was photographed by John Filo, a student of the school’s journalism department; the student’s body was lying on the ground , a 14-year-old girl knelt down beside her, crying loudly.This photo won the Pulitzer Prize for Photography in 1971.Other things, I remember vaguely. God Lee: Shooting at students, capitalism predates communism. After Nixon ordered the invasion of Cambodia on April 30, 1970, students at the University of Kent were outraged. On the morning of May 4, when students ignored the order prohibiting assembly and rang the school bell, and thousands of students rushed to the playground from all directions to participate in the protest rally, the US government dispatched tanks, the 107th Armored Cavalry Regiment, and the 107th Armored Cavalry Regiment. The 145th Infantry Regiment dispatched a large number of National Guards and police to suppress.A volley of guns fired, killing 4 male and female students on the spot, wounding 10, and then stabbing many students with bayonets.The blood of the victims stained the campus of the University of Kent.Then came mass arrests. 900 military police occupied the school.An eyewitness said indignantly: This is an "organized massacre".At the time of the "organized massacre", a student, with grief for the dead classmates and hatred for the government authorities, desperately climbed to the top of a tall statue on the campus. He made a "V" symbol with his fingers The gesture of victory calls on the students to continue the struggle. More than 1,000 teachers and staff gathered in a church near the school in outrage to strongly protest against the atrocities committed by the US government.The mother of a student who was injured rushed to Kent after hearing the news, condemning the US government for sending a large number of troops and tanks to massacre the students "like in the Vietnam battlefield".The father of a dead female student complained angrily: "Should a young girl be shot just because she disagreed with the government's actions?" ? Bush Sr.: Not sanctioning is another matter, as long as we American college students continue to fight on top of the statue. God Lee: Come on, come on, you American students are just 5 minutes hot, and then rock and roll away.American students, you have never been revolutionaries. Your students are strawberries. They look full and beautiful, and they shatter when crushed.You Americans are just curious and like new things. A gust of wind has passed, and all anti-government things are Gone with the Wind, and go with the wind.The University of Kent incident happened in 1970. Look at 1965. Your 40th Armored Division and 49th Infantry Division suppressed the riots in Los Angeles. More than 1,000 civilians were killed and injured, and 4,000 people were arrested. In July 1967, you suppressed the Newark riots, killing and injuring more than 2,000 civilians.In the same month, U.S. paratroopers and tanks drove into Detroit to suppress it, killing and injuring thousands of people and arresting 7,000 people. In the first four months of 1968, you dispatched troops to suppress 107 times, killing and injuring 2,600 people, and arresting more than 21,000 people.Let me just say it casually, it is all the numbers that your US government sent troops to shoot and use violence, and they all passed away in a gust of wind. Your US government will never care about human rights, and you will never be soft. You Americans will always be grandchildren in the end. There is nothing to say.The only thing that the "Last Judgment" court will not forget is that the president of the United States ordered the shooting. President Hoover was not the first, nor was he the last. In the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s just mentioned, the president who ordered the shooting was Who, isn't it Johnson and Nixon who are in the rear?Well, besides exposing your American hypocrisy, is there anything else to go to trial? Hoover: God, Lee, please take note of the good things about me.Like the Hoover Dam, like the Hoover Institution on War, revolution, and Peace, like the Hoover Commission, like the Second Hoover Commission" (Second Hoover Commission).I am a symbol of charity. God Lee: I'll keep an eye out.Of course, I will also pay attention to the "Great Depression" (Great Depression) when you were president. Hoover blankets, pant pockets turned upside down to be empty, Hoover flags, and wild rabbits slaughtered for food, Hoover hogs. folk words.It's just a pity that you won 89 honorary degrees, 468 medals, and 444 electoral votes in your general election. Many of your records are unprecedented, but what's the use?You promised Americans: "One chicken in each pot, one car in each garage", how many years later, even after your death, you Americans have more than one chicken and one car, but The world, too, is dying to be wasted. Hoover: Ah, God Lee, stop talking, I think I'd rather be killed by the Boxers.I feel like I'm worthless.Poor "Hoover" name. God Lee: Actually, you have a place. In 1928, you nominated Curtis (Charles Curtis) for vice president. Curtis's mother was a quarter-blood Kansa Indian, but you were not racially discriminatory. At least you put octoroon (eight points One of the mulatto) this English word relaxes the interpretation. Hoover: A deep story, also involving an English word.I am the first president of the United States called the Quaker (Quaker), and the Quaker is forbidden to swear. Therefore, when I took office in 1929, I changed the words "I do solemnly swear" stipulated in the Constitution to It is "I do solemnly affirm" (I do solemnly affirm).Just one word difference, you can see how serious I am. God Lee: Remember President Pierce changed his oath in the same way. Hoover: He changed it for a different reason than I did.Before he took office, his son died unexpectedly. He thought God was punishing him, so he changed his oath. God Lee: President Nixon was also a Quaker, but he still swore to be true. Hoover: (wry smile) Compared to them, I'm too old-fashioned. God Lee: On July 28, 1932, you shot your own veterans, not the 15,000 you said, but 17,000. Hoover: (confused) Is two thousand people that important? God Lee: Not important? How many people died in "911", just think about the number. Hoover: When I think of numbers, I often think of the whole and the individual.I believe that overall progress is the sum of individual progress. Progress of the nation is the sum of progress of its individuals. Based on this belief, I attach great importance to individual efforts. God Li: I remember you said a sentence: No man can be Just a little crooked. It reminds me of the old Chinese saying "Don't do it because of the smallness". Hoover: When I think of China, I have so many fond memories, including the boxer knife. God Lee: (laughs) All right, let’s leave the court (beat the gavel and stand up). (The curtain falls.)