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Dec 30, 2004 Presented
by EPOCH TIMES
(Updated: January 10, 2005)
Commentaries
on the Communist Party - Part 9
On
the Unscrupulous Nature of the Chinese Communist Party
This is the ninth of Nine Commentaries
on the Communist Party. Copied here in August 2011
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Police making arrest of Falun Gong practitioners
who peacefully appeal on the Tiananmen Square on May 11, 2000. (AFP/Getty
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The communist movement, which has made
a big fanfare for over a century, has brought mankind only war, poverty,
brutality, and dictatorship. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and
the Eastern European communist parties, this disastrous and outrageous
drama finally entered its last stage by the end of the last century. No
one, from the ordinary citizens to the General Secretary of the Communist
Party, believes in the myth of communism anymore.
The communist regime came into being
due to neither "divine mandate" [1] nor democratic election. Today, with
its ideology destroyed, the legitimacy of its reign is facing an unprecedented
challenge.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is
unwilling to leave the historical stage in accordance with the currents
of history. Instead, it is using the ruthless methods developed during
decades of political campaigns to renew its crazed struggle for legitimacy
and to revive its dead mandate.
The CCP's policies of reform and opening
up
disguise a desperate intention to maintain its group interest and totalitarian
rule. Despite tight restrictions, the economic achievements earned by the
hard work of the Chinese people in the past 20 years did not persuade the
CCP to put down its butcher knife. Instead, the CCP stole these achievements
and used them to validate its rule, making its consistently unprincipled
behavior more deceptive and misleading. What is most alarming is that the
CCP is going all out to destroy the moral foundation of the entire nation,
attempting to turn every Chinese citizen, to various degrees, into a schemer
in order to create an environment favorable for the CCP to "advance over
time."
In the historical moment today, it is
especially important for us to understand clearly why the CCP acts like
a band of scoundrels and to expose its villainous nature, so that the Chinese
nation can achieve lasting stability and peace, enter an era free of the
CCP as soon as possible, and construct a future of renewed national splendor. |
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I. The Unscrupulous
Nature of the CCP Has Never Changed |
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Who Is the CCP's Reform for?
Throughout history, whenever the CCP
encountered crises, it would demonstrate some traces of improvement, enticing
people to develop illusions about the CCP. Without exception, the illusions
were shattered time and again. Today, the CCP has pursued short-term benefits
and in doing so has produced a show of economic prosperity that has once
again persuaded the people to believe in fantasies about the CCP. However,
the fundamental conflicts between the interest of the CCP and that of the
nation and the people determine that this false prosperity will not last.
The "reform" the CCP has promised has one purpose – to maintain its rule.
It is a lame reform, a change in surface but not in substance. Underneath
the lopsided development lies a great social crisis. Once the crisis breaks
out, the nation and the people will suffer once again.
With the change of leadership, the new
generation of CCP leaders had no part in the Communist revolution, and
therefore has less and less prestige and credibility in managing the nation.
Amidst the crisis of its legitimacy, the CCP's protection of the Party's
interests has increasingly become the basic guarantee for maintaining the
interests of individuals within the CCP. The CCP's nature is selfish. It
knows no restraints. To hope such a party might devote itself to developing
the country peacefully is wishful thinking.
Consider what People's Daily
, the mouthpiece of the CCP, said in a front page story on July 12th, 2004:
"The historical dialectics have taught the CCP members the following: Those
things that should be changed must change, otherwise deterioration will
follow; those that should not be changed must remain unchanged, otherwise
it will lead to self-destruction."
What is it that should remain unchanged?
The People's Daily explains: "The Party's basic line of ‘one center,
two basic points' must last solidly for one hundred years without any vacillation."
[2]
People don't necessarily understand
what the "center" and "basic points" stand for, but everyone knows that
the communist specter's determination to maintain its collective interest
and dictatorship never changes. Communism has been defeated globally, and
is doomed to become more and more moribund. Nevertheless, the more corrupt
a thing becomes the more destructive it becomes during its dying struggle.
To discuss democratic improvements with the Communist Party is like asking
a tiger to change its skin.
What Would China Do Without the Communist
Party?
As the CCP is waning, people have come
to discover unexpectedly that for decades the evil specter of the CCP,
with its ever-changing villainous means, has instilled its vile elements
into every aspect of ordinary people's lives.
At the time of Mao Zedong's death, so
many Chinese cried bitterly before Mao's portrait, wondering, "How can
China continue without Chairman Mao?" Ironically, 20 years later, when
the Communist Party has lost its legitimacy to rule the country, the CCP
has spread a new round of propaganda, making people again wonder anxiously,
"What would China do without the Communist Party?"
In reality, the CCP's all-pervasive
political control has so deeply branded the current Chinese culture and
the Chinese mindsets that even the criteria with which the Chinese people
judge the CCP have the mark of the CCP, or have even come from the CCP.
If in the past, the CCP controlled people by instilling its elements into
them, then the CCP has now come to harvest what it sowed, since those things
instilled in people's minds have been digested and absorbed into their
very cells. People think according to the CCP's logic and put themselves
in the CCP's shoes in judging right and wrong. Regarding the CCP's killing
of student protesters on June 4, 1989, some people said, "If I were Deng
Xiaoping, I too would quell the protest with tanks." In the persecution
of Falun Gong, some people are saying, "If I were Jiang Zemin, I too would
eliminate Falun Gong." About the ban on free speech, some people are saying,
"If I were the CCP, I would do the same." Truth and conscience have vanished,
leaving only the CCP's logic. This has been one of the vilest and most
ruthless methods used by the CCP due to its unscrupulous nature. As long
as the moral toxins instilled by the CCP remain in the people's minds,
the CCP can continue to gain energy to sustain its iniquitous life.
"What would China do without the CCP?"
This mode of thinking fits precisely the CCP's aim of having people reason
by its own logic.
China came through her 5,000-year history
of civilization without the CCP. Indeed, no country in the world would
stop social advancement because of the fall of a particular regime. After
decades of the CCP's rule, however, people no longer recognize this fact.
The CCP's prolonged propaganda has trained people to think of the Party
as their mother. The omnipresent CCP politics have rendered people unable
to conceive of living without the CCP.
Without Mao Zedong, China did not fall.
Will China collapse without the CCP?
What Is the Real Source of Turmoil?
Many people know and dislike the CCP's
Machiavellian behavior, and loathe its struggles and deceptions. But, at
the same time, they fear the CCP's political movements and the resulting
turmoil, and fear chaos will visit China again. Thus, once the CCP threatens
people with "turmoil," people fall into silent acceptance of the CCP's
rule and feel helpless in the face of the CCP's despotic power.
In reality, with its several million
troops and armed police, the CCP is the real source of turmoil. Ordinary
citizens have neither the cause nor the capability to initiate turmoil.
Only the regressive CCP would be so reckless as to bring the country into
turmoil at any hint of change. "Stability overrides everything else" and
"Nipping the buds of all unstable elements" - these slogans have become
the theoretical basis for the CCP to suppress people. Who is the biggest
cause of instability in China? Is it not the CCP, who specializes in tyranny?
The CCP instigates turmoil, and then in turn uses the chaos it created
to coerce the people. This is a common action of all villains. |
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II. The CCP Sacrifices
Economic Development |
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Taking Credit for the Achievements of
People's Hard Work
The CCP's claim to legitimacy lies in
the economic development over the past 20 some years. In reality, however,
such development was gradually achieved by the Chinese people after the
fetters of the CCP were slightly relaxed and, therefore, has nothing to
do with the CCP's own merit. The CCP has, however, claimed this economic
development as its own achievement, asking people to be grateful for it,
as if none of these developments would have taken place without the CCP.
We all know, in reality, that many non-Communist countries achieved faster
economic growth a long time ago.
The winners of Olympic gold medals are
required to thank the Party. The Party did not hesitate to use the contrived
image of a "great nation of sports" to eulogize itself. China suffered
a great deal in the SARS epidemic, but People's Daily reported that
China defeated the virus "relying on the Party's basic theory, basic line,
basic principle, and basic experience." The launching of China's spaceship
Shenzhou-V was accomplished by the professionals of astronautic science
and technology, but the CCP used it as evidence to prove that only the
CCP could lead the Chinese people to enter the rank of powerful countries
in the world. As for China's hosting of the 2008 Olympic Games, what was
in reality an "olive branch" given by Western countries to encourage China
to improve its human rights, the CCP uses to enhance its claims to legitimacy
and to provide a pretext for suppressing the Chinese people. China's "great
market potential," which is sought after by foreign investors, stems from
the capacity for consumption of China's population of 1.3 billion. The
CCP usurps credit for this potential, and turns it into a keen weapon used
to coerce Western society into cooperating with the CCP's rule.
