The Process of Bringing the Chinese Deputy Consul General in Canada to Justice
By Joel Chipkar
(Clearwisdom.net) On Feb 3, 2004 the Ontario Superior Court of Justice
awarded me $11,000.00 including court costs and found the Chinese Vice Consul
General in Toronto guilty for defaming a Falun Gong practitioner in the
newspaper. For the past 4 years, Jiang and his followers have been spending hundreds of
millions of dollars on a massive campaign of lies to eliminate Falun Gong and to
hide their crimes against humanity. Hate and lies are the lifeblood of the
persecution. On May 1 2003, Pan Xinchun the Vice Consul General of China in Toronto spread
the same hate into Canada by calling me a member of a "sinister cult" in a local news
paper. This was yet another attempt by the regime to use consulates and
Embassies overseas to eliminate support for Dafa and to harm Dafa. I immediately realized the importance of this opportunity to expose and
eliminate the evil from attacking Dafa here in Canada. However, when I was
thinking about suing this person for his crimes, many of my attachments surfaced
to try to stop me from going forward. I was deeply afraid of the amount of money, the thousands of dollars I would
have to spend on the case. I was also afraid of all the work that I would have
to put into this case and I was afraid that I wouldn't be righteous enough to
succeed. My fear heightened on the last day that I could file the claim. I
talked to many practitioners to find an answer but I found everyone had their
own understanding. I felt very afraid. I remember in my past cultivation I had let many
great chances to validate Dafa slip by because of my fear. Master gave me so
many chances to step out of humanness and to let go of my attachment of self so
I could truly put Dafa first, and I continued to fail. Once again I felt Master arranged this test for me to step forward, but once
again the fear was stopping me. I also knew deep in my heart that if I failed
this test it would be a very serious step back in my cultivation. I realized through all my past failures that the attachment of fear is the
most dangerous and most serious test that blocked my way. And my fear of losing
money or my fear of not succeeding or my fear of all my self interests and
attachments that stopped me from truly stepping forward 100% from my heart for
Dafa was really a deeper fear of the ultimate attachment to life and the fear of
death. So many practitioners in China have stepped forward and have given up all
worries and fear of losing personal interest to validate the Fa in the most
deadly environment ever in history. They are able to do this because from the
bottom of their souls they truly believe and have faith in the truth of Dafa.
They gave up their attachment to life and their fear of death for the ultimate
sake of saving others. I asked myself, am I still attached to reaching consummation? Am I worried
about my own future or my own self interest? Do I truly understand what Master
is teaching us? Am I afraid of my own life as a human being? Can I truly put
myself aside and act with the righteous compassion to save others? Do I truly
believe in Master and in Dafa? At that moment my one thought became so strong in my mind. Yes. I must
eliminate the evil. For the sake of all the innocent lives who are exposed to
this hate and are being brainwashed to go against Zhen Shan Ren, I must expose
the persecution and stop the evil from attacking Dafa. I also must support my
fellow practitioners in China who have truly shown me the ultimate meaning of
selflessness and compassion. This is my only true mission as a human being in
this precious time. I called Peter, the lawyer, who was shocked to hear from me. He said there is
no way I could go forward any more. It was too late, I left it until the last
day and he didn't even have the papers ready. It was 3:00 and the courts closed
at 4:30. There was no way we could prepare and get it there in time. I told him
I must go through with this case. This evil must be stopped so it will no longer
hurt people. It is a matter of principle and it has to be done. At 5:00 I received a call from Peter. He told me he rushed down to the court
as fast as he could and he filed the case just before they closed. I felt happy.
I felt that after I made the decision to place Dafa first over any fear, Master
made the rest happen. Master tells us that the Fa protects the righteous
principles. I also found out that because I had not passed previous tests in my
cultivation strictly and on time the tests accumulated and became more and more
dangerous. All the tribulations from the past didn't just disappear after this
victory, they defected and became stronger and larger. The following week another one surfaced. When I told my family that I sued
the consul general they became very angry. My father was very afraid. He
screamed. It was like a demon possessed him. He tried everything to get me to
stop. He threatened to fire me from our family owned business where I work. He
called our family lawyer and took my name off all the family investments. He
also took me out of his will. He then called the bank and took my name off all
the accounts. He demanded I give him the name of my lawyer so he could call him
and I refused. I felt numb. My whole body and mind felt surrounded by evil, just
like someone threw a heavy iron blanket over me and threw me in a deep hole.
However, through it all I could see that it was the evil itself that was afraid
and trying to stop me. I felt a very strong righteous thought deep in my heart
that no matter what I lost, nothing would stop me from stepping forward to
protect Dafa. As I continued to step forward I faced an even harder attack from the evil.
