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SARS, The Deceivers and the Deceived
By Shi Cangshan (translated and edited by Clearwisdom.net)
[Note: The reference materials posted on this website are written by
non-practitioners and do not necessarily represent the position of Falun Gong
practitioners.]
Some people have said that everything in the People's Daily is false
except for the date. I do not quite agree. The cleverness of one who deceives
others is that he can make things hard for people to tell truth from fiction. If
every word from the deceiver is false, then it is not too hard for people to
recognize, and people will soon take precautions.
However, as we have clearly seen, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is once
again lying to Chinese people and the world with respect to the SARS issue.
In fact, as long as people open the history book of the CCP and study it
carefully, they will naturally discover that on all major incidents, i.e., those
major issues that are related to the existence or collapse of the CCP's systems,
CCP would use lies to muddle with the public both home and abroad. For example,
it was even so before Communists took over China. At that time, a newspaper
called Xinhua Daily, which was the mouthpiece of CCP and published in the
areas controlled by then ruling National Party, spoke highly of the democratic
systems of the United States. This made a good impression on the authorities of
the United States. It was also so during the anti-rightists campaign in the
1950's. Following the land reform and the campaign against the capitalists, CCP
motivated all intellectuals in the country to express their opinions to help CCP
improve. However, the motivation turned out to a lure to frame the
intellectuals. At the end, over 600,000 elite Chinese intellectuals were
persecuted. A similar situation occurred during the great famine of the 1960's.
Although the famine was indeed caused by human factors (i.e., the wrong policies
of the CCP), it was explained as a natural disaster. The famine caused tens of
millions of people to die due to starvation, but the news was covered up as if
everything carried on normally. Cover-ups again occurred in relation to the
"April 5" movement in 1970's and the "June 4" Tiananmen Massacre in 1980's. The
cover-ups were in relation to the Falun Gong incidents in the 1990's, and now
the SARS issue. In many minor issues, CCP would mix some truth in with the lies, such that
the lies were not more than half of the information they publicized. This
enables them to continue duping people. Of course, this is the clever side of
the one who deceives. It is also the key to understand why CCP succeeds
repeatedly in its swindles.
A western idiom says "once bitten, twice shy." However, why do Chinese people
keep being swindled by the CPP and yet still keep coming back for more? Chinese
ancestors have said that man dies for wealth and birds die for food, which has
in fact pointed out the problem of those being deceived, and why they are
willing to be swindled.
For many of those Chinese nationals who claim to inherit ancient
civilizations, in their eyes, profits are the only thing they can see. For these
people, they are swindled repeatedly by CPP. In the secular world, it is hard
for man to avoid the temptation of fame, profit and sentimentality. CCP uses
these things as temptations. Only those people who let go of these things will
be able to get off the hook.
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