On Who Tortured & Murdered

Bian Zhongyun and the Start

of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

Bian Zhongyun was the first teacher murdered by students in the Cultural Revolution. She was a fifty-year old mother of four. She was beaten and kicked,

struck with nail-studded wooden clubs and had boiling water poured over her. She was then placed in a cart and wheeled to the outside of a hospital. When she was

discovered doctors determined that she had been dead for several hours.


This barbaric crime happened on August 5, 1966. Bian taught at the Girls Middle School attached to Beijing Teachers University. During that summer big character

posters had been put up denouncing her and foreshadowing her murder.

The people who tortured and murdered Bian were all girls.

Only Red Guard members were "allowed" to do violence to their teachers. Song Binbin was a student at the Girls Middle School. She has been accused by some of participating, indeed leading, the torture and murder. This site has not found conclusive proof of that. If Song did NOT participate she has been defamed in the worst way. If she DID, she is a murderer, and a murderer living among us in America. The stakes here are very high.

Not so high, but still very high, is what Song's role was if she was not a murderer. Below is from Dr. Youqin Wang of the University of Chicago, the premier scholar on the specific issue of student violence toward teachers during the Cultural Revolution:
"During several hours of torture no one at this school of 1,600 students tried to dissuade the beaters from these inhuman actions. In the evening after the beating at the student dining hall some talked loudly about how they forced her [Bian] to eat dirt from the toilet or how they fetched hot water to scald her. There was no sense of guilt but rather an excited, giddy atmosphere."

Thirteen days later Song Binbin was given the honor of pinning a Red Guard armband onto Mao Zedong thus giving official imprimatur to the violence that had come before and that which was to follow, resulting in the murder of 3,000,000 Chinese. The photograph of that moment is world-famous.

Anyone who has evidence of who participated in the torture and murder of Bian Zhongyun please email, publocc@gmail.com. This is Public Occurrences.

Seeing the Future

Seeing the Future

It is astonishing to read how accurately Tocqueville captured the American character and made so many accurate predictions about the future. Such an eye and such judgment are rare.

Then there's Richard Washburn Child.

While surfing ebay recently I saw for auction My Autobiography by Benito Mussolini, published in 1928. I thought it would be a hoot so I bought it (I was the only bidder).

Richard Washburn Child had been U.S. ambassador to Italy before 1928. He knew Mussolini well. "You know Italy, you understand Fascism, you see me as clearly as anyone," Child quotes Mussolini as saying. Child was the one who suggested an autobiography to Mussolini. In fact Mussolini dictated the book to Child after Child had offered. Child also wrote the Foreword to the book.

The following is from Child's foreword. As Dave Barry would say, I am not making this up. This is from the American ambassador to a major nation, a top level diplomat, a job that demands judgment and foresight:

"The only true measure of a man's greatness from a wholly unpartisan viewpoint may be found in the answer to this question:
'How deep and lasting has been the effect of a man upon the largest number of human beings--their hearts, their thoughts, their material welfare, their relation to the universe.'
In our time it may be shrewdly forecast that no man will exhibit dimensions of permanent greatness equal to those of Mussolini."
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"It is one thing to administer a state. The one who does this well is called statesman. It is quite another thing to make a state. Mussolini has made a state. That is superstatesmanship (sic)."
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"It is quite possible for those who oppose [fascism] to say that the reality of the new spirit of Italy and the extent of its full acceptance by the people may exist in the mind of Mussolini, but does not spring out of the people themselves but it is quite untrue as all who know really know."
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"It is absurd to say that Italy groans under the discipline. Italy chortles with it! It is victory!"
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"I remembered Lord Curzon's impatience with him long ago, when Mussolini had first come into power, and Curzon used to refer to him as 'that absurd man.'
Time has shown that he was neither violent nor absurd. Time has shown that he is both wise and humane."
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"...the Duce is now the greatest figure of this sphere and time."

I am Benjamin Harris.