Will the CCP Succeed in Suppressing Falun Gong in the U.S. Through Lawfare?

(Minghui.org) A quarter century into its persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) took another step in extending the persecution overseas by instigating a former student to file a lawsuit against Shen Yun Performing Arts and Fei Tian College.

Those familiar with the threats, harassment, and intimidation that CCP agents have levied against Shen Yun see the lawsuit as a new effort to silence the company. Having failed to force Falun Gong practitioners in China to renounce their faith through violence and propaganda, the CCP is now weaponizing the legal system in the U.S. to carry out its goals.

Ironically, the CCP has long disregarded the law when detaining and torturing Falun Gong practitioners for their faith and retaliating against those who expose the persecution. Many practitioners have been imprisoned for filing criminal complaints against former CCP leader Jiang Zemin. Judges in China have declared in court, “Don’t talk to me about the law when it comes to Falun Gong cases.”

Documents have shown that Chen Yixin, a member of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Committee and Minister of State Security, has launched a task force in North America to facilitate legal battles against Shen Yun and Falun Gong. This form of transnational repression is consistent with the CCP’s ultimate goal of dominating the world. It’s also an opportunity for the international community to recognize the CCP’s nature and a test of whether the expansion of communist ideology can be curbed before it is too late.

Illegality of the Persecution in China

Before the CCP formally started its campaign to eradicate Falun Gong in 1999, the Ministry of Public Security internally declared Falun Gong illegal and then fabricated evidence accordingly. When Jiang Zemin was questioned about the legal basis of the persecution during an October 1999 interview by the French newspaper Le Figaro, he claimed that Falun Gong was a “cult.” The Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of China followed Jiang’s directive closely and issued a “policy” several days later, but even that policy did not name Falun Gong because it would have violated the Chinese Constitution.

Nonetheless, CCP officials at all levels have carried out the persecution, sending a large number of practitioners to labor camps, brainwashing centers (euphemistically named “legal education centers”), psychiatric hospitals, and prisons. The brutality was accompanied by endless defamatory propaganda such as the staged “self-immolation” at Tiananmen Square. Having suffered greatly in detention, Falun Gong practitioners also found themselves destitute as they were fired by their employers (under pressure from the CCP) and deprived of their pensions.

A Test of America’s Founding Principles

The U.S. Constitution safeguards the American people’s pursuit of democracy, freedom, human rights, faith and other universal values. This framework is based on civic morality and honor, and it allows the United States of America to serve as the leading world power as designated by the divine.

While abusive litigation has increased over time, the American public retains confidence in the rule of law. Furthermore, divine beings watch over major issues concerning the future of the U.S. and mankind, and they would not allow those seeking to corrupt this system to succeed in the end. This will become clear in time, but at present, these legal battles serve as a test of faith and morality for each person who looks on.

A Lesson from Taoism

The Taishang Ganying Pian, also known as Lao Tzu’s Treatise on the Response of the Tao, is a well-known Taoist scripture on the relationships between cause and effect. It says in the Treatise,

“Fortune and misery do not happen at random and nor are they the result of chance; they are instead caused by the karmic actions of each individual. The rewards for a person’s virtue and good deeds as well as the consequences of evil deeds follow each like a shadow.”

The book discourages the act of instigating others to fight by bringing lawsuits and thus benefit oneself, as such impropriety would bring karmic retribution upon oneself. Bad deeds produce karma, and karma is the basis of retribution.

Those who choose to follow the CCP’s lead in persecuting Falun Gong practitioners will ultimately have to take responsibility for their actions.