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State Terrorism Distorts Human Nature
By Meijie (Clearwisdom.net) Countless cases of persecution of Falun Dafa
practitioners in China since 1999 have been published. On September 25, 2004, an
article on Clearwisdom.net reported the death of Falun Dafa practitioner Yang
Lirong (http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2004/9/25/52796.html).
Yang was from Dingzhou City, Hebei Province, and she was killed in 2002. To me,
this case is very typical: one can clearly see how Jiang's regime has been
distorting human nature through state terrorism in order to eliminate Falun
Gong. From the article mentioned above, one can see that Yang had been persecuted
many times for practicing Falun Dafa: "The authorities extorted 5,000 yuan before releasing her, and the
police constantly harassed her after she returned home. Her husband was
worried that he could lose his job and often physically abused Yang Lirong.
Yang Lirong conducted herself according to Truth-Compassion-Tolerance and
treated her husband with kindness. The perpetrators later arrested her and
sent her to a brainwashing class. Because she refused to give up her belief,
she was sent to this class three times. Her husband grew furious and blamed
Yang Lirong for the persecution. On the evening of February 8, 2002, the
perpetrators again went to Yang Lirong's home to search for Falun Gong
materials. Early in the next morning, while Yang Lirong's parents were out,
Yang Lirong's husband strangled her to death with his hands. She left behind
their 10-year-old son." The brutal torture and brainwashing are targeted only at Falun Dafa
practitioners, yet the abuse of state apparatus, government policies, and the
law to manipulate society and create terror affects the whole nation. This kind
of manipulation is everywhere: from the propaganda controlling people's thoughts
to the policies controlling the movement of people, from oppressive national
policies to threats and brutality by local government officials and police.
Living under the crush of spiritual and psychological terror for so long,
people's minds have been seriously distorted. The negative psychological factors
like fear, distrust, suspicion, and hatred have caused people to lose their
ability to think rationally and have exhausted their courage to protect their
basic human rights and dignity. Furthermore, the dark side of human nature
expands rapidly, resulting in violence. The huge psychological pressure created
by the state terrorism is what led Yang Lirong's husband to lose his mind and
murder his wife. Since the persecution of Falun Gong began in July 1999, Jiang's faction has
focused on the people close to practitioners (family, friends, colleagues,
classmates, neighbors, etc.) to force them away from their belief. Liu Jing, an
official of the central government "610 Office," once praised China's
forced labor system to an international audience. He gave an example, in which a
woman sent her husband, a Falun Dafa practitioner, to a forced labor camp. I
think the example only depicts the anti-human nature of the persecution. A report by World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG)
pointed out: "How is the required transformation rate achieved? The most common
approach is to implement forcible brainwashing with a number of people
attacking one person. Such a method was put forward as early as August of 1999
in the 'Notice from Two Offices,' which advocated 'the method of 'one person
being responsible for one practitioner' or 'several people being responsible
for one practitioner.'" The method implemented by the Changchun City
Luyuan District Street Committee is known as the "six-function-as-one
responsibility system," which means that "each street committee
leader, each official, each community director, each police officer, family
members [of a Falun Gong practitioner] and each workplace is assigned to be
responsible for the transformation of one Falun Gong practitioner." This
method won recognition by the CCP Central "610 Office." A record was
set in the Slate Mining Co. owned by the Tonghua Iron and Steel Group in Jilin
Province, where 20 people "helped to educate" one
practitioner." ("The Destruction of Mind and Body Through
Brainwashing" from the WOIPFG website). In fact, this kind of "help to educate" is in fact spiritual
torture and persecution. On January 20, 2001, right before Jiang's group staged the Tiananmen
self-immolation fraud, according to the New China News Agency, the All-China
Women's Federation of China launched a nationwide activity instigating women of
China and 270 million families to force Falun Gong practitioners to
"completely separate from Falun Gong." Beijing City, Tianjin City,
Hebei Province, Anhui Province, Harbin City, Jilin Province, Shandong Province,
and others organized the so-called "Million Family Promise" signature
collection campaign, leading a nationwide media campaign of hate propaganda to
poison the minds of millions of people. While attacking Falun Gong with the propaganda, Jiang's regime has at the
same time been threatening and oppressing practitioners' family members. They
have been fired from their jobs, deprived of their incomes, and levied with huge
"fines". Money and fame are used as bait to lure others to report
practitioners, encouraging their friends and colleagues to participate in the
persecution. The persecutors promote discrimination against and social isolation
of practitioners from their workplaces to their neighbors, and their families.
The persecutors force practitioners to make choices between their belief and
their families, jobs, and other social relationships. Many husbands and wives
have been forced to divorce their practitioner spouses because they could not
bear the tremendous mental and psychological pressure. The divorces bring great
suffering to their children and families. Practitioner Amy Lee was brutally persecuted in China because she refused to
give up her belief. The police followed and abducted her, then stripped her of
all her clothes and beat her up until she lost consciousness. They put her into
a mental hospital and force-fed her there. Her husband was forced to divorce her
under the huge pressure from the government. Amy's daughter was only 7 years
old. Amy came to the U.S. two years ago by herself because her daughter was
denied a passport, and only recently have they been reunited. In 2001, Amy said
during an interview with a Reuters reporter, "Innumerable families of Falun
Gong practitioners have been broken apart." Although Jiang has left his official positions as China's leader, the shadow
of state terrorism still covers every Chinese person. The persecution has not
come to a stop, and the tragedy of Yang Lirong and her family could happen again
any time. However, I believe that one day, the Chinese people will wake up and
choose their due rights and dignity. The perpetrators will then have nowhere to
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