This really happened. Totally no shit. I used to go to a lot of auctions, two or three a week, sometimes four or five. One of my favorite auctions was Acorn Auctions, run by Stan (name changed). Stan was terrific and he almost always had interesting items, never much high end, expensive stuff, but interesting stuff. Stuff you could either use or re-sell. I hit Acorn every Saturday afternoon to preview as early as possible, then go home to look up online the items I was interested in. Everything Stan sold was his. He bought virtually all of it at storage unit auctions, way before Storage Wars got on TV.
So one Saturday afternoon I go into the place and, because I’m always there early, only Stan is there, no one else has been in yet. I start previewing on the left side of the room, like usual, and immediately see that this auction is totally different from all the others I’ve seen Stan hold.
The first table is full of pictures of crowds of Chinese people and some Chinese soldiers. Hundreds of pictures. This is not a happy occasion. I pick up one photo that shows a guy with no forehead. The cavity behind the hole is empty, no brains, nothing inside his skull. Some blood on his face, his chin on the street. I look at other photos that show some tanks, some people running, some look like they’re throwing rocks, some injured. The crowds are huge, chaotic. This is no small event.
On the next table a little print-out by Stan says the items belonged to Wang Dan, a leader of the Tienanmen Square uprising in 1989. There are what look like old notebooks or journals. No idea what they say because I don’t read Chinese. Could be anything, but naturally you think they are journals kept as a record of the demonstrations. It was a big deal at the time. Wang Dan was more or less second-in-command. He was very present, very outspoken. The Chinese government hated him. And arrested him. Put him in jail. Eventually, he was released. Then he got jailed again. This time Bill Clinton, at a summit meeting in China, requested that the People’s Republic of China release Dan, who would come to the U.S. In fact, he would become a graduate student at Harvard.
I notice on the floor about a dozen boxes filled with New Yorker magazines. I look at the address labels - all the same address. Wang Dan; c/o Nancy Hearst; Librarian; Fairbank Center; Harvard University; Cambridge MA. I write this down.
I continue through the rest of the room. Some stuff is normal, but more of the items are clearly part of Wang Dan’s stuff. I know it must all have come from a storage unit. I ask Stan about it. He says he got it at a storage unit in Somerville a few days ago.
I say thanks and leave, go home, and call the Fairbank Center. No answer. I leave a message. I try directory assistance and find a Nancy Hearst in Brookline and call her house. No answer. I leave a message. She calls back. I tell her I’m not an expert, but this looks like historically significant stuff for sale tonight in Greenfield. Is she aware that Wang Dan’s stuff is being auctioned off? No, she says, Dan has been traveling around the world speaking out for democracy in China and it was her responsibility to pay his storage unit rent. Which she neglected to do. So his stuff was sold to Stan and now would be sold to anyone with enough money to win the bidding. I told her I didn’t have a lot of money, but I would be glad to buy the most important items and get them back to Dan as long as I could get reimbursed. She said maybe, that she would call Wang Dan, and would I please call her back in about 10 minutes. I called back. No answer. I waited another 10 minutes and called back. No answer. I did this twice more. She wasn’t picking up.
So after an hour of trying to contact Hearst, and with the auction about to begin, I drove back down and saw the stuff sold. I didn’t buy any of it. A local book dealer bought the diaries for about $7000 dollars plus 10 percent commission. $7700 and he couldn’t even read them or know for sure what they were about.
Monday afternoon I stop by Acorn to see Stan about something. He tells me he had some visitors that morning. The FBI had stopped in. They got a list of all the people who bought Wang Dan’s stuff and went to all of them and bought it all back. They paid the buyers more money than was bid. Everyone made some kind of profit, but probably not the amount they were hoping for.
Stan tells me there were also some pictures of naked boys he found in the unit. Young naked boys. Not good. At first he thought he had thrown them out with the rest of the trash that inevitably comes with a storage unit purchase, but wasn’t really sure. Turns out he still had them in the backroom along with a few other things in a some beer flats, which he was going to toss but then the FBI showed up. The FBI agent asked Stan how much he thought he could sell the stuff in the beer flats for. Stan, thinking quickly, said it was worth about $1000. So the agent paid him a grand on the spot and took all the stuff that Stan was going to toss, including the porn.
Later Monday afternoon I’m home and Nancy Hearst calls me. She is a little tense. She wants to know whether I bought anything at the auction and who else bought stuff. She asks her questions slowly, unlike when I talked with her a couple of days earlier. She keeps pausing between sentences as if someone else is in the room with her. I tell her I don’t know who bought what, but I didn’t buy any of it because she didn’t answer her phone. She told me she didn’t pick up because she was afraid I might be from the Chinese embassy. Of course.
