Cult's vicious attempt exposed

A recent mass sit-in by members of the Falun Gong cult at Tian'anmen Square further stripped the Falun Gong cult's claim that it is a merely a fitness exercise rather than an organization with a pyramid structure, a fact it will not admit.

Some Falun Gong adherents' unequivocalness in their unwarranted criticism of the Chinese Government's "crackdown" on their "legal" belief exposed their claim that Falun Gong is apolitical and "merely strives to cultivate 'truthfulness, compassion and tolerance' in daily life," something the group said in one of its statement.

Tracy Zhao's tears at a hearing sponsored by the International Relations Committee of the US House of Representatives on human rights and religious freedom in China on March 2 might have momentarily delayed some people from learning the details about the cult, but that will not be the case much longer.

The sympathy the Falun Gong group tried to garner outside of China is a sign that the cult has turned out to be a lever foreign forces have used to try and discredit China.

IThe mass sit-in calculated to fuel chaos at Tian'anmen Square again forced people to consider whether this "fitness" organization follows its three tenets - truthfulness, compassion and tolerance.

It seems that whenever Falun Gong is greeted by criticism, the cult tries to entice its followers into creating a disturbance.

People still have a fresh memory of the group surrounding media organizations' office buildings in 1998 and Zhongnanhai in Beijing, the compound of the Party and the central government, last year.

The cult's attempts to censor the media and unnerve the government have gone beyond the limits of law and reason. The Chinese Government has every reason to ban this cult which has caused numerous deaths.

(China Daily 2000/04/29)