(Minghui.org) CCP officials in Weifang City have discovered new lows in their quest to get their hands on practitioners' contact information and trick them into signing documents against Falun Gong. They stooped to go door to door with toilet paper to try to get practitioners to sign documents against Falun Gong without reading them first.
1. Practitioners Tricked into Giving Their Phone Numbers
Officers from the Domestic Security Division of the Weifang City Police Department began to distribute brochures in the neighborhood where practitioners live in November 2013.
Pretending to do a “give away campaign”, the police knocked on doors and asked people if they wanted free items. Those who accepted them were then asked to sign their names and provide their phone numbers. Some of the practitioners were caught off guard and gave out their phone numbers, which allowed their phones to be monitored.
In cases where the practitioners refused to provide their phone numbers, the officers proceeded to threaten them to do so.
2. Practitioners Tricked into Signing Letters that Defame Falun Gong
Residential committee officials in Weifang City began to distribute free toilet paper in areas where Falun Gong practitioners live in November and December 2013. When the practitioners went to get the toilet paper, the officials also handed them materials that defamed Falun Gong. The practitioners were then asked to sign their names as an acknowledgment of accepting the free items. Some of the practitioners did not pay attention to what they got handed and signed their names.
The authorities also went door to door to distribute the free items. When the practitioners realized that they had received materials defaming Falun Gong, they tore them up. The officials then threatened to send these practitioners to a brainwashing center.
3. Slanderous Slogans Painted in Public Areas
In a more traditional attempt, officials from the Hanting District Political and Legal Affair Committee ordered their subordinates in the villages and towns to paint slogans defaming Falun Gong in their local areas in the fall of 2013. Later they decided to do it themselves when they found the subordinates' work to be unsatisfactory, and signed their “work” in the committee's name.
Locals complained about the slogans' vicious content and called them eyesores. They repainted the walls and in the process removed the slogans. However, the committee members came back later and put the slanderous slogans back again, against the locals' wishes.