Kultur och demokrati
Det hände något idag som känns lätt surealistiskt ur mitt lilla lätt, instängda Linköpingsperspektiv. Det ringde en man som presenterade sig som ambassadråd på Kinesiska ambassaden i Stockholm. Han undrade om jag var ansvarig för kulturen i Linköping. Jag bekräftade att jag är ordförande i Kultur- och Fritidsnämnden. Då vill mannen diskutera en föreställning som kommer att gå på Konsert och Kongress i mars. Den var enligt hans mening anti-keniskverksamhet och han ville att jag skulle stoppa föreställningen. I samtalet framhöll han också de goda förbindelser som funnits mellan Linköping och Kina och att dessa skulle kunna påverkas negativ om vi inte stoppade föreställningen.
Tja hur bemöter man en sådan begäran och påståenden? Jag försökter förklara att för mig finns det två bärande principer i politik, demokrati och yttrandefrihet, och att jag utgick från att detta respekterades och att jag varken kan vill eller får censurera förställningar.
Efteråt kändes det ganska olustigt, någon hade ringt upp mig och bett mig förhindra andra att uppträda p g a att uppträdandet av vissa uppfattas som "fel åsikt". Kändes ändå bra att det var så lätt att säga att det är något som jag inte ställer upp på.
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Tungt. Kanske dags att sätta upp en Peking-opera i Linköping för att återupprätta gamla relationer?
I just post 2 letters here personally for you, my dear Swedish friend, your kindness of nature will be cherished by every decent men.
Zhao Meng
TM Vision ApS, Denmark
Gothenburg 071212
Dear Mr Meng!
Thank you very much for your letter and our phone call this morning.
We have broadcasted this “XIN TANG REN (belongs to FALUN GONG sect)”channel for two years and this is the first time I received complains regarding this channel.
The first thing I did this morning was to close this channel immediately. I contacted the Chinese Embassy and have spoken to Ms Chen Xiang. We have now got information for three different channels, CCTV9, CCTV4 and PCNE. We were recommended to broadcast PCNE, as also you recommended. We will now contact our supportcompany for our TV-system to check all these three channels and if they are possible to view at our hotel. When we are ready to start again I will personally contact you again.
Thank you also for the information regarding the free newspapers that we receive to the hotel. We will no longer distribute them to our guests. I will also personally give this information to our HQ and ask them to inform all our hotels within Choice Hotels Scandinavia so that they also will get this information.
Next time you visit Gothenburg and Quality Hotel Panorama please ask for me in the reception. I would like to thank you in person for this information you have helped us with.
Best regards
Richard Fredriksson
General Manager
Quality Hotel Panorama
+46 31 767 7040
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Protesting LetterOslo, the 8th.December.2007
We are a group of worrying Chinese people living in Scandinavian countries, many of us work within the Chinese travel business.
While working with our Chinese clients and personally staying at one of your hotels - Quality Hotel Panorama in Gothenburg, Sweden, we noticed that you have been using a very special Chinese language TV station called "Xin Tang Ren TV" for your Chinese speaking guests who stay at the hotel. I have to say that it is wrong that you have made such a choice!
First of all, we have to say we think "Xin Tang Ren TV" is not a normal TV station, it shows only ONE same program which takes merely 3 hours, called "Jiu ping gong chan dang" it means "the nine main issues about The Chinese Communist Party". As it sounds, it has a sole topic: that is the ruling parting in China - The Chinese Communist Party is an evil and disgusting political party. There are no daily news, no relaxing shows, no Chinese films, no nothing a commercial TV program must have! Strange! Right?
After viewing this 120% political propaganda program so many times as your hotel guest, we have to let you know that we do not think this TV channel is suitable for such a commercial hotel, like yours. It is probably totally wrong for you to have it. Further more we think it has been damaging the business image of your hotel chain severely.
