(Clearwisdom.net) The Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party by The Epoch Times has resulted in a movement of quitting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) and its related organizations. Recently the CCP has intensified its persecution of Falun Gong practitioners and other righteous citizens who print, distribute the Nine Commentaries and promote quitting the CCP. However, since June of this year, the number of withdrawals has been increasing rapidly. By September 30 of this year, the total number of withdrawals from the CCP and its related organizations exceeded 14 million.
The CCP Has Run Out of Tactics and Cannot Turn the Tide
In recent years, to deal with various crisis situations, the CCP adopted a number of policies. These so-called "loosening up externally but tightening up internally" policies include not reporting or denying the Nine Commentaries and the Three Withdrawals Movement (withdrawing from the CCP, the Youth League and the Young Pioneers) inside China, while outside China, it uses the media controlled by it to defame and oppose the Nine Commentaries and the Three Withdrawals Movement. At the same time, the CCP intensifies its persecution of Falun Gong practitioners and righteous people who print and distribute the Nine Commentaries and promote the Three Withdrawal Movement. It also persecutes people who withdrew using their real names. A report by the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong on June 21, 2006 has brought the recent policies by the CCP to the world's attention.
CCP's Secret Documents Indicate that the Nine Commentaries and The Three Withdrawals Are Spreading Widely in China
On January 24, 2005, the CCP-controlled Public Security Ministry launched a special campaign to suppress the distribution of the Nine Commentaries. This special campaign was named "special task 1•24." Then, similar task forces were formed at the provincial level.
Four days later, on January 28, the Public Security Bureau in Tianjin City issued a similar secret document, detailing how "special task 1•24" should be carried out.
In its official document (No. [2005]22) entitled "Notification about How to Enforce Task 1•24 Well," the Public Security Bureau in Tianjin City ordered that whenever incidences of distributing and promoting the Nine Commentaries were discovered, they were to be dealt with swiftly, and the materials are to be confiscated and kept as evidence. If the promotion was done via telephone, the receiver should find out the gender and the accent of the caller, as well as how the call was made, the content and the telephone number of the caller, etc. If the Nine Commentaries was sent via fax, it must be confiscated at once, and the sender's number should be recorded if it was captured. If the Nine Commentaries was sent via mail, the envelopes and original letters should be kept intact. The receiver should also find out the identity of the sender through the postmark, address and the content of the letter. When being involved with this special task, as soon as any clue is discovered regarding the production and distribution of the Nine Commentaries, the relevant person should immediately report to the Public Security Bureau. At the same time they should do everything they can to find out the origin, producer, distribution channels, scale and quantity. Secret task forces should collect the inside and deeply-hidden information regarding how the local Falun Gong people are downloading, producing and distributing the Nine Commentaries. Every unit should report to the anti-cult sector of the Public Security Bureau before 12:00 p.m. on every Friday about the progress of the special task force.
On June 30, 2005, Liu Jing, deputy minister of Public Security Ministry and director of the central 610 Office, gave a lengthy internal speech about the impact of the Nine Commentaries and the Three Withdrawals, as well as the CCP's policies of how to deal with the impact.
The CCP's suppression of the Nine Commentaries can also be gleaned from official documents at various levels. On November 25, 2005, the finance bureau in Xixiu District, Anshun City, Guizhou Province stated in an official document (No. [2005]6) that "the policy of maintaining stability must be carried out." In the document, it was mentioned that the Nine Commentaries were being widely distributed.
The report on the 2006 annual politics and law conference of Ningguo City, Anhui Province emphasized that the Nine Commentaries and the Three Withdrawals had become a potential threat to the CCP regime. It promoted as the most important task of 2006 to "strike against the production and distribution of the Nine Commentaries."
In April 2005, Xiao Zhigang, party secretary of the Xixiangtang District, Nanning City, admitted in his speech at the Social Stability and Safety of Workplace Conference that due to overseas influence of the Nine Commentaries and the Three Withdrawals, "the local activities of distributing, posting and painting the Nine Commentaries-related flyers and slogans, as well as sending the Nine Commentaries via fax machine or telephone calls have sharply increased."
Threats and Brutality Cannot Obstruct the Three Withdrawals
According to a report by the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong, the "Anti-Cult Department" of the Public Security Bureau in Tianjin City issued a notification on January 12, 2005, entitled "Notice about checking and identifying people who accessed the overseas Falun Gong website containing information about the withdrawal from the party and youth league" (No [2005]2, confidential). This notification details and rules how people who had published their withdrawal announcement should be monitored and investigated.
For example, it was ordered that the "Three Withdrawals" website should be monitored around the clock. All announcements made from Tianjin City should be singled out and then the data should be matched against the "database of Falun Gong activities" and the "Census Paper of Regular Residents in Tianjin City." The matched names should be sent to the relevant sub-bureaus of the public security and the state security departments. The "Anti-cult Department" of the Public Security Bureau was to collect and gather all the information, and then send it to the No. 26 Bureau of the Public Security Ministry and the 610 Office under the Communist Party Committee in Tianjin City.
