(Clearwisdom.net) A monument at the Boston Holocaust Memorial carries a message from a Protestant pastor named Martin Niemoller, who was a victim of Nazi persecution. The poem has touched many people's hearts. Voicing repentance in his old age for the moral blemishes of his youth, the message is equally valid today.
"First they came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up, because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me."
How painful was the penitence! But it was too late, for he had already found himself in a concentration camp. His words seem to imply the principle that one who witnesses wicked deeds but does not act or speak out is in fact an accomplice to the crimes.
Today, to satisfy his jealousy and personal desires, Jiang, the regime leader of China, not only enforces state terrorism in China, but also reaches out to Hong Kong and other regions in the world.
Within China, Jiang defames the selfless, law-abiding, kind Falun Dafa practitioners, arrests them and puts them in forced labor camps, sentences them to jail, and even beats them to death. Outside China, he mobilizes Chinese embassies and consulates to interfere with the operation of other governments, spreads lies, and tries to prevent people from learning the truth about Falun Gong.
Now, he turns to target Hong Kong , the pearl of the East, and wants to implement the so-called "anti-subversion law", Article 23, effectively casting aside the "One country, two systems" policy, and thereby placing the Hong Kong people under Jiang's despotic rule. Who on earth would be willing to trade Hong Kong's future for what it would have in today's China, covered by a dark shroud? The freedom, democracy, and legal system in Hong Kong can only be maintained by Hong Kong people. No one is simply an onlooker. Since Jiang, the human rights scoundrel, wants to utilize Article 23 to compromise the Hong Kong legal system, anyone who is against the scoundrel is in effect vying to maintain the rights and future of the Hong Kong people.
Category: Perspective
