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(Continued from http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2005/2/13/57486.html)
III. The CCP's Pathological Nature of Fabrication
In every political movement after the CCP took power, fabrication was used to deceive public opinion. Most people in China can see this, but some see such fabrication as only the behavior of some individuals in the CCP, that the CCP itself is not to blame. Some think that the CCP has acknowledged the previous fabrications and amended the mistakes, so they will not make the same mistakes again. These thoughts, out of good will, arise from a lack of sufficient understanding of the nature of the CCP. Fabrication is the CCP's pathological and unchangeable nature. Regardless of the person in power, the CCP has consistently made us of lies and fabrication to further its ends. Once it has launched a political movement, the fabrication will become more intense and unscrupulous.
We all know that it is impossible for all the flowers in the world to have one single color, or all the trees one single shape. The same applies to human society. Since the normal state of societal development is complex and multi-faceted, there ought to exist different modes of thinking and a variety of groups. The Communist Party has refused to acknowledge this fact.
Those who are familiar with the CCP's history, from its inception to its taking power, know that the CCP considers itself the master of history. It follows the dictatorship philosophy that "whoever goes along with me prospers, and whoever goes against me perishes." Because of this characteristic, the CCP not only cannot tolerate any opponents who want to replace it, but also cannot tolerate any different kinds of thinking or any independent groups, either outside or inside the CCP. In their eyes, having political agendas is not just limited to those who want to replace them. All individuals and groups with independent thinking also bear the label of "ulterior political motive" and thus are a threat and challenge to their power. So then they need to be eradicated as soon as possible.
There are always different kinds of thinking and various social groups in human society. The arbitrary mindset of the CCP does not tolerate their existence, so it applies its tyrannical rule to constantly suppress different thinking and differing groups, to the extent of launching large-scale political movements to persecute people. In addition, the CCP is continually utilizing persecution movements to make individuals and groups with independent thinking submit to the CCP's authority and to profess their allegiance. Mao Zedong's well-known remark, "battling with heaven is endless joy; fighting with the earth is endless joy, and struggling with people is endless joy" was quite telling.
In order to persecute individuals or groups, the CCP needs to stir up people's hatred and win their support. To achieve this goal, the CCP can't just label the victims with frightening monikers--they must also be able to withstand rigorous tests. Otherwise, the persecution loses its legitimacy. The problem is, however, when those CCP members in power declare someone guilty, it is not based on fact, but by some decree. The charges are fabricated, and not backed up by evidence. So how do they deal with this, then? Making things up is the only way. Since the CCP's self-interest is the most important, the fabrications that follow are necessary and justified. As long as the CCP sees a need for it, they can fabricate everything.
If one day the CCP stops making fabrications, it won't be the same Communist Party anymore. As long as it is still the Communist Party, it must fabricate things to sustain itself. The more important some issue is, and more serious the perceived threat, the more the CCP will make things up to justify its actions.
IV. Why is It That the CCP's Lies Can Deceive People?
Lies are a natural product of deception. Although lies are false, they are frequently able to deceive people. People are often taken in and believe lies as truth. Since the CCP took power, very few people have escaped deception during the numerous political movements the CCP initiated. For instance, during the Cultural Revolution, the whole nation condemned Liu Shaoqi as a "traitor, spy and renegade," with conclusive "evidence" in hand. Who could have expected that all the "evidence" was fabricated?
Then, why is it that lies and fabrications have been able to deceive people, over and over again? The key is that the CCP has a meticulous and systematic way to deliver them and seal out the truth. Like all liars, what the CCP fears most is people seeing through their lies, because once their lies are brought to light, they would be useless. Therefore, in order to cover up the false image the lies represent, they have indeed racked their brains. The CCP has created a pattern and methodology to carry out and cover up its lies. It includes the following four main aspects:
(1) Closed environment for creating the lies: The whole process of setting up the fabrication is kept behind the scenes. When it comes to all those involved in the process of making up the lies, regardless of their role, their personal safety, lives, jobs, education and futures are completely in the hands of the CCP, and as a result, their only way out is to cooperate with the CCP.
