(Clearwisdom.net) With the 2008 Olympic Games around the corner, the world is focusing its attention on China. China is expected to prove to the world one way or another that it is carrying out its promise to improve Chinese citizens' human rights. But a series of recent incidents have flown in the face of such an optimistic expectation.
Lately, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has suddenly accelerated its suppression of Falun Gong. The CCP-controlled media has been silent concerning Falun Gong for some time, but in May 2007 the CCP media suddenly published a few anonymous articles slandering and smearing the image of Falun Gong's founder, Mr. Li Hongzhi. These articles relied on the typical formats used during the Cultural Revolution, such as "verbal struggle" and "great debates." These catch phrases are for criticizing the so-called "counter-revolutionaries," who are in fact dissidents, and justifying in the CCP's mind the suppression of these so-called "counter-revolutionaries." Based on a crude "analysis" of Mr. Li Hongzhi's poems, the CCP media claims him to be "politically ambitious." For people familiar with the CCP's "verbal struggle" and "great debates" tactic, this smear campaign may seem trite, but it shows that the CCP media are still following orders to suppress Falun Gong.
Another attack on Falun Gong took place outside of China. On the afternoon of May 24, 2007, two men violently attacked a booth on the streets of Hong Kong in Tianxin Harbor. The booth was displaying important facts about Falun Gong and the CCP persecution of Falun Gong. According to a witness, two men approached. One held a bucket with red paint in his hands and the other held a hard object. As one man smashed an LCD monitor displaying a video program about Falun Gong, the other man splashed red paint across a table with brochures and flyers about Falun Gong. The Hong Kong police classified the attack as vandalism and put it in the category "criminal."
In China, Zhou Yongkang, a member of the Political Bureau, the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, and secretary of the Sichuan Provincial Party Committee, ordered an acceleration of the suppression of Falun Gong nationwide in March 2007. Between March and May 2007, the Chinese police raided Changchun City in Jilin Province, Daqing City and Benxi in Liaoning Province, Shijiazhuang in Hebei Province, and Yantai City in Shandong Province and arrested a large number of practitioners, without legal justification.
It is important to note that none of the arrested practitioners had committed any crimes. The Chinese police arrested them merely because of the CCP internal directive that was issued by Zhou Yongkang. The police failed to show any legal documents or warrants at the times of the arrests. Some officers did not even display police decals on their cars. Instead of calling them "law-enforcement officers," it may be more appropriate to call them by their rightful name--bandits. The practitioners arrested in these raids included elderly folks in their 80s, pregnant women, and even children. (Mr. and Mrs. Yu Haiyong and their child were illegally arrested without a warrant. The child was arrested at school. Their current whereabouts are unknown.) The police even took the opportunity to steal money and valuables from practitioners' homes.
A likely explanation is that the CCP slipped up in maintaining its facade for the Olympic Games. The CCP may be realizing that it is loosing its grip on the country and it is making one last attempt to survive.
The CCP has illegally arrested practitioners in China and there is the possibility that they are behind the vandalizing of practitioners' truth-clarification booth in Hong Kong. The CCP is afraid of practitioners spreading the truth about Falun Gong, the persecution of Falun Gong, and the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party. The CCP is afraid that people will learn that over 22 million Chinese have already announced on The Epoch Times website their withdrawal from the CCP and its affiliated organizations. It is afraid that people will learn that the CCP has been brutally persecuting practitioners since 1999 and has even harvested organs from living practitioners for profit.
These is a widely known ancient Chinese proverb, "It is more difficult to prevent people from speaking out than to prevent a river from flowing." The CCP has slaughtered 80 million Chinese people during its rule, destroyed 5,000 years of traditional Chinese culture, ruined Chinese society's moral values, sabotaged the natural ecosystem, and suppressed all orthodox religions and faiths. The CCP is afraid that Chinese people might find out about its long list of its crimes. It comes as no surprise that the CCP would rather risk loosing its image than keeping its promise to improve human rights in China before the 2008 Olympic Games. Reinforcing its persecution of Falun Gong and people supporting Falun Gong, such as Mr. Gao Zhisheng, may be a sign that the CCP doubts that it will survive until the Olympic Games.
Let's think about it. Will those people who have announced their withdrawals from the CCP and its affiliated organizations re-join the CCP, the Youth League, or the Young Pioneers because the CCP is toughening its suppression of Falun Gong? What will the international community say when the CCP is openly violating Falun Gong practitioners' human rights instead of improving human rights? Will those people who have seen through the CCP be willing to fall prey to the its lies again just because it is rampantly persecuting Falun Gong practitioners and its supporters? Will those people who don't have a clear understanding of the CCP think of it as "great, glorious, and correct?"
The answer for all the above is most likely a resounding "NO!" After eight years of cruel persecution, Falun Gong practitioners will not be intimated by Zhou Yongkang's order. As cultivators of Buddha Fa, Falun Gong practitioners are supposed to let go of everything in the human realm. It is not their goal to accelerate the CCP's collapse. Their goal is to save people from the CCP's poisonous lies so that they will not share the same doom as the CCP.
The CCP is losing its sanity during its final days. Its madness will only allow more people to see through its nature and accelerate the speed of the collapse. It is fulfilling an ancient saying, "When Heaven decides to eliminate someone, it will make him lose his mind first."
