(Clearwisdom.net) I am Falun Gong practitioner. My name is Wang Li. I heard that you had recently gone to my home twice and demanded that I write a guarantee statement. I would like to talk to you from the bottom of my heart.

I started to practice Falun Gong in 1997, at a time when many people around the country practiced Falun Gong. Many positive stories about this practice were reported on TV and in the newspaper. I conduct myself according to the principles contained in "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance" that the founder, Master Li Hongzhi, taught us. I follow Master's teachings - to always conduct ourselves altruistically and look inward each time when encountering any conflicts. I treat my parents-in-law well, as if they were my own parents. My mother-in-law's family then had financial troubles. I took the money my mother gave me to help my mother-in-law's family. I always tried to wash my mother-in-law's laundry. My mother-in-law treated me well, too. We were like mother and daughter. All our neighbors knew I was a loyal daughter-in-law who practiced Falun Gong and admired her parents-in-law.

However, the CCP started the persecution of Falun Gong in July 1999. I thought it was because the government officials did not know the truth about Falun Gong. Since I benefited from Falun Gong practice, I would like to explain the practice and the persecution with my own experiences. I went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, but the appeals offices had become places to arrest people without any reasons.

I was 23 years old in 1999. My daughter was not even a year old and was not weaned yet. I remember the scene. My daughter was outside of the window and grabbed the cage's wire netting where I was held with her small hands and looked at me wistfully. She cried, her nose running and kept calling, "Mom, Mom..." Everyone there shed tears. How could she, so young, understand why her mom was detained in a cage and unable to go home? She wanted me to hug her, but the wire netting separated us.

I was a wife and a mother. I should do my duties as a wife, a mother and also as a daughter, to take care of my husband, my child and my parents-in-law. However, I was locked up at a detention center. I kept thinking, "Am I wrong to cultivate Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance? Is it wrong to appeal to higher authorities according to the law?" The answer was negative. Then what was it that made my family suffer all this?

When I was incarcerated at the forced labor camp my daughter was the most pitiable. She missed mom and kept crying. My mother-in-law had to carry her on her back and walk around outside. It was in winter. The skin on my daughter's face cracked because of the freezing weather. Only after the walk could my mother-in-law hold my daughter and let her fall asleep at night.

My mother-in-law had to endure all kinds of pressure from relatives and neighbors. They were under threat from the CCP's despotic powers; no one dared to condemn Jiang and the CCP. But, they also didn't want to see my family suffering. Their rational thinking processes were confused and they hoped I could give up the Falun Gong principles I was determined to abide by. Therefore, adhering to my belief was regarded as "asking for trouble." My mother-in-law was regarded as "spoiling her daughter-in-law." When the CCP planted terror deep into people's minds, the people's thought processes became extremely odd.

People began a campaign to influence my husband, feigning concern for him and my mother-in-law. These people confused right and wrong. Certain individuals even urged my husband to divorce me and introduced him to another possible second wife. My mother-in-law declined those misguided suggestions. She took care of my daughter, did housework and also worked on the farm field. My husband did heavy labor to earn a living, to provide for the family and to repay a debt of 7,000 yuan fine 10 years ago, which is a huge number for people living in countryside. It was really cruel for a young man who was only 25 years old and only married for two years. However, he was afraid to cry because it would make my mother-in-law suffer more.

Whenever I thought of their suffering I felt really bad. I truly cared for them, and experienced the most abject mental pain during my detention. My family suffered unbearable anguish. They expected it would end after my one-year labor term had expired and I would be released. Then came the blow - the officials extended my term by three more months, without reason.

I was eventually released. We thought the cloud had had finally passed and happiness would come. I prepared good food for the family each day and took over all the farm fieldwork. I had planted many tomatoes and took good care of them. I also took care of the apple trees and often carried water over a steep hill to water the trees. People who saw me working at the field then praised me for being so capable. No one knew what I was truly thinking how "The CCP had brought so much harm to my family. I hope my family lives better because of my effort."

I never expected such a simple and peaceful life would be so short-lived. One day, former Xidianzhi Police Station head Meng Xianjun rushed into my home and demanded I write the "guarantee statement." They searched my home, unlawfully and without documentation. When I questioned their illegal action they beat me and said, "We can use any method we want. It will be no use for you to complain, even if you bring your case all the way to the top state leader." They handcuffed me on the back and held my hair, to force me to get into their vehicle. My neighbors saw the scene. My daughter chased after the car and kept calling, "Mom, Mom..." I still feel anguish when recalling the incident.

I was sent to a forced labor camp again with the charge "disturbing social order." How could I "disturb the social order" when I was merely taking care of my family and the farm field? I suffered from inhuman mistreatment at the forced labor camp for one and a-half years. Because I exposed their criminal conduct in writing, I was later on sentenced to three years in prison, and held in the Dabei Prison. This time my incarceration spanned five years - in the forced labor camp and then in the prison.

