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Dear Bunny,
Contacting South By Bookstore is an option in exercising your right to Free Speech. Realistically, given its vested interest in this Austin Convention Center promotional event, South By Bookstore is not likely to make a meaningful change.
Most Americans (including myself) are not interested in historical accuracy of what happened, and what did not happen, during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. China is a foreign country. Chinese Cultural Revolution will make most Americans to feel blessed to be born in the United States. Most Americans (including myself) will not look down on an immigrant for lying and cheating in his/her (or its, a la Sir Harold Evans' hermaphrodite) own country of origin, and would instead sympathize with such immigrant for having to misbehave in his or her own home country (or Sir Evan's hermaphrodite's origin) in order to come to this Land of Opportunity (that earned its Independence from Sir Evan's country of origin) to pursue and realize his/her American Dream.
On the other hand, most Americans are law abiding citizens, and expect foreign nationals (i.e., aliens, including Sir Harold Evans) to comply with American laws and regulations (and assimilate into the American melting pot) after their arrival to the United States. Ignorantia juris non excusat. Ignorance of the law is not an excuse under American jurisprudence, not even for Sir Evans in attempting to silence Asian Americans.
As an example, most Americans do care about whether a non-immigrant alien (e.g., a foreign student) committed perjury under Federal law, by lying to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (formerly INS), in order to obtain his/her (or its a la Sir Evans) green card and United States citizenship. Realistically, the USCIS is not likely to prosecute an immigrant for perjury that might have been committed more than 20 years ago. However, most Americans would not trust such immigrant's business integrity if such immigrant is suspected of fraudulent marriage. President Barak Obama's proposal, to given illegal aliens the opportunity to earn their privilege to become United States citizens, is still a controversial topic. Again, ignorantia juris non excusat, according to most Americans. Sir Evans is not likely to disagree on the importance of being a law abiding citizen here in the United States, a democratic society that differs from British aristocracy. British hermaphrodites would enjoy Equal Opportunity if they can find a legal way of coming to the United States.
Moreover, most Americans do care about the integrity of law enforcement agencies, including Albuquerque Police Department. Police officers are required by law to keep records of alleged kidnapping, even if the purported kidnapper is not formally charged by the district attorney in a criminal action. Albuquerque Police Department has a vested interest in protecting its reputation and public image. If you exercise your First Amendment rights and ask Albuquerque Police Department for an explanation (e.g., by sending an e-mail to them alerting them of the allegations made by Ping Fu in Bend, Not Break), you are likely to receive an official response that its police officers do follow its own policies and procedures, and would have kept records of an allege 3-day kidnapping in Albuquerque, New Mexico involving three young children that should have been protected by the state government.
Albuquerque, New Mexico might be a crime scene for Will Smith's 19th Century Wild Wild West. However, a 3-day kidnapping without any official record is more likely to happen in Tijuana, Mexico, instead of an anecdote being taught to high school students in U.S. History classes.
Most important of all, a majority of Americans have their retirement savings invested in the financial markets. We do care about the social responsibility of corporate executives in promoting their companies. Corporate executives should not mislead the average American investor in reporting their companies' revenues and earnings. Financial numbers, as disseminated by corporate executives through their public relations apparatus, should not be misleading to an ordinary American whose retirement safety net depends on his/her (or it's a la Sir Evans) 401(K) or IRA account.
In 2005, Ping Fu told John Brandt of Inc. Magazine that her company, Geomagic's revenue has grown by 2,105%, to around $30 million a year, from 2000 to 2005. On February 27, 2013, Geomagic's acquirorr (3D Systems, or DDD) announced that DDD expects Geomagic to be accretive to earnings and contribute approximately $17 million of revenue to its previously announced 2013 annual guidance. Mathematically, $17 million projected revenue in 2013 represents a 43% decrease from $30 million revenue in 2005. Assuming that Ping Fu's Geomagic consistently had an 9% increase (i.e., less than double-digit increase) in revenue from 2005 to 2012, its revenue would have grown to more than $60 million, which is substantially lower than the $17 million recognized by DDD after financial due diligence by its auditors (BDO USA, LLP). From 2005 to 2012, Ping Fu, as Chief Executive Officer of Geomagic, made representations to various journalists that her company had achieve double digit venue growth. Therefore, American journalists, as a group, either misquoted Ping Fu as to Geomagic's financial performance. Alternatively, Ping Fu might have misled the journalists, and indirectly the American investors at large, in the past eight years, with respect to Geomagic's actual financial performance. Such inconsistencies in Ping Fu's Geomagic need more than a magical explanation in terms of clarification.
Hope you will have an Equal Opportunity to exercise your First Amendment free speech rights.
Best wishes,
Albert H. Wang
/s/ Albert H. Wang
Member (Inactive), State Bar of California
Member (Retired), New York State Bar