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"Lies Don't Travel Far:" The CCP Continues Its Attempts to Interfere with the Divine Performing Arts in Germany
(Clearwisdom.net) There is a proverb in Germany that says, "Lies
don't travel far" (Lugen haben kurze Beine). This sentence describes the
ugly tactics of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) which continues to spread lies
in Germany and many other countries. The CCP regards the global tour of the
Divine Performing Arts as a thorn in its side, thus, no effort is spared to try
to interfere and damage the company's reputation in every country. However, its
underhanded tactics are exposed every time. On December 18, 2007, New York Assemblyman Michael Benjamin made public to The
Epoch Times a letter he received from the Chinese Consulate General in New
York, which threatened him, saying that if he went to see Holiday Wonders
performed by the Divine Performing Arts, "Chinese and American
relations" would be affected. The Assemblyman didn't buy into the Communist
agenda. He said, "The CCP [Chinese Communist Party] insists to the world
that there is only one China. They seek to drown out alternative voices. They
fear that the world will learn the truth of their 'Animal Farm' regime." Cultural departments in the Swedish cities of Stockholm, the capital, and
Linkoping also received threatening letters from the CCP. They were notified
that the Divine Performing Arts had a Falun Gong background, and if the
performance was not canceled, the relationship between their two countries would
be affected. This ploy had the opposite effect from what was intended. Swedish
officials considered it blasphemous to Sweden's democracy and freedom, and they
asked China to issue an apology and an explanation. Local, national, and
international media all reported on this incident, and people lined up to
purchase tickets to see the show. Once again, the CCP has shot itself in the
foot. The Divine Performing Arts Chinese Spectacular appeared in Duisburg,
Germany, on February 13 and 14, 2008, their first stop in Europe this year. The
CCP regarded this as a critical situation. Earlier this year, a CCP official in
Bonn saw flyers about the Spectacular in a Chinese restaurant and
shouted: "This is Falun Gong, Falun Gong is our 'enemy'..."
Afterwards, one of the organizers of the Spectacular in Duisburg
disclosed that the CCP made an attempt to stop the show; however, it went
forward as planned. Discerning people understand at a glance that the CCP already has exhausted
its repertoire of clumsy tricks in Germany. In May 2007, the media reported that
a hacker from the CCP military invaded the computer system of the German
Chancellor's Department. After German Chancellor Angela Merkel met the Dalai
Lama in her office in September of last year, the CCP retaliated by canceling a
meeting with a German high level official. They also attempted to pressure Mrs.
Merkel to apologize for the meeting, but she adamantly refused. Her actions were
praised by the German media. There were many reports filed in Germany on the CCP's violations of their
human rights. On January 24, 2008, four reporters from the German Channel 1
visited Yuan Weijing, the wife of blind human rights activist Chen Guangcheng in
Shandong. They were violently driven away by police, and the German media were
in an uproar. In April 2007, the influential papers Die Welt and Frankfurter
Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) interviewed former Canadian Secretary of State
(Asia-Pacific) David Kilgour and renowned international human rights lawyer
David Matas. These two gentlemen were invited to Germany to talk about their
independent report about organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners in
China. The evil nature of the CCP remains unchanged and those in charge won't stop
their efforts because of this. They continue to put pressure on the Chinese
people in Germany, especially Chinese international students. The Party attempts
to stop them from seeing the show through bribes, threats, and payments. One lady told her friend that practices Falun Gong that she wanted to see the
Spectacular and judge for herself whether it is good or bad. Her son also
wanted to go. The father was originally against it, but now he wants to see it,
too. Another overseas Chinese said, "What is wrong with displaying
excellent traditional culture, such as that of Yue Fei, who was totally
dedicated to his country, and Mu Lan, who joined the army for her father?"
After another person, who is often the target of the Chinese Embassy's
"united front," learned the facts about Falun Gong, he was very
surprised and said he, too, wanted to see the performance. Lies don't travel far. I sincerely advise the embassy personnel, who work
themselves to death for the CCP, to stop doing the wrong thing, stop slandering
the performance, and stop persecuting Falun Gong.
Posting date: 2/20/2008 |