After a short searching on the internet, you will easily find out that "Xin Tang Ren TV" belongs to a half religious(actually it has nothing to do with the definition of religion!), half political oriented sect called "Falun Gong"(the words mean "Magic Wheel Effect Sect" ). This sect started some 12 years ago in mainland China as one of thousands of new ways for people to reach better health and understanding of life. But only 3-4 years later, since it developed to be more and more extreme in its practicing rituals(details on internet), it soon draw the attention of the Chinese State Security. Finally it resulted that the Chinese government decided to outlaw it totally(further infomation obtained from governmental offices).
Its leader - Mr. Li Hong Zhi, fled to the U.S.A.. And since then, like all other politically active Chinese dicidents living abroad, he got all possible supports from all different sources, and of course, the all the supports he got are not unconditional. One of the main conditions is supposed to be that his "Magic Wheel Effect Sect" has to do things against the national interests of China (better seen on internet). The Falun Gong sect members, as known from all sources, are more likely to use very radical ways to make them heard or seen(as shown by photo copies incl.). During this whole mess, most normal Scandinavians are hopelessly not able to find out what is right or wrong inside this Chinese internal, political, cultural, social, historical and traditional complicities.
It has since caused a lot of misunderstanding among the people who saw "Magic Wheel Effect Sect" members put up their shows everywhere in the public places. But thank God, now, after Singapore, which is a western oriented democratic country, and with Chinese culture and language, got it forbidden a few years ago due to similar reasons, the western countries and normal western people are becoming more knowlegable what the "Magic Wheel Effect Sect" is about. But on the other hand, the "Magic Wheel Effect Sect" puts Singapore on its hate-list as well (better seen on internet, or you can obtain more official comment from the embassies).
We do not want to make further description of this deformed "Magic Wheel Effect Sect", because we are so crystal clear that, here in Scandinavian countries, the people are so lucky to live so freely, and to have so many liberal ideas about anything they may come up with in their lifes. We also know, for example, it is even totally OK to become a not quite beloved New Nazist, an ultra extreme Islamist, an antisocial type of Scientologist, a strangely-thinking Johovas witness or just openly express negatively about anything the government does etc......
But please do forgive me to ask you - the so successful Choice Hotel Headquarter Office Manager this easy and personal question: "Do you think it is also OK to let all TV programs, with all those above mentioned "fresh and fanatic" ideology ideas, be shown on your private-owned Hotel-TV programs non-stop, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year??" The answer is easy to give, isn´t it?
Finally, we will encourage you to remove the "Xin Tang Ren TV" immediately and for ever from the Quality Panorama Hotel in Gothenburg, Sweden. If you need to find a new Chinese language TV program for your normal Chinese speaking guests, you simply need to make a call and ask your partners or friends like Scandic Hotel and Clarion Hotel in Oslo, Stockholm or Copenhagen.
Anyhow, We hope by our heart that this letter will bring us tighter to understand each other on more equal bases, and lead us to find some truly respectable, realistic and positive life values from both of our different cultures.
Zhao Meng
Directer of TM Vision ApS, Denmark
Contact person of the worrying group
http://www.randi.org/jr/08-03-01.html
August 3, 2001
About Falun Gong, Wrong Saint, Yet More Geller Boo-Boos, Light on Buxton, Clarifying the JREF Challenge, KKK.....
The cult of Falun Gong is hardly different from so many of the numerous science-bashing movements, but this one is of note because it has taken in so many citizens of the world's most populous country, China. Other countries, too, have been infected by the nonsense behind it, and as with the Sai Baba cult of India, this one threatens to spread worldwide.
The Chinese government's concern with the popularity of Falun Gong is much more than political, I believe. Being very realistic, it's a fact that any pseudoscience, any superstition, any cult action, is a negative element in any society. And, when an individual assumes the position of a deity, there will always be enough persons to support him or her simply because of the charisma generated. Sai Baba - previously discussed in detail here - appeals to the masses because he performs a few crude sleight-of-hand tricks. Elizabeth Clare Prophet, of the Church Universal and Triumphant in the USA, bases her support on hyperbolized claims of imminent invasion from aliens of various kinds, and even though her promised events of this sort have failed to take place, she still holds her followers in a state of armed fear. Jim Jones and the People's Temple flourished due to the followers' terror of an outside world they did not understand. Falun Gong simply denies science, appeals to venerated Chinese traditions, and uses the fictional façade created by founder Li Hongzhi, as well as his also-failed predictions, as a romantic base for acceptance.