The CCP attributes anything bad to reactionary
forces and the ulterior motives of individuals, while crediting everything
good to the Party leadership. The CCP will make use of every single achievement
to make its claim to legitimacy more attractive. Even the wrongdoing that
the CCP commits can be turned into something "good" to serve its purposes.
For example, when the truth about the rampant spread of AIDS could no longer
be covered up, the CCP suddenly created a new identity. It carefully mobilized
its propaganda machine, utilizing everyone from well-known actors to the
Party's general secretary, in order to portray the prime culprit, the CCP,
as a blessing for patients, a destroyer of AIDS, and a challenger to disease.
In dealing with such a serious life-and-death issue, all the CCP could
think of was how to use the issue to glorify itself. Only as vicious a
schemer as the CCP is capable of such ruthless behavior as brazenly or
underhandedly taking credit and utterly disregarding human life.
Economic Disadvantage Caused by Shortsighted
Behaviors
Facing a serious "crisis of legitimacy,"
the CCP carried out the policies of reform and opening up in the 1980s
in order to maintain its rule. Its eagerness for quick success has placed
China at a disadvantage, termed by economists as the "curse of the latecomer."
The concept of "curse of the latecomer",
or "latecomer advantage" as some other scholars call it, refers to the
fact that underdeveloped countries, which set out late for development,
can imitate the developed countries in many aspects. The imitation can
take two forms: imitating the social system, or imitating the technological
and industrial models. Imitating a social system is usually difficult,
since system reform would endanger the vested interests of some social
or political groups. Thus, underdeveloped countries are inclined to imitate
developed countries' technologies. Although technological imitation can
generate short-term economic growth, it may result in many hidden risks
or even failure in long-term development.
It is precisely the "curse of the latecomer,"
a path to failure, that the CCP has followed. Over the past two decades,
China's "technological imitation" has led to some achievements, which have
been taken by the CCP to its own advantage in order to prove its legitimacy
and continue to resist political reform that would undermine the CCP's
own interests. Thus, the long-term interests of the nation have been sacrificed.
A Painful Cost for the CCP's Economic
Development
While the CCP constantly brags about
its economic advancement, in reality, China's economy today ranks lower
in the world than during the Qianlong's reign (1711-1799) in the Qing Dynasty.
During the Qianlong period, China's GDP accounted for 51 percent of the
world's total. When Dr. Sun Yat-sen founded the Republic of China (Kuomintang
or KMT period) in 1911, China's GDP accounted for 27 percent of the world's
total. By 1923, the percentage dropped, but still was as high as 12 percent.
In 1949, when the CCP took control, the percentage was 5.7, but in 2003,
China's GDP was less than 4 percent of the world's total. In contrast to
the economic decline during the KMT period that was caused by several decades
of war, the continuing economic decline during the CCP's reign occurred
during peaceful times.
Today, in order to legitimize its power,
the CCP is eager for quick successes and instant benefits. The crippled
economic reform that the CCP launched to safeguard its interests has cost
the country dearly. The rapid economic growth in the past 20 years is,
to a large extent, built on the excessive use or even waste of resources,
and has been gained at the cost of environmental destruction. A considerable
portion of China's GDP is achieved by sacrificing the opportunities of
future generations. In 2003, China contributed less than four percent to
the world economy, but its consumption of steel, cement and other materials
amounted to one third of the total global consumption. [3]
From the 1980s to the end of the 1990s,
desertification in China increased from a little over 1000 to 2460 square
kilometers (386 to 950 square miles). The per capita arable land also decreased
from about two mu in 1980 to 1.43 mu in 2003 [4]. The widespread
upsurge of land enclosure for development has led China to lose 100 million
mu of arable land in just a few years time. However, only 43 percent
of the confiscated land is actually used. Currently, the total amount of
wastewater discharge is 43.95 billion tons, exceeding the environmental
capacity by 82 percent. In the seven major river systems, 40.9 percent
of the water is not suitable for drinking by humans or livestock. Seventy-five
percent of the lakes are polluted so as to produce various degrees of eutrophication.
[5] The conflicts between man and nature in China have never been as intense
as they are today. Neither China nor the world can withstand such unhealthy
growth. Deluded by the superficial splendor of high-rises and mansions,
people are unaware of the impending ecological crisis. Once the time comes
for nature to exact its toll on human beings, however, it will bring disastrous
consequences to the Chinese nation.
In comparison, since abandoning communism,
Russia has carried out economic and political reforms at the same time.
After experiencing a short period of agony, it has embarked on a rapid
development. From 1999 to 2003, Russia's GDP increased by a total of 29.9
percent. The living standard of its residents has significantly improved.
The Western business circles have begun not only to discuss the "Russian
economic phenomenon," but have also begun to invest in Russia, the new
hotspot, on a large scale. Russia's ranking among the most attractive nations
for investment has jumped from 17th in 2002 to 8th in 2003, becoming one
of the world's top ten most popular nations for investment for the first
time.
Even India, a country that, to most
Chinese, is poverty-stricken and full of ethnic conflicts, has enjoyed
a significantly expedited development and has achieved an economic growth
rate of seven to eight percent per year since its economic reforms in 1991.
India has a relatively complete legal system in a market economy, a healthy
financial system, a well-developed democratic system, and a stable public
mentality. The international community has recognized India as a country
of great development potential.
On the other hand, the CCP only engages
in economic reform without political reform. The false appearance of an
economy that flourishes in the short run has hindered the natural "evolution
of social systems." It is this incomplete reform that has caused an increasing
imbalance in the Chinese society and sharpened social conflicts. The financial
gains achieved by the people are not protected by stable social systems.
Furthermore, in the process of privatizing the state-owned properties,
the CCP's power-holders have utilized their positions to fill their own
pockets.
The CCP Cheats the Peasants Once and
Again
CCP relied on peasants to gain power.
The rural residents in the CCP-controlled areas in the early stage of its
buildup devoted all they had to the CCP. But since the CCP obtained control
of the country, peasants have experienced severe discrimination.
After the CCP established the government,
it set up a very unfair system – the residential registration system. The
system forcefully classifies people into rural and non-rural populations,
creating an unreasonable separation and opposition within the country.
Peasants have no medical insurance, no unemployment welfare, no retirement
pensions, and cannot take loans from banks. Peasants are the most impoverished
class in China, but also the class carrying the heaviest tax burden. Peasants
need to pay a mandatory provident fund, public welfare fund, administrative
management fund, extra education fee, birth control fee, militia organization
and training fee, country road construction fee and military service compensation
fee. Besides all these fees, they also have to sell part of the grains
they produce at a flat rate to the state as a mandatory requirement, and
pay agriculture tax, land tax, special local produce tax, and butchery
tax in addition to numerous other levies. In contrast, the non-rural population
does not pay these fees and taxes.
In the beginning of 2004, China's Premier
Wen Jiabao issued the "No. 1 Document," stating that rural China was facing
the most difficult time since the beginning of the economic reform in 1978.
Income for most peasants had stagnated or even declined. They had become
poorer, and the income gap between urban and rural residents continued
to widen.
In a tree farm in eastern Sichuan province,
upper level authorities distributed 500,000 yuan (approximately US$ 60,500)
for a reforestation project. The leaders of the tree farm first put 200,000
yuan in their own pockets, and then allocated the remaining 300,000 yuan
to tree planting. But as the money was taken away when passing through
each level of the government, very little was left in the end for local
peasants who did the actual tree planting. The government did not need
to worry that the peasants would refuse to work on the project because
of inadequate funding. The peasants were so impoverished that they would
work for very little money. This is one of the reasons that products made
in China are so cheap.
Using Economic Interests to Pressure
Western Countries
Many people believe that trade with
China will promote human rights, freedom of speech and democratic reform
in China. After more than a decade, it is clear that this assumption is
only wishful thinking. A comparison of the principles for doing business
in China and the West provides a common example. The fairness and transparency
of Western societies are replaced by nepotism, bribery and embezzlement
in China. Many Western corporations have become leading culprits by further
exacerbating China's corruption. Some companies even help the CCP hide
its human rights violations and persecution of its own people.