This time they attacked my physically. As I flew to Ottawa to meet an important
government official about my case, I could hardly walk. It felt like something
was tightening my back to the point where the muscles were going to snap like
strings too tight on an instrument. I made it though the meeting and to the
airport. When I arrived home I couldn't get out of the plane. I was paralyzed
with intense pain. I couldn't breath. I couldn't move. I couldn't talk. The
stewardess called the medical people who brought a wheel chair. It took me 10
minutes to get out of the seat and into the wheel chair right next to me. As I sat in the chair the pain settled down a bit. I told the lady to wheel
me to my car. She tried to argue but I insisted. I made it into my car and
relaxed a bit more. I drove home into my underground parking where a fellow
practitioner and my wife met me. As I got out of the car the evil ripped into my
body like massive red hot electric shocks and I dropped to my knees. I couldn't
move. I lay in excruciating pain for hours beside my car trying to scream but in
too much pain to do so. As I lay on the ground trying to breath between the
contractions of intense pain I couldn't help thinking of the practitioners in
China and how much torture they endure. Here, I was in the most pain I ever felt
and I still had the comfort to just lay there beside my car on the cold
concrete. Practitioners in China didn't have that luxury. I started to cry for
them. I was finally dragged upstairs on a blanket into my apartment and there I
lay in my foyer beside the front door for over a week. I could do nothing but
think and read. During this time I could see that most of my thoughts were not righteous at
all. I would send righteous thoughts at 11 and 5 but it almost seemed like a
formality. I saw that quickly after 11 and 5 my mind would wander to all kinds
of dreams and fragmented thoughts and desires and pursuits. I also had a notion in my mind that I didn't want practitioners to bother
with my situation. It was my problem and I could handle it by myself. I had
phone calls from practitioners who wanted to come over to send righteous
thoughts for me and I refused to allow them. I felt I could do it alone. I then
realized that I felt alone and overwhelmed. I realized that I had not kept up my Fa study and doing my exercises
everyday. I had grown a fear of doing the exercises. I didn't want to spend the
time to do them because I felt other things were more important or I was too
lazy. Now as I lay on the floor it seemed my privilege to do the exercises was
taken away from me. I couldn't even sit up and I wished that I could do the
exercises again. I felt truly sorry I took my privilege to do the exercises for
granted and now my ability was gone. I took the following days to read the Fa intensely and truly reflect on the
principles in the book. I felt so refreshed and enlightened. I opened my heart
to my fellow practitioners and sent an email asking everyone for their support.
The response I received touched my heart. I could truly feel the righteous
support from everyone. It took a long time before I could walk again but I realized that I was
giving into the evil arrangement to keep me down. I refused to allow that to
happen and I started to focus again on the case. I had a thought that I wanted to let practitioners all over the world take
part in this case. I thought there must be a way that I could get the body of
practitioners to use their energy to help as one body to eliminate evil. I came
up with the idea to write a letter to all the Chinese consulate and embassy
officials around the world telling them about this case hoping they would no
longer harm the reputation of Dafa or they too would pay for their crimes in the
future. Practitioners from all over the world expressed their joy to be a part of
this. I received emails from as far as Sweden, South Africa, Moldavia, Israel,
New Zealand, Germany, Slovakia, Czech Republic, United Kingdom, Russia
and others. I could truly feel the strong bond of the Dafa body come
together. It was a powerful feeling. However, in my own environment I became irritated with my local
practitioners. For months many practitioners knew that this case was coming and
everyone knew how important it was. It was the first time any where in the world
a Chinese official was going to be tried for defaming Falun Gong practitioners.
This case had so much importance for truth clarification. However, practitioners were extremely busy with other very important projects
and throughout the next 5 months I was mostly left alone to work on the case. At
the last minute, only days before the hearing was to take place I was bombarded
with concerns from practitioners who wanted to have conference calls to discuss,
"How much we had not done with this case!" and that, "The lawyer
is an everyday person, we must make sure he talks about the right things!"
