By a German Practitioner
(Clearwisdom.net) Part 1 On October 5, 2002, Falun Dafa Practitioners in Germany held an SOS march calling on people to "Join
Together to Stop the Jiang Regime's Persecution Against Falun Gong" on Falun Gong Information
Day in Wolfsburg. In early June, Jiang Zemin visited Wolfsburg and signed an economic contract with the Volkswagen
Automobile Company. Everywhere he went, he disturbed the lives of the citizens. He pressured the
local government and police to suppress Falun Gong practitioners' movements so he could avoid seeing
them. When we met with the officer of the police department to apply for the permit for the activities,
he first apologized to us. When Jiang visited the city in June, the police department was
under high pressure as Jiang Zemin was extremely afraid to see any Falun Gong practitioners. The
officer admitted that their attitude and actions at that time were not reasonable. They had
received orders and they were obliged to follow them. He also said, even so, he didn't hear any bad
comments about Falun Gong practitioners during the event. So he had a very good impression about
Falun Gong. He believed that we truly followed the principle of "Truth Compassion
Tolerance". In the end, he wished our activities to be successful. We also contacted the major media agencies in the city and notified them of the activity schedule.
Two local newspapers immediately agreed to put on a notice of the activities and wanted to give a
detailed report after the activities. One editor sincerely told us that he couldn't understand why
the German Government Departments took such a strong attitude toward Falun Gong and implemented such
ridiculous security. Preventing the victims to appeal while protecting the murderer, was a
frightening thing. The notice in his newspaper mentioned Falun Gong practitioners were good-willed
and charming. Quite a few reporters from local newspapers came to our activity. They interviewed the
practitioners, took photos, took video footage and worked for a few hours. One reporter noticed that
many passersby asked us for flyers, wanted to learn the exercises, signed their names on signature
collection forms and talked to practitioners for a long time. she suggested that we set up a Falun
Gong practice site to let more people know about Falun Gong. We happily agreed. At the rally,
practitioners told the audience how the practitioners in China are cruelly persecuted and how the
"610 Office" controls the persecution. A German practitioner talked about her experiences
of going to Tiananmen Square and how the German policemen mistreated her during Jiang's visit. One
practitioner read a letter to the leaders of Volkswagen Automobile Company asking for help to rescue
practitioner Xiong Wei. After that, the parade team walked to Volkswagen to give them the letter.
When the parade team began to walk back, it started to rain. The practitioners sent forth righteous
thoughts silently and calmly in the rain. The whole event ended in a serene atmosphere, which left a
good impression on the policemen on duty. One policeman told us, "We understand you. We support
you. There will be no problem if you want to hold events again." He also gave his phone number
to the practitioners. Part 2 The practitioners were satisfied with the activities, but there were different understandings
regarding the sudden rain at the end of the event. Someone said that we were not very focused on the
activity and sent forth righteous thoughts to a lesser extent. Some practitioners were very busy
switching from one thing to the other. Someone said the whole body of practitioners needed to
understand the meaning of this event deeper. Someone said that the rain meant that there were still
a lot of evil factors, so we ought to come to Wolfsburg to clarify the truth more and send forth
righteous thoughts more. These discussions raised many thoughts about the event and we talked more
about the event after it finished. After the discussion, we understood that we must clear the evil factors in any place where the
evil head had been. If one trip was not enough, we should go a second and third time. We should
include countries like Russia, Iceland, Hong Kong and other Baltic Sea countries. When more evil
factors that are spread around the world are cleared, the evil head will get less and less energy. From
this viewpoint, it is extremely important for North American and especially Texas practitioners to
strengthen their righteous thoughts and clear the environment before the evil head arrives. As
Teacher said in "North America Lecture", "But this persecution isn't limited to just
China. This persecution is actually worldwide--the slander has poisoned people's minds the world
over." The vicious lies are the conditions for the evil to survive. Our truth clarification has
the effect of purging the lies. Practitioners in Germany had not done well before and during Jiang's visit. After he left we should pay attention to this matter, eliminate the evil factors
and relate it to the whole Fa rectification process. Otherwise, we may create negative effects for the overall Fa
rectification process. The above is my personal understanding.
Posting date: 10/10/2002
Original article date: 10/9/2002
Category: Falun Dafa Worldwide
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2002/10/9/37749.html