(Clearwisdom.net) In the toxic milk powder scandal, the Chinese Communist regime covered up the truth and did not announce the problem to the public when it was first informed of the contamination. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) takes people's lives for granted, which has brought harm to the wellbeing of many families. At present, 43 million Chinese compatriots have seen clearly the CCP's nature and renounced the CCP and its affiliated organizations. People from all walks of life in the Bay Area of San Francisco held a parade and rally on September 28, 2008 to celebrate this amazing accomplishment on the part of these Chinese people.

Parade procession marches through San Francisco's Chinatown

People in Chinatown watch the parade

The parade procession included two sections, the Divine Land Marching Band composed of Falun Gong practitioners and a Quitting-the-CCP lineup. The procession marched along Grant Ave/Dupont Street and passed through bustling Chinatown. Majestic and vigorous music drew the attention of many passersby who stopped and watched.

Among the spectators was Ms. Jiang from Beijing. She was very excited and said that the Falun Gong contingent was really great. She said it was pity that she did not bring her video camera with her, because she would have recorded the parade and shown it to her friends. She has many friends who practice Falun Gong.

A spectator carefully reads a brochure "Falun Dafa is good"

People read display boards that explain the truth about Falun gong

The march ended at Garden Corner Square, where a rally was held. People from all walks of life celebrated the Chinese compatriots who have quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations and further exposed the CCP's evil nature.

People from the Bay Area of San Francisco hold rally in Chinatown

Hostess of the rally Wang Feng said that, since the publication of the editorial series the "Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party," more and more Chinese people have renounced the CCP and its affiliated organizations. The Nine Commentaries truly reveals the CCP's nature and explains that communism is, historically, an almost unbelievably evil system. "We are hear to support the 43 million Chinese people who have quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations. We have been urging the disintegration of the CCP, because the CCP has been persecuting Falun Gong," said Ms. Wang.

Practitioner Mr. Zeng Yong from San Francisco said that Falun Gong practitioners cultivate themselves according to the standard of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance to become good people. The CCP launched a persecution campaign against Falun Gong in 1999, which has caused thousands of practitioners to lose their lives and led to the destruction of moral principles in China. People no longer value morality. Under the tyrannical rule of the Party, people have become money-oriented, and they do whatever is necessary to make money.

Mr. Zeng said that, from the official response to the disasters, earthquakes and floods that took place this year, it can be seen that the CCP covered up the truth and did not announce the news to the public in time. Shoddy construction of school buildings caused the deaths of thousands of children, and the CCP even suppressed the protests of parents whose children had died. On top of that, the toxic milk powder that has spread poison to every corner of the country and also overseas, is granted the status of a "quality-inspection-free product" in China. The CCP's evil nature has been thoroughly exposed. It persecutes innocent people, creates terror, and has endangered the wellbeing of every family. All this has a direct connection with the persecution of Falun Gong, because the persecution of Falun Gong has destroyed China's moral fiber. To fundamentally resolve the problem, we must immediately stop the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong and disintegrate the CCP.

Mr. Zeng said, "At such a historic moment, I hope our Chinese compatriots can understand clearly the great events in the world, distinguish good from bad and righteous from evil, and quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations as soon as possible."

Dr. Ma Youzhi, coordinator of San Francisco's Quit-the-CCP Service Center, said that quitting the CCP and its affiliated organizations is the nation's awakening to a clear vision of the CCP's evil. The movement was inspired by the publication of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party. The poisoned milk powder in mainland China has resulted in many children suffering from kidney stones or even dying. Since the CCP seized power in China, at least 80 million Chinese compatriots have died unnatural deaths under the its tyranny. Mr. Ma said, "If we allow the CCP to continue to rule China, it will be disastrous for the Chinese nation. Communism has proven to be a cancer that endangers all of humanity. We should be awakened."

Computer software engineer Eugene

Eugene is a software engineer in a high-tech company in the southern Bay Area. He said that he practices Falun Gong and does everything according to Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. He believes that everybody needs Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance.

Eugene said that he had lived in Romania under the rule of the Communist Party for 30 years. What he had learned in school were all distorted facts. His grandparents had their own land in the countryside, but when the Communist Party came, in order to grab the land, his father was fired from his university job, and his grandparents were forced to sign over their land.

He said, "After I began to practice Falun Gong, and especially after I read the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, I ultimately understood. The CCP's nature is evil. In China, everybody knows that Falun Gong practitioners are good people. The CCP regime still persecutes them and kills them. The truth will ultimately prevail."

Dr. Song, who graduated from Stanford University, said that she came to the United States to study in the early 1990s. An American student in the lab told her, "Your government used tanks to suppress students." At that time, she replied without hesitation, "China is such a big country, and it needs stability." But now she still remembers her confusion when she gave that answer: "That American student was right. How can a government kill its own people!?" She saw with her own eyes how the students peacefully protested the CCP when she went to school every day in 1989.

"Now when I recall what I said at that time, I usually gave 'standard answers' fed to me by CCTV, the government's 'official' TV station," Dr. Song said. She read the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party at the end of 2004. It moved her soul. Although she thought she was brilliant and intelligent and had won first place in PhD courses in the US, she said, "I had to admit that I had been brainwashed by the CCP!" The CCP's brainwashing is nationwide--young or old, men or women, no matter how many books you have read or how many certificates and degrees you have earned.

"Please take a copy of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party!" Dr. Song begged. "In the depths of our soul, we all believe in kindness and peace. Chinese people's invisible fear and terror all stem from the CCP's brainwashing. Let us call on people's kind nature, let kindness protect us so that we can walk out of the shadows of fear and terror!"

Zheng Cunzhu, one of the student representatives from Anhui Province during the "June 4" student movement in 1989, came to the United States three years ago. He said that some of the people who participated in the June 4 student movement founded the China Democratic Party in China. Jiang Zemin gave orders to suppress it in November 1989, and over a hundred members of the Chinese Democratic Party were arrested. Some of them were sentenced to over ten years of imprisonment. Ten years later, the CCP started its persecution of Falun Gong.

Mr. Zheng said that he opposes the CCP persecution of Falun Gong. When he was a graduate student at Shanghai Normal University, his roommate, Guo Shenghuan, practiced Falun Gong. Guo was a top student in the Mathematics Department. Guo once took part in the Olympic Mathematics Model competition on behalf of his school, and won. Mr. Zheng said that Guo is a good person, always ready to help others. He remained to teach at school after his graduation. Now he is being held in a prison in Shanghai because he practices Falun Gong.

Mr. Zheng said that quitting the CCP is the right thing to do, so he came to support it.