Li started out by changing his own birthdate to something more suitable for a deity. July 7th, 1952, was not an auspicious date, so he maneuvered local officials into giving him an I.D. card that says May 13th, 1951. Since Chinese tradition has the birthday of Buddha as the eighth day of the fourth lunar month, which is May 13th, this provided Li with a basis for divinity. His preposterous comic-book claims range from bringing all his disciples to fly in the sky, to the fact that all things are composed of water. He commands his followers to denounce all science, and to ignore doctors and medicine of all kinds. He says that he himself made his own grandparents. It goes on and on.
Li, now living comfortably in New York, supported by the wealth he has sucked from his disciples, is another nobody who seized an opportunity to become powerful and rich on the naivety of a populace. I differ with the government of China on political matters, but not on this humanitarian catastrophe.
The national constitution of China, while rejecting religion, states that all citizens have freedom of religious belief. They are constitutionally protected from forceful interference with their religious practice. The government encourages "democratic discussion" and "persuasive education," and Mao Tse-tung himself wrote that religions could not be abolished by decree or by force. That's what the official rules say. As with all such official stances, we must wonder if in practice it is the same.
Presently, we find an active movement - largely sponsored and promoted by Li Hongzhi's movement - that criticizes the official Chinese stance on Falun Gong, stating that it is an evil influence. My last visit to Australia produced an effective demonstration by my good friend and colleague Sima Nan, a man who has been very active in fighting superstition and pseudoscience in China. That appearance was preceded by an official representative of the Chinese government, a man who rather chilled the entire event with his repetitious reference to "the evil cult of Falun Gong." It was not at all welcome to that audience to hear such formulated recitations as, "The government of the People's Republic of China look upon the evil cult of Falun Gong as an evil force that denies the validity of science as embraced by the government of the People's Republic of China and the evil cult of Falun Gong has been teaching citizens of the People's Republic of China that the philosophy of the evil cult of Falun Gong is the means by which...." well, you get the idea. By simply demonstrating some of the side-show tricks that Falun Gong teachers use, Sima Nan was a hundred times as effective as any formula speech, believe me.
Go to www.falundafa.org and see what's offered. You'll find "How to Get Started," "Exercises." and "Common Questions," but not a word about the basic claims of the religion. You come away with the idea that this is a series of stately exercises performed in the park, not a science-bashing, fanatic, irrational, cult. The pages of L. Ron Hubbard's Scientology sites give the same kind of an impression, with no mention of the blue octopi in the volcanoes that eventually show up in their creed if you can pay long and bountifully enough.
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/ethics/1017964337.php
Falun Gong and the Internet
Stephen O'Leary
posted: 2000-06-15 • modified: 2002-04-04
In 1999, the Chinese government launched a campaign against superstitions and unauthorized spiritual groups. One group targeted was Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, which practices a form of Qi Gong, a slow-motion meditative exercise related to martial arts such as Tai Chi.
Members of the group reacted to the government offensive with a daring demonstration, staged in Beijing's Tiananmen Square-the site of the 1989 crackdown on the pro-democracy movement. The demonstration was peaceful, but involved 10,000 of the group's followers, making it the largest demonstration in recent Chinese history. In return, the Chinese government launched an all-out offensive specifically targeted against the group, branding it an 'evil cult' and arresting and imprisoning its leaders and members.
Is this just another example of religious repression? Why should we care about the Chinese government's beef with a bunch of people who appear to be devoted to the practice of an ancient meditative exercise regime?
Before we dismiss what appears to be a marginal religious cult, we should remember that estimates of this group's size range from two million to 100 million. We might also recall the last time an unorthodox religious movement swept across China (as Jonathan Spence tells the story in God's Chinese Son), the result was a war, the Taiping Rebellion, that killed twenty million people.
Imagine if Hong Xiuquan, the messianic leader of that nineteenth-century cultic crusade, had had access to twenty-first century technology-and you'll have a clue as to why the Chinese regime is so scared of this group.