The CCP behaves like the Mafia by playing
the economic card in foreign diplomacy. Whether China's aircraft manufacturing
contract is given to France or the United States depends on which country
keeps quiet on the CCP's human rights issues. Many Western businessmen
and politicians are driven and controlled by economic profits from China.
Some information technology companies from North America have supplied
specialized products to the CCP for blocking the Internet. In order to
gain entry to the Chinese market, some Internet websites have agreed to
censor themselves and filter out information disliked by the CCP.
According to data from China's Ministry
of Commerce, by the end of April 2004, China has seen a total US$ 990 billion
of foreign investment in various contracts. The huge "blood transfusion"
to the CCP's economy from foreign capital is apparent. But in the process
of investment, foreign capital did not bring the concept of democracy,
freedom and human rights as fundamental principles to the Chinese people.
The CCP capitalizes in its propaganda on the unconditional cooperation
by foreign investors and foreign governments and the flattery of some countries.
By making use of China's superficial economic prosperity, CCP officials
have become extremely adept at colluding with businesses to divide state
wealth and block political reforms. |
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III. The CCP's
Brainwashing Techniques Evolve from Undisguised to "Refined" |
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People are often heard to say, "I know
the CCP lied too often in the past, but this time it is telling the truth."
Ironically, in retrospect, this was what people would say each time the
CCP made a grave mistake in the past. This reflects the ability the CCP
has acquired over the decades to use lies to fool people.
People have developed some resistance
to the CCP's tall tales. In response, the CCP's fabrication and propaganda
have become more subtle and "professional." Evolving from the slogan-style
propaganda of the past, the CCP's lies have become more refined and subtle.
Particularly under the conditions of the information blockade the CCP has
erected around China, it makes up stories based on partial facts to mislead
the public, which is even more detrimental and deceptive than tall tales.
Chinascope , an English language
journal, carried an article in October 2004 that analyzes cases whereby
the CCP uses more subtle means of fabricating lies in order to cover up
the truth. When SARS broke out in Mainland China in 2003, the outside world
suspected that China had hidden information about the epidemic, and yet
the CCP repeatedly refused to acknowledge it. To find out if the CCP had
been truthful about its reporting on SARS, the author of the article read
all 400-plus reports on SARS that were posted on the Xinhua website from
the beginning to April 2003.
These reports told the following story:
As soon as SARS appeared, governments at central and local levels mobilized
experts to give timely treatment to the patients who later were discharged
from hospitals upon recovery. In response to trouble-makers' inciting people
to stock-pile goods in order to avoid going out when the disease became
widespread, the government wasted no time in stopping rumors and taking
steps to prevent their spread, so the social order was effectively ensured.
Although a very small number of anti-China forces groundlessly suspected
a cover-up by the Chinese government, most countries and people did not
believe these rumors. The upcoming Guangzhou Trade Fair would have the
largest participation ever from businesses around the world. Tourists from
overseas confirmed that it was safe to travel in China. In particular,
experts from the World Health Organization [who had been deceived by the
CCP], stated in public that the Chinese government had been forthcoming
in cooperating and taking appropriate measures in dealing with SARS, so
that there should be no problems. And specialists gave the go-ahead [after
over 20 days delay] to Guangdong province for field inspection.
These 400-plus articles gave the author
the impression that the CCP had been transparent during these four months,
had acted responsibly to protect the people's health, and had convinced
the people that the CCP hadn't hidden anything. However, on April 20, 2003,
the Information Office of the State Council announced in its press conference
that SARS had indeed broken out in China and thus indirectly admitted that
the government had been covering up the epidemics. Only then did this author
see the truth and understand the deceptive, villainous methods employed
by the CCP, which had also "advanced with time."
On the general election in Taiwan, the
CCP, using the same subtle and "refined" approach, suggested that a presidential
election would lead to disasters – a surge in the suicide rate, collapsing
stock markets, an increase in "weird diseases," mental disorders, out-migration
of the island inhabitants, family feuds, a callous attitude towards life,
a depressed market, indiscriminate shooting in the streets, protests and
demonstrations, a siege on the presidential building, social unrest, political
farce, and so on. The CCP filled the heads of the people in Mainland China
with these ideas on a daily basis in an attempt to lead the people to believe
that all of these calamities are the disastrous results of an election
and that China should never hold a democratic election.
On the issue of Falun Gong, the CCP
has displayed an even higher level of skill with deceptions designed to
frame Falun Gong. The CCP kept its staged shows coming one after another.
No wonder so many Chinese have been misled. The CCP's villainous propaganda
has been so deceptive that the victims willingly believe in the lies and
think that they have had the truth in hand.
The CCP's brainwashing propaganda over
the past decades has become more refined and subtle in cheating, which
is a natural extension of its unscrupulous nature. |
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IV. The CCP's Hypocrisy
in Human Rights |
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From Usurping Democracy to Seize Power
to Feigning Democracy to Maintain Despotic Rule
"In a democratic nation, sovereignty
should lie in the hands of the people, which is in line with the principles
of heaven and earth. If a nation claims to be democratic and yet sovereignty
does not rest with its people, that is definitely not on the right track
and can only be regarded as a deviation, and this nation is not a democratic
nation…how could democracy be possible without ending the Party rule and
without a popular election? Return people's rights to people!"
Does this quotation sound like something
from an article written by "overseas enemies" intent on slamming the CCP?
In fact, the statement comes from an article in Xinhua Daily , the
official CCP newspaper, on September 27, 1945.
The CCP, that had trumpeted "popular
election" and demanded "returning people's rights to the people," has been
treating "popular suffrage" as taboo since it usurped power. The people
who are supposed to be "the masters and owners of the state" have no rights
whatsoever to make their own decisions. Words are inadequate to describe
the CCP's unscrupulous nature.
If you fancy that what's done is done
and the evil CCP cult that has flourished on killing and has ruled the
nation with lies will reform itself, become benevolent, and be willing
to "return people's rights to the people," you are wrong. Let us hear what
the People's Daily , the CCP's mouthpiece, has to say on November
23, 2004, 60 years after the public statement quoted above: "A steadfast
control of ideology is the essential ideological and political foundation
for consolidating the Party's rule."
Recently, the CCP proposed a so-called
new "Three Noes Principle," [6] the first of which is "Development with
no debates." "Development" is phony, but "no debates" that emphasizes "one
voice, one hall" is the CCP's real purpose.
When Jiang Zemin was asked by the renowned
CBS correspondent Mike Wallace in 2000 as why China had not conducted popular
elections, Jiang responded, "The Chinese people are way too low in education."
However, as early as February 25, 1939,
the CCP cried out in its Xinhua Daily : "They (the KMT) think that
democratic politics in China are not to be realized today, but some years
later. They hope that democratic politics should wait until the knowledge
and education levels of the Chinese people reach those of bourgeois democratic
countries in Europe and America… but only under the democratic system will
it become easier to educate and train the people."
The hypocritical difference between
what Xinhua said in 1939 and what Jiang Zemin said in 2000 reflects
the true picture of the CCP's iniquitous nature.
After the Tiananmen Massacre in 1989,
the CCP reentered the world stage with a miserable human rights record.
History gave the CCP a choice. Either it could respect its people and truly
improve human rights or it could continue to commit abuses inside China
while pretending to the outside world to respect human rights in order
to evade international condemnation.
Unfortunately, consistent with its despotic
nature, the CCP chose the second path without hesitation. It gathered together
and sustained a large number of unscrupulous but talented people in the
scientific and religious fields and specifically directed them to publish
deceptive propaganda overseas in order to promote the CCP's feigned progress
in human rights. It concocted a range of rights fallacies such as "the
survival right," or rights to shelter and food. The argument went like
this: When people are hungry, do they not have the right to speak? Even
if the hungry cannot speak, would it be allowed for those who have eaten
their fill to speak for the hungry? The CCP even tried to deceive the Chinese
people and Western democracies by playing games with human rights, even
blatantly claiming that "the present is the best period for China's human
rights."
Article 35 of China's Constitution stipulates
that citizens of the People's Republic of China have the freedoms of expression,
publication, assembly, association, protest, and demonstration. The CCP
is simply playing word games. Under the CCP's rule, countless people have
been deprived of their rights to belief, speech, publication, assembly
and legal defense. The CCP even ordered that the appeal of certain groups
be considered illegal. On more than one occasion in 2004, some civilian
groups applied to demonstrate in Beijing. Instead of granting approval,
the government arrested the applicants. The "one country, two systems"
policy for Hong Kong affirmed by the CCP's constitution is also a ruse.
