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The Last Line of Defense--An Overseas Dafa Practitioner's Insights Regarding the Article 23 Legislation in Hong Kong By Chen, Gang (Clearwisdom.net) My name is Gang Chen, and I'm a student in the
Munich College of Technology, Germany. I personally witnessed the liberation
army shooting students when the movement for democracy was crushed on June 4,
1989. I witnessed many students and citizens being beaten, many to death. I saw
chunks of bodies attached to the pavement after being squashed into mutilated
flesh by tanks in St.Zhang-an, Beijing. After that, because I refused to express
my support for the government's shooting of those innocent students, I was
forced out of school for a year. Now, China's persecution of righteous people has been extended to Germany.
Because of my belief in "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance," the
Chinese Consulate has refused to renew my passport. Without a valid passport,
Germany cannot give me a formal residence permit for a long time. I only have a
two-month valid certificate for applying for a visa, which will expire at the
end of January next year. This has created great problems for my studies and
work in Germany. Take a look at China today. People do not even have the right to enjoy good
health. My mother, Hui-qin Pan, is retired. After practicing Falun Gong, she
became more and more healthy, got rid of the torment of her diseases, and began
to live a new life. On July 20, 1999, Jiang began his persecution, forcing
people to sign statements denouncing Falun Gong. Because my mother had benefited
physically and spiritually through Dafa, she refused to sign for the sake of her
conscience. Therefore, she became one of the main targets of the Public Security
Bureau. Before long, they wanted to arrest her, and in the end, she was forced
to become homeless to avoid further persecution. This was more than one year ago
[October 2001]. The 610 Office of The First Steel Company in Beijing also
suspended her retirement pay. The vicious policemen have relentlessly pursued my
mother; they spare no efforts to persecute her-- even sending people from
Beijing to our old home in Hebei Province several times. They also harassed our
relatives and friends, forcing and threatening them to reveal her whereabouts. We are just an ordinary Chinese family, but we have already been bitterly
persecuted by the despotic power of the dictatorship. Now the evil power is
going to be extended to six million innocent fellow countrymen in Hong Kong. The
Jiang regime wants to make the six million Hong Kong people, who originally had
a life of freedom, also live under its terrible shadow through the so-called
Article 23 legislation. It wants to export the tragedy it caused my family to
the land of Hong Kong. Essentially, this a challenge of the barbarian to the
civilized. Because of our insensitivity, we cannot get rid of the shadow of
dictatorship, which is so domineering that we have no way to retreat. Hong Kong
has become our last line of defense. The future of Hong Kong will become the
testimony to the existence of righteousness! Now, it's time for us to say
"No!" to those evil people! 2002-12-22 Posting date: 12/30/2002 |