(Clearwisdom.net) We can say that in China, what one person says can lay down the law. For example, if I had complete power and control over the press, it would be quite easy for me to ruin your reputation, even though you are a good person. I could first throw you in jail, then create a lot of false evidence and witnesses. Then I would charge you with many crimes. I would make all TV and radio stations, newspapers, magazines and websites declare that you have committed such-and-such crimes. Plus, I wouldn't give you any chance to speak out. After doing this for a month, I am sure everyone would say that you are a bad person, because that is what's being said everywhere. Even people who know you quite well would also say, "Well, he isn't that bad, but there must be something wrong about him, otherwise others (the media) wouldn't have said all those things." Yet in fact, you haven't done anything wrong at all.
Why would others have such an impression about you? The reason is that they can hear only one voice. Why is it that they can hear only one voice? Because I don't allow you to speak out at all, and because I know I'm slandering you. If I give you a fair opportunity to speak, then the lies would immediately be exposed. I'm afraid of being discovered, so I won't give you any chance to speak.
This is just like Jiang Zemin's persecution of Falun Gong. Why does Jiang Zemin never allow any of the hundred million practitioners to speak out? If anyone dares to speak out, he or she would be thrown in jail, sent to forced labor or even tortured to death. How could you explain this other than Jiang Zemin has something to hide?
