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A Non-practitioner's Experience In A Train Station
(Clearwisdom.Net)
I am living in Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province. I want to speak out the
truth in fairness for Falun Gong. Jiang's regime already reported many stories
about Falun Gong via national TV stations, radio stations and newspapers.
Previously, although I was not quite convinced by their reports, I did not get a
clear image about Falun Gong either. Qigong has been spread in China for dozens
of years and even I myself had practiced a few kinds of Qigong before. Nobody
heard that if someone practiced Qigong, he or she would commit suicide or murder
of his/her parents. But I had not thought about this issue further. Falun Gong
practitioners also argued that the persecution of Falun Gong is wrong because
they practiced their cultivation following the principle of "Truthfulness,
Compassion, Tolerance". Practitioners just want to be better people. Their
cultivation practice would be beneficial to all the people of the world. They
also stated that all of those twisted stories such as suicide, murder, not
taking medicines for curing illnesses, self immolation, etc. spread via national
propaganda were actually a series of fake incidents. These cases have been
created upon the government's demand to fabricate charges against Falun Gong.
The government also attempted to use these incidents to instigate hatred against
Falun Gong practitioners.
It seemed to me each side stuck to their own argument. I did not truly care
which side was correct until one day when the following happened to me.
On February 1, 2001, I went to the Harbin Train Station to see off a friend.
It was expected to be a happy day, but I could not really feel happy. At the
train station, the police placed a picture of Mr. Li Hongzhi on the ground near
the check-in boarding entrance to the southbound trains. The police asked every
passenger to step on the picture. This despicable method was an attempt to
distinguish Falun Gong practitioners from passengers. This way the police could
catch practitioners who might go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong.
It was heard that the police just followed the orders from their superior
authorities. They all knew that virtuous practitioners would rather die than
trample their teacher's pictures. Although I was not a practitioner, I also
refused to step on Mr. Li's picture. Immediately a few policemen came over to me
and dragged me out of the check-in line. They asked me, "Are you a Falun
Gong practitioner?" I was so angry at that moment that I told them,
"What if I am a practitioner?" Then they detained me and interrogated
me. I kept arguing with them. These policemen understood that justice was not in
their side. Finally they released me out of consideration for my 70 years of
age.
When I went back home, I talked about this incident in the train station to
my family members. All of them felt very angry. They said, "Our country has
almost been destroyed because of the corruption and atrocities of Jiang's
regime. Instead of doing good things for people, the officers have focused their
attention on brutally persecuting Falun Gong. When they were unable to find any
other ways to prevent those practitioners going to Beijing, they took such a
despicable way, one that has never been used in history, to deceive people and
violate people's true wishes. The immoral acts implemented by the government
will bring disasters to people."
China has been famous for her long history of civilization. But today in this
land, a government has been used to do these scoundrel-like things. It is truly
the Chinese people's disaster. Wake up, everybody! Please do not be deceived by
those lies and twisted stories any more! Please get together to support Falun
Gong!
A Chinese person
February 7, 2002 Posting date: 2/18/2002
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