(Minghui.org) Below are three articles received from China telling of how Chinese people are choosing to withdraw their memberships in the Chinese Communist Party and its youth organizations.
My older brother is 66 years old. When he was 17, he was assigned to the rural areas to work on the farms. That’s when he joined the Communist Party. Because the leaders found him talented and saw that he could write and speak well, he was given a senior position in the agriculture production team.
In 2007, when he retired from his work unit, his talent was discovered by the authorities in his district, so he was often invited to write for and contribute articles to its official newsletter. His articles were also regularly published in the local newspaper.
With everything going well for him through his adult life, my brother was convinced that his having joined the Party was “infallibly correct.”
However, something happened at the start of 2015 that completely changed his trust in and loyalty to the Party.
On the evening before the Chinese New Year, a district official sent for my brother and took him to the residence of a resident who needed community care.
He was asked to climb up on a ladder and reach out his hand to touch the light bulb.
He was puzzled but did as he was told.
Just as his hand came into contact with the light bulb, a shutter clicked and a light flashed.
A local news reporter had somehow showed up at that exact moment to shoot a picture of him in action.
The next day, my brother saw his picture in the evening edition of the local newspaper. What caught him by complete surprise was what he read in the caption and the accompanying article:
“A concerned Party member in our district fixing the light of an indigent citizen…”
My brother was dismayed and furious.
“Lies! Lies! That’s not how it happened at all! Fixing what light? All they told me was to reach out and touch it.”
When he saw his sister during the Chinese New Year celebration, he told her with obvious emotion, “The Communist Party is really skillful in making up lies. I want nothing more to do with it. Please help me withdraw from it!”
His sister said, “I’m glad you finally see through the Party’s tricks after all these years. It lies and cheats about everything. That’s exactly how it made up the self-immolation hoax on Tiananmen Square to frame Falun Gