From the Founder of a Cult to the Tool of an International Anti-China Force
----- Focus on the Recent Activities of Li Hongzhi and His Gang

by Xin Wen

On April 13 of this year, more than a hundred "Falun Gong" diehards illegally gathered at Beijing's Tiananmen Square to create trouble. The heretical "Falun Gong" organization, however, did not succeed in their plot to disorder because by-standers and policemen on duty stopped them in time. Soon after the incident, the so-called "China Human Rights and Democratic Movement Information Center" in Hong Kong immediately transmitted a facsimile to foreign news offices in Beijing, relating the incident with much unction. The fax said that "two hundred 'Falun Gong' practitioners in Beijing were detained for staging a demonstration at Tiananmen", and lumped this incident together with so-called human rights issues. Some news media outside China soon got the news and quickly made reports on the incident.

Since the "April 25" incident last year, Li Hongzhi and his gang have not ceased their antagonistic activities against the Chinese government and their trial of strength with the law. They have continued to organize by inciting "Falun Gong" members to conduct illegal gatherings and make trouble in China. As a result, the unlawful April 13 gathering at Tiananmen Square was nothing new. The recent action by the "Falun Gong" diehards was only another attempt by the heretical organization to defy the law and to antagonize the government. Although this event's progression from plotting to implementation shows that it was organized and premeditated, which one of the illegal activities long been carried out by Li Hongzhi and his cohorts were not organized and premeditated? So this event's planning was nothing surprising. What is noticeable in this particular event is that some outside news media made instant reports and certain people seized on the incident to exaggerate matters. What caused Li Hongzhi and his gang to take great pains to play up their disgraceful act? The news released by the "Falun Gong's" overseas website has given away their purpose. According to the site, the "United Nations Human Rights Commission will put the US motion condemning China to vote", therefore they would work in close coordination with the American action.

The person who made the remark, however, rejoiced so soon that he forgot that Li Hongzhi had taken an oath against involving his organization in politics. He said that the "Falun Gong" absolutely "would not get involved in politics, would not take action against the government, and would not give themselves up to any inside or outside political forces." It is common knowledge that recently, when the UN 56th Human Rights Meeting was being held in Geneva of Switzerland, some US anti-China elements were making irresponsible remarks against China under the pretext of "human rights". In their ninth anti-China motion, the name "Falun Gong" appeared repeatedly, which became an important weapon used to attack China. American anti-China forces "showed much concern" for the heretical "Falun Gong" organization. Li Hongzhi and his gang fabricated the lie that the Chinese government "carried out the suppression of innocent people", and a "large-scale persecution of 'Falun Gong' practitioners". Overjoyed as if they had found a precious treasure, the American anti-China forces regarded this as important evidence of China's "infringement on human rights". Many "Falun Gong" practitioners have suffered from Li Hongzhi's heretical fallacy, more than 1,500 have become "Falun Gong" victims, more than 600 have contracted serious mental disorders resulting from Li Hongzhi's spiritual control. All these facts, in these critics' eyes, were not infringements upon human rights and did not suffice to arouse even their slightest "concern". This is not because those anti-China forces of the United States like heresy, but because the heretical "Falun Gong" organization currently more or less still has some energy for stirring up trouble within China. In addition, previous anti-China motions have had only the same few words they have repeated time and again, but this year these China critics can make use of the "Falun gong" heretical organization to create a new story. It turns out to be: Li Hongzhi and his gang are an anti-China tool that American anti-China forces can make use of!

Let's see what "useful" things this tool has done for the anti-China forces:

On March 2 this year, a "Falun Gong" member, who is a Chinese American, was assigned to a hearing on the "Chinese and Tibetan human right issue" held by the US Congress Foreign Relations Committee. While at the hearing, this member spread rumors to the participants against his conscience, saying that a month ago he was detained for eight days and suffered many kinds of "maltreatment" for "protecting and maintaining the 'Falun Gong'." These rumors won the appreciation of certain people on this committee.

On March 16, at a hearing on the "issue relating to China's religious freedom" held in Los Angeles, the US International Committee for Religious Freedom whipped up public opinion. Li Hongzhi sent his right-hand man Zhang Erping to attend the hearing together with Wei Jingsheng and other "democratic movement" and "Tibetan independence" supporters as well as the notorious Henry Wu. Wei Jingsheng in his speech called upon concerned countries to reject China's entry into the World Trade Organization and to oppose the United States granting China PNTR status. This most clearly indicates their common stand.

On March 20, the UN 56th Human Rights Meeting was opened. On the same day Li Hongzhi and his gang held a press conference, at which they distributed a "news statement", declaring, "We have noted with great pleasure that the US government is prepared to table, at the Geneva UN Human Rights Meeting, a motion criticizing China's 1999 human rights record". The statement also brazenly declared, "…violation of the Human Rights Act cannot be regarded as an internal affairs…."