Archive for May 1st, 2008

Evil, regime change..Do these concepts applied to the Chinese Communist Party make people uncomfortable?

Toppling Chinese government no cure for human-rights woes

This is a pretty interesting article.  I thought this would be a good time to bring up the idea that condemning a government seems to be a faux pas and evil seems like something that some people do not believe exists.  I think it could be the fact that the party is made up from a lot of people.  But I am not condemning all those people, only the ones who are guilty. Most of the people who are at the upper cadres have corroborated in horrible crimes against humanity.  Also the way the party sets itself up and the patterns it has dug itself into make it seem to me that there is no way for them to change.  If you look at Falun Gong and the other persecution campaigns against Chinese people, the regime uses false information to justify these atrocities.  So how can truth coexist with this regime?

If the CCP comes clean and admits to the truth, will Chinese people still accept them?  I don’t think so.  This is just my opinion though and I would like to hear from others why evil and regime change are uncomfortable concepts…

What is so horrible about regime change?  Wouldn’t it be good for China? Isn’t the CCP evil? How can a group that commits so much lying and killing, torture, etc. NOT be considered evil?  If the CCP is not evil, what is?

ANyway, I think the discomfort comes from lack of information.  

 

 

Eyewitness Testimony — “I’ll Never forget the April 25 Appeal”

clear wisdom article

I had mentioned this occasion a few days ago, when it was April 25 and Falun Gong people were out and about in cities around the world “commemorating” this event (a mass appeal at the government compound in Beijing).  I do not know first hand everything that led up to the crackdown and vile hatred toward Falun Gong in China, but I do know the Communist Party of China, so I really do not find them credible when it comes to demonization of groups and individuals.

I like this website because it gives dignity to the victim, it really does a thorough job of telling the victims side of the story.  I particularly agree with the final statements made in the article about resolving disagreements peacefully and calmly.  In the case of Falun Gong though, Jiang Zemin was really set on persecution, some say he did it to give himself a podium and a task of seeming importance to lead, in order to solidify political ‘leadership’.

Something that gets my goat:  the media and how they are so abject to reporting on anything deep, meaningful, and positive….  I guess it’s just too much work?  

Because, this article made me think of one time I witnessed something really neat…  The Falun Gong people were standing opposite the Chinese embassy holding up banners, speaking into loud speaker, AND PLAYING BAND MUSIC !  I said to a girl, ‘they are persecuting you, and you are here playing them music??? ‘, and she said ‘yeah’ and I was like ‘aren’t they so bad?’ and she said something like ‘they are people too’, something along those lines… That was totally the bomb as they say, so ridiculously cool.

300 protest China’s human rights violations, Boston Globe