China's Toilet Stall Protest

China's newest form of protest, public toilet stall messages. Some of them say, dictator step down. This one says, 35th anniversary, never forget Tiananmen, never forget white paper protest. These are happening in Beijing, and some of them also across China, but mainly in Hangzhou. This one reads, Xi Jinping and his wife, you guys come drink poop water, and this is a frustration people have been expressing after Hangzhou, which is a city in China that recently had a problematic tap water situation, which I did a video on, and so people were really mad that the problem wasn't getting solved, and they resorted to doing this. This one reads, China wants democracy and rule of law. And this one reads, the September 3rd parade, screw you, CCP should have collapsed long ago. I deliver food orders for government officials and added rat poison, feel the destruction, dictator running dog. Like I mentioned, some of these messages appeared after that recent drinking water scandal, Like this one, this video here, the color of the water is just terrible. And the message reads, Xi Jinping, screw your mother, I won't say it because I don't want YouTube to demonetize this video. But didn't think middle and high school bathroom messages and marker writings would become the next form of protest in China, and frankly, it's the way that angry Chinese citizens can actually express themselves. Now since there's cameras everywhere in China, the only place in public that doesn't have cameras is in the bathroom stalls. Some of the public toilets are beginning to use real name identification before people can go inside, and this is happening in Beijing. Now I'm not surprised if they would start to install cameras inside the bathroom for security reasons, stability reasons, whatnot. Now the core of this isn't the fact that there's marker writings or messages on the wall, that's not some revolutionary form of protest. What is shocking is that protesting in China, even the most benign form of messaging is considered taboo. Like Chinese people are legit shocked that this is a form of protest, by the sense that this is how severe the CCP's fear-driving methods are, that they drive so much fear into people that even writing on the walls in a bathroom, public bathroom stall, is something that people fear doing. And those that do are considered warriors. Some of these also appeared at light poles and bridges. After all, the last time a man who was brave enough to put up banners at a bridge in Beijing ended up obviously going to jail. But they created this new job, the CCP, it's called bridge guards or bridge watchers. This is a job posting from 2023. Bridge watchers get paid about 220 yuan for a 24-hour shift, that's about 30 USD. And for 12 hours, they get about 150 yuan or 23 USD. But you do get lodging and food provided. Now it's nearing the September 3rd parade and they've increased the number of bridge guards or bridge watchers in Beijing, from one on each end of the bridge to now maybe three on top of the bridge as well. They get boxed lunch, they get snacks, they get accommodation. Some of these, what they provide is much better than what the construction workers in China would get. And the goal here is to prevent people from putting up banners for the rest of the city to see ahead of the so sensitive September parade. And this one on the power line pole reads, the CCP doesn't represent China. Which you guessed it, they created the line pole security as well. This job posting happened after the commemoration of June 4th this year, 210 yuan per day. So that's including two meals, a tent for sleeping for 24 hours, that's what you get for it. Crazy. Maybe next they will have a bathroom security, who knows. Now this whole bathroom situation might be new, but the whole protesting or the slogans are nothing new in China, it's just that they've switched different methods. One of my favorite ways that Chinese people have protested is using a $100 bill. They write stuff on here. Now Falun Gong practitioners in China, people that have been persecuted since 1999, they find very creative ways of doing this. One of them is they would write messages of clarifying the persecution or the truth about the persecution on the 100 yuan bill, and that bill gets spent, goes into circulation, and people start to wonder, you know, what are they trying to say? And then people find out about the persecution. In fact, one of the largest nonviolent protests ever happened in China was done by a group of Falun Gong practitioners. What they did was they hijacked state television broadcasts in the evening. Now the state evening news from CCTV is like, everybody's watching it at 7pm, I believe. That's when it goes on, or 7.30. But they hijacked the signal in the northeastern city of Changchun, and they broadcasted a short program on how the Falun Gong practitioners are being persecuted, and this whole thing was very dramatic. There's an animated film called Eternal Spring that I watched, I think two years ago, that actually talks about this. If you're interested, go check out that film, because it's a really thrilling story, and just what they went through to do that, and what happened to those people that were involved in this afterwards. So it's definitely a great movie if you want to check out what I just talked about. It's called Eternal Springs. Now speaking of films, there's another film I saw recently, I know we're kind of going off topics, but this film was called Unrestricted Warfare, which is the exact same name as the CCP doctrine called Unrestricted Warfare. This is a film by the Canadian director Yan Ma, and it's a visual, dramatic interpretation of what happened during the COVID pandemic through the lens of how the CCP infiltrated the West. Jim Conrad, a renowned virologist and his wife, runs a biotech company in China. Until one day in Beijing, they suddenly were arrested by military agents. Jim is forced into a deadly bargain, infiltrate a Canadian P4 laboratory to steal virus samples for the CCP. But as the operation spirals out of control, Jim realizes he's entangled in a silent yet catastrophic global war. This isn't just a scientific crisis, this was a war without boundaries, a meticulously engineered unrestricted warfare. My favorite thing about it was it was a dramatic storytelling version of what I and many cover throughout the years of the COVID pandemic, and the truth about what happened in China in those laboratories. So I think it's a great way to entertain yourself, having known the tragedy, what it was that caused the global pandemic. Now the reason I mention these two films is because I'm also working on a documentary investigation, this mini documentary that will come out later this fall. And that deals with the deep infiltration of the CCP into America, which I'm very excited to show you and share more details with you once we're closer to the end of production. But for now, just a little bit of sneak details, I guess, or sneak announcement on this. There's definitely some exciting stuff coming up, so you guys definitely don't want to miss it. Okay, now back to the protest. Toilets and cameras aside, the whole point about this whole September 3rd military parade is that it's supposed to be the perfect thing, right? Beijing is on high security alert, and by high security alert, it means they have, well, too many people, but they can patrol every street, every subway cart, and every bridge. And this is not for like terrorist threats or like dangerous suspects, this is just to control regular people. For example, on the subway, there's armed police officers with dogs, or there's simply PLA soldiers that take up the passenger space. And almost every cart has these stabilizing troops, they call them stabilizing because their mission is legitimately to stabilize from any sort of chaos, and by chaos, it means people protesting, people that hold up signs or try to chant slogans and things like that. These, if they're not in military or police uniform, then they're hired security guards with dogs. The pay is actually pretty good for this kind of job. It's 4,000 yuan for two weeks, and you get a little bit more compensation, and I believe you work like six to eight hours a day. It's a decent chunk of change, it's $600, but it's decent in Chinese salary. This video here shows law enforcement showing up on a high-speed train and attempting to stop individuals from going to petition in Beijing ahead of the military parade. And this happens to those that try to make it to Beijing during these sensitive times, and they dispatch a lot of manpower to try to stop people like them. In this particular example, though, the detained petitioners cried out, they forcibly demolished my home, and now they won't even let me go to Beijing. So as bizarre, as ridiculous as it sounds with the bridge guards, the bathroom situation, all of that, it's just, it's a normal thing in that kind of society where you're constantly under pressure to maintain this perfect image, and by perfect image, it often means that you have to kind of pretend like nothing bad is happening, so you employ a massive amount of resource on stabilizing or defeating destabilizing factors, and that's exactly what the CCP does now. 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