"We have to meet with him!" "We have to do this and this and
this!" My heart was moved and I expressed a serious pattern in the Dafa body that I
have observed and have also been a part of since July 1999. That is when we have
lots of time for important upcoming projects we never seem to cherish the time
given to us to do a good job. It is only at the very last minute that everyone
will jump in and want to change things and give their feedback and only after it
is all over do we all come together and express how bad we feel and that we
should have done better. I feel this is still an immaturity we all share. I tried to calm my heart and listen. I learned I was still attached to my own
ideas of how things should go and I still had the destructive habit of pointing
the finger at others for their faults. I feel this surfaced to test if I could
put my own thoughts aside and take others' hearts and concerns into
consideration. We then came up with some points that we felt should be shared
with the lawyer. We also all realized that we had to also trust the lawyer and
our own work we had done in the past clarifying the truth to him. It seemed 8 months went by in a second and the day for the trial was finally
here. As I sat in the courtroom it seemed like hundreds of practitioners came to
the court to support. The lobby and the courtroom were packed with
practitioners. Nothing could have matched the feeling I had even before the
judge came into the room. I felt the amazing pure strength of all the
practitioners sending righteous thoughts together with me defending the
reputation of Dafa in a court of law and forging ahead together as one body to
write another chapter in history. My heart filled with tears because I could
feel the solid steel bond of all practitioners coming together with the
righteous hearts to save sentient beings. I also understood right then that between fellow practitioners, no matter
what attachments surface in others the most important thought I must have is to
realize we are all here because of Dafa and Master and whatever happens we all
are bonded together with one common heart and one goal. In this moment I could
truly feel the special bond we have between each of us and how we must support
each other in everything we do no matter if it's our project or not. Every one in the courtroom was silent because of the powerful field. I sent
righteous support to my lawyer to do his best. I sent righteous support to the
judge so he could choose well the most important decision he would ever make in
his life and I let all the Zhen Shan Ren I had in my soul do the rest. As I sat there I had a thought that I would have given everything and every
cent I had to be there to eliminate the evil. It was one of the most powerful
moments of my life. I also reflected back and realized how only 8 months earlier
I almost let fear steal this precious chance away from me and destroy my
opportunity to step forward for Dafa. I also realized that pain and fear, like
any other tribulation, no matter how painful it is or how terrifying it is, it
is just in that moment and when we look back it is over but our one thought at
that time or our decision or our choice at that moment lasts forever. Every opportunity Master gives us on our path will never come again and when
they arise they go so fast. We only have one chance to choose well or not. I
felt so grateful that Master gave me this opportunity and the power and strength
to see it through. In the hearing the judge asked the lawyer how much money we were seeking and
my lawyer said we wanted over $100,000 due to the serious nature of this
comment. The judge then said that if this was the case we would have to book
another date for the court. At that point we had a decision to make. I pulled my
lawyer aside and told him, "This is not about money, this is about
principle. We must stop the evil from attacking Dafa. It has to be today."
My lawyer explained my heart to the judge and she transferred us to another
building so we could have our case heard that day. For over an hour our lawyer presented a brilliant case filled with truth
clarification to the judge. He also argued how Pan Xinchun acted outside his
official functions as a consulate official and also broke international law and
therefore he had no immunity. The judge then asked my lawyer why he thought no one showed up to defend the
Vice Consul General. My lawyer said, "For 8 months we gave the consulate
four opportunities to step forward to defend themselves and they refused. They
felt they were immune under diplomatic immunity and refused to accept the legal
papers. The only reason they haven't come to defend themselves is because they
are afraid. They are afraid of the mistake they made when they defamed my client
in the newspaper. They are afraid to expose the disgusting abuses their
government is responsible for against Falun Gong practitioners in China and they
are afraid to be exposed for the massive hate campaign that they are responsible
for spreading here in Canada. This is the reason." At that point the judge smiled and nodded his head in agreement and at around
1:00 pm the judge ruled in our favor and we won the case. I cried so hard I couldn't stop. I felt the energy of all practitioners in
China together with us and felt the unexplainable power of our Dafa body in high
dimensions and I felt so honored to be part of it. It was a great victory for the Canadian courts to rule that calling Falun
Gong an "evil cult" is illegal. However, in my heart I still felt
heavy. A reporter asked me if I was happy with the result and I told her, "For
4 years the Chinese regime has been using hate and lies to murder and torture
and destroy innocent practitioners and to hide their crimes against humanity. So
many of my fellow practitioners have died brutal and senseless deaths. Here in
Canada the hate and lies still continue to be spread by the Chinese embassy and
consulates. Only when all my fellow practitioners in China are free and only
when all the hate and lies are eliminated and only when Jiang Zemin and all
those who have hurt Falun Gong practitioners are brought to justice, only then I
will be happy. For now I just want to send a strong message to all those who are
hurting the reputation of Dafa and of practitioners, that you must stop before
it is too late. In time you will all pay for your disgusting crimes and you will
destroy your futures and the futures of your innocent families by your evil
deeds." When it was all over and I was driving back home, the picture of Pan
Xinchun's face came into my mind. I felt deeply sad in my heart that this human
being had chosen to hurt Dafa and his own future. I wished that we could have
talked together so I could help him see the special chance he had to position
himself to be a good person. I hope he realizes the truth before it's too late.
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