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Practitioners Exchange Insights
The following is an excerpt from the article "Giving Truth Clarifying CDs to Long Distance Bus Passengers."
During the Spring Festival period, two Falun Dafa practitioners in a Southwestern city passed out truth clarifying CDs to passengers on the long distance buses. No one declined taking the materials. The buses went to their destinations carrying the truth of Dafa. The passengers waiting at the bus station saw this and took initiative to talk to the Dafa practitioners, who gladly clarified the truth to them. One passenger said, "Actually we all know but don't dare to speak out." Another passenger asked where the money for making the CDs comes from. When the practitioner told him with moist eyes, "It comes from many Dafa practitioners' scraping together every penny," this passenger's eyes filled up with tears as well.
The following is an excerpt from article "How I Escaped the Detention Center with Righteous Thoughts."
I am 54 years old, and I have been illegally detained three times. The last 130 days of detention was punishment for making truth-clarifying materials. I think that I should not be detained, since we have never violated the law and are innocent. I have written appeals to the detention center. I told them that it is illegal to arrest, detain, and sentence people who believe in "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance", and that they should release all detained Falun Dafa practitioners. We started hunger strikes to protest, and two days later they released me.
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I was arrested for going to Tiananmen Square to appeal, and I was sentenced to 3 years at the Panjin Labor Re-education Center. I was tortured with brutal beatings, not allowed to sleep, made to squat for long periods of time, and faced other forms of harassment. I was forced to write the "Three Statements" [Practitioners are coerced under brainwashing and torture to write these as proof that they have given up their belief. Created by the "610 Office," the three statements consist of a letter of repentance, a guarantee to never again practice Falun Gong, and a list of names and addresses of all family members, friends and acquaintances who are practitioners]. Later I was determined to make up for the damage and wash off the stain on my path of cultivation. Under Master's benevolent protection, I finally escaped the labor camp on December 20th, 2002 with righteous thoughts, and now I have been forced to leave home and go from place to place to avoid illegal arrest. I have rejoined the current of Fa-rectification.
I was removed from my position and given a pay cut for clarifying the truth in my work place in January 2000. In June of 2000, I was illegally detained in the Beijing Train Station because I went to appeal, and then I was sent to the Shijiazhuang Liaison Office in Beijing. I was tortured there with brutal beatings, hung up by the handcuffs, and not allowed to sleep. I witnessed 45 fellow practitioners being tortured by police. All of them were beaten, their faces covered with bruises. Some were tortured by being force-fed dirty water, made to sit on the Tiger Bench [practitioners are forced to sit on a small iron bench that is approximately 20 cm (6 inches) tall with their knees tied together. With their hands tied behind their backs or sometimes placed on their knees, they are forced to sit straight up and look straight ahead. They are not allowed to turn their heads, close their eyes, talk to anyone or move at all. Several inmates are assigned to watch over the practitioners and force them to remain motionless while sitting on the bench. Usually some hard objects are inserted underneath the practitioners' lower legs or ankles to make it harder for them to tolerate this abuse (see illustration on http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2001/11/24/16156.html)], and some were shocked with electric batons.
Reference Materials
The following is an excerpt from the article "The Chinese Macroscopic Economy is Scaring People into a Cold Sweat."
Data shows that the total supply in China exceeds the total demand, resulting in an extreme unbalance. The sum of personal income is very low in proportion to the GDP. The wild increase of total residential savings is an indication that corruption is accelerating, especially during the year 2002. This dirty money provides these immoral people with a resource for seeking pleasure in gambling and depraved acts. A society with open corruption cannot secure a peaceful existence for long.