By Ouyang Fei

(Clearwisdom.net) On one side, there is the "welcome" group waving red flags. On the other side there are Falun Gong practitioners holding up banners calling for an end to the persecution. This has now become a common scene for Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leaders visiting other countries. However, what is strange is that every time, some among the welcome group use the red flags to block the practitioners' banners and signs. Then between those who came to welcome and those who came to protest, there occur the following kinds of conversations:

"Has the CCP done anything wrong?"

"Of course"

"Should we let the CCP leaders know what they did wrong?"

"Of course we should."

"If the leaders hear the voice from the people and then can correct their mistakes, isn't it good for everyone?"

"That is true."

"Today the CCP leaders come here to visit. I come here to appeal for our Chinese people who are suffering from persecution but have no opportunity to speak up. I am here to express my opinions to the leaders. Is it all right?"

"That is very good."

"If you agree with me on appealing to the CCP leaders, then why are you trying to block my banners using your flags and preventing the leaders from seeing my message?"

In the hands of those who have the habit of inciting people to struggle against people, the welcome group is being manipulated like a piece in a chess game. Under the long-term propaganda of the CCP culture, those deceived people from the welcome group easily became muddle-headed and used by the CCP like a tool, without even knowing it. Although they are called the welcome group, they rarely get the chance to see the leaders who are supposed to be welcomed, since the CCP leaders usually take the side door or the back entrance next to the dumpsters. Since the welcome group cannot even see those to be welcomed, they really should not be called the "welcome group." The real purpose of the CCP is to use the so-called welcome group to block the protestors. What is even more evil is that the CCP directed the Chinese Consulate staff to follow their instructions to have the welcome group use their bodies and their flags to block the signs and banners of Falun Gong practitioners who are peacefully protesting.

The conservation between the two competing groups sometimes continues:

A welcome group member was gradually putting down the flag used to block the opponent, but he still tried to defend his behavior, "But what you are doing is making China look bad."

"I am appealing for your fellow countrymen. Then who will benefit? Your fellow countrymen will and the Chinese people will. I am calling on the leaders to improve human rights and not to persecute their own people. If China makes progress in human rights issues, then which country will be praised by the world? China will! Then whose interest am I protecting? It is China's interest that I am protecting. To restore the legal rights of those who practice Truth-Compassion-Tolerance and to elevate morality, who will be happy? The future generations of Chinese people will be the most happy. Then whose interest am I working for? I am working for the interest of the future of Chinese people. How can you say that I am making China look bad, if I am indeed working for the benefit of the Chinese people, for the interest of China and for the interest of the future generations of China? Furthermore, in the eyes of the Westerners, when they see there is someone who is standing up to challenge the dictators and striving for freedom of belief, it brings dignity to the Chinese people. If you do not believe me, you can go ask them. If you are so confused as to be used by the CCP to welcome the CCP dictators who have been persecuting our own people and therefore are cooperating with the CCP to suppress dissenting voices, then you are truly causing Chinese people to lose face."

The welcome group member no longer had anything to say, and finally began to think independently for himself.

Posting date: 12/20/2005
Original article date: 12/19/2005
Category: Open Forum
Translated on 11/22/2005
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2005/11/19/114829.html

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