(2) Closed environment for public opinion: All voices of opposition are suppressed and the targeted people are deprived of all opportunities to defend themselves. As a result, the general public has no way of knowing anything except what the government wants them to know. This is why in the various political movements, the CCP has spared no effort to block unofficial news sources, particularly news from foreign, democratic countries. As for those who dared to transmit unofficially sanctioned information and the so-called "major cases," the CCP deals with them ruthlessly. Meanwhile, with the economic reforms and the opening-up policies, people feel that they now have much more freedom. They have seen frequent exchange of information with the outside world, and the official newspapers also frequently report negative news from abroad. All this makes people feel that the official media has become objective and unbiased. In fact, the CCP today is no different than what it was before. It is still closely filtering what news the people can or cannot see, and how the negative news should be reported to serve the interest of the CCP. The so-called "open" information world is in fact closed in China and is totally under the control of the CCP behind the scenes. Underneath the superficial disguise of "being relaxed," the ordinary people still have no way of knowing the extremely adverse situations of those groups who are being persecuted. People have come to believe even more easily the CCP's slanderous propaganda against a particular group or a specific incident.
(3) Closed environment for brainwashing: the CCP targeted the masses with brainwashing as a part of each political movement. In addition to the rampant lies from the mass media, schools, government organs, various systems as well as overseas Chinese community groups are organized to watch slanderous TV programs, listen to defamatory speeches, see slanderous art exhibitions, run defamatory seminars and write their understandings under the guidance of the CCP and the Chinese Communist Youth League. People are forced to participate in political studies and take a stand. On the other hand, there is the brainwashing aimed at those being persecuted. The targeted people are abducted and taken to the "study class" or "reform class," and forced to read slanderous materials under high duress. The perpetrators dispatch special personnel to attack them and subject them to long periods of sleep deprivation, forcing them into a confused state of mind so that they cannot distinguish between right and wrong. If they refuse to admit they are wrong, they will be tortured, fined, sentenced to forced labor or imprisonment, and even their families will be harassed and intimidated. As for those who have "realized their mistakes" after the brainwashing, the CCP will further force them to help fabricate news with their personal experiences, which will then be fed to the people via newspapers and TV. These stories further perpetuate the ongoing brainwashing and continue to poison the minds of more people.
(4) Closed environment for thought: When people have no way of knowing the facts, and the people are being bombarded with lies and hatred year in and year out, over time they form a certain psychological mindset. Regardless of whether they believe in the CCP or not, they have closed off their own thinking and have developed the thought to reject any wish to get to know the facts. Furthermore, they have also developed resentment against those who try to tell them the facts. Another method of the CCP is to bombard people with their lies, disseminating all kinds of lies with such high frequency and in such a broad scope within a certain period of time that the people begin to believe in the lies over time. In the end, they will totally believe the lies. The CCP is an epitome of the saying, "Lies will become truth after they are told a thousand times."
V. Due to Its Nature, the Jiang Zemin Regime's Defamation of Falun Gong was an Inevitable Outcome
In the course of numerous political struggles, the CCP has succeeded time and again in deceiving people using its array of time-tested methods. However, the result might eventually turn out to be, as a Chinese saying goes, "The clever ones may become victims of their own cleverness."
After many years of their personal experience with political movements, more and more Chinese people have come to realize that no matter how the official media presents "conclusive evidence" to justify the crimes they claim, as long as the CCP denies those whom they classify as enemies the legal right to defend themselves, as long as Chinese authorities continue to suffocate all dissident voices and control the media and public opinion tightly, as long as the CCP does not permit anyone other than CCP authorities to investigate or raise questions with regards to the so-called "evidence" the CCP has announced -- all such "evidence" are bound to be lies, no matter how authentic and conclusive they may seem to be.
The logic for such reasoning is very simple. Only those who feel insecure about their lies would resort to such outrageous methods to force people to believe them. These methods that they use have become hallmarks to identify whether CCP is telling lies and fabricating evidence again. Those who invent and implement such methods fail to realize that at the same time when they succeed in deceiving people again and again using these methods, they are also presenting to people the most distinctive hallmarks of their actions, and are thus providing a powerful tool for people to see through their ploys.
