The “Hospital”
They saw me holding a camera they said to me “take a picture of us, take a picture of us! Are you a reporter?” But not enough time to take a second picture of them, a guard came up and stop me from taking any pictures. This is right in front of the People Visiting Reception Office of Beijing, an office for people who try to trust the central government to act on justice.
Because of the forceful demolition of the studios, we visited this office, and I got the chance to see people from the bottom of the society. Inside the gate, things got worse. It is like a “hospital”. The patients sit in line one after another, waiting to be talked to through a small hole on a sealed glass window. When it’s your turn, you will describe your problem to the official inside the glass room. And no matter what your problem is, the official will basically tell you your problem is a cancer. Then your reception time is over when he calls “next”. If you refuse such judgement and try to argue that there might be some ways to fix, the guards will come up again and stare at you as if you are a mental patient… This is sad.