Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 20:56:26 -0500 From: "Gerald McGlothlin" <gerald at riverview.net>
Boycott of "MADE IN CHINA" Products Begins
Special Guest Available for Interview
A national boycott of all "Made in China" products has been launched by Dr. Paul D. Lindstrom, National Chairman of the newly organized "Remember the Pueblo--Remember the EP-3 Committee." Dr. Lindstrom, a pioneer of the modern home schooling movement, is also Superintendent of Schools of the Christian Liberty Academy School System (50,000 students).
"It is time for us to recognize Communist China as our enemy," stated Lindstrom. "The Chinese leadership is no friend of the U.S.A. It is another 'evil empire' which must be firmly resisted," he continued. "Their deceit, lies, and the holding of the 24 crew members of the EP-3 for 10 days should be enough for every thinking American to say, 'No more Made in China products for me.'"
Dr. Lindstrom will begin the boycott by first calling upon the home schooling movement, with its over two million students and hundreds of thousands of parent-teachers, to stop buying goods from China. He also is planning to encourage "public dump sites" throughout the U.S. where children, young people and parents can bring Chinese made products and place them in dumpsters in preparation for "public smashing parties."
Dr. Lindstrom believes that the EP-3 crew members were hostages of the Chinese, and that the Bush administration did in fact give the Chinese an apology. While correctly declaring the crew members as great heroes, "the Bush administration left much to be desired," said Lindstrom. "Our weakness," he continued, "will soon be evident to the entire world. You cannot sweet talk thugs and gangsters without severe repercussions."
In January, 1968, Dr. Paul Lindstrom organized the "Remember the Pueblo Committee" to focus attention upon the U.S.S. Pueblo crew of 82 shipnapped by the North Koreans. As a national committee working with the family of Captain Lloyd Bucher, committee members, including Dr. Lindstrom, met with then Secretary of State Dean Rusk and members of Congress, brought Pueblo family members to Washington D.C., distributed millions of Remember the Pueblo bumper stickers, and appeared on hundreds of radio and TV broadcasts in their effort to keep the issue alive.
By way of friendly military and diplomatic sources in the U.S., Taiwan, Japan and South Korea, Dr. Lindstrom provided the news media, over and over again, with Pueblo crew information which was later authenticated by the Naval Board of Inquiry in San Diego after the release (December 23., 1968). It was in early December, 1968 that Dr. Lindstrom announced that the crew would be released on December 23 by way of an apology. He also gave the exact time and place of the release, all of which happened. General Woodward, representing the U.S.-U.N. command, signed the apology, an apology the U.S. said for 11 months that it wouldn't sign--"Nothing even resembling an apology will be signed," the U.S. government stated.
Dr. Lindstrom was also involved in the April 1969 EC-121 (forerunner to the EP-3) affair off the coast of North Korea after its intentional downing by two Soviet Migs. 23 crew members were on board. He also served as a spokesman for the families of the OH-23 helicopter crew taken as hostages into North Korea (1973).
To schedule an interview with Dr. Lindstrom call: 630-848-0750.