A little Web surfing reveals that there's more to this story than meets the eye. Falun Gong's Internet savvy was a crucial factor in its ability to organize the unauthorized demonstration under the noses of Chinese intelligence. The group's secretive leader, Li Hongzhi, lives in New York and directs his movement from abroad with Internet, fax, and telephone. The group is thoroughly wired, with Falun Gong Web sites all over the world, including Asia, the USA, UK, Canada, Israel, and Australia.
In response, the Chinese government has set up an anti-Falun Gong Web site to discredit the group, and, according to an ABC News report, has also hacked into Falun Gong Web sites worldwide, spamming and causing their servers to crash.
Others have also joined in the fray of the Internet propaganda war between the Chinese government and the Falun Gong, with Web sites such as CESNUR and AsiaSource following the developments of Chinese persecution of the group closely, and offering overviews, commentaries, and site links.
The Falun Gong story appears to be as much about technology as it is about religion; it offers a fascinating glimpse of an ancient religious tradition that is mutating rapidly as it makes the leap into cyberspace.
The Propaganda War
Let's start with the attacking side in the propaganda war. Why is the Chinese government so upset over this group, and what allegations have they made about it?
A July 23, 1999 article in China Daily provides some of the government's justifications of its campaign to arrest and jail Falun Gong followers. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue is quoted as claiming that 'Falun Gong organizations have advocated superstitious beliefs and incited the masses to create disturbances and jeopardize social stability under the banner of practicing Falun Gong.'
The official Web site of the China Internet Information Center, the center of the government's Internet campaign to discredit the group, contains numerous articles detailing the 'cult's' alleged crimes.
In one article 'True Face of Li Hongzhi Exposed,' Falun Gong is characterized as a 'highly organized, fully functional, and unregistered illegal organization,' whose leader is alleged to have bilked his followers of massive quantities of money and even their sanity.
Another article, with the unambiguous title 'Analysis of Falun Gong Leader's Malicious Fallacies,' accuses the group of being a doomsday cult that has supposedly 'deceived' and 'harmed' many: 'Falun Gong has a set of ridiculous ideas, a basic one of which claims that doomsday is coming, that human beings will be extinct soon, that modern science can do nothing to prevent the catastrophe, that only Falun Gong can save mankind, and that Li Hongzhi is the sole 'savior.'' Li Hongzhi is alleged to have warned 'that the Earth would explode, that only he could postpone the explosion, and that only 'Falun Dafa' was the 'transcendental law' which could save the entire human race.'
This is all very interesting to apocalyptic prophecy buffs. And, it's not very often that claims about the impending apocalypse attract the attention of the government of the world's most populous nation. That same government was so afraid of Falun Gong that it continued its crackdown at a sensitive moment, when China's entry into the WTO and the debate over Most Favored Nation status in the US placed it under intense critical scrutiny from anti-China activists eager to publicize evidence of religious repression.
What is perhaps most interesting about the Falun Gong Web pages-on both sides of this battle is that they are quite extensively available in both English and Chinese. This suggests two things: first, that persuading external, Western audiences to either condemn or tolerate this group is an important objective for both sides; second, that some substantial portion of the followers themselves are English-speaking, non-Asian Westerners.
At least one believer's Web testimony indicates that it has an appeal for non-Asians; and the many other personal stories posted at Minghui Net, the main site for 'Falun Dafa in North America,' bear this out. Falung Gong appears to be aggressively attempting to expand its membership beyond China by targeting mystically inclined Westerners.
Most interesting of all to those who follow news about fringe religions around the world is the fact that the Chinese government's campaign against this organization has drawn its justifications directly from the findings of anti-cult authors in the West.
The extensive article 'Why We Judge 'Falun Gong' to Be a Cultist Organization' is hauntingly familiar to those who remember the press accounts of cult violence from Jonestown to Waco to Heaven's Gate and Aum Shinrikyo.
The article pulls out all the stops in its comparison of Li Hongzhi to Jim Jones and other planners of religious violence, and in its demonization of alternative religious groups as 'cultist organizations corroding human society like malignant tumors.' It lists a number of symptoms of destructive cultism, as distinguished from legitimate religion: 'cult founder worship' and claims of supernatural powers, 'hawking the theory of doomsday,' 'amassing illegal funds by manipulating followers,' and 'brainwashing.'
