Li Hongzhi's Way of Making Money

By Qi Ren

To this day, the "Falun Gong" organization and its backstage manipulators cannot offer any convincing evidence to prove that Li Hongzhi is innocent of the crimes he has been accused of. As time goes by, more and more notorious acts committed by Li Hongzhi have come to light. Among them, swindling money out of people, which has been fully exposed by the media, is an undoubted crime that he cannot conceal.

Everyone wants to find a way of earning money to make his or her life better. However, Li Hongzhi's way of making money is quite different from those of ordinary people. Taking advantage of people's desire to improve their health and seek spiritual ballast, he has obtained an enormous amount of money by tricks commonly used by cultist organizations.

Since the 1980s, Qigong has become very popular on the mainland of China. From time to time, there have appeared charlatans claiming to teach Qigong methods, who disappeared immediately after they had cheated people out of enough money. Perhaps they knew that they could not fool people forever, so they didn't intend to keep up the fraud for the whole of their lives. Li Hongzhi, however, is not content with the several million yuan that he has already swindled; he wants more. Li Hongzhi dreams that when he has abundant funds he will undertake "a great cause," forgetting that he himself is a charlatan. Since greed is like a valley that can never be filled, Li Hongzhi's audacious ambition will result in his ruin.

(Compiled by New Star Publishers, Dec., 1999)