The CCP talks about no change in Hong Kong for 50 years, and yet it has
tried to change the two systems into one by attempting to pass tyrannical
legislation, Basic Law Article 23, within just five years after Hong Kong's
return to China. [7]
The sinister new ploy of the CCP is
to use the fake "relaxation in speech" to cover up the extent of its massive
monitoring and control. The Chinese now appear to speak their minds more
freely and, besides, the Internet has allowed news to travel faster. So
the CCP claims that it now allows freedom of speech, and quite a number
of people have fallen for this. This is a false appearance. It is not that
the CCP has become benevolent; rather, the Party cannot stop social development
and technological advancement. Let us look at the role the CCP is playing
regarding the Internet: It is blocking websites, filtering information,
monitoring chat rooms, controlling emails, and incriminating net users.
Everything it does is regressive in nature. Today, with the help of some
capitalists who disregard human rights and conscience, the CCP's police
have been equipped with high-tech devices by which they are able to monitor,
from inside a patrol car, every move net users make. When we look at the
degeneracy of the CCP - committing evils deeds in broad daylight - in the
context of the global movement toward democratic freedom, how can we expect
it to make any progress in human rights? The CCP itself said it all: "It
loosens up to the outside but tightens up internally." The CCP's unscrupulous
nature has never changed.
To create a good image for itself at
the UN Commission on Human Rights, in 2004 the CCP staged an array of events
to severely punish those who abuse human rights. The events, however, were
for foreigners' eyes only and had no substance. That is because in China
the biggest human rights abuser is the CCP itself, as well as its former
General Secretary Jiang Zemin, former secretary of the Political and Judiciary
Commission Luo Gan, Minister Zhou Yongkang, and Deputy Minister Liu Jing,
of the Ministry of Public Security. Their show of punishing human rights
abusers is like a thief shouting, "Catch the thief!"
An analogy could be made to a serial
rapist who, when hidden from public view, used to assault ten girls in
a day. Then, there are too many people around, so he assaults only one
girl in front of the crowd. Can the rapist be said to have changed for
the better? His going from assaults behind the scenes to raping in public
only proves that the rapist is even more base and shameless than before.
The nature of the serial rapist has not changed at all. What has changed
is that it is no longer as easy for him to commit the crime.
The CCP is just like this serial rapist.
The CCP's dictatorial nature and its instinctive fear of losing power determine
that it will not respect people's rights. The human, material, and financial
resources used to cover up its human rights record have far exceeded its
efforts in the true improvement of human rights. The indulgence of the
CCP in wanton massacre or persecution throughout China has been the biggest
misfortune of the Chinese people.
Dressing Up to Commit Evil Deeds While
Hiding Behind the "Law"
To protect the gains of special-interest
groups, the CCP has, on the one hand, eliminated their previous façade
and completely abandoned the workers, peasants, and the populace, and,
on the other hand, has advanced their deceitful and villainous means as
more and more of the CCP's human rights abuses are exposed to the international
community. The CCP has used popular vocabulary such as "the rule of law,"
"market," "for the people," and "reform" to confuse people. The CCP cannot
change its wicked nature even if it dresses itself up in a "Western-style
suit." Such an image is just more misleading than the CCP "in a Mao suit."
In George Orwell's Animal Farm (published in 1945), the pigs learned to
stand and walk on two legs. The newly acquired skill gave the pigs a new
image, but did not change their pig nature.
A. Making Laws and Regulations
in Violation of the Chinese Constitution
Laws and regulations in violation of
the constitution are passed on to law enforcement personnel at various
levels as the "legal basis" to obstruct the people's efforts to stop persecution,
gain freedom, and uphold human rights.
B. Non-Political Problems Are Handled
with Political Means
An ordinary social problem would be
elevated to the height of "competing with the Party for the masses," "bringing
demise to the Party and the country," "turmoil," and "enemy forces." A
non-political issue would intentionally be politicized, so that the CCP
could use political movements as a propaganda tool to incite people's hatred.
C. Political Issues Are Managed with
Underhanded Means
The CCP's latest ploy for attacking
pro-democracy citizens and independent-thinking intellectuals is to set
up traps in order to imprison them. Such traps include false accusations
of civil offenses such as prostitution and tax evasion. The attackers keep
a low profile to avoid condemnation by outside groups. These crimes, which
are enough to ruin the reputations of the accused, are also used to humiliate
the victims in public.
The only change to the CCP's unscrupulous
nature, if any, is that it has become even more disgraceful and inhuman.
The CCP Holds Over One Billion People
Hostage to its Twisted Logic
Imagine that a licentious criminal broke
into a home and raped a girl. At the trial, this criminal defends himself
by arguing that he did not kill the victim; he only raped her. Because
killing is worse than raping, he argues that he is innocent and should
be released immediately. He says that people should also praise him for
only raping but not killing.
This logic sounds ridiculous. However,
the CCP's logic in defense of its Tiananmen Massacre on June 4th in, 1989
is exactly the same as that of the criminal. The CCP has argued that the
"suppression of students" avoided a potential "internal disorder" in China.
In order to prevent "internal disorder," the suppression of students was
thus justified.
"Raping or killing, which one is better"?
For a criminal to ask a judge in court such a question indicates how shameless
the criminal is. Similarly, in the issue of the Tiananmen Massacre, the
CCP and its cohorts did not reflect on whether it was guilty of killing.
Instead, they asked society which one is better - "Suppression of students
or internal disorder that may lead to civil war?"
The CCP is in control of the entire
state machine and all means of propaganda. In other words, the 1.3 billion
Chinese people are held hostage by the CCP. With the 1.3 billion hostages
in hand, the CCP can always argue its "hostage theory," that if it does
not suppress a certain group of people, the whole nation will be in turmoil
or disaster. Using this as an excuse, the CCP could suppress any individual
or group at will, and its suppression could always be justified. Given
such deceitful arguments and fallacious reasoning, is there any criminal
more shameless in the world than the CCP?
The Carrot and the Stick - from Bestowing
"Freedom" to Escalating Suppression
Many Chinese people feel that they enjoy
more "freedom" now than before, so they hold out hope for the prospect
of the CCP's improvement. As a matter of fact, the degree of freedom "bestowed"
on people depends on the CCP's sense of crisis. The CCP would do anything
to maintain the collective interests of the Party, including giving so-called
democracy, freedom, or human rights to the people.
However, under the CCP's leadership,
the so-called "freedom" bestowed by the CCP was not protected by any legislation.
Such "freedom" is purely a tool to deceive and control people amidst the
international trend toward democracy. In essence, this "freedom" is in
irreconcilable conflict with the CCP's dictatorship. Once such a conflict
is beyond the CCP's tolerance level, the CCP could take back all the "freedom"
instantly. In the history of the CCP, there were several periods during
which speech was relatively free, with each one followed by a period of
strict control. Such cyclic patterns course throughout the history of the
CCP, demonstrating the CCP's iniquitous nature.
In today's Internet era, if you visit
the CCP's official Xinhua website or the People's Daily online,
you will find that indeed quite a few reports there contain negative information
about China. First, this is because there is too much bad news circulating
rapidly in China these days, and the news agency has to report these stories
in order to stay credible. Second, the standpoint of such reports conforms
with the CCP's interest, i.e., "minor criticism offers great help." The
reports would always attribute the cause of bad news to certain individuals,
having nothing to do with the Party, while crediting the CCP's leadership
for any solution. The CCP skillfully controls what to report, what not
to report, how much to report, and whether to have Chinese media or the
CCP-controlled overseas media report it.
The CCP is proficient at manipulating
bad news into something that can achieve the desired result of winning
people's hearts. Many youth in mainland China feel that the CCP now offers
a good degree of freedom of speech, and thus have hopes for and are appreciative
of the CCP. They are victims of the "refined" strategies of the iniquitous
state controlled media. Moreover, by creating a chaotic situation in the
Chinese society and then giving it some media exposure, the CCP can convince
people that only the CCP can control such a chaotic society and can thus
manipulate people into endorsing CCP rule.