As the article puts it, 'The followers of a cult are re-educated, have their brains washed and start with a clean slate -- 'Brain washing' means that the founder of a cult, or his organization, instills his ideas into the followers' minds and demands that they accept them.'
The Brainwash Debate
The scholarly debate over the brainwashing thesis is conflicted. Academics are divided over whether many standard religious practices of indoctrination are distinguishable from this kind of acute psychological coercion.
The fact that the charge of brainwashing is being raised by the Chinese government is particularly ironic, for the term was introduced to our lexicon as a way to describe the coercive pressure applied to American prisoners of war by the Chinese during the Korean War. (The image of evil Chinese Communists brainwashing American soldiers was memorably fixed in public consciousness by the film 'Manchurian Candidate.')
Any scholarly validity that attaches to the brainwashing theory today is largely due to Robert Jay Lifton's pioneering study, Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of Brainwashing in China, which certainly does not reflect well on the Chinese government's own persuasive practices. But the irony seems invisible to Falun Gong's official enemies, who are content to paint a picture of Li Hongzhi and his group that depicts them with the standard charges in the anti-cult arsenal.
If Li is the archetypal doomsday cult leader, and his followers are deluded, superstitious victims of sophisticated psychological coercion, then any measures taken by the government would seem to be justifiable. Like many cult leaders, he is supposed to have said that 'those who oppose Falun Gong are 'demons''. He is also accused of encouraging his followers to commit suicide (on closer examination, this charge dwindles to indirectly causing deaths by discouraging members from seeking medical treatment). Finally, Li is portrayed as a corrupt swindler, taking money from his followers and amassing 'a large fortune on which he has not paid taxes.'
These allusions to the Western ideas of a doomsday cult figure are clearly an attempt by the Chinese government to seek sympathy and empathy from Western countries, particularly from America, where Li now resides.
As Western countries may not be familiar with the traditional Chinese religions in which Falun Gong is rooted, the Web page also relies on using the voice of state-approved Chinese religious leaders to further discredit Falun Gong and strengthen the 'cult' image. For example, the head of the Buddhist Association of China is quoted as saying that 'Falun Gong deceives its followers by misusing Buddhist terminology' and 'runs counter to Buddhism and the Communist Party of China's policy of freedom of religious belief.'
To American Christians who may be concerned about the implications of the government's campaign for followers of their own religion, the Chinese can also point to statements of support from Christians leaders who support the ban on Falun Gong.
The propagandistic tone of the attacks on Li Hongzhi and Falun Gong seems over the top, recalling the worst excesses of the ideological campaigns of the Cultural Revolution. Li's political ambitions are described as 'wicked' and 'viperous' while his ideas are 'malicious fallacies'; his followers are said to be 'an evil group that is fighting against science, the human kind, [and] society.'
The official Chinese anti-Falun Gong site on which these attacks appear is entirely self-referential, with not a single link to outside resources that might provide other viewpoints or correct distortions. So, perhaps it's time to turn to the group's own Web sites, to see if there is any evidence to support the official condemnations that are so strangely aligned with the rhetoric of the American anti-cult movement.
Falun Gong, USA
Visitors to the official USA Falun Gong Web site, Falun Dafa, will find a distinctly different portrayal of their version of Qi Gong practice and the group's purposes. The 'Introduction of Falun Dafa' claims an authoritative ancient lineage, stating that 'Much of the teachings are highly classified knowledge that are hitherto imparted exclusively from master to trusted disciples since antiquity in China.' A membership of '100 million practitioners in nearly 30 countries around the world' is claimed, and the site's authors proudly note that 'Li Hongzhi has worked tirelessly to convey Falun Dafa from China to the rest of the world. Along the way, he has touched the lives of countless people in many countries, earning an acclaimed international reputation.'
