A Non-Practitioner's Commentary: By Persecuting Falun Gong, the Jiang Regime Shows its Guilty Conscience

By Lin Baohua

1/19/2003

(Clearwisdom.net) On January 9, two high-level media in Beijing launched a fierce attack on Falun Gong in Taiwan. Xinhua News Agency published a report entitled "Shady Deals between 'Falun Gong' Underground Organization and the Separatist Force in Taiwan." At the same time, the People's Daily also published a commentator's article with similar contents. When I first looked at these startling headlines, I thought something huge must have happened, but when I read on, I could not help laughing.

What do they mean by "shady deals?" In Taiwan, Falun Gong is free to hold public activities, and it is nothing out of the ordinary if Falun Gong practitioners from Mainland contact the local practitioners when they come to visit Taiwan, including exchanging information and materials and doing the exercises together. None of these can be labeled as "shady deals." As for the materials, they are readily available any place around the world where there are Falun Gong practitioners [and on Falun Gong websites] Why is it that something so common elsewhere becomes a "shady deal" in China? Why is it that they call Falun Gong practitioners doing the exercises "underground" or an "underground organization?" The reason Falun Gong practitioners do the exercises "underground" is very simple -- they are forced to do the exercises in secrecy because of the brutal persecution imposed on them by the Party (the CCP). As there is no problem with Falun Gong anywhere else in the world except for China, then this shows precisely that it is the CCP itself that is "shady." Being such, the CCP can reveal the "shady deals" of Falun Gong today and, in turn, can also write articles about the "shady deals" of the underground Christian religion tomorrow.

What is worthy of notice is not how the CCP reveals the "shady deals" of Falun Gong, to the extent that they even deliberately fabricate charges by saying that they have found certain amounts of gunpowder when searching Falun Gong practitioners' homes, which clearly indicates their desire to falsely accuse Falun Gong of being "terrorists" to further justify their persecution. But the fact is that they link Falun Gong with the pro-independence forces in Taiwan, in an attempt to increase the "crimes" of Falun Gong and to find more excuses for their persecution. In fact, Falun Gong practitioners in Taiwan do not distinguish among themselves whether one is for unification or independence [as Falun Gong holds no political agend or aspirations], and yet Beijing only singles out the "separatist force." Doesn't it show that Beijing has some ulterior motives?

Soon after its 16^th National Party Congress, the CCP rushed into criticizing Falun Gong in stern terms, which shows precisely that the CCP is fearful of Falun Gong. Jiang defied world opinion to continue to retain his position as Chairman of the CCP's Military Committee. His forceful push to have Article 23 of the Basic Law enacted in spite of the strong opposition from the Hong Kong people as well as the serious concerns of Western countries, and the placement of his trusted follower Zhou Yongkang into the Politburo and the Ministry of Public Security all indicate that Jiang is fighting his last-ditch struggle in a feeble state. The reason why Jiang is so afraid of Falun Gong is because the CCP under Jiang' leadership has become corrupt and degenerate and the general public does not have much faith in his "three stresses" and " three representations." Therefore the CCP is worried that "Truthfulness Compassion Tolerance" upheld by Falun Gong will replace their false reasoning and theories in the hearts of the people. Seeing that Falun Gong is indestructible, Jiang has become even more antagonistic towards it. The trouble is that Jiang is already 76 years old, and who, amongst the leaders, would like to continue to take the blame for him?
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.cc/mh/articles/2003/1/19/43069.html

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