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Using Hypotheticals to Expose the Chinese Government's Suppression of Free Speech
(Clearwisdom.net) We can say that in China, what one person says can lay
down the law. For example, if I had complete power and control over the press,
it would be quite easy for me to ruin your reputation, even though you are a
good person. I could first throw you in jail, then create a lot of false
evidence and witnesses. Then I would charge you with many crimes. I would make
all TV and radio stations, newspapers, magazines and websites declare that you
have committed such-and-such crimes. Plus, I wouldn't give you any chance to
speak out. After doing this for a month, I am sure everyone would say that you
are a bad person, because that is what's being said everywhere. Even people who
know you quite well would also say, "Well, he isn't that bad, but there
must be something wrong about him, otherwise others (the media) wouldn't have
said all those things." Yet in fact, you haven't done anything wrong at
all.
Why would others have such an impression about you? The reason is that they
can hear only one voice. Why is it that they can hear only one voice? Because I
don't allow you to speak out at all, and because I know I'm slandering you. If I
give you a fair opportunity to speak, then the lies would immediately be
exposed. I'm afraid of being discovered, so I won't give you any chance to
speak.
This is just like Jiang Zemin's persecution of Falun Gong. Why does Jiang
Zemin never allow any of the hundred million practitioners to speak out? If
anyone dares to speak out, he or she would be thrown in jail, sent to forced
labor or even tortured to death. How could you explain this other than Jiang
Zemin has something to hide?
Posting date: 12/10/2001
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