Totally no shit here. True story. The FBI told Stan they were buying all Wang Dan’s stuff back as a matter of national security. Considering that Dan was one big, huge thorn in the side of the Chinese government and that he was the darling of the American pro-life crowd, and the politically conservative crowd, and a bunch of other crowds that hated PRC, and that no less than President Bill Clinton secured his release from Chinese jail and that Harvard had gladly taken him in, I’d guess Wang Dan’s photographs were kind of an embarrassment that the U.S. government wanted to forget about. Forever.
【 在 Iq558 (赵尔巴乔夫) 的大作中提到: 】 : 著名屁精， : 美国现在在捏着鼻子支持王丹姐这种反华份子，可惜没有恶心到中国自己先吐了。 : 附录2∶ 一位美国人记录的拍卖王丹的淫秽物品的过程。 : No Child Porn Here : by Alden Howes Olson : 22 February 2013 : This really happened. Totally no shit. I used to go to a lot of auctions, : two or three a week, sometimes four or five. One of my favorite auctions was : Acorn Auctions, run by Stan (name changed). Stan was terrific and he almost : always had interesting items, never much high end, expensive stuff, but : ...................
私藏大量淫秽音像制品，被FBI发现调查
王丹在哈佛读书期间，将一些资料存放到一个位于Somerville的储藏室。存放时，王丹没有留下自己的联系方式，而是留下南希的联系方式，同时还留下另一位来自香港的老先生的电话，并委托南希帮他按月交保管费。有一段时间，南希竟然忘记了交保管费。于是，那家储藏室将王丹存放在那里的十几个箱子的东西悉数拍卖。拍卖是在一家叫作Acorn的拍卖行进行，那家拍卖行当时由一位名叫斯坦（Stan）的先生主持。
据斯坦回忆，斯坦在拍卖王丹的物品之前，发现其中有大量裸体男孩的照片。他就顺手将那些裸体男孩照片扔进垃圾箱。但是，他并没有清理干净，可能还是留下了一些不雅照片。
最后，一个书店的老板以$7000美元外加10%的拍卖费将王丹的那十几个箱子买走。可是，拍卖的第二天，就有FBI的一些探员来到拍卖行，调查是有哪些人买走了王丹的那些
物品。FBI又一一找到买走王丹物品的人，从他们手里又花高价将王丹的所有物品买回
来。FBI从王丹拍卖的物品里发现了大量淫秽物品，包括许多裸体男童的照片。FBI是否深入调查这些淫秽物品，这些淫秽物品是否归还王丹本人，就不得而知了。
这个过程见后面的英文附录。
★ 发自iPhone App: ChinaWeb 1.1.5
王某人还有这个爱好？
所以修仙的成就都很高
丹姐 下室聚餐时下了迷药，这一桌人 后来都成了屁精 ？
著名屁精
【 在 bailoutus (酒食髅) 的大作中提到: 】
: 王某人还有这个爱好？
王丹是谁
著名屁精，
美国现在在捏着鼻子支持王丹姐这种反华份子，可惜没有恶心到中国自己先吐了。
附录2∶ 一位美国人记录的拍卖王丹的淫秽物品的过程。
No Child Porn Here
by Alden Howes Olson
22 February 2013
This really happened. Totally no shit. I used to go to a lot of auctions,
two or three a week, sometimes four or five. One of my favorite auctions was Acorn Auctions, run by Stan (name changed). Stan was terrific and he almost always had interesting items, never much high end, expensive stuff, but
interesting stuff. Stuff you could either use or re-sell. I hit Acorn every Saturday afternoon to preview as early as possible, then go home to look up online the items I was interested in. Everything Stan sold was his. He
bought virtually all of it at storage unit auctions, way before Storage Wars got on TV.
So one Saturday afternoon I go into the place and, because I’m always there early, only Stan is there, no one else has been in yet. I start previewing on the left side of the room, like usual, and immediately see that this
auction is totally different from all the others I’ve seen Stan hold.
The first table is full of pictures of crowds of Chinese people and some
Chinese soldiers. Hundreds of pictures. This is not a happy occasion. I pick up one photo that shows a guy with no forehead. The cavity behind the hole is empty, no brains, nothing inside his skull. Some blood on his face, his
chin on the street. I look at other photos that show some tanks, some people running, some look like they’re throwing rocks, some injured. The crowds
are huge, chaotic. This is no small event.
On the next table a little print-out by Stan says the items belonged to Wang Dan, a leader of the Tienanmen Square uprising in 1989. There are what look like old notebooks or journals. No idea what they say because I don’t read Chinese. Could be anything, but naturally you think they are journals kept as a record of the demonstrations. It was a big deal at the time. Wang Dan
was more or less second-in-command. He was very present, very outspoken. The Chinese government hated him. And arrested him. Put him in jail. Eventually, he was released. Then he got jailed again. This time Bill Clinton, at a
summit meeting in China, requested that the People’s Republic of China
release Dan, who would come to the U.S. In fact, he would become a graduate student at Harvard.