Therefore, we should not mistakenly
think the CCP has changed by itself even if we see some signs of its improving
human rights. In history, when the CCP struggled to overthrow the KMT government,
it pretended to be fighting for democracy for the nation. The CCP's villainous
nature is such that any promise by the CCP is not reliable. |
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V. Aspects of the
CCP's Unscrupulous Nature |
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Selling out the Nation's Land out of
Vanity and Betraying the Country under the Guise of "National Unity"
"Liberate Taiwan" and "Unify Taiwan"
have been the CCP's propaganda slogans over the past few decades. By means
of this propaganda, the CCP has acted like a nationalist and a patriot.
Does the CCP truly care about the integrity of the nation's territory?
Not at all. Taiwan is merely a historic problem caused by the struggle
between the CCP and KMT, and it is a means that the CCP uses to strike
at its opponents and win people's support.
In the early days when the CCP set up
the "Chinese Soviet" during the KMT reign, Article 14 of its constitution
stated that "any ethnic groups or any provinces inside China can claim
independence." In order to comply with the Soviet Union, the CCP's slogan
back then was "Protect the Soviet." During the Sino-Japanese War, the primary
goal of the CCP was to seize the opportunity to increase itself rather
than to fight against Japanese intruders. In 1945 the Soviet Red Army entered
Northeast China and committed robbery, murder, and rape, but the CCP did
not utter a word of disapproval. Similarly, when the Soviet Union supported
Outer Mongolia to become independent from China, the CCP was once again
silent.
At the end of 1999, the CCP and Russia
signed the China-Russia Border Survey Agreement, in which the CCP accepted
all the unequal agreements between the Qing Dynasty and Russia made more
than 100 years ago, and sold out over one million square kilometers of
land to Russia, an area as large as several dozen Taiwans. In 2004, the
CCP and Russia signed a China-Russia Eastern Border Supplemental Agreement
and reportedly lost sovereignty of half of the Heixiazi Island in Heilongjiang
Province to Russia again.
Regarding other border issues such as
the Nansha Islands and Diaoyu Island, the CCP does not care at all since
these issues do not impact the CCP's control of power. The CCP has made
a fanfare of "Unifying Taiwan," which was merely a smoke screen and devious
means for inciting blind patriotism and keeping the public attention off
domestic conflict.
Political Villains without Any Moral
Restraints
A government should always be monitored.
In democratic countries, the separation of powers plus the freedoms of
speech and press are good mechanisms for surveillance. Religious beliefs
provide additional moral self-restraint.
The CCP promotes atheism; hence there
is no divine nature to morally restrain its behavior. The CCP is a dictatorship;
hence there is no law to restrain it politically. As a result, the CCP
is totally reckless and unrestrained when it acts out of its tyrannical
and villainous nature. According to the CCP, who monitors it? "The CCP
monitors itself!" This is the slogan the CCP has used to deceive the people
for decades. In earlier times it was called "self criticism," then "self
surveillance" and "self-perfecting the Party's leadership," and recently
"self-enhancing the Party's governing capacity." The CCP emphasizes the
super power it has for so-called "self improvement." The CCP does not just
say it, but actually takes action, like establishing "The Central Disciplinary
Inspection Committee" and "the Office for Appeals" and the like. These
organizations are merely pretty but useless "flower vases" that confuse
and mislead the people.
Without moral and legal restraint, the
CCP's "self-improvement" amounts to the traditional Chinese saying of "demons
emerging from one's own heart." It is only the excuse the CCP uses to avoid
external surveillance and refuse to lift the ban on free press and free
political parties. Political scoundrels use this trick to fool the people
and to protect the CCP's power and the interests of the ruling group.
The CCP is expert at political scheming.
"The People's Democratic Dictatorship," "Democratic Centralism," "Political
Consultation" and so on are all fraudulent schemes. Except for the dictatorship
part, they are lies.
Playing Tricks - From the False Resistance
to Japanese Invasion to the Fraudulent Counter-Terrorism
The CCP has always claimed to have led
the Chinese people in defeating the Japanese invaders. However, abundant
historical archives expose that the CCP intentionally avoided battles in
the Sino-Japanese War. The CCP only hampered the anti-Japanese effort by
taking the opportunity of the KMT's involvement in the war to increase
its own power.
The only major battles the CCP fought
were the Pingxing Pass Battle and the Hundred Regiment Battle. In the Pingxing
Pass Battle, the CCP was not at all the leader or predominant force that
participated and commanded this battle. Instead, the CCP troops merely
ambushed the Japanese supply units. As for the Hundred Regiment Battle,
it is believed inside the CCP that participating in this battle violated
the strategic policies of the Party Central. After these two battles, Mao
and his CCP armies did not engage in any serious battles, nor did they
produce any Sino-Japanese War heroes like Dong Cunrui during the 1948 war
with the KMT and Huang Jiguang during the Korean War. Only a small number
of high-level military commanders of the CCP died on the anti-Japanese
battleground. Until today, the CCP cannot even publish a figure for its
casualties during the Sino-Japanese War, nor can one find too many monuments
in China's vast land for heroes of the CCP in the Sino-Japanese War.
At the time, the CCP established a Border
Region Government in Shaanxi, Gansu, and Ningxia provinces away from the
battlefront. Using today's nomenclature, the CCP was conducting "one country
two systems," or "two Chinas" inside China. Although the CCP's commanders
did not lack passion in resisting the Japanese, the CCP's high-level officials
were not sincere in fighting the Sino-Japanese War. Instead, they took
measures to protect their resources and use the war as an opportunity to
strengthen themselves. When China and Japan resumed diplomatic relations
in 1972, Mao Zedong let slip the truth to the Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei
Tanaka that the CCP had to thank Japan, since without the Sino-Japanese
War, the CCP would not have gained power in China.
The above is the truth concerning the
CCP's deceitful claim that it has led the Chinese people to persist in
the eight-year war against the Japanese and ultimately win the victory.
More than half a century later, with
the 911 terrorist attacks on US soil, a counter-terrorist effort has become
a global focus. The CCP again used deceptive strategies similar to what
it deployed during the Sino-Japanese War. Using counter-terrorism as the
pretext, the CCP has labeled many religious practitioners, dissidents,
and groups engaged in ethnic or territorial conflicts as terrorists. Under
the guise of the international counter-terrorist effort, the CCP has launched
violent repressions.
On September 27, 2004, the Xinhua
News Agency quoted the Xinjing newspaper as saying that Beijing
might establish the first counter-terrorist bureau among all the provinces
and cities in China. Some overseas pro-CCP media even reported it on headline
that "The ‘610 Office' Joined Counter-Terrorist Efforts," ("610 Office"
is a network of government agencies set up especially to persecute Falun
Gong practitioners), claiming that the counter-terrorist bureau would focus
on attacking "terrorist organizations," including Falun Gong.
The CCP slaps the label "terrorists"
on the people who hold no weapons in their hands, do not fight back when
beaten or slandered, and peacefully appeal for the rights to their beliefs.
Taking advantage of the climate of counter-terrorism, the CCP has mobilized
its "special counter-terrorist force," which is armed to the teeth, to
conduct swift repression on this defenseless group of peaceful people.
Furthermore, the CCP has used the excuse of counter-terrorism to evade
international attention and condemnation of its persecution of Falun Gong.
The kinds of deception used today are no different from those used by the
CCP during the Sino-Japanese War and are a shameful way to treat such a
serious matter as the international anti-terrorism efforts.
Feigning Sincerity and Overtly Agreeing
While Covertly Opposing
The CCP does not believe its own doctrines
but forces others to believe in them. This is one of the most insidious
methods used by the CCP cult. The CCP knows that its doctrines are false
and that the idea of socialism is untrue. The CCP doesn't believe in these
doctrines, but forces people to believe in them. It persecutes people who
do not believe in them. The CCP has shamelessly written such deceitful
ideology into the Constitution as the foundation of the Chinese state.
In real life, there is an interesting
phenomenon. Many high-level officials lose their positions in power struggles
in China's political arena because of corruption. But these are the very
people who promote honesty and selflessness in public meetings, while engaging
in bribery, corruption, and other decadent activities behind the scenes.
Many so-called "people's servants" have fallen this way, including Li Jiating,
the former governor of Yunnan Province; Liu Fangren, the Party Secretary
of Guizhou Province; Cheng Weigao, the Party Secretary of Hebei Province;
Tian Fengshan, Minister of Land and Resources; and Wang Huaizhong, the
Lieutenant Governor of Anhui Province. However, if you examine their speeches,
you will find that, without exception, they have supported anti-corruption
campaigns and repeatedly urged their subordinates to conduct themselves
honestly, even as they themselves were embezzling funds and taking bribes.
