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Falun Gong Practitioners Hold Candlelight Vigil in Melbourne (Photos)

July 24th 2010 16:02
(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Gong practitioners held a candlelight vigil in front of Chinese Embassy in Melbourne on July 20, 2010, to commemorate the 3397 fellow practitioners who have been tortured to death by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) since July 20, 1999. They also called for stopping the persecution and bringing the culprits to justice.


Falun Gong practitioners hold a candlelight vigil in front of Chinese Embassy in Melbourne


Falun Gong practitioners hold a candlelight vigil in front of Chinese Embassy in Melbourne

It rained that evening. Falun Gong practitioners sat on the lawn quietly in the rain without moving. After a little while, the rain stopped, and they continued sitting peacefully. They held banners worded "Falun Dafa," "The Eleven-year Persecution Must Stop," and "Bring Jiang Zemin, Luo Gan, Zhou Yongkang and Liu Jing to Justice."

For eleven years, Falun Gong has spread to more than 100 countries. Falun Gong practitioners around the world continue protesting the persecution peacefully and rationally.

Mr. Zhonghua Ziao, director of Victoria Falun Dafa Association, said when interviewed by the Epoch Times, "In the past eleven years, we Falun Gong practitioners maintain the same path, following Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbe arance, and telling people about the grace of Falun Dafa, the principle benefits to society, everyone, and each country."

He continued, "For eleven years, we have protested the persecution. We hope that the persecution stops soon. Everything we do is in hopes of ending the persecution and letting people know about Falun Gong. The principle of Falun Gong is so important to all people. We host various activities, such as candlelight vigils, marches and rallies. The purpose of these events is to let more people learn about us and become aware of CCP's evil nature. When they learn that the CCP is harmful to everyone, they will oppose it."

Ms. Nina participated in the candlelight vigil every year on July 20, to call for an end to the persecution. She said with tears in her eyes, "On July 20 every year, I must come here. If Falun Gong practitioners outside China don't speak out, the practitioners in China will be persecuted more severely. We must come, to call for a stop to the persecution. We want to be good people. The CCP brutally persecutes fellow practitioners, and this persecution must stop. The CCP must immediately release all these innocent Falun Gong practitioners being imprisoned in jails and labor camps."

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Chinese Government Never Officially Banned Falun Gong, Part 3

July 23rd 2010 07:05
By a practitioner from outside China

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After July 20, 1999, media or even scholarly works outside of China have often used the words, "The Chinese government has banned Falun Gong since July of 1999." It is my belief that the Chinese Communist Party has never had a legal basis for its eleven-year persecution of Falun Gong, because the Chinese government never officially banned Falun Gong. I won't delve into the subject of the current Chinese government's legitimacy itself since its inception in 1949 for now, but even according to the Chinese government's own laws, the persecution by the CCP and Jiang Zemin's gang is illegal.

The first cause of most people's confusion is seeing the "CCP" and the "Chinese government" as being interchangeable, or even mixing up the head of the CCP with China the country or the Chinese government as an entity. The second cause is that the CCP intentionally uses this term in its propaganda to confuse public opinion. A third cause is their lack of understanding of what it means to ban something in a legal sense.

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III. The Persecution of Falun Gong Was Initiated by Jiang Zemin's Illegal, Personal Decision, and a Political Movement Resulting from Attempts by Jiang Zemin, the CCP, and the Chinese Government to Use Each Other. It Is Anything But the Implementation of Law.

The below are excerpts from internal CCP documents, speeches, and correspondence, illustrating the fact that the persecution resulted from Jiang and the CCP using and helping each other to their own ends.

A. On April 27, 1999, the Secretariat's Office of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party issued a secret document entitled, "Notice regarding printing and distributing the the letter from comrade Jiang Zemin to the Standing Committee of the Politburo and other senior leaders." The notice required CCP members to study the letter written by Jiang on the evening of April 25, one that is filled with jealousy, paranoia, and vicious lies. The notice required that all CCP members study the contents, implement them, and report back to the Central Committee. Based on this notice, Jiang was the person who turned the truth upside down regarding the Falun Gong practitioners peaceful, legitimate appeal on April 25. The letter itself and this notice also implied that his will was imposed upon the higher levels of the Chinese government, as the request was not for commentary or feedback, but rather to study and implement the content.

B. By looking at the content of Jiang's letter, we can find several striking mistruths that served as alarming signs of an impending political movement.

"Do they have some kind of relationship with forces outside of China, specifically the West, and is there a 'hidden master' controlling things behind the scenes?" - A baseless accusation that is to lend an excuse for the persecution.