The Web site also includes a section 'Clarifying Some Misconceptions,' which explicitly states that Falun Gong is not a cult, and proceeds to give several examples to refute the Chinese Government's attempts to depict it as a cult. The group rejects the authoritarian characterization of outsiders, claiming the title of 'cultivators, not followers or adherents'; they are said to have 'complete individual freedom,' make their own decisions and lead 'normal lives with families.' The site explicitly renounces violence, teaching that killing or suicide violates the supreme principle of 'Truthfulness-Benevolence-Forbearance'' and teaching that Falun Gong does not 'approve any form of punishment or persecution.' Instead of being isolated, 'secretive and exclusive,' the group is 'open to anyone who wants to learn, free of charge.' A banner on the home page reinforces the point: 'All Falun Dafa Activities Are Free of Charge.'
The Internet is also the major source of free teaching materials, for instructions in the form of books, audio and videotapes can be downloaded without charge. Indeed, the Web site itself provides links to full texts of books, lectures and multimedia on Falun Gong. This contradicts the conventional image of cults taking money and possessions from its followers, which is further emphasized with the assertion that Falun Dafa is not a religion and there is 'no religious ritual or worship.' In addition, 'Master Li does not allow donations, fundraising activities, or money to be accumulated in the name of Falun Dafa.'
Yet, although the attempt to depict Falun Gong as a non-political, non-religious group appears rather convincing, the fact remains that it is a massive group that is organized, though perhaps not in a clear, structured fashion. The list of Falun Dafa Web sites that is provided in one of the links is staggering. Lists of volunteers all over the world provide the email addresses and contact numbers of individual members representing groups who practice together. The number of groups in China is claimed to be so large that a disclaimer, almost a boast, is given: 'Too many to be listed. Falun Dafa practitioners can be found in public parks in all the cities every morning.'
The Internet is clearly being used as a means to keep contact and mobilize members. One comes away from the various Falun Gong Web sites groups with a distinct impression of an effective global network that is indeed organized and connected by virtue of the Internet. Is this organization as altruistic and benevolent as it claims to be? Or can any of the charges against Falun Gong and Master Li be substantiated?
It may be that, like some religious groups in the past that have appeared harmless but ultimately turned toward violence, Master Li's deeper designs will be unveiled and found to be malevolent. On one count, however, it seems that the Chinese government has misrepresented his teachings. Oddly, neither the official Falun Dafa Web sites nor any of the other Falun Gong Web sites show any reference to doomsday predictions or the end of the world.
The online text of the book China Falun Gong states that Falun Dafa is for 'cultivation' and enlightenment.' It 'offers self-salvation: it makes the person stronger and healthier, more intelligent and wise.' There is no mention made in the works available via the Net of impending disasters, the destruction of the world, or the exclusive salvation that Master Li is supposed to offer. These charges seems to come solely from the Chinese government (which, however, may be in possession of lecture tapes or untranslated works that it has yet to share with the world).
If we speculate as to why their attacks focused on doomsday beliefs, it may help to recall that at the time the story broke in the United States, law enforcement agencies and media pundits were embroiled in fearful premillennial speculations about the potential for religious terrorism associated with the apocalyptic year 2000. The Chinese government thus seems to have tried to justify its own repression with the same type of analysis that the FBI was promoting in its now-forgotten 'Project Megiddo' report.
A recent survey of the opinions of overseas Chinese regarding Falun Gong and the government's repression yields some rather interesting and equivocal data: while many respondents have unfavorable opinions of Li Hongzhi, many more agreed that both Western and Chinese media have handled the whole case poorly. Those seeking to rectify media bias may find a non-partisan perspective at the online archives of CESNUR, the Italian-based Center for Studies on New Religions, where news items on Falun Gong are regularly collected and updated and some balanced articles may be found.
Similarly, the AsiaSource Web page attempts to give a balanced and objective viewpoint of Falun Gong and its practitioners, providing links to interviews with Li, along with other opinions and commentary.
In conclusion, the Falun Gong has used modern technology to its advantage, exploiting the Internet as a tool for teaching, organizing, and mobilizing its global membership, as well as for counteracting the propaganda with which the Chinese government has inundated the world. The examination of Web sites on the Internet indicates that the Chinese government is clearly on the losing side of this war. Although some articles on the Web depict the Falun Gong as a crackpot group with strange spiritual beliefs, most do not swallow their depiction as a nefarious doomsday cult.
