Taipei, Taiwan: Stories from a Parade Supporting the 16 Million CCP Withdrawals
        
        
        
          Dec. 9, 2006
          
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          By Yusheng Huang
          
        
       
      
        (Clearwisdom.net) On December 2, 2006, although it was drizzling and
the temperature was dropping steadily, enthusiasm was strong in people from all
areas of Taiwan to participate in a parade in Taipei to support 16 million
Chinese people quiting from the Communist Party and its peripheral
organizations. Here are some stories collected at the rally and parade.
  - Mrs. Chou from Guanyin is a Falun Gong practitioner. Today, she sent two
    children to participate in Minghui School's waist drum team. The elder one
    is in second grade in middle school and the younger one is fifth grade in
    elementary school. Both of them have practiced Falun Gong for five years.
    Mrs. Chou said the children have improved a lot in day to day life and
    rarely have any quarrels with other students. Since practicing Falun Dafa,
    their health has improved too. The little girl used to have asthma and often
    needs to go to hospital. After taking a lot of medicine and seeing many
    doctors, her asthma was not getting any better. Since she began to practice
    Falun Gong, she only uses her medical card to get her teeth cleaned; she
    doesn't need to see other doctors. The changes in her children made her feel
    happy from the bottom of her heart and full of appreciation to Falun Dafa.
    She said she was honored to have her children join this meaningful activity.
- A member of the Divine Land Marching Band: a 3rd grade
    elementary school girl from Kaoshiung City. She began to learn the clarinet
    in October. She had no prior experience but she practiced a lot on Sundays
    and finally mastered the music. The young girl said she started to practice
    Falun Gong in the first grade. When she was asked where she saw the biggest
    change in herself after practicing Falun Gong, she answered that she
    followed the principle of Truthfulness Compassion and Tolerance in school
    and is not easily contaminated by the bad environment. She said happily that
    she had learned two songs, "Falun Dafa is good" and "Drums
    and Trumpets Shake the World in Ten Directions ".
- Member of Divine Land Marching Band 2: Mrs. Lu from Taipei City. Mrs. Lu
    has four members of her family practicing Falun Gong and she has a
    harmonious family. Her husband is a member of the NTDTV Flag and Drum team
    and participated in many NTDTV performances both overseas and domestic. Mrs.
    Lu said she was so lucky to be able to join the band. She had not played any
    music instrument before. Many other members are old people and young
    children who didn't even know how to read music. Even the director is new.
    At the beginning, the director and band players couldn't keep together. But
    they merged into one body in a short period of time and performed
    successfully. She was surprised and believed it came from the wisdom after
    practicing Falun Gong. When she was asked how players selected their
    instruments, she said people pick their favorite ones at beginning. But
    since the number is limited, practitioners will do what the band needs and
    give up their ego so that the band had a perfect performance.
- Member of Divine Land Marching Band 3: Mr. Su from Yunlin. Su has
    performed in several parades in Hong Kong but he said this time it was
    different. There are more players, the music is more difficult, and the time
    is limited: only two months to prepare. It definitely requires determination
    and confidence. His son is in 5th grade and had not played any
    instrument before but now he can play clarinet and oboe. Once the band was
    practicing, he heard a practitioner said the instrument in his hand has
    changed owners three times. He meant it was difficult to play. At first, Su
    wanted to pick an instrument easy to play but the band only had some French
    Horn positions to fill. The French Jorn is more difficult but he overcame
    the difficulty and passed the test to join the performance.
- Member of Divine Land Marching band 4: Mrs. Luo, a 68 year old retired
    teacher from Yangmei. Shortly before the performance started, she accepted a
    quick interview. Luo said she only received the musical instrument one week
    ago and she had not played it before. But she learned and passed the test to
    join the performance in a short time. It was surprising.
- Miss Liao operates a soft drink store along the street. With no customers
    in the store at this time, she came out to watch the parade. She said
    Communist China is a country without human rights. She had read a story
    about mainland Chinese are eating aborted fetuses, a by-product of the
    Communist Party's one-child policy. She calls it cannibalism and it makes
    her upset. She mentioned that she heard the CCP harvests organs from living
    Falun Gong practitioners and expressed her sympathy. She said there is no
    fault in practicing a peaceful exercise, but it was a miserable life to live
    in a country without freedom of belief. In the end, she said she was so
    lucky to live in Taiwan, a free country, and expressed her support to this
    event.
- Grandpa Chen and his wife were watching the parade on the sidewalk. He
    said he knew a lot about the CCP's live organ harvesting from Falun Gong
    practitioners in mainland China. "TV and radio had reported it
    already." Even the Chinese Communist Party explained that a large
    amount of organs are from death penalty criminals. Many people know about
    the Communist Party's big lies. Chen supported the parade and wish China can
    abandon CCP tyranny so that peace will come to the strait. "I have a
    neighbor couple. They are teachers and they practice Falun Gong. Very nice
    people and you can see they are good people from the first glance."
    Chen said. Grandpa Chen said he wanted to learn Falun Gong too.