For me, this questioning is way beyond the limitation of a legitimate questioning of the government information. Even when they have to recognizing there are hundreds of confirmed cases of pricking, instead of conducting in-depth investigation, some “journalists” still indulge themselves in their fantasy of finding a liar government.

Of course there are many cases of needle pricking, pin pricking, but is this the point? Do they really have to have syringes to confirm the attack? Or for them, only syringes prick? Of course there are many different kinds of rumors, and that is because of the government news blackout. It’s not like people are deliberately disseminate rumors. People were scared when hundreds of them were attacked. Those “journalists” know there are needles and pins involved because police captured attackers when they were pricking people. The purpose of pricking is not to kill, but to spread terror and sense of fear.

What makes that Reuters “journalist” more ridiculous is she even blames the government text message for giving “copycats” cues for action. Well, the text message was sent to fool local people into believing there were no attacks when many of them had already learned pricking. The message was sent two weeks after the attacks actually began. This “journalist” lacks the basic sense of logic.

I understand those two paragraphs are taken out of a context, but I have a feeling after reading them that Urumqi residents are a bunch of scare-mongers who prefer to scare themselves to death, or a bunch of dupes who are used by their government into a separatists-hunting game.