"Could it be that the Marxism that is common to all of us Communists, and the materialism and atheism that we believe in, cannot defeat that bunch of stuff that Falun Gong is propagating? If that were really the case, wouldn't that be the biggest joke!" - The basis for the ideological side of the persecution that Jiang intends to start.

"This incident points out the extent to which the political-ideological work and the work with the masses have fallen in certain places and departments. We must educate the broader cadres and the masses with the correct world view, life view, and value system... It is high time that the leaders at each level, especially the senior level leaders, wake up!" This is a sign that the persecution was started without the initial backing of the high-level officials and a decision made by Jiang, and therefore it was necessary to "educate the broader cadres" and to have the senior leaders "wake up."

C. A second secret document was also issued by the Secretariat's Office of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, this time requiring CCP members to "Study and implement comrade Jiang's speech during the Central Committee Politburo meeting regarding the urgent handling and resolution of the 'Falun Gong problem'". This document was issued on June 7, 1999, and the direct result of this speech was the establishment of the {610 Office} three days later. Jiang said in his speech, "The Falun Gong problem has a deep socio-political background, even a complex international background. This is the most severe incident since that political crisis in 1989. We must face it seriously, look into it deeply, and implement forceful countermeasures." The fact that Jiang places the "Falun Gong problem" in the context of the 1989 June 4 Tiananmen Massacre is another indication that a full-fledged, nationwide persecution is about to commence.

D. This speech further stated, "The Central Committee has agreed to establish a special task force to deal with the 'Falun Gong problem', to be headed up by comrade Li Lanqing. Comrade Li Lanqing will serve as the task force leader, with comrades Ding Guangen and Luo Gan serving as deputy leaders, and the comrades responsible for the relevant departments serving as task force members, thereby centrally determining the specific steps, methods, and means to deal with the 'Falun Gong problem.' The Central Committee and government organs, ministries, and commissions at each province, autonomous region, and directly controlled municipalities must cooperate closely with this effort." The task force mentioned here is the predecessor to the "Leadership Group for the Chinese Communist Central Committee in Dealing with the Falun Gong Problem", and its subordinate organization "Office of the Leadership Group for the Chinese Communist Central Committee in Dealing with the Falun Gong Problem." This office also became known as the "610 Office" based on the date on which it was established. This Gestapo-like organization reached every province and city and permeated the government at each level, using the people's hard-earned money to persecute kind people and committing a litany of crimes over the past eleven years. There are a couple of points to be made here. One is that the 610 Office was established based on Jiang's personal decision. Usually, the "Central Committee" refers to the the "Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party" or the "Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party", in other words, a reference to the CCP rather than the Chinese government. In this case, Jiang's speech about the formation of the "leadership task force" was made to the Politburo, informing them of the decision, rather than bringing up an agenda item. If this decision by the "Central Committee" were made at a previous meeting, then there would be no need for Jiang to inform the same committee of its earlier decision, so the only logical explanation is that Jiang made the decision on behalf of the committee and then informed them of "their" decision. In other words, the "decision by the central committee" was in reality a decision by Jiang as an individual. In allowing this to come to pass and thus the long-term political movement that is the persecution of Falun Gong, the current party bosses of the CCP have an undeniable responsibility.

E. The pronouncement of "the Central Committee and government organs, ministries, and commissions at each province, autonomous region, and directly controlled municipalities must cooperate closely with this effort" in effect gave the 610 Office power to supersede the existing political infrastructure in accomplishing its goals. Even though the government at all levels were to cooperate with that organization, it was accountable only to Jiang himself. Before Jiang stepped down, it was a persecution tool at Jiang's direct disposal.

F. This speech also required the leadership group to gather information about the situation of past and present Falun Gong practitioners, yet these "situations" were predetermined. Soon after this speech, false allegations of Falun Gong practitioners "suffering psychosis, committing suicided, 1,400 deaths due to not taking medicine" quickly sprung up as a result of the 610 Office's baseless charges.

G. Another document was issued in between the above two notices, "Notice from the the Secretariat's Office of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Regarding Distributing the Notice by Comrade Jiang to the Central Committee Politburo, Secretariat, and Military Commission". This was issued around May 25, immediately preceding the provincial Communist Standing Committee meetings held on May 28. Currently, we do not have a copy of this document. Judging from a provincial-level document "Notice Regarding Seriously Implementing the Spirit of Document 19" issued by the Hebei Province Communist Committee Secretariat, the content of that notice was to secretly prepare for the persecution of Falun Gong. This document was discovered by the Hebei Provincial government General Affairs Agency's Human Resources Deputy Section Chief Xu Xinmu. The Shijiazhuang Falun Gong Assistance Center assistant Duan Rongxin and Xu Xinmu were sentenced to five and four years in prison, respectively, for this document getting out.