Although the CCP has promoted many exemplary
cadres and has often attracted some idealistic and diligent people to join
the Party in order to enhance the Party's image, it is obvious to all how
terrible a plight China's ever-declining moral standard has been in. Why
hasn't the CCP's propaganda of a "spiritual civilization" worked to correct
this?
As a matter of fact, the Communist Party
leaders transmitted empty words when they promulgated the "communist moral
quality" or the slogan "Serve the people." The inconsistency between communist
leaders' actions and words can be traced all the way back to their founding
father Karl Marx. Marx bore an illegitimate son. Lenin contracted syphilis
from prostitutes. Stalin was sued for forcing a sexual relationship on
a singer. Mao Zedong indulged himself in lust. Jiang Zemin is promiscuous.
The Romanian communist leader Ceausescu made his entire family extravagantly
rich. The Cuban communist leader Castro hoards hundreds of millions of
dollars in overseas banks. North Korea's demonic killer Kim Il Song and
his children lead a decadent and wasteful life.
In daily life, ordinary people in China
loathe the empty political study sessions. Increasingly, they equivocate
in political matters, since everyone knows them to be deceptive games.
But no one, neither the speakers nor the listeners at these political meetings,
would speak openly about such deception. This is an open secret. People
call this phenomenon "sincere pretension." The CCP's high sounding notions,
either the "Three Represents" several years ago, or "improving governing
capacity" later, or today's "three hearts" - "warming, stabilizing, and
gaining people's hearts" - are all nonsense. Which ruling party would not
represent the people's benefits? Which ruling party would not care about
governing capacity? Which ruling party is not about gaining people's hearts?
Any parties that do not concern themselves with these issues would soon
be removed from the political stage. But the CCP treats such superfluous
slogans as intricate, profound theories and requires the whole country
to study them.
When pretending has been gradually molded
into a billion plus people's thinking and habits and has become the Party's
culture, the society itself becomes false, pretentious, and inane. Lacking
honesty and trust, the society is in crisis. Why has the CCP created these
conditions? In the past, it was for its ideology; now it is for its benefits.
The CCP members know they are pretending, but they pretend anyway. If the
CCP did not promote such slogans and formalities, it couldn't bully people.
It couldn't make people follow and fear it.
Abandoning Conscience and Sacrificing
Justice for the Party's Interests
In the book On the Communist Party's
Moral Development , Liu Shaoqi [8] expounded especially on the need
"for party members to subsume their individual interests to the Party's
interest." Among the CCP members, there has never been a lack of righteous
people who are concerned about the country and its people, nor has there
been a shortage of honest and upright officials who have truly served the
people. But in the CCP's machinery of self-interest, these officials cannot
survive. Under constant pressure to "submit humanity to party nature,"
they often find it impossible to continue, risk being removed from positions,
or worse, become corrupt.
Chinese people have personally experienced
and deeply felt the CCP's brutal regime and have developed a profound fear
of the CCP's violence. Therefore, people dare not uphold justice and no
longer believe in the heavenly laws. First they submit themselves to the
CCP's power. Gradually they become unfeeling and unconcerned about matters
not affecting themselves. Even the logic of their thinking has been consciously
molded to succumb to the CCP. This is the result of the CCP's mafia nature.
The CCP Manipulates Patriotic Sentiments
to Incite the Populace
The CCP uses slogans of "patriotism"
and "nationalism" to incite people. They are not only the CCP's main rallying
cries, but also its frequently issued orders and time-tested strategies.
Upon reading the nationalistic propaganda in the overseas edition of thePeople's
Daily , some overseas Chinese, who for decades have not dared to return
to China to live, may become more nationalistic than the Chinese living
inside China. Manipulated by the CCP, Chinese people, who dare not say
"no" to any CCP policy, became bold enough to storm the US Embassy and
Consulate in China, throwing eggs and rocks and burning cars and US flags,
all under the banner of "patriotism."
Whenever the Communist Party encounters
an important issue that demands obedience from the populace, it uses "patriotism"
and "nationalism" to mobilize people on short notice. In all cases, including
matters related to Taiwan, Hong Kong, Falun Gong, the collision between
a US spy plane and a Chinese fighter jet, the CCP has used the combined
method of high-pressure terror and collective brainwashing, thus bringing
people to a war-like state of mind. This method is similar to that used
by the German Fascists.
By blocking all other information, the
CCP's brainwashing has been incredibly successful. Even though the Chinese
people do not like the CCP, they think in the twisted mode instilled by
the CCP. During the US-led Iraq war, for example, many people are stirred
up watching the daily analysis on CCTV [9]. They feel a strong sense of
hatred, vengeance, and desire to fight, while at the same time cursing
another war.
Shamelessness - Putting the Party before
the Country and Forcing People to Take the Foe for Their Father
One of the phrases the CCP often uses
to intimidate people is, "the extinction of the Party and the country,"
thus placing the Party before the country. The founding principle of China
is: "There would be no new China without the CCP." From childhood, people
were educated to "listen to the Party" and "behave like good children of
the Party." They sang praises to the Party: "I consider the Party as my
mother." "Oh, Party, my dear mother." "The saving grace of the Party is
deeper than the ocean." "Love for my father and mother can not surpass
love for the Party."[10] They would "go and fight wherever the Party points
to." When the government offered disaster relief, people would "thank the
Party and the government" - first the Party and then the government. A
military slogan reads "the Party commands the gun." Even when the Chinese
experts tried to design the uniform for court judges, they put four golden
buttons on the neckband of the uniform. Those buttons are lined up from
top to bottom to symbolize the Party, the people, the law and the country.
It indicates that even if you are the judge, the Party will forever be
positioned above the law, the country, and the people.
The Party has become supreme in China,
and the country has conversely become the Party's subordinate. The country
exists for the Party, and the Party is said to be the embodiment of the
people and the symbol of the country. Love for the Party, Party leaders,
and the country have been mixed together, which is the fundamental reason
why patriotism in China has become twisted.
Under the subtle but persistent influence
of the CCP's education and propaganda, many people, Party members or not,
began to confuse the Party with the country, whether they are aware of
it or not. They have come to accept that "the Party's interest" is superior
to all, and to concur that "the Party's interests equal the interests of
the people and the country." This result of the CCP's indoctrination has
created the climate for the Party to betray the national interests.
Playing the "Redress" Game and Calling
Criminal Acts "Great Accomplishments"
The CCP has made many blunders in history.
But, it has always put the blame on certain individuals or groups through
"redress and rehabilitation." This has not only made the victims deeply
grateful for the CCP, but also allowed the CCP to completely shirk any
responsibility for its criminal deeds. The CCP claims itself to be "not
only unafraid of making mistakes, but also good at correcting them," [11]
and this has become the CCP's magic potion with which it repeatedly escapes
culpability. Thus, the CCP remains forever "great, glorious, and correct."
Perhaps one day, the CCP will decide
to redress the Tiananmen Square Massacre and restore the reputation of
Falun Gong. But these are simply the Machiavellian tactics that the CCP
uses in a desperate attempt to prolong its dying life. The CCP will never
have the courage to reflect on itself, to expose its own crimes, or to
pay for its own sins. |
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VI. The CCP Manifests
Its Villainous Nature When Using State Terror in Its Effort to Eliminate
"Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance" |
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The fraudulent "Tiananmen self-immolation"
staged by the CCP cult may be considered the CCP's lie of the century.
In order to suppress Falun Gong, the government was so perverse as to seduce
five people to pretend to be Falun Gong practitioners and to choreograph
their fake self-immolation on Tiananmen Square. By colluding in the scam,
the five participants unwittingly signed their own death warrants and were
either beaten to death on the scene or killed afterwards. The slow motion
playing of the self-immolation video published by the CCTV unmistakably
shows that Liu Chunling, one of the self-immolators, died after being forcefully
struck down at the scene by a police officer. Other flaws in the footage
include the sitting posture of Wang Jingdong, the plastic bottle (allegedly
filled with gasoline) that remained intact between his knees after the
fire was extinguished, the conversation between a doctor and the youngest
victim Liu Siying, and the presence of cameramen ready to videotape the
scene. These facts and more are sufficient evidence to prove that the self-immolation
incident was a deception maliciously designed by the iniquitous Jiang Zemin
regime in order to frame Falun Gong. [12]
The CCP used despicable and cruel methods
in its declared campaign to eradicate Falun Gong. It usurped the nation's
financial resources accumulated in the past 20 years of reform and opening
up. It mobilized the Party, the government, the military, the police, spies,
foreign diplomats and various other governmental and non-governmental organizations.
