By Qing Miao

(Clearwisdom.net) June 12 report: Xinhua News Agency recently published a social commentary accusing Falun Gong practitioners who allegedly "sent people out to approach the hospitals that treat SARS patients, got infected with the virus, and then carried and spread it throughout the nation." At the same time, though, the article accuses Falun Gong practitioners of boasting that "Falun Gong practitioners won't get infected with SARS," and, "people who practice Falun Gong have supernatural neurophil blood cells; their immunity will improve and they won't contract any diseases."

If Falun Gong practitioners believe that by practicing Falun Gong they "won't contract any diseases," why would practitioners "approach hospitals, get infected with the virus, and then carry and spread it throughout the nation?" How can people who are immune from all diseases contract any virus?

As a media agency, why doesn't Xinhua News Agency tell us exactly who made this suggestion of spreading the virus? Who proposed the idea of sending people "to accomplish this mission impossible"? Which hospital did he go into? Did he contract the virus after he got into the hospital? Did he spread the virus throughout the nation to cause the widespread epidemic? Of course, we know the spread of SARS is a fact, but it was not caused by people who "approached the hospital, got infected with the virus, and then carried and spread it throughout the nation." It was caused by people trusting in dictator Jiang group's lies in their cover-up of SARS, and it is they who unwittingly "got infected with the virus, and carried and spread it throughout the nation."

Xinhua News Agency is not a fiction-publishing outlet, and the journalists are not storytellers. For an important issue such as this, involving the virus, readers have the right to obtain answers to the aforementioned questions and they can conduct an independent investigation.

A while back, a New York Times reporter fabricated news and several editors-in-chief were forced to resign because of it. This report by Xinhua News Agency involves the physical safety of tens of thousands of practitioners of a spiritual belief system, for police in China can arrest any Falun Gong practitioner using this news report as an excuse and annihilate them as an "enemy of the class struggle."

We hope the author of this "commentary" can step forward and "comment" on the related facts before readers inside and outside of China, and let others "comment" on this incident. If not, the innovative thought of "get infected with the virus, and then carry and spread it throughout the nation" is copyrighted under Xinhua News Agency, and any duplication without permission is punishable by law.

Another note: I wrote an article entitled "Third Party Opinion: 'Killing is Saving' -- a Saying Copyrighted by the Xinhua News Agency." People who are interested can visit http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2002/9/7/26235.html. I will continue to write on the series "Copyrighted by the Xinhua News Agency."

Posting date: 6/15/2003
Original article date: 6/14/2003
Category: Truth Clarification
Translated on 6/13/2003
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2003/6/12/52080.html

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