H. On June 14, 1999, major Chinese media reported on "Key Points Regarding Appeals Office Leadership Receiving Falun Gong Appellants". These reports refuted rumors regarding an impending persecution, and reiterated the theme of those who spoke with Falun Gong representatives on April 25, "The government at various levels have never banned any normal qigong exercises that strengthens health; people have the freedom of belief and to practice a given qigong, as well as to disbelieve a given qigong. It is normal to have differing views or criticisms, and they may reflect their views through normal channels and formats." So Jiang's secret documents either countermanded the public policy of the Communist Party and the government, or these reports were part of his own plan.

I. At the APEC meetings held in New Zealand during September, 1999, Jiang did something highly unusual and unseemly to his role. He gave booklets demonizing Falun Gong to various state leaders, including then U.S. President Bill Clinton. This is another sign of how personal this was for Jiang

J. On October 25, 1999, immediate prior to a state visit to France, Jiang gave a written interview to French newspaper Le Figaro. Again Jiang slandered Falun Gong, and prior to any CCP documents or media did so, and branded it a "cult." This is another sign of Jiang's personal obsession with the persecution and his role as the driving force behind it.

Two days later, the CCP-run People's Daily ran a special editorial entitled "Falun Gong is a Cult." On October 30, the National People's Congress Standing Committee ratified "Decision Regarding Banning Cult Organizations, and Being on Guard Against and Punishing Cult Activities." This decision was latter illegitimately called the "anti-cult law." Despite that, the decision never referenced Falun Gong, the unconstitutional nature of the decision notwithstanding.

In summary, the persecution initiated against Falun Gong on July 1999 was initiated by CCP leader Jiang Zemin's letters, speeches, directives, followed by a series of CCP-issued documents. These were the driving force behind this political, persecutory movement, accompanied by the overwhelming slander and smear campaign by the CCP propaganda machine. This persecution is not a case of a legitimate government enforcing its laws. Of course, a government has no right to persecute its people this way, or it would be, in the process of doing so, removing its own legitimacy. The responsibility for the continuation of this persecution after Jiang stepped down, however, falls squarely on the shoulders of the current CCP leadership.

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Conversation with Professor from China University of Political Science and Law

July 21st 2010 05:38
By a Falun Dafa practitioner in China

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I was taken to a brainwashing center during the 2008 Beijing Olympics. While in the brainwashing facility, I met a jurisprudence professor. This woman said she was from the China University of Political Science and Law, and was in the center to do research on religions and law, and to conduct a survey. Some people said she might be a plant from the provincial 610 Office. I discussed this with likewise detained practitioners. All of us agreed that regardless of what role she was playing we would treat her as a sentient being to be saved.

We cooperated as one body. While I explained the truth to her from a legal perspective, others sent righteous thoughts to support me. I am now documenting what happened during the conversation, in hopes it will help those practitioners who take legal action against the evildoers.

When I sat down with the professor I went straight to the point: "Article 300 in China's Criminal Law is about using evil religious organizations to sabotage the implementation of the laws of the state. Any legal professional such as a judge, a public prosecutor, a lawyer must understand the basic concepts of what an evil sect represents, what an evil religious organization is, and what implementation of the state law actually means - if they want to apply this law properly. Lacking such correct comprehension, these legal professionals would be unable to define the behavior of an individual or a civil organization, and determine if their actions constitute the crime of sabotaging the implementation of state laws.

"The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has long fouled people's minds with an incorrect legal notion - that the law reflects the will of the ruling class. Put simply, it means that whoever is in power is the ruling class, and that what they say is the truth, the law. This notion is nothing more than a variant of the domineering fallacy that power is truth. With such a twisted interpretation of law, how can it be that 'everyone is equal before of the law?'

"As for 'evil cult,' I would like to offer this definition: Any teaching that encourages people to openly and unscrupulously do evil is an evil cult, and any teaching that encourages people to do evil with a mentality of escaping punishment by sheer luck is an evil cult. Additionally, any teaching that turns people into animals and political hooligans who are immoral and inhumane, and who reject their kin and betray their conscience for immediate personal gains is an evil cult."

I asked the professor if she agreed with what I said. She said yes, but asked if I could explain the definition I said in a simpler and more specific manner. I agreed.