Criticism from human rights activists and the US government over the religious persecution of Falun Gong members has clearly forced the Chinese government to proceed with caution. Thus, the power of the Internet can be used to challenge communist leadership and give religious and spiritual groups a significant voice.
We can be sure that this power will be met with resistance: the November arrest of the Chinese student who was charged with spreading Falun Gong emails is an indication that the war is being fought offline as well as on the Net. One lesson that the Chinese might do well to learn is that persecuting a religion is the surest way to stimulate its growth. Watch for more news as Master Li's students around the world continue their resistance to the Chinese government's oppression.
Dear Johan!
I posted the latest 3 articles for you. The reason is simple: I just deeply hope that you will gain a more clear overview of what kind of people you are arranging the show for. And that is absolutely not because I want to touch your democracy and freedom of speech. For me these 2 most basic things must be based on a full range of knowledge.
Always yours,
A helpful Friend
Zhao Meng
Thank you for finally took away this channel. But I'm sure that this is NOT the first complain that you received. At least I know many complain had been deliver to your reception.
TO ALL WHO NEED TO KNOW MORE ABOUT FALUN GONG! ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_the_People's_Republic_of_China:
":.....On April 14, 2006, the United States Department of State reported the findings of its investigation, stating that: "U.S. representatives have found no evidence to support allegations that [Sujiatun] has been used as a concentration camp to jail Falun Gong practitioners and harvest their organs."[10] A US Congressional report detailed the State Department's investigation where embassy staff visited the alleged site twice, first time unannounced.[11] Dissident Harry Wu, who immediately sent in investigators, said that the allegations were just hearsay from two witnesses.[12] The Chinese Government accused Falun Gong for fabricating the "Sujiatun concentration camp" issue, reiterating that as a WHO Member State, China resolutely abides by the WHO 1991 Guiding Principles on Human Organ Transplants and strictly forbids the sale of human organs. It added that Sujiatun District government carried out an investigation at the hospital and invited local and foreign media, including NHK and Phoenix Satellite Network; and two visits were paid by US consular personnel, who confirmed that the hospital was completely incapable of housing more than 6,000 persons; there was no basement for incarcerating practitioners, as alleged; there was simply no way to cremate corpses in secret, continuously, and in large volumes in the hospital's boiler/furnace room.....Their report gave credence to the allegations of China's harvesting organs from live Falun Gong practitioners. While the Christian Science Monitor states that the report's evidence is circumstantial, but persuasive,[13] the Ottawa Citizen states that the report is not universally accepted and have been criticized by the Chinese government as well as U.S. Congressional Research Service.[14]...."
THE WORLD TODAY CAN NO MORE BE SEEN FROM ONE ANGLE!! RIGHT?
http://www.cultnews.com/?p=1944
Chinese “cult leader” has likely become US millionairePosted in Falun Gong at 4:17 pm by Rick Ross
It appears that Li Hongzhi the leader of Falun Gong, a group Chinese officials refer to as an “evil cult,” may have become a millionaire since his exile in the United States.
Hongzhi bought a house in New York shortly after arriving in US for $293,500 and then bought another home in New Jersey for $580,000 the next year. Together the two residences cost $873,000.00 reports The Independent of London.
Given the substantial rise in real estate values across the United States and particularly in the New York/New Jersey area, it is probable that Hongzhi’s homes may have doubled in value.
This means Li Hongzhi has likely become a millionaire.
Not bad for a former army musician and clerical worker, who seems to have done much better marketing religion than making music.
The British newspaper did not disclose if the homes were paid for in cash or financed through mortgages.
But even if the Falun Gong leader borrowed money, considering the timing and appreciation of his investments he is a wealthy man.
The Independent also reported that the so-called “Living Buddha” claims that he “can move himself anywhere by thought alone.”
Does this mean Li travels from house to house through telepathy?
Hongzhi also has made grandiose claims such as his supernatural powers “averted a global comet catastrophe and the Third World War.”