It manipulated the system of global media coverage, implementing a strict
information blockade with individual and high-tech monitoring. It did all
this to persecute a peaceful group of people who adhere to Falun Gong,
a traditional Chinese qigong practice for refining the body, mind,
and moral character in accordance with the principles of Truthfulness,
Compassion, and Tolerance. Such brutal persecution of innocent people for
their beliefs reveals the degenerate nature of the CCP.
No evildoers in history have lied so
insidiously and pervasively as Jiang Zemin and the CCP. They use a variety
of lies, each designed to target and manipulate different notions and ideas
that people hold so that people can easily be duped into believing the
lies, and the Party can incite hatred toward Falun Gong. Do you believe
in science? The CCP says that Falun Gong is superstitious. Do you find
politics distasteful? The CCP says that Falun Gong engages in politics.
Do you envy people who get rich whether in China or abroad? The CCP says
that Falun Gong gathers wealth. Do you object to organizations? The CCP
says that Falun Gong has a tight organization. Are you tired of the cult
of personality that lasted in China for several decades? The CCP says that
Falun Gong exercises mental control. Are you passionate for patriotism?
The CCP says Falun Gong is anti-China. Are you afraid of turmoil? The CCP
says Falun Gong disrupts stability. Do you wonder if Falun Gong really
upholds "Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance"? The CCP says Falun Gong
is not truthful, compassionate, nor tolerant. It even twisted the logic,
claiming that compassion can generate the desire to kill.
Do you trust that the government would
not make up such lies? The CCP makes up lies that are bigger and more shocking,
from suicides to self-immolation, from murdering relatives to serial killing
- so many lies that you find it hard not to believe them. Do you sympathize
with Falun Gong? The CCP connects your political evaluation with the persecution
of Falun Gong, and demotes you, fires you, or takes away your bonus if
Falun Gong practitioners from your area of responsibility appeal in Beijing.
Thus, you are forced to become an enemy of Falun Gong.
The CCP has kidnapped countless Falun
Gong practitioners and taken them to brainwashing sessions in an effort
to force them to give up their righteous beliefs, denounce Falun Gong,
and promise to stop their practice. The CCP has used various evil ways
to persuade them, including using their relatives, employment, and education
to pressure them, inflicting them with various cruel tortures and even
punishing their family members and colleagues. Falun Gong practitioners
who have been successfully brainwashed are in turn used to torment and
brainwash others. The vicious CCP insists on turning good people into demons
and forcing them to walk on a dark path to the end of their lives. |
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VII. The Iniquitous
Socialism with "Chinese Characteristics" |
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The term "Chinese characteristics"
is used to cover up the CCP's crimes. The CCP claims all along that it
owes its success in China's revolution to "the integration of Marxism-Leninism
with the concrete reality of Chinese revolution." The CCP has frequently
abused the term "characteristic" as an ideological support for its capricious
and villainous policies.
Capricious and Deceptive Means
Under the deceptive façade of
the "Chinese characteristics," what the CCP has accomplished is nothing
but absurdity.
The goal of the CCP's revolution was
to realize public ownership of the means of production, and it has deceived
many young people into joining the Party organization for the ideals of
communism and unity. Many of them even betrayed their property-owning families.
But 83 years after the beginning of the CCP, capitalism has returned, only
now becoming a part of the CCP itself, which was originally upholding the
banner of equalitarianism.
Today, among CCP leaders' children and
relatives, many are new capitalists with fortunes, and many Party members
have endeavored to join this group of nouveau riche. The CCP eliminated
the landlords and capitalists in the name of revolution and stole their
property. Now, the CCP's new "royalty" has become even richer capitalists
through embezzlement and corruption. Those who followed the Party in the
early revolutions now sigh, "If I knew the situation today, I would not
have followed it then." After several decades of sweat and struggle, they
find themselves to have simply devoted their brothers' and fathers' properties
as well as their own lives to the CCP cult.
The CCP speaks of the economic base
determining the superstructure [13]; in reality, it is the CCP's corrupt
officials' bureaucratic economic base that decides the "high-pressure superstructure"
– a superstructure that relies on high pressures to maintain. Suppressing
the people has therefore become the CCP's basic policy.
Another iniquitous characteristic of
the CCP is manifest in changing the definition of cultural concepts and
then using these revised definitions to criticize and control people. The
concept of "party" is one such example. Since the beginning of time, parties
have been established both at home and abroad. Only the Communist Party
exercises power beyond the domain of a party collective. If you join the
Party, it will control all aspects of your life, including your conscience,
subsistence, and private life. When given political authority, the CCP
controls the society, government, and the state apparatus. It dictates
all matters, from ones as important as who should be the Chairman of the
country or the Minister of Defense, or what regulations and rules will
be made, to as small as where one should live, with whom one can marry,
and how many children one can have. The CCP has mustered all imaginable
methods of control.
In the name of dialectics, the CCP has
completely destroyed the holistic thinking, reasoning faculties, and inquiring
spirit of philosophy. While the CCP speaks about "distribution according
to contribution," the process of "allowing some people to get rich first"
has been accomplished along with "distribution according to power." The
CCP uses the disguise of "serving the people whole-heartedly" to deceive
those who hold these ideals, then completely brainwashes and controls them,
gradually changing them into docile tools who "serve the Party whole-heartedly"
and who dare not speak up for the people.
A Machiavellian Party with "Chinese Characteristics"
Using a principle that values the Party's
interests beyond all other considerations, the CCP has distorted the Chinese
society with the means of an evil cult, creating a really grotesque being
in the entire humanity. This being is different from any other state, government
or organization. Its principle is to have no principle; there is no sincerity
behind its smiles. However, kindhearted people cannot understand the CCP.
Based on the universal moral standards, they cannot imagine that such an
evil entity would be representing a country. Using the excuse of the "Chinese
characteristics," the CCP established itself among the nations of the world.
The "Chinese characteristics" have become euphemism for the "CCP's villainous
characteristics."
With the "Chinese characteristics,"
China's crippled capitalism was transformed into "socialism;" "unemployment"
became "waiting for employment;" "being laid off" from work became "off
duty;" "poverty" became the "initial stage of socialism;" and human rights
and freedom of speech and belief were reduced to the mere right to survive.
The Chinese Nation Faces an Unprecedented
Moral Crisis
In the beginning of the 1990s, there
was a popular saying in China, "I'm a ruffian and I am afraid of no one."
This is the pitiful consequence of several decades of the CCP's iniquitous
rule, of its imposing corruption on the nation. Accompanying the fake prosperity
of China's economy is the rapidly declining morality in all areas of society.
The congressional representatives of
China oftentimes talk about the issue of "honesty and trust" during the
Chinese People's Congress. In college entrance exams, students are required
to write about honesty and trust. This signifies that lack of honesty and
trust and decline in morality have become an invisible but ubiquitous crisis
in the Chinese society. Corruption, embezzlement, fake products, deception,
malice and degenerating social norms are commonplace. There is no longer
any basic trust among people.
For those who claim to be satisfied
with an improved standard of living, isn't stability in their lives their
primary concern? What is the most important factor in social stability?
It is morality. A society with degraded morality cannot possibly provide
security.
To date, the CCP has cracked down on
almost all traditional religions and dismantled the traditional value system.
The unscrupulous way by which the CCP seizes wealth and deceives people
has had a trickle down effect on the entire society, corrupting the entire
society and leading its people towards villainy. The CCP, which rules by
devious means, also essentially needs a corrupt society as an environment
in which to survive. That is why the CCP tries everything it can to drag
the people down to its level, attempting to turn the Chinese people into
schemers to various degrees. This is how the CCP's deceitful nature is
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"It is easier to alter rivers and mountains
than to change one's nature." [14]
History has proven that every time the
CCP loosens its bondage and chains, it does so without intending to abandon
them. After the Great Famine of the early 1960s, the CCP adopted the "Three-Freedom
and One-Contract" (San Zi Yi Bao) program [15] aimed at restoring agricultural
production, but without the intent to change the "slave" status of Chinese
peasants. The "economic reform" and "liberalization" in the 1980s had no
constraint on the CCP's raising a butcher's knife to its own people in
1989. In the future, the CCP will continue to alter its façade but
will not change its iniquitous nature.
