From The Weekly Standard: Into Thin Airwaves (Excerpt)

(Clearwisdom.net)

The following is a brief excerpt of a much longer article by author Ethan Gutmann. It chronicles the heroic exploits of a small group of Falun Gong practitioners who intercepted cable TV signals in Changchun in 2002 to broadcast truth-clarification videos to the Chinese people over the government controlled airwaves. To access the complete article, please click the following link: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/into-thin-airwaves

...The Falun Gong broadcast had played on eight channels for 50 minutes, garnering an audience of over one million people, the ratings building as word spread, people calling each other, saying they should turn on their TV immediately. In some neighborhoods, local party officials grew desperate and cut the power, plunging streets into darkness. In others, such as those near Cultural Square, people spilled into the streets to celebrate. The ban is over! Falun Gong is rehabilitated! A few practitioners emerged from factories and hideouts, openly handing out literature. Neighbors, children, random strangers, even the old ladies with the red armbands approached them, everyone talking at once, bubbling over, laughing, slapping them playfully, congratulating them. A few suspected it had not been a government broadcast, but still they smiled broadly and whispered: How did you do it? You Falun Gong are so amazing! And it was almost beginning to seem as if they had been rehabilitated after all, and the euphoria and laughter did not cease, not even at 10 p.m., when the first practitioner got a phone call from a military friend saying they had orders to round up Falun Gong...