First, with regard to encouraging people to openly and unscrupulously do evil, I often use this metaphor: A person had inherited an estate that was passed on to him from three generations. He also worked very hard all his life and accumulated great wealth for later generations, including a large estate of 100 mu (about 16 acres) and a large shop in the city. While being wealthy, his family also did philanthropic work. He built private schools, providing education for the local children, based on the principles of benevolence, righteousness, etiquette, wisdom, and credibility. As a result, this person enjoyed high prestige and respect in the region.

However, in 1949, an organization came on the scene made up of poor people. The leader of the organization pointed his finger at this good, rich man and said to the poor people, "Do you know why we are so poor? It is because there are rich people, and because the rich people have exploited us poor people! If we poor people want to get rich, we must arm ourselves and overthrow the rich, beat them to death and share in their wealth."

Someone in the poor people's group said that the rich people had worked hard for their wealth, and if they overthrew them, beat them to death and shared their wealth, wouldn't it be like killing and robbery? The leader said, "How can it be killing and robbery? Ours is a justice revolution! Whoever says our action is killing and robbery is a counter-revolutionary."

Thus, killing and robbery became justified actions for this organization's revolution.

Second, regarding encouraging people to do evil with a mentality of escaping punishment by sheer luck: The Chinese people have historically respected Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, and believed there were gods, Buddhas and heavenly principles. They believed that if good was not rewarded with good and evil with evil, then there must be selfishness involved. The ancient people understood the importance of reflecting upon themselves three times a day, and that if two people did something bad, not only would the two of them know about it, heaven and earth would also know about it. They believed that the principle of retribution and punishment was evident everywhere. So in ancient times, people didn't dare to do evil while thinking they could escape punishment by sheer luck. Consequently, people respected the heavenly principles and cultivated themselves inwardly, and of course there was peace as a result.

After 1949, the same organization advocated atheism throughout China, and forbid people from believing in gods, Buddhas and heavenly principles - of good being rewarded with good and evil being met with evil. Anyone who said that good would be rewarded with good and evil met with evil would be criticized and blamed for spreading feudal superstition.

Why is it that in today's China corruption is everywhere? An important reason is that atheism has dissolved the binding force of natural, ancient laws which restrained people from doing evil. As a result, many people do evil with a mindset they might be lucky and escape punishment.

The third item was about turning people into animals and political hooligans who are immoral and inhumane, and who reject their kin and betray their conscience for immediate personal gains. That same organization mentioned above personifies a whole set of theories for its political movements, to "attack and punish" people. Since it came to power, it has launched one political movement after another - to "attack and punish" people. These political motives and movements had a great number of people draw a clear line between factions, and between their parents, in order to gain so-called political fame, and of being "revolutionary, exemplary, active, and progressive." They beat their parents, berated their teachers, fought with their spouses, and reported on their friends. They had indeed reduced the people into animals and inhumane political hooligans and rejected their kin!

Think about it. When organizational theories turn people into such inhumane creatures and political hooligans, isn't it evil? Isn't it correct to call such theories fallacies? Isn't such an organization an evil organization? I think it's very obvious which one is the true evil organization.

From there, I spoke briefly about sabotaging the implementation of state laws: First, let us pinpoint what state laws are. As I said earlier, the fundamental characteristic of laws is punishing evildoers and advocating good. In other words, sabotaging the implementation of state laws means sabotaging the process of punishing the evil and advocating good, and it is a process of conniving at and protecting evil conduct. Accordingly, it is very clear what sabotaging the implementation of state laws is.

Who then are those who, for many years, have used an evil organization to commit so much evil that so severely damaged the Chinese nation and human morals? Historians regard the ten-year period of the Cultural Revolution as the most insane and most evil in human history. How many Chinese people lost their lives during those ten years! Who was the chief culprit that launched the Cultural Revolution? It was the then Chinese Communist Party leader Mao Zedong who used the evil Communist Party organization to sabotage the implementation of state law.

During the past decade, since July 1999, the political hoodlum clique headed by Jiang Zemin and his accomplices, first confused right and wrong and tarnished Falun Dafa, which teaches people to be good people, calling it an evil cult. The hoodlums then began a brutal persecution of practitioners, acts that included and still include unlawful arrest, unlawful trial, and detention. A great number of practitioners, accused of sabotaging the implementation of state laws, were sent to labor camps and prisons, and many lost their lives as a result of torture!