Some people may think that the past
belongs to the past, the situation has changed, and the CCP now is not
the CCP of an earlier era. Some may be satisfied with false appearances
and even mistakenly believe that the CCP has improved, is in the process
of reforming, or intends to make amends. They may constantly push away
troublesome memories of the past. All these can only give the CCP's band
of villains the opportunity to continue to survive and threaten humankind.
All the efforts by the CCP are designed
to make people forget the past. All of the people's struggles are a reminder
of the injustices they have suffered at the hands of the CCP.
In fact, the history of the CCP is one
that has severed people's memories, a history in which children do not
know the true experiences of their parents, a history in which hundreds
of millions of citizens endure the enormous conflict between despising
the CCP's bloody past and holding out hope for the CCP's future.
When the evil specter of communism fell
upon the human world, the Communist Party unleashed the scum of society
and utilized the rebellion of hoodlums to seize and establish political
power. What it has done, by means of carnage and tyranny, is to establish
and maintain despotism in the form of a "Party Possession." By using the
so-called ideology of "struggle" that opposes nature, heaven's laws, human
nature, and the universe, it destroys human conscience and benevolence,
and further destroys traditional civilization and morality. It has used
bloody slaughters and forced brainwashing to establish an evil communist
cult, creating a nation of warped minds in order to rule the country.
Throughout the history of the CCP, there
have been violent periods when the red terror reached its peak, and awkward
periods when the CCP narrowly escaped its demise. Each time, the CCP resorted
to the full use of its cunning means to extricate itself from crises, but
only to head for the next round of violence, continuing to deceive the
Chinese people.
When people recognize the CCP's villainous
nature and resist being deceived by its false images, the end will arrive
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In comparison with China's 5000-year
history, the 55 years of the CCP's rule are but the blink of an eye. Before
the CCP came into existence, China had created the most magnificent civilization
in the history of humankind. The CCP seized the opportunity of China's
domestic troubles and foreign invasion to wreak havoc on the Chinese nation.
It has taken away tens of millions of lives, destroyed countless families,
and sacrificed the ecological resources upon which China's survival depends.
What is even more devastating is the near destruction of China's moral
foundation and rich cultural traditions.
What will China's future be? What direction
will China take? Such serious questions are too complicated to discuss
in a few words. However, one thing is for certain - if there is no renewal
of the nation's morality, no restoration of a harmonious relationship between
humans and nature, and between humans, heaven and earth, if there is no
faith or culture for a peaceful coexistence among humans, it will be impossible
for the Chinese nation to have a bright future.
After several decades of brainwashing
and suppression, the CCP has instilled its way of thinking and its standards
for good and bad into the Chinese people's lives. This has led people to
accept and rationalize the CCP's perversion and fraudulence, to become
part of its falsehood, thereby providing the ideological basis for the
CCP's existence.
To eliminate from our lives the iniquitous
doctrines instilled by the CCP, to discern the CCP's utterly unscrupulous
nature, and to restore our human nature and conscience - this is the first
and essential step on the path toward a smooth transition to a society
free from the Communist Party.
Whether this path can be walked steadily
and peacefully will depend on the changes made in the heart of every Chinese
citizen. Even though the CCP appears to possess all the resources and violent
apparatus in the country, if every citizen believes in the power of the
truth and safeguards morality, the evil specter of the CCP will lose the
foundation for its existence. All resources may instantly return to the
hands of the just. That is when the rebirth of China will take place.
Only without the Chinese
Communist Party, will there be a new China.
Only without the Chinese
Communist Party, does China have hope.
Without the Chinese Communist
Party, the upright and kindhearted Chinese people will rebuild China's
historical magnificence. |
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Notes:
[1] According to traditional Confucian
thought, emperors or kings rule according to a mandate from heaven, and
to be given such an authority, their moral achievements have to match that
supreme responsibility. From the Mencius, a similar thought can also be
found. In the verse "Who Grants the Monarchical Power?" when asked who
granted the land and the governing authority to Emperor Shun, Mencius said,
"It was from heaven." The idea of the divine origin of power can also be
found in western Christian tradition. In Romans 13:1 of The Bible
(King James Version), for example, one finds: "Let every soul be subject
unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that
be are ordained of God."
[2] The one center refers to economic
development, while the two basic points are: Maintain the four basic principles
(socialist path, dictatorship of the proletariat, the CCP's leadership,
Marxism-Leninism and Mao's Thought), and continue with the policies of
reform and openness.
[3] Data from a report by Xinhua
News Agency on March 4, 2004.
[4] Mu is a unit of area used
in China. One mu is 0.165 acres.
[5] Data from a report by Xinhua
News Agency on February 29th, 2004.
[6] The "Three Noes Principle" has occurred
in the past. In 1979, Deng Xiaoping proposed a "Three Noes Principle" to
encourage people to speak their minds: No labeling, no attacking, and no
picking on mistakes. This should remind people of Mao similarly encouraging
intellectuals in the 1950s, which was followed by brutal persecution of
those who did speak up. Now, the newly proposed "Three Noes" refers to
"Development with no debates, advancement with no struggles, and progress
with no contentment in lagging behind."
[7] Hong Kong Basic Law Article 23 was
proposed in 2002 by the Hong Kong government under pressure from Beijing.
The article represented a serious erosion of freedom and human rights in
Hong Kong, undermining the "one country, two systems" policy promised by
the CCP. Article 23 was opposed globally, and was finally withdrawn in
2003.
[8] Liu Shaoqi, Chairman of China between
1959 and 1968, was considered to be the successor to Mao Zedong. During
the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), he was persecuted as a traitor, spy,
and renegade. He died in 1969 after being severely abused under the CCP's
imprisonment.
[9] CCTV (China Central Television)
is owned and directly operated by the central government. It is the major
broadcast network in Mainland China.
[10] These quoted phrases are all titles
of songs written and sung during the Mao era in the 1960s and early 1970s.
[11] Mao once said that we are afraid
of making mistakes, but we are concerned about correcting them.
[12] For detailed analysis of the self-immolation
video, please refer to the following website: http://www.clearharmony.net/articles/200109/1165.html.
[13] Superstructure in the context of
Marxist social theory refers to the way of interaction between human subjectivity
and the material substance of society.
[14] This is a Chinese proverb that
confirms the permanence of one's nature. The proverb has also been translated
as "The fox may change his skin but not his habits."
[15] The economic reform policies, known
as the "Three-Freedom and One-Contract" program (San Zi Yi Bao) proposed
by Liu Shaoqi, then President of China. The program stipulated plots of
land for private use, free markets, enterprises having sole responsibility
for their own profits and losses, and the fixing of output quotas on a
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"Columbia Encyclopedia: Falun
Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, movement promoting physical and spiritual
well-being that became widespread China in the 1990s. Founded in 1992 by
Li Hongzhi (1951?-), a former Changchun grain clerk, it combines exercise
routines, said to provide focus for the body's energy, with a code of spiritual
discipline, intended to foster physical, mental, and spiritual well-being.
Falun Gong's practices derive from qigong, traditional physical exercises
related to tai chi, and from Buddhist and Taoist meditation techniques
and spiritual elements. Practitioners cultivate moral precepts that stress
zhen (truthfulness), shan (compassion), and ren (forbearance).
Falun Gong, which spread rapidly throughout
China in the last decade of the 20th cent., was viewed as a cult by the
Chinese government, which vehemently opposed the movement and condemned
it in the media. In 1998, Li fled to the United States. His movement, however,
remained strong in China and gained adherents through proselytization in
the United States and other nations. Chinese members staged protests against
government persecution, and in Apr., 1999, when the movement claimed to
have roughly 70 million members in China, some 10,000 adherents gathered
in a peaceful, silent protest outside Zhongnanhai, the large government
and Communist party compound in Beijing. Now regarding the movement as
threat to party rule, China outlawed it and arrested and imprisoned members.
There also were and continue to be reports of the torture and killing of
adherents; some 2,000 persons are believed to have died as a result of
the persecution of the group. The systematic suppression of the Falun Gong
in China remains a government policy."
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