What else would a responsible property owner and good neighbor do?
Less fantastic but perhaps a bit unsavory is how Hongzhi reportedly promotes an ”‘us and them’ feeling among his devoted followers.” And there is the less than “Buddha”-like and “unattractive beliefs he has about homosexuals and children of inter-racial marriages.”
CultNews has previously reported Hongzhi thinks that that gays are “disgusting” and somehow a “black substance” accumulates within the bodies of gay men. “Disgusting homosexuality shows the dirty abnormal psychology of the gay who has lost his ability of reasoning at the present time,” says Hongzhi. And one day he claims gays will be ‘’eliminated’’ by ‘’the gods.’’
Hongzhi also seems to be a racist. He has said that “mixed-race people…[are] instruments of an alien plot to destroy humanity’s link to heaven.” And that these interracial unions are somehow part of “a plot by…evil extraterrestrials.”
Falun Gong frequently gets press by staging publicity stunts. This week one of Hongzhi’s faithful shrieked like a “banshee” while Chinese President Hu Jintao of China stood with President Bush at the White House lawn during an official visit.
This month Hongzhi’s followers also claimed that the organs of Falun Gong believers are being harvested by the Chinese government at hospitals for profit. Government and medical officials vehemently denied these allegations as “sheer lies.”
Unlike the historic Buddha, millionaire Li Hongzhi lives in comfort while his humble disciples frequently make personal sacrifices and live meagerly.
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Despite its rhetoric, it seems Falun Gong is an “evil cult”Posted in Moonies / Unification Church, Scientology, Heaven's Gate, Chinese Sects at 5:07 pm by Rick Ross
Most media seem to be taken in by the spin and/or the spam from Falun Gong devotees. A recent example can be seen within the Jewish publication the “Forward.” Correspondent Benjamin Soskis laments that “religious groups offer little support to Chinese sect.”
But had Soskis spent more time on hard research and less on politically correct hand wringing, he would have found that Falun Gong founder Li Hongzhi, is both a megalomaniac and a bigot.
Sarah Lubman of the San Jose Mercury News did her homework and actually read Mr. Hongzhi’s racist rants. Li says that “mixed-race people…[are] instruments of an alien plot to destroy humanity’s link to heaven.” And that these interracial unions are somehow part of “a plot by…evil extraterrestrials.” Hongzhi appears to be homophobic too when he calls gays “disgusting,” and prophesizes that one day they will be ”eliminated” by ”the gods.”
Much of Hongzhi’s writings seem paranoid and ramble on about beings from outer space who are “embedding their technology and science in human bodies” so they can “control” humanity through “their thoughts.” This is a little like L. Ron Hubbard’s theories, which form the basis for Scientology.
Washington Post reporter Peter Carlson, like Lubman looked beyond the group’s rhetoric. He discovered that the followers of “Master Li” believe not only that he can “personally install” falun (a wheel of law) in their abdomens, but he can “levitate,” “become invisible” and knows the “top secret of the Universe.”
Canadian reporter Brian Hutchinson of the National Post, found that Falun Gong is based upon the “idea that life on Earth is doomed, that it is rotting and that it needs to be ‘rectified’ in order to proceed to the next stage of existence.” And “Master Li…has succeeded in preventing the cosmos from decomposing altogether, as other ‘higher beings’ were willing to allow.”
Hongzhi has also made this sweeping claim, “What I do today is for the purpose of rectifying humankind and the substances of the entire Earth.” This statement appears to match the hubris of Rev. Moon, founder of the Unification Church, who says he is the messiah.
Hongzhi eerily parallels the claims made by Marshall Applewhite of “Heaven’s Gate“? Like Li, Applewhite believed he was on a mission to fight against evil planetary forces. Just like Applewhite, Hongzhi sees himself in a singular and pivotal role. And he warns, “Not acknowledging the Master in the human world is not acknowledging oneself as a disciple.”
Yes, Mr. Soskis might have done a little bit more research, and then he would have better understood why, as one Jewish leader he quoted observed, “It’s hard to get [Jewish groups] to speak out on behalf of Falun Gong,”
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