Why do we say that all of the Jiang regime's propaganda regarding Falun Gong is the typical falsification and lies? In the persecution of Falun Gong, the CCP's habitual methods have been adopted, and this time carried out to an extreme. Even without going into the details of what the CCP has concocted, looking at how the propaganda is being disseminated is telling enough.
First, let us look at the procedure whereby the propaganda was produced. The propaganda related to Falun Gong was assigned to different executive levels as political tasks. All those involved, including program producers, reporters, TV or radio broadcasters, as well as the parties involved in a specific case and their family members and all those who are interviewed, can do nothing but follow the CCP's orders. The CCP basically hijacked them, threatened their personal safety, daily life, the opportunity to go to school (for kids and young people) and their careers. Among the different tactics used, one of the Jiang regime's favorites is to have the parties involved in a certain case publicly admit their "mistakes."
Since the persecution of Falun Gong began, all sorts of people have been forced to claim through the media that they "wanted to burn themselves," "wanted to kill someone," or "wanted to spread false rumors." Meanwhile, the outside world has no way to contact those people. Even though one may find some of them for an interview or an investigation, what they say is hardly surprising when the CCP holds everything in the palm of its hand • the CCP controls the very lives of these people and their family members.
In addition to the propaganda, the Jiang regime's defamation of Falun Gong has manifested itself in the tight control of public opinion. In the past five plus years, strictly prohibiting the propagation of facts about Falun Gong has been key to sustaining the persecution. In order to achieve this, the regime has stopped at nothing to suppress all voices against the persecution, at home and abroad. It does not give Falun Gong practitioners any opportunity to defend themselves. The Internet is blocked; police go all out to look for Falun Gong materials production sites; Falun Gong practitioners who try to broadcast Falun Gong video programs are subjected to heavy prison sentences; all cases in which practitioners propagate the facts about Falun Gong are dealt with as "major cases," and the practitioners involved are punished ruthlessly. Overseas Falun Gong websites are blocked; e-mails are monitored and filtered; normal mail is confiscated once Falun Gong related information is found in the mail. Signals from TV or radio stations that speak the truth about Falun Gong are interfered with. Falun Gong truth clarification materials production sites inside China have become the highest priority targets of the CCP suppression. Under such an extreme situation, Falun Gong practitioners had to resort to splicing a video program into the regular TV broadcast to help the Chinese people get to know the true situation. In response, several practitioners who were involved were tortured to death, and the rest of them were sentenced to heavy jail terms.
The Jiang regime's defamation of Falun Gong is not accidental, but an inevitable crime that it would commit out of its very nature. Although Falun Gong believes in "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance," aims at improving physical health and moral standards and does not care about politics, Falun Gong is an ideological system completely different from Marxism-Leninism and Maoism. Falun Gong practitioners are a special societal group that follows an independent ideology. In the eyes of the top rulers of the CCP, who fear and hate all independent thought, Falun Gong is perceived as a dire threat, especially in the eyes of Jiang, an extremely narrow-minded ruler. The regime thus saw Falun Gong as an unacceptable threat.
Falun Gong practitioners have done nothing to suggest that they are detrimental to society, but this did not stop the regime from going all out to slander and persecute them. It wasn't a problem at all for the CCP to persecute Falun Gong. Just like previous political movements, all sorts of lies defaming Falun Gong were fabricated. The slanderous propaganda inundated Chinese society and spread to the rest of the world.
Let us then ask: Who is the CCP? Is the CCP the same as China, or the Chinese nationality? These are questions that the CCP and Jiang's regime, united in their joint interest, cannot answer. They can only try to confuse the people by mixing together the concept of a political party with that of one's motherland. For example, the very nature of the United States' political system is based on a multi-party, check and balance system. The nation stands alone, and the politicians are charged with protecting the best interest of the country. There is a clear line drawn between one's political affiliation and the ultimate goal of doing what is right and best for the people. If that line is crossed, usually the result is that the politician is thrown out of office at the next election. That system was set up to prevent the very thing that is occurring in China - one party and a small select group of people defining the country's identity and abusing that power to their own ends.
Ultimately, lies may be able to deceive people for a while, but cannot deceive people forever. At present, more and more people have come to know the true situation. It won't take much longer for the truth to be completely unveiled to the whole world.
January 26, 2005
Category: Perspective
