By Zhong Yan

(Clearwisdom.net) With the Olympics approaching, the Chinese Communist Party has elevated the scale of its own Party-sponsored terrorist-like acts in all regions of the country. The number of Falun Gong practitioners arrested has rapidly increased since the New Year. Vehicles entering Beijing are stopped and searched. Major traffic intersections have police presence established to check on people. They conduct body searches, bag searches, etc. The CCP is using the Olympics as an excuse to escalate human rights abuses on a broad scale.

The CCP is very nervous about the Olympics because it seeks international praise. The people in China have not yet seen the peaceful Olympic spirit however, but only witnessed the CCP's nervous tension and terrorist tactics to repress "dissidents." Recent news from Beijing confirms that a large number of Falun Gong practitioners are being secretly arrested in Beijing, and around the country.

At least 100 practitioners are confirmed to have been arrested in Beijing so far this year. An inside source revealed that the actual number was much more. In three days, January 23 to 25, 2008, more than forty Falun Gong practitioners were arrested. The police never explained why the practitioners were being arrested and took them to a labor camp to serve eight-month terms. In other words, they will be released right after the end of the Olympics. In addition to Falun Gong practitioners, disgruntled laborers, protesters and human rights activists of all kinds have also been arrested.

Many Falun Gong practitioners' homes have been ransacked. Practitioners' families are also mistreated. The police have ransacked practitioner-owned companies and factories as well, including for example, the Jinkui Decoration Painting Company. The police rounded up 28 employees and locked them into a room to be monitored, then ransacked every room in the company.

At midnight on February 26, 2008, 26 Hebei Province road inspection stations around Beijing resumed operation. All vehicles entering Beijing are searched. Drivers will have their IDS, possessions, even items in the trunk checked. Additionally, the police will check people's bags on Tiananmen Square and at each major intersections. They will even check vehicles on highways going out of Beijing. Each passenger going to Beijing by train will need paperwork allowing them to enter Beijing, as well as a ticket (this measure is usually used in the weeks leading up to major Party gatherings, but this time, it's for the eight months ahead of the Olympics). With all sorts of excuses, the police received more funding to use for persecution, harass Falun Gong practitioners, arrest practitioners' families, and directly mistreat them.

"Use terror to seize power and maintain power," such is the longstanding modus operandi of the CCP.

The Party is in crisis. The crisis is not just the unprecedented corruption, but the uncountable amount of material and spiritual wealth that eight years of persecuting Falun Gong have cost. The Chinese people are awakening to the truth. More than 33 million people have withdrawn from the CCP and its affiliated organizations.. This number increases by 30,000 to 50,000 each day, leaving the Party fearing for its own existence.

From the international world's point of view, the unprecedented crisis in China's leadership does not only include a bad record on food (or export) products, safety, environmental pollution, or ecological degradation (which are all on irreversible decline) but also the bloody human rights record. In July 2006, Canadian human rights lawyer David Matas and former Member of Parliament, who also served as Canada's Secretary of State for the Asia Pacific region, Mr. David Kilgour, compiled the "Report into Allegations of Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners in China," which reported that many practitioners are being detained or murdered for the sake of selling organs. To this day, more and more facts are proving it is still happening " Facing this accusation, the CCP has failed to provide any reasonable response.

Another example of what the CCP considers a crisis is NTDTV's Chinese New Year Spectacular touring the world. Spreading orthodox Chinese culture and virtue brings the show praise from all over the world, but it makes the CCP very uncomfortable. The CCP has tried many ways to shut the show down, but in the end, their misdirected efforts only led more people to see the show.

The CCP fears the truth and those who spread it. The truth exposes the CCP's true evil nature; the truth enables Chinese people to break free from the CCP's mental shackles and fear; the truth enables people to become free; the truth brings forces of justice together to resist evil; the truth enables people to distinguish right from wrong and to see hope in the battle between good and evil.

The truth has no shape or shadow, but it is powerful. The truth does not need violence or a fight, yet it can conquer better than a whole army. No matter how the evil Party uses its tricks, it can never block the spreading of the truth. Such is the power of truth.

March 11, 2008