Who are the real criminals that are using this evil organization to sabotage the implementation of state law? No regime or individual should decide whether or not a theory represents an evil religion. The key judging point is whether the theory is teaching people to be good people, or encouraging people to do evil.

Falun Dafa is a righteous Fa that teaches people to be good, as millions of Dafa practitioners have demonstrated to the world with their noble conduct. Since Falun Dafa is not an evil religious organization, how can Dafa disciples' firm belief in Dafa constitute any crime called "using an evil religious organization"? The fundamental nature of law is to punish evil and advocate good. Then isn't Dafa practitioners' firm belief in the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbe arance itself an act of protecting state law - to punish the evil and advocate good? How can it be accused of sabotaging the implementation of state law?

On the contrary, the CCP is indeed the largest evil organization in the world today, and the persecution of Falun Gong by Jiang Zemin's political hoodlum clique is truly criminal - using an evil organization, the CCP, to sabotage the implementation of state laws. They are the real criminals.

Article 300 in China's Criminal Law was tailor-made for Jiang's political hoodlum clique and the CCP. It is unfortunate that this law has not only failed to be applied to help clear out the evil CCP, which has harmed the Chinese nation for nearly 100 years since its establishment in China, but has also been used to persecute Falun Dafa and those who uphold this great belief. No Chinese laws exist that forbid people from practicing Falun Gong. To convict practitioners for practicing their belief system not only proves that the CCP is not ruling according to the rule of law, but also provides the most plausible evidence that the CCP does not apply the rule of any law in the persecution of Falun Gong, instead using only hoodlum means.

I said to the professor: "I used to work in legal news editing. You are a jurisprudence professor. Such a tragedy is happening in our lifetime. It is a travesty for every one of us who is engaged in legal research, and for everyone who works in law enforcement!"

Having said this, I could not go on and looked directly into her by then tear-filled eyes. She said to me, "This is the first time I have heard someone explain in this way what an evil religion is." I said to her, "When a person has learned who the real evil organization is, he/she won't be fooled again and won't continue doing bad things. Instead, he/she will quit this evil organization - the CCP."

Concluding, she stated, "I understand now and I know what to do."

I was very pleased for her that she had learned the facts. At the end of the conversation she said to me kindly, "Don't be too straight-forward in what you say. You must learn to protect yourself."

I knew she was being kind to me, and I thanked her.

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Chinese Government Never Officially Banned Falun Gong, Part 2

July 19th 2010 13:56
By a Falun Dafa practitioner from outside China

(Clearwisdom.net) After July 20, 1999, media or even scholarly works outside of China have often used the words, "The Chinese government has banned Falun Gong since July of 1999." It is my belief that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has never had a legal basis for its eleven-year persecution of Falun Gong, because the Chinese government never officially banned Falun Gong. I won't delve into the subject of the current Chinese government's legitimacy itself since its inception in 1949 for now, but even according to the Chinese government's own laws, the persecution by the CCP and Jiang Zemin's gang is illegal


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Chinese Government Never Officially Banned Falun Gong, Part 1

July 18th 2010 14:13
By a Falun Dafa practitioner from outside China

(Clearwisdom.net) After July 20, 1999, media and even scholarly works outside of China have often used the words, "The Chinese government has banned Falun Gong since July of 1999." It is my belief that the Chinese Communist Party has never had a legal basis for its eleven-year persecution of Falun Gong, because the Chinese government never officially banned Falun Gong. I won't delve into the subject of the current Chinese government's legitimacy itself since its inception in 1949 for now, but even according to the Chinese government's own laws, the persecution by the CCP and Jiang Zemin's gang is illegal


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Falun Gong Ms. Geng Jin'e Dies in Custody in Beijing

June 29th 2010 13:08
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Name: Geng Jin'e


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Some Falun Gong Practitioners in China Die after Enduring Torture

June 20th 2010 06:31
Practitioners from Liaoning and Hunan Provinces Die after Enduring Torture

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Shen Yun June 20, New Brunswick NJ

June 6th 2010 21:28
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Singapore - Falun Gong Practitioner Denied Re-Entry Permit

June 6th 2010 21:18
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Experiencing Infinite Grace from Ordinary Incidents

June 6th 2010 09:51
By Yi Ran from Beian, Heilongjiang Province

(Clearwisdom.net) On the eighteenth anniversary of Master teaching the Fa publicly, as a beneficiary of Falun Gong, I would like to share with you the mental and physical changes in me, and various small incidents since starting to practice Falun Gong. I thank Master for his immense grace. At the same time I want to share my stories with those who are searching for the true meaning of life


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