NY Councilmember May Harbor Ties With Communist Regime

David Yassky (The Epoch Times)

NEW YORK—It was this time a year ago the bizarre and violent incidents in Flushing, a small city in Queens, started petering out.

What in late May 2008 appeared at first to be an ethnic conflict turned out to be what victims claim were organized attacks backed by a foreign communist regime against religious dissidents and critics of the Chinese regime here in the U.S.

Soon after the attacks began the Chinese consul general in New York, Peng Keyu, boasted of encouraging and congratulating the attackers, as evidenced by a recording of a phone conversation made by someone pretending to be a supporter. City Councilmember John Liu and State Assemblywoman Ellen Young were also found to have met with and given tacit support to those accused of the attacks.

Before John Liu took what some in the community consider his peculiar stance toward the violence against Falun Gong practitioners in his district, he was honored in China by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated media as a rising political star, though his only political activities have been here in New York City.