By Yuan Hongbing
Clearwisdom editor's note: Mr. Yuan Hongbin is a law expert from China, who currently resides in Australia. The Epoch Times Re-enactment
of torture methods used by the CCP on Falun Gong
practitioners.Outside of NSW Supreme Court where a civil
case against Jiang Zemin alleging genocide is taking
place.
Some of the world's intellectuals who regard themselves as aloof from worldly
affairs, remain silent about the Chinese Communist Party's persecution of
Falun Gong. " don't get involved in politics" and "We are impartial to the
politics of the Chinese Communist Party and Falun Gong" are their favorite
phrases when defending their silence.
Not long ago, the Chinese Embassy in Australia issued a statement that
criticized the "Nine Commentaries on the Chinese Communist Party" as an "anti-Chinese
article" and Falun Gong as a "reactionary anti-Chinese political group." This
is an insult to truth.
From the "politics in command" of the Mao Zedong era to the "stressing
politics" of Jiang Zemin's era, the CCP has been telling the country that
politics is the venue only of the CCP.
It makes clear that Chinese civilians, including Falun Gong practitioners,
have all been deprived of the right to "be political," because only the party
has that right. It is their privilege, just as the party has reserved the legitimization of
cruelty and torture as its special privilege.
Since July 1999, Jiang and the CCP regime have utilized their political and
social resources and launched a bloody political persecution in an attempt to
exterminate the belief and practice of Falun Gong. Facing such vast political persecution, insult, arrest, torture, targeted
killing and evil propaganda, Falun Gong practitioners have tenaciously
persevered in their faith.
They have employed peaceful means to resist tyranny, and have become the
model of triumphant faith. They ceaselessly and tirelessly expose the evil to
the world and spread the seeds of freedom of belief across many countries.
In recent years, Falun Gong's manifestation and behavior have further
proven they are not only protecting their rights to freedom of belief, but
also supportive of other communities whose basic human rights are attacked by
tyranny.
The CCP criticizes Falun Gong practitioners' peaceful ways as "getting
political." Does that mean that turning a deaf ear and a blind eye to Jiang's
crimes should be called "not getting political"? Is silence in the face of the CCP propaganda machine's fabricated and evil
rumors "not getting political"?
This stems from the fact that -- from the past to the present -- Falun Gong
practitioners' ideology and practice have signified that they do not have any
interest in state power, and that they simply want to expose to the world the
CCP's tyranny.
They only strive for a place in society where they may hold freedom of belief.
The CCP's attack on Falun Gong has manifested in the political sphere. Falun
Gong's response comes in the political sphere, but it is free of political
goals.
When hearing those aloof intellectuals who prefer to remain on the
sidelines say things like, "We don't get involved in politics; between the CCP
and Falun Gong, we don't oppose or support anyone," I always feel a sense of
shame for the way morality has deteriorated.
This hypocracy exposes one's innermost feelings as being without spirit,
servile, selfish and devoid of courage in a just cause.
Therefore, I would like to offer words of advice to public figures in
intellectual circles who do not approve of or who oppose Falun Gong: Consider
the words of Voltaire, who said "Think for yourselves, and let others enjoy
the privilege to do so too," which has often been paraphrased as " may not
agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
The Chinese Embassy's statements that regard the "Nine Commentaries on the
Chinese Communist Party" as an "anti-Chinese article" and call Falun Gong an "anti-Chinese
organization" have shamelessly made the false conclusion that the CCP and the
Chinese nation are the same.
In fact, the truth of the matter is quite the opposite, considering the
miserable record of the CCP, its despoiling of China's resources (not the
least of which, include its people) and its horrid handling of the solemn
responsibility of leadership.
History and reality have convincingly proved: The CCP is China's shame and
is the most criminal regime in the entire history of the Chinese nation.
Bravely exposing the evil tyranny of the CCP is an expression of the
deepest and most sincere love for the Chinese people.
Chinese version: http://epochtimes.com/gb/5/2/27/n829046.htm
Torsten Blackwood/AFP PHOTO
In this political persecution that has known no bounds, the regime as directed
by Jiang has committed and continues to commit hideous crimes of genocide and
has spared no resource to crush freedom of belief to a degree that it is
comparable to the worst dictators in history.
Is allowing, through inaction, the CCP to continue its reckless trampling of
human rights "not getting political"?
Falun Gong is not a political organization, but a cultivation community, and
Falun Gong has never been political since its inception.
Chinese version available at
http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2005/2/28/96286.html