By Long Yan

(Clearwisdom.net)

Since the beginning of the Chinese Communist Party, those in power have been initiating political campaigns one after the other. The purpose is to suppress dissidents and consolidate their own power. These campaigns have brought tremendous disasters and tragedies to the nation and the people. The government has become extremely unpopular and it's rule is increasingly shaky.

Over 800 years ago in the Song Dynasty, Qin Hui [a wicked prime minister] accused General Yue Fei [defender of China and a national hero] of conspiracy against the emperor. When asked about evidence, Qin Hui said, "Don't have to have it, it may exist." Nowadays, the government leaders have to package fabricated "evidence" and rationalize and legalize their own dirty tricks to persecute the innocent. The government can shamelessly prove the accused of being guilty with this fabricated evidence. They indeed can fool many people who have no access to the facts. No matter how they change their dirty tricks, their purpose never changes.

During the Cultural Revolution, Liu Shaoqi, the president of China, became a "Traitor, Spy and Turncoat" overnight. The powerful people used the media to fabricate lies. Some people were forced to make false testimonies. Later, in the CCP's Ninth National Congress, the Party officially passed a resolution that Liu deserved to die for his "crime." Years later, when the late president was cleared of all the accusations, people were shocked to realize that all the evidence was fabricated. However, most people were fooled at the time.

The Great Cultural Revolution was initiated entirely based on the absolute individual power of one man. A catchy slogan at the time was "smashing the legal system and law enforcement." China's legal system and police force were paralyzed. The movement almost turned into a chaotic anarchy. The Party used all kinds of illegal means to attack it's political enemies.

After China's reform and open door policy was implemented, in order to appear fair and comparable to international standards, the government sugarcoated many new laws and used them to replace their political weapons. The old crime of "anti-revolutionary" now becomes "revealing national secrets" or "trying to overthrow the country." These accusations are like a basket where you can throw anything into it. When necessary, the government can easily accuse its enemies according to those "laws" and further persecute them without mercy. With this, the government has now legalized all of its political campaigns and persecution. Political dissidents have become criminals. People are confused and they have become unable to differentiate political problems with civil and common criminals cases.

The government does not limit its persecution to within China. In 2001, during visits to their homeland, several overseas Chinese were arrested. Their crimes were vague: spying and endangering China. These cases demonstrated that, all China born foreign nationals are facing potential persecution.

Jiang's persecution of Falun Gong faces resistance from many in the Party. He does not have the personal power to push a resolution in a Party National Congress to persecute Falun Gong. Unlike the Cultural Revolution, the governmental legal system is running. So instead, Jiang took the government and legal system hostage and executed a systematic persecution against Falun Gong.

Even though Jiang has little skill in governing, he is very familiar with persecution. [After laying the groundwork, he was put into power directly after the 1989 student massacre incident.] He knows the benefit of legalizing political persecution. Since China's constitution guarantees the freedom of belief and the right to appeal, Jiang violated the Constitution by ordering the National People's Congress to pass a dubious bill against Falun Gong. By doing so he managed to mend the "legal loophole" with after-the-fact legislation and upstaged the fabricated "criminal" evidence to matters of "rule of law."

After numerous political movements, Chinese people are tired of politics. But because of the propaganda and information blockade, the people fail to see through the nature of the persecution. They are fooled by the seemingly legal proceedings.

If we take a close look at Jiang Zemin's zealous persecution against Falun Gong, we can see that its nature is no different from Qin Hui's so-called "don't have to have it" trick. After all, it was Qin Hui who said, "Who cares what evidence you do find, as long as you can make him guilty."

September 15, 2002