(Clearwisdom.net) While everyone is mourning the deaths of residents in Christchurch, New Zealand, after the earthquake, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) special agents sent out hoax emails purporting to be from Falun Gong practitioners to the Auckland councilors. The emails claimed that the earthquake occurred in Christchurch because the people there did not believe in Falun Gong. The goal of the spurious emails is to mislead people and turn them against Falun Gong. The same trick was used during the earthquake in Sichuan to incite hatred against Falun Gong. Both Falun Gong practitioners and Auckland councilors condemned such conduct.
Auckland Councilor: The CCP is behind the slanderous emails
Auckland Councilor Dr. Cathy Casey.
Auckland Councilor Dr. Cathy Casey was shocked to receive such an email. She believes that the Chinese regime is somehow behind the email because not long ago, all the Auckland councilors received official emails from the Chinese Consul General defaming Falun Gong and suggesting that people should not attend the Shen Yun Performing Arts show scheduled to be in Auckland in February 2011.
“The people who practice Falun Gong, to the best of my knowledge, are peace-loving people,” said Dr. Casey.
“The purpose [of the email] was to bring Falun Gong into disrepute, and I can assure you that that hasn't happened as far as Auckland councilors are concerned,” she said.
Initially Dr. Casey thought that she was the only person who had received the email. The same day, she heard other council members asking her about the email and realized that the CCP was playing the same trick it did before with Shen Yun.
Falun Dafa Association of New Zealand: The CCP is making a fool of itself
Sam Fang, president of the Falun Dafa Association in New Zealand, has sent an email to the councilors and Members of Parliament stating categorically that the person who wrote the email was not a Falun Gong practitioner. Mr. Fang said, “The author of the email is using the tragedy of the Christchurch earthquake as an opportunity to turn New Zealanders against the Falun Gong community.”
Mr. Fang linked the email to the campaign being waged by the Chinese regime against Falun Gong. “The email is clearly designed to discredit Falun Gong, something which the Chinese Communist Party has also continually sought to do as part of its 12-year persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China,” he said.
According to Mr. Fang, staff members of many theaters in the US and Europe have received letters from CCP secret agents pretending to be Falun Gong practitioners in 2010. The letter asked the staff to help promote and practice Falun Gong or else they would have bad luck. Many artists and political figures who were interviewed by the media after seeing Shen Yun’s shows had received similar letters. “The nonsense in the letters could not possibly come from Falun Gong practitioners. The CCP’s agents tried to interfere with Shen Yun’s scheduled performances and slander Falun Gong,” said Mr. Fang.
According to Mr. Fang, the CCP underestimates the political figures and people in the democratic countries. “Every time the CCP attacks and defames Falun Gong and its practitioners, it only makes Western society more aware of its ugly nature,” he said.
Dr. Casey said it came as an absolute shock to her that the CCP would do such a thing to the councilors at a moment like this [the Christchurch earthquake]. The open letter helped many Auckland council members to understand the truth behind the emails.
Councilors in other cities in New Zealand also expressed their disbelief and concern when they received the email.
“I didn't believe it was true,” said Rotorua District Councilor Charles Sturt. Councilor Sturt thanked the Falun Dafa Association for telling him what was really going on.
Julie Calnan of the Rotorua District Council said, “I was indeed surprised and very disturbed by the content of the email, but it is reassuring to read that these [referring to the email] are not Falun Gong principles.”
Falun Gong Practitioners in Christchurch: We Are Practicing Truth-Compassion-Forbearance
The Falun Dafa Association’s open letter states that “Falun Gong practitioners are equally saddened by the pain that Christchurch people are experiencing.” Many of them participated in the local rescue work in Christchurch and gave donations to those who needed help.
Mr. Min, a Falun Gong practitioner who has lived in Christchurch for almost 20 years, said, “Falun Gong practitioners are part of the society and worked as hard and aggressively as other citizens in rescuing the victims and rebuilding the city.” “Every practitioner’s family and work are affected or damaged by the earthquake to a certain extent as far as I know. But some of them donated money to charities such as the Red Cross, some of them took food to the shelters, some of them went to the city hall asking to be volunteers in the rescue work. We do not need to advertise who we are. We help others with pure, kind hearts—we are practicing Truth-Compassion-Forbearance.”
