When Our Lives Are Endangered, We Have the Right to Defend Ourselves By an American practitioner (Clearwisdom.net) The Jiang regime's fabricating charges against Charles Li
is a great opportunity for us to clarify more clearly why Falun Gong
practitioners in China interrupt TV broadcasts with messages of the truth. The
charges against Charles are fabricated. More importantly, clarifying the truth
on the airwaves is truly a righteous act.
1. In the United States, the Fourth Amendment guarantees the right to privacy
in our homes, among other places. If a band of criminals broke down our doors and began to torture and
kill people, would we not believe we have the right to stop such
behavior? Of course we would. In fact the law even permits one to act in
self-defense.
2. When the terrorist attacks of September 11 occurred, Americans felt
invaded and ever since have created new laws, new policies and perhaps even a
war to protect themselves in their own country -- in their homes (also known as
"homeland security"). The Fourth Amendment and right to security in one's home
is sacred. Americans obviously do believe we should and must protect that sacred
flame.
3. What if the Ku Klux Klan took over America and spouted hate propaganda
against African Americans, Catholics and Jews, every single day inspiring the
hateful and brutal murder of all of us? We would stop the propaganda because of
its brutal and murderous effects. How is stopping that propaganda different from
Falun Gong's interruption of the state-controlled propaganda broadcast in China?
Isn't it a way to tell the truth about Falun Gong and thus stop the mass
murders?
4. We need to explain that in China, one cannot deploy the law to stop the
genocide. One is arrested for peaceful appeals, for legal appeals, for speaking
to the media, and so on. The police invade homes and
kill husbands and wives. If its clear that the state owned media and its
propaganda network is the cause of these acts - no one could torture Falun Gong
without believing we are bad -
then of course a non violent interruption of the airwaves is a noble way
indeed to stop what no man would otherwise countenance.
We need to genuinely clarify the truth in this aspect. The above are just
some ideas.
Posting date: 3/4/2003 |