Another twist in nuclear secrets case as Lee’s release held up as the case falls apart against him, the feds manage to secure a single plea of guilty and arrange Dr. Lee’s release after 9 months in solitary confinement. Free Wen Ho Lee!
How long are we going to let the government push around technology people and minorities? Stories of information leaks by American scientists to China, not to mention the series of security blunders that made media news earlier this year at Los Alamos (where he worked) and other places. What better goat than a “Chinese” man. (Who is actually born in Taiwan and a naturalized U.S. citizen). What I think is that they had, in Dr. Lee, a scapegoat to draw attention away from Gore due to some shady dealings the executive branch had with China. It is election time you know…
Not only is the pure and simple racism, but it’s yet another example of The Law badly mishandling technology people. They have a brutish lack of understanding of technology coupled an overzealous compulsion to attack that which they don’t understand. Also on the “dumbass technophobes” list are the lawyers (defense and prosecution), judges and juries. Mix into that the propensity to hate Asians and Indians that are technical or medical professionals and you have Wen Ho Lee in jail for something no one understands. It’s not a new kind of racist hatred, the hatred of technology and technical people. Something that I’ve dealt with and most of you have too. Good thing we aren’t up against this… (my comments collected from metafilter.com, thanks Mr. Haughey for giving me a voice)