|
A Practitioner's Father Resists the Persecution
(Clearwisdom.net) A Falun Gong practitioner from Shandong Province was
detained at the Wangcun Brainwashing Center in Zibo City. The officials forced
his father to accompany him. The father and son had to pay 100 yuan
a day for "living expenses," but they received only one or two
pancakes for each of their three meals every day, which was barely enough to
live on. The father went to talk to the appropriate officials to ask for
justice, but they responded by asking, "Why do you let your son practice
Falun Gong?" The old man angrily replied, "You are really bleeding
people dry! My son practices Falun Gong to be a good person, and nobody in the
village thinks he is bad. You, on the other hand, detain him and don't let him
be a good person. Would you rather see people committing murder and arson?" The official had nothing to say in response. The father's argument got the
attention of the center's director. He went to the father and said, "If you
don't want to stay here, you can go home." The old man said, "Go home?
I would worry! If you occasionally persecute my son while I am here, who knows
how badly you would torture him if I left? You guys have persecuted many Falun
Gong practitioners to death. If anything should happen to my son, who knows what
excuse you would make up? I will not go home unless he goes with me." The director was afraid that the father would rouse the family members of
other practitioners and felt he had no choice but to release them both. Father and son were detained at the Wangsun Brainwashing Center for a total
of 50 days and were forced to pay 5,000 yuan. The practitioner's detention took place during the busy farming season. His
family had two acres of wheat that needed sowing. If this were delayed, it would
adversely affect the yield. But only his wife was at home, and she was not able
to do this much heavy work, so 13 practitioners from the surrounding area came
to help. They brought their own lunches and worked very hard for an entire day
to sow the two acres. When the villagers saw this, they were all astonished and
praised the practitioners, saying, "Falun Gong practitioners are really
good people!" In this way, the practitioners clarified the truth by their
actions. They made people realize that the propaganda on TV and in the
newspapers was all made up and that Falun Gong practitioners are kind people. While the practitioner and his father were held at the brainwashing center,
practitioners from the surrounding area sent forth righteous thoughts every
night at 8:00 and 9:00 p.m. The detained practitioner, for his part, resisted
the persecution with righteous actions and an upright mind, practicing the Falun
Gong exercises and sent forth righteous thoughts every day. Eventually he and
his father walked out of the brainwashing center openly and righteously. |