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The Hong Kong Administration Needs To Revisit Rationality
By Shu Zhen
(Clearwisdom.net) In 2003, eighty Falun Gong practitioners, including a
ten-year-old child, traveled to Hong Kong for a Falun Gong event. Alas, at the
Hong Kong airport, Hong Kong authorities refused entry, accusing them of being
"security risks." They have applied for judicial review and the high
court heard their case beginning September 20, 2005. During the oral arguments
on September 23, the Hong Kong government refused to provide evidence of their
contention, the "Immigration Watch List." According to the plaintiffs,
the Hong Kong government denied the judge's request more than ten times under
the pretext "security reasons." The judge found such contention
"irrational." One can assume that if the Hong Kong government makes public the
"Immigration Watch List," it will become known that those named on the
list are Falun Gong practitioners. The true reason for Hong Kong's government
groundlessly "barring practitioners from entering Hong Kong" will
become public record. There will be legal documents recording government
misconduct, and the. Jiang regime's (which provided the watch list) crime will
be exposed. Not wanting to face condemnation for "Discriminating based on
people's belief," Hong Kong's government refused to provide the appropriate
evidence. Instead, it refused repeatedly to honor the judges' request and
provide the watch list, hiding behind the excuse of "security
reasons." Such flagrant disregard of a judge's order is insupportable and
condemned by the court and Hong Kong's populace. This irrational contempt of the court began with the illogical actions by the
Hong Kong government in February 2003, when Hong Kong practitioners held an
experience sharing conference. Eighty Falun Gong practitioners from Taiwan
traveled to Hong Kong to attend the event. Without explanation, the government
barred all eighty ractitioners from entering Hong Kong. This is an contemptible
human rights violation by the Hong Kong government who behaved as a puppet of
the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). This event has proven beyond a shadow of a
doubt the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong to the world's people. The Hong Kong
government effectively railroaded the city's environment of freedom of belief.
This is indeed an irrational act by the Hong Kong government. The administration's absurdity was also reflected by its harassment and
slander during Falun Gong practitioners' peaceful appeals. On March 14, 2002,
four Falun Gong practitioners from Switzerland and 12 from Hong Kong held a
peaceful sit-in appeal and hunger strike in front of Hong Kong's Chinese Liaison
Office. The intent was to expose and condemn the former Chinese President Jiang
Zemin's secret orders to shoot Falun Gong practitioners. Several hours into the
appeal, at the request of the P.R.C.'s Liaison Office, Hong Kong policemen
arrived at the appeal site and forcefully arrested the sixteen practitioners.
Subsequently, the police filed charges against the practitioners for
"obstruction of the sidewalk" and "attacking police."
Fortunately, in May of 2005, Hong Kong's supreme court overturned these
convictions. The practitioners, who were accused of assaulting and obstructing
police, were exonerated. The absurd actions by the Hong Kong government continued with its efforts to
promote Article 23 legislation. Such legislation was intended to bring the
China's inhuman persecution of Falun Gong practitioner to Hong Kong. Using
Article 23, criminal charges, including "overturning the country's
government," "leaking the country's secrets," and
"participating in banned organizations," were to be leveled against
practitioners. Further objectives of the government were to curtail Hong Kong
Falun Gong practitioners' legal rights and prevent distribution of Falun Gong
truth clarification material into China through Hong Kong. Everyone knows that the illogical behavior by Hong Kong's government had
roots in the insane persecution by Jiang's regime. Even at that time, people
realized fully well that the persecution of Falun Gong was being extended from
Mainland China to Hong Kong, and that Hong Kong's populace would also be
directly harmed. Consequently, 500,000 people of Hong Kong's populace partook in
the large anti-Article 23 parade on July 1, 2002. This parade triggered the
death of the Article 23 legislation. In a society that is truly governed by law, the government will not interfere
with people's freedom of belief, especially when they believe in the principles
"Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance." Using the excuse of "security reasons," the Hong Kong government
refused to provide the immigration watch list containing Falun Gong
practitioners' names. Yet it cannot escape the "human rights
violation" and "discrimination based on belief" charges, nor can
it hide that the CCP controls the Hong Kong government. It can no longer keep
secret that the long arm of the persecution of Falun Gong has reached into Hong
Kong. Moreover, people will know that the Hong Kong government helped the CCP in
its persecution of Falun Gong. This is truly foolish. In fact, the Hong Kong government has to some extent been supportive of Falun
Gong. In 2001, when the persecution of Falun Gong by Jiang's regime was at its
height, the Hong Kong's government approved the practitioners' application to
use government property for a large-scale experience sharing conference. During
the conference, no practitioner was interfered with or harassed by the Hong Kong
government. Today, the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong is nearing its end. Not only
people overseas, but also many people from within China have come to know the
goodness of Falun Dafa and the evilness of the CCP. In particular, after
publication of the book Nine Commentaries on Communist Party, people have
woken up and become aware of the CCP's evil nature. They also now understand the
harm the persecution did to Falun Gong. Thus, many people publicly withdrew from
the CCP and all associated organizations. Countless people have broken away from
the evil and become clear-headed and rational. The evil is being annihilated. The Hong Kong government should become
rational, regain its conscience and duty to dispense justice fairly. Such
criteria are the fundamentals for judging right from wrong. If the Hong Kong
government can truly resist the evil's pressure and protect Hong Kong's free
environment, allowing practitioners to practice Falun Gong, it will have
returned to true rationality and shown that it protects the rights of Hong
Kong's populace. 09/26/2005
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