I notice on the floor about a dozen boxes filled with New Yorker magazines. I look at the address labels - all the same address. Wang Dan; c/o Nancy
Hearst; Librarian; Fairbank Center; Harvard University; Cambridge MA. I
write this down.
I continue through the rest of the room. Some stuff is normal, but more of
the items are clearly part of Wang Dan’s stuff. I know it must all have
come from a storage unit. I ask Stan about it. He says he got it at a
storage unit in Somerville a few days ago.
I say thanks and leave, go home, and call the Fairbank Center. No answer. I leave a message. I try directory assistance and find a Nancy Hearst in
Brookline and call her house. No answer. I leave a message. She calls back. I tell her I’m not an expert, but this looks like historically significant stuff for sale tonight in Greenfield. Is she aware that Wang Dan’s stuff is being auctioned off? No, she says, Dan has been traveling around the world speaking out for democracy in China and it was her responsibility to pay his storage unit rent. Which she neglected to do. So his stuff was sold to Stan and now would be sold to anyone with enough money to win the bidding. I
told her I didn’t have a lot of money, but I would be glad to buy the most important items and get them back to Dan as long as I could get reimbursed. She said maybe, that she would call Wang Dan, and would I please call her
back in about 10 minutes. I called back. No answer. I waited another 10
minutes and called back. No answer. I did this twice more. She wasn’t
picking up.
So after an hour of trying to contact Hearst, and with the auction about to begin, I drove back down and saw the stuff sold. I didn’t buy any of it. A local book dealer bought the diaries for about $7000 dollars plus 10 percent commission. $7700 and he couldn’t even read them or know for sure what
they were about.
Monday afternoon I stop by Acorn to see Stan about something. He tells me he had some visitors that morning. The FBI had stopped in. They got a list of all the people who bought Wang Dan’s stuff and went to all of them and
bought it all back. They paid the buyers more money than was bid. Everyone
made some kind of profit, but probably not the amount they were hoping for.
Stan tells me there were also some pictures of naked boys he found in the
unit. Young naked boys. Not good. At first he thought he had thrown them out with the rest of the trash that inevitably comes with a storage unit
purchase, but wasn’t really sure. Turns out he still had them in the
backroom along with a few other things in a some beer flats, which he was
going to toss but then the FBI showed up. The FBI agent asked Stan how much he thought he could sell the stuff in the beer flats for. Stan, thinking
quickly, said it was worth about $1000. So the agent paid him a grand on the spot and took all the stuff that Stan was going to toss, including the porn.
Later Monday afternoon I’m home and Nancy Hearst calls me. She is a little tense. She wants to know whether I bought anything at the auction and who
else bought stuff. She asks her questions slowly, unlike when I talked with her a couple of days earlier. She keeps pausing between sentences as if
someone else is in the room with her. I tell her I don’t know who bought
what, but I didn’t buy any of it because she didn’t answer her phone. She told me she didn’t pick up because she was afraid I might be from the
Chinese embassy. Of course.
Totally no shit here. True story. The FBI told Stan they were buying all
Wang Dan’s stuff back as a matter of national security. Considering that
Dan was one big, huge thorn in the side of the Chinese government and that
he was the darling of the American pro-life crowd, and the politically
conservative crowd, and a bunch of other crowds that hated PRC, and that no less than President Bill Clinton secured his release from Chinese jail and
that Harvard had gladly taken him in, I’d guess Wang Dan’s photographs
were kind of an embarrassment that the U.S. government wanted to forget
about. Forever.
Posted by Alden Howes Olson at 12:00 PM
Labels: copied 10-dec-2013
网络存档∶ http://web.archive.org/web/20130829035558/http://wanderingtheoutskirts.blogspot.com/
【 在 TazBingo (TazBingo) 的大作中提到: 】
: 王丹是谁
★ 发自iPhone App: ChinaWeb 1.1.5
这个拍卖是什么时间发生的？
这些裸体男孩是成年还是未成年的呢？如果未成年的话，丹姐麻烦大了吧？
【 在 Iq558 (赵尔巴乔夫) 的大作中提到: 】
: 著名屁精，
: 美国现在在捏着鼻子支持王丹姐这种反华份子，可惜没有恶心到中国自己先吐了。
: 附录2∶ 一位美国人记录的拍卖王丹的淫秽物品的过程。
: No Child Porn Here
: by Alden Howes Olson
: 22 February 2013
: This really happened. Totally no shit. I used to go to a lot of auctions, : two or three a week, sometimes four or five. One of my favorite auctions
was
: Acorn Auctions, run by Stan (name changed). Stan was terrific and he
almost
: always had interesting items, never much high end, expensive stuff, but
: ...................