Commentary: I Openly Applaud Falun Gong's Approach of "Targeting Individuals and Bringing them to Justice According to the Law"

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Some people don't care for Falun Gong's policy of "targeting individuals and bringing them to justice according to the law," and accuse it of being "dictatorial" and "despotic." I felt uncomfortable about these charges, since in the U.S., a country of judicial independence, holding people responsible for their crimes in accordance with the law is a part of the culture. Then why do some Chinese people oppose this view? I guess its because the Communist Party, which is accustomed to being above the law, is uncomfortable with any law requiring it to use even a little bit of restraint. These people probably think that Falun Gong should just accept the bad treatment it gets, and that it does not deserve the basic rights bestowed by the law.

It is simply inconceivable to them that Falun Gong dares to make trouble for the Party in a court of law. They seem to be applying a mainland China rule that "the Party controls the law" to overseas nations. Who told them that the Communist Party officials who have conducted wrong deeds should be aquitted, and not lose their positions? Please be advised that the majority of regions in the world have yet to be "liberated" by Communism. To tell you the truth, for those Conmmunist cadres who are doing evil things, their troubles are just beginning and the real disasters are yet to come.

The angry charge against Falun Gong's strategy of a legal struggle proves that the strategy is right on target. The Communists who do wrong deeds inside the Party always have the nature of "bullying the weak and fearing the strong". Reasoning with them is useless. The more kindly you treat them, the more they will see you as weak; the more you tolerate them, the more they want to use your forgiveness to set you in a deathtrap. When you simply stand up and resist them with a legal weapon, they do not know what to do.

My recollection of the beginning of the persecution is that Falun Gong did not resist the Party. They just repeatedly appealed to the Party and expressed that they had no intention to resist the Party, to be involved in politics, or even to form an organization. All they requested was a environment where they could practice freely. However, it was these good intentions that encouraged the evil people in the Chinese Communist Party who wanted to suppress Falun Gong. These people's philosophy is: Always bully the ones who are easy to bully. Thereupon, they called the most peaceful, tranquil, and orderly petition in the world "surrounding" the government compound at Zhongnanhai, and later changed it to "besieging" Zhongnanhai. They even consider Falun Gong commtting a big crime by not admiting that it was organized. Rational people could see that establishing an organization is not a horrible crime. Why can't Falun Gong have its own organization? Initially Falun Gong declared that it had no organization in order to indicate to the Chinese Communist Party that it had no intention to pose any threat. However, the Chinese Communist Party takes this good intention as a fault to persecute Falun Gong, and irrationally accuses Falun Gong with "not acknowledging itself as organized".

Facing these vicious Chinese Communist Party officials, what choice did Falun Gong have? Had all Falun Gong practitioners not uttered a word after July 20, 1999, would the Chinese Communist Party have left them alone? In reviewing the history, it definitely would not. Then what should Falun Gong do? If you were a Falun Gong practitioner, would you just wait to be arrested? Definitely not. You want justice. Therefore, moving towards organized resistance was Falun Gong's only choice. Luckily, they promptly organized to resist so that they could become strong with instruments like radio and television stations, newspapers, and websites; they now have the ability to initiate protests everywhere around the world, can sue visiting Chinese Communist Party officials, and have convinced many foreign government officials and members of national assemblies. Overseas, the power balance has already shifted towards the Falun Gong's side. This time, on the contrary, the Chinese Communist Party authority has stopped accusing Falun Gong of being "organized," which only proves that the group of villains running the Chinese Communist Party is really a group of mean, despicable people.

The facts showed that the only effective way to convince these believers of Marx and Lenin is to stand up to them. They become restrained when they run into into a wise and pliable match. What they truly respect is a powerful opponent. Don't view the Chinese Communist Party senior officials such as Jiang as hiding like mice during their overseas' visits. These are the symptoms of villains appearing after encountering powerful resistance.
"Targeting individualsand bringing them to justice according to the law" is an excellent method. First, it is a civilized method that resists within the legal system, which exposes the ugliness of the "revolutionary" persecution methods that the Chinese Communist Party has been habitually using. Secondly, it is a public method. Falun Gong's lawsuits against the Chinese Communist Party officials have all been carried out on in a transparent environment in view of the public that has made the Chinese Communist Party officials very fearful. They are afraid they will "die upon their deeds seeing the light of day." These officials at all levels are accustomed to secretly plotting and framing innocent people, and regard with fear having to publicly appear before a court of law to testify alone. At the same time, it is also a fair method. Falun Gong may file suits against the Party officials and the Chinese Communist Party official may make countersuits.

Falun Gong can either win or lose the lawsuits. In the process of these lawsuits initiated by Falun Gong, the world has seen whose righteousness is indomitable, and who appears fierce but is actually faint-hearted and fearful.
Falun Gong's "bringing people to justice" identifies those responsible and holds them accountable for their crimes. They use every effort to collect and verify the information about each individual who has participated in the persecution and the killing of Falun Gong practitioners, and to publish the names and contact information of these people on their websites. They often advise these people that they have been identified as being responsible for persecuting Falun Gong by various means, including direct telephone calls. When senior officials guilty of crimes in the persecution visit overseas, Falun Gong practitioners try to initiate lawsuits against them to hold them responsible for their gross misdeeds. This helps Chinese Communist Party officials understand that they will actually have to pay a price for conducting wrong deeds. Although the lawsuits have so far not implicated officials who have not traveled overseas, they have, nonetheless, more or less been shocked by these lawsuits. Receiving a long-distance overseas phone call and hearing someone telling him "we have noted your name" alone puts considerable pressure on guilty parties. The people who have done bad things fear the most that the people in the world know about them. Upon learning that the world is paying attention to them and they would possibly be investigated and held responsible in the future, it becomes difficult for them to comfortably continue doing their wrong deeds.

Even if the lawsuit again Jiang Zemin is rejected or finally dismissed by the court, the fact that it has been carried on for such long time has already created an enormous shock to the Chinese Communist Party. Each Party officials who has been participating in the persecution should think about this: it is even hard for Jiang, a "head of state," to escape the suit, not to mention small officials like you.

Filing a suit according to the law against the people who violate human rights is a citizens' responsibility in a civilized society. Even the law education materials published by the Chinese Communist Party request people to do so. I shall say that the best and most vivid lesson of law education is letting the Chinese Communist Party members, who hold themselves above the law in China, taste the flavor of a real legal system.

[Edited from The Small Reference]