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Free the artist and number one challenger to the Chinese Imperialistic-Fascist regime. Ai Weiwei is missing and assumed in Chinese custody.

[They took down his blog and they smashed his studio, but the Chinese government still couldn’t silence Ai Weiwei. On Sunday, as he was preparing to board a flight from Beijing to Hong Kong, police took the world-renowned artist away, and detained several of his assistants. Mr. Ai is by turns a radical individualist and a creator of monuments of great collective meaning. All free people should rally for his immediate release.]-http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/free-ai-weiwei-radical-individualist-and-chinas-great-national-artist/article1972120/

 

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Dear United States Embassy of Beijing, China,

Ai Weiwei is an inconvenient patriot, the kind who demands better of his country. And so Mr. Ai denounced the stadium before the Games even began, rightly anticipating that the regime would suppress dissent in spite of the Games. His art celebrates, but it also laments, most notably in a memorial mural, made of thousands of children’s backpacks, to those killed in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake – victims on whose behalf he continues to campaign.

Why have the Chinese state and the Communist Party tightened the vise around Mr. Ai? Perhaps, as with the recent detention of journalists, it is a defensive measure, in the wake of recent revolutions in the Arab world.

And perhaps it is because Mr. Ai represents freedom. He cherishes it, even videotaping his regular encounters with the police. “When those in power are infatuated with you, you feel valued,” he has said.

Free Ai Weiwei today, as the human right thing to do, and the global thing to do.

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