The Epoch Times: Wave of Harassing Phone Calls Attributed to CCP
By John Nania
Feb 23, 2005 Lili Ma (L) describes the
consequences to her family and friends from CCP harassment tactics. Ma,
her husband, and daughter all received repeated pre-recorded calls
defaming Falun Gong. NEW YORK - Are repeated recorded phone messages filled with lies and hate
speech a terrorist tactic? Tuesday at the New York Press Club, Falun Gong practitioners made the case
that the wave of hundreds of calls are a tactic of what they called "the
biggest terrorist group in the world"- the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Beginning Feb. 6, repeated calls were made to hundreds of people in more than
20 countries in well-coordinated fashion. Friends who were together heard their
mobile phones ring simultaneously and, when they picked up, they heard identical
pre-recorded messages in Chinese or English. Speakers described unlisted numbers in the U.S. being bombarded with calls, a
feeling of invasion of privacy, disruption of business activities, and fear for
the safety of relatives who received calls in China. No group besides the CCP
has the ability or the motive to track down and call so many people so
systematically on such a topic, they said. The pre-recorded messages were all against the practice of Falun Gong. "My husband and daughter received calls, which disturbed us
greatly," said Lili Ma, a New York businesswoman forced to move from China
after Falun Gong began to be persecuted in 1999. Her friends in China were
invited in to have a "conversation" with Chinese national security
during the time that the calls were being made. Spokespersons later confirmed that a similar wave of calls began again on
Wednesday, Feb. 23, in at least Canada, France, Germany, and the U.S. At the New York Press Club,
Gail Rachlin of the Falun Dafa InfoCenter describes the CCP persecution of
Falun Gong and how an Associated Press article was used in harassing phone
calls. [...]
Hope Amidst Terror On the huge CCP campaign against Falun Gong, Rachlin said, "We have
documented over 35,000 cases of severe abuse and torture ... thousands are dead.
Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, languish in labor camps and detention
centers throughout China." "For the over 100 million people in China today who practice Falun Gong,
they are forced to choose between their deeply held spiritual beliefs, or the
state's system of brainwashing and torture." Lili Ma, whose expired passport wouldn't be renewed by Chinese authorities,
and who would be arrested if she tried to return to China, sounded a note of
hope and determination. "Intimidation and terror cannot move our belief a bit. On the contrary,
they will only make us try harder," Ma said. Many recipients of the terrorizing phone calls reported them to local police
and intelligence agencies, such as the FBI. The U.S. House of Representatives
took note of CCP activities against Falun Gong practitioners on U.S. soil in its
2004 concurrent resolution 304, which calls for reporting and investigation of
such activities.
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