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"The Terrible Support" By Feimin
(Clearwisdom.net)
The Xinhua News Agency claimed that the persecution of Falun Gong by Jiang's
gang was "strongly supported by people of all races in the nation."
This is a blatant lie.
In western countries, private organizations periodically conduct opinion
polls on the popularity of the president and the government. They will explain
how the sample is taken, describe the number of valid samples, the way the
questions are asked, and the probability of error. Survey sampling is a
specialized field. The poll taking organizations are experts in the field. The
level of support for some policies in poll results can have a great influence on
government officials.
Being "strongly supported by people of all races in the nation," as
claimed by Jiang's gang, is not a result of opinion polls. Rather it is one of
the habitual lies of the dictator and his writers. In a dictatorship, even if
something is "strongly supported by people of all races in the
nation," it does not prove the legitimacy of the matter. The former Iraqi
dictator Sadam Hussein was elected the president with close to 100% of the
ballot. In Nazi Germany people greeting each other had to raise their arms and
shout "Hiel, Hitler." Behind this type of "strong support of
people of all races in the nation" we only see crimes and the evil of the
dictator.
Even in the developed countries of the West, where polls are easier to take,
poll results cannot be used as an excuse to persecute minorities. The purpose of
the Amendments in the United States Constitutions is to protect an individual's
rights of speech and religion and certain other human rights. The constitution
prohibits the legislature from creating any law that restricts these rights. It
also prohibits the legislature from creating laws that are aimed at specific
groups or individuals intending to use them to convict these groups or
individuals, even though the legislature represents the public. In other words
the United States Constitution forbids the legislature to deprive or trample on
an individuals' certain specific rights by using a hollow name, "the
public." Whether they "follow the mandate of the general public,"
or are "strongly supported by people of all races in the nation," the
legislature is not allowed to create laws that infringe upon the rights of even
a single individual, thus inhibiting the government that is unable to protect a
minority's rights from inevitably becoming the tyranny of the majority. A
tyranny by the majority is the same as that of a dictatorship by an individual
who represents this majority.
After considering this logic, let's read a story. It is the description of a
horror scene recorded by a Nobel Prize winner in literature, former citizen of
the Soviet Union, Solzhenitsyn, which was cited in a recent article on the
Internet.
A newly appointed district director chaired a meeting of the district
representatives in Moscow Province -- his predecessor had just been imprisoned.
Every time when they read the name of Stalin, all representatives would rise
immediately, and yell "Ula!" At the end of the meeting, they approved
the letter pledging allegiance to Stalin. All stood up and the sounds of
applauding thundered the auditorium. It then turned into a long lasting cheer.
Three minutes later, four minutes later, five minutes later, the sounds of
clapping kept roaring, and the cheering remained enthusiastic. People's hands
were hurting. Their arms were numb. The elderly were out of breath. But no one
dared to stop first. The clapping kept on. Six minutes, seven minutes, eight
minutes, all representatives looked at one another, pretending to be full of
joy. Nine minutes, ten minutes, and at the eleventh minute, a member of the
chairing group -- the president of the paper factory-- returned to his normal
look, and sat down on his seat. Then a miracle happened. The unstoppable
clapping stopped. That night, the president of the paper factory was arrested,
and sentenced to ten years in prison. When he signed his name on the record of
investigation, the investigator said to him: "Never be the first to stop
clapping."
The title of the article on the Internet is "The Terrible
Applause." Paraphrasing it, the so-called "support" according to
Xinhua News would be "terrible support." For sure, it is not the first
time for the Xinhua News Agency to declare such "terrible support."
When they suppressed those who were against the revolution in the early days of
the communist regime, they created a model for killing
people by quota, which was "strongly supported by all races of the people
in the nation." The anti-right-wing movement in 1957, "strongly
supported by all races of the people in the nation," caused at least 550
thousand intellectuals to be sent to the countryside to do hard labor and to
spend 22 years of their lives as low-class citizens. In 1958, there was the
"Unified Path," "People's Commune," and the "Big Leap
Forward," the so-called "Three Red Flags." Being "strongly
supported by all races of the people in the nation," these campaigns led to
at least 20 million deaths in the "natural" disasters that occurred in
the next three years. The civil war of the Cultural Revolution that occurred in
1966, "strongly supported by all races of the people in the nation,"
sent the country into chaos, and pushed China to the brink of collapse.
Is all the so-called support actually "terrible support?" Should we
not do everything we can to stop Jiang's gang from continuing to use this
terrible support to brutally persecute Falun Gong practitioners?
Posting date: 9/25/2003 |