The notification clearly stated that all this was required by the No. 26 Bureau of the Public Security Ministry. This shows that as early as less than two months after the publication of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party by The Epoch Times, the Public Security Ministry of China started systematically identifying and persecuting Chinese people who withdrew from the party or the youth league.
The Nine Commentaries and the Three Withdrawals Have Become the Priority of the CCP's Strike-Hard Campaign
On July 20, 2005, copies of the Nine Commentaries were found in Zhalantun in Helunbeier City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. This incident was named "Case 7·20" and reported upwards, right to the top level of the Public Security Ministry. It was also listed as a big case and of primary importance, which put it under the direct supervision of the Ministry.
Ge Yong, general director of the Anti-Cult Department of the Public Security Bureau of Inner Mongolia, was sent to the site to supervise the investigation, with the Public Security Bureau supporting him in terms of information and manpower. On March 27, 2006, 168 police officers and more than 80 police cars were involved in the task. Forty Falun Gong practitioners in Zhalatun City and Anrong County were arrested. More than 100,000 copies of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, The Real Story of Jiang Zemin and booklets of the Three Withdrawals Movement were confiscated. Later, dozens of Falun Gong practitioners in Qiqihaer City, Heilongjiang Province were also arrested through inter-province cooperation by the police.
In January 2006, the Politics and Law Committee under the Party Committee of Haerbin City, reported in its newsletter that Nangang District of the city had set "preventing and striking the production and distribution of the Nine Commentaries" as its number one priority.
In his article on April 17, 2006, entitled "Pushing Forward and Safeguarding the Development of Pingan and Hefei," Zhang Xiaolin, Party secretary of the Politics and Law Committee of Hefei City, mentioned that production and distribution of the Nine Commentaries through the Internet must be punished severely. Additionally, if the materials were already distributed, they must be traced back and confiscated.
On May 9, 2006, when addressing the Politics and Law Conference of Houqiu County, Jiao Yongle, Party Secretary of the Politics and Law Committee of Huoqiu County, Liuan City in Anhui Province, set as a priority to fight against the Nine Commentaries. On August 2, 2006, the propaganda department of Tianchang City in Anhui Province also set the fight against the Nine Commentaries as its priority. As long as the Nine Commentaries was involved, investigation must be conducted immediately.
Similarly, priority was set for the 2006 politics and law tasks of Guangde County, Xuancheng City in Anhui Province, whilst the annual work summary of the Order and Stability Maintenance Office also touched upon the "special task 1·24."
Long-term Imprisonment to Suppress Free Speech
On June 13, 2005, the state security brigade of the public security sub-bureau of Shuangqing area in Shaoyang City, Hunan Province illegally arrested three Falun Gong practitioners, Huang Duzhen, Luo Qiuying and Guo Mingqing, when they were distributing and posting flyers. Three hundred copies of materials, including the Nine Commentaries, were found in their homes. The public security bureau planned to sue, charging them with possession of these materials.
In the so-called "Case 115," during one year's time, the public security sub-bureau of Wuling District, together with the anti-pornography office of Changde City in Hunan province, confiscated more than 3,000 copies of six kinds of different publications, including the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, The Real Story of Jiang Zemin, more than 10,000 copies of Minghui Weekly, more than 1,000 copies of VCD, eight copy and print machines, etc. More than forty people were arrested, and twenty five were charged under the criminal code.
In November 2005, Falun Gong practitioner Tan Xiuxia from Shizuishang City in Ningxia Province was sentenced to four years by the local court in Dawukou District in Shizuishang City for distributing flyers and VCDs of the Nine Commentaries at the Bahua Market in Dawukou District and Zhengtong area.
All the above cases were only those reported on by the CCP official websites. The actual cases are likely far more numerous than these. The Clearwisdom website has collected the cases of Falun Gong practitioners being sentenced for distributing the Nine Commentaries, while the Global Service Center for Quitting the CCP has collected many cases about ordinary citizens being sentenced to imprisonment for distributing the Nine Commentaries or being suspected of having been involved in the writing of the Nine Commentaries.
People's Heart Cannot be Silenced - the CCP is Collapsing
However, the brutal suppression and wicked laws of the CCP cannot subdue the massive wave of the quitting the CCP movement. The Nine Commentaries continue to spread very quickly in Chinese society. People have started posting their statements of withdrawal from the party in public places. Words such as "Please read the Nine Commentaries and quit the CCP" can be seen written or printed on paper money and are being widely spread.
Since June 2006, the number of people quitting the CCP and its related organizations has been increasing at an average speed of 115,000 persons per month. As of September 30, more than 14 million people have resigned from all CCP organizations.