I suffered injustice and spent the best years for a woman, between the ages of 23 and 31, in gloomy, dismal detention places. I suffered inhuman physical tortures physically and mental torment. Missing my child, my husband and my parents, I was close to a mental breakdown.

I would have become already lost my mind had it not been for my solid dedication to Falun Dafa! Were it not for the principles of "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance," my mind would have been filled with such hatred it could have destroyed me. I understood, although the perpetrators had harmed my family and me, they were indeed victims, too. We merely suffered temporarily. But, they were unknowingly doing stupid things to destroy their own future. The CCP seduced them with promises of recognition and economic interests and manipulated them to persecute kind people, which made them oppose the Law of the Universe.

I do not hate them! I felt pity for them. I hope I might have opportunities to explain the persecution facts to those who had harmed us, so that they may have a good future once knowing the truth.

My husband waited for me all these years. There was a time when I refused to see my husband when he came to visit me in prison and had hoped he could forget me and start a new life, which would make him suffer less. However, my husband kept visiting me regularly. I was touched by his kindness and righteousness and also gradually understood the principles of being human. Gods left such a principle in the human world: when any one of a couple suffers tribulation, the other should not yield to difficulties, power and might, and no matter when faced tyranny should abide by the original commitment. Therefore, I then no longer refused to meet him. We have been married for ten years, but have spent only a little over three years together

Most practitioners during the eight years of persecution have become more steadfast in their belief and more mature. More and more people started to practice Falun Gong, which is now practiced in more than 80 countries. These facts are enough to arouse people to think of these developments the past eight years. No one wants to lose freedom and spend long days and nights behind bars. No one wants to be tortured, verbally abused, deprived of sleep, forbidden to see their family members, suffering electric shocks, and so on. No one wants to feel the mental anguish of missing family members. Who wants to live such an inhuman life? Are those practitioners stupid? No, we merely wish to offer more people salvation and prevent them from becoming victims of the CCP.

It is not easy to become a human being, living in this world. "Heaven is up; earth is down; the middle is the conscience." During the eight years of cruel persecution, Falun Gong practitioners hold serenely onto their belief in "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance," with reason and a strong will, and put these principles into practice in their lives.

During these eight years the murder of 3,086 practitioners at the hands of the CCP are confirmed; countless practitioners' families were broken up, and countless other family members died as a result of the persecution.

Don't say you are powerless; don't say you have no alternative; and don't say you will do what the CCP demands. If I were your relative, would you still do these atrocities? Officials and police who persecute good people in any political movement under orders from rulers would suffer punishment from heaven and from human law. What they abandon is not only their future but they also have to answer to the world for the bad name they have given themselves.

Today's moral standards are slipping daily; corruption is the order of the day, and is in vogue. Common people live miserably. People are boiling with resentment. Society everywhere is degenerated.

The CCP has killed 80 million people in its successively politic movements. Those who cultivate according to "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance" are detained, sent to a forced labor camp or prison, tortured and even murdered. These are all against the principles of heaven; the heavens will send intervention. An old saying goes, "Those who win popularity win the world; those who lose popularity lose the world." Where would one end up if he is against heaven and people? How can the heavens let such a Party exist that harms kind people and does nothing but heap disaster on common people?

More than 26 million people have by now quit membership in the CCP. It is a sign of the change in the heavens that manifests in the human world.

At this critical moment, when Dafa is widespread and practitioners are trying to offer more sentient beings salvation according to the designs of the heavens, everyone, intentionally or not, chooses his own future. People say, "There are always ways to deal with those policies from upper authorities." There might be 100 ways to handle something. The key is what you think and want. the law of the universe, Buddha Law, measures people's mindsets. It is impossible for one to persecute Buddha Law and at the same time ask for forgiveness. Treating the practitioners of Falun Gong with kindness will bring good fortune and great virtue; mistreating them will amount to countless sins. We often heard old people say that this person survived a disaster and was promoted to a high social position for having accumulated virtue in previous lives. In fact, it is the heaven's principle that "Good is rewarded with good and evil meets with evil." When the right timing comes, rewards come. Life is precious. Do not destroy your future because of your momentary wrong mindset.

In the past years, the persecution of Falun Gong and Falun Gong practitioners has led to too many incidents of tribulation for the perpetrators. You might already have heard of some of these. These are true stories. I truly hope, for your own sake, you think things over. Persecuting those who cultivate according to Buddha Law is not a mere trifle.

You asked me to write a "guarantee statement." What did you want me to guarantee? Guarantee not to be a good person? Guarantee not to cultivate according to "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance?" Guarantee not to tell people how to survive a future calamity?

Please, read some Falun Gong materials. Doing so is indeed for your sake. When the heavens eliminates the CCP, you will know why the Falun Gong practitioners try so hard. Treating the practitioners well means treating yourselves well. Cherish the opportunity! Make a choice - to treat the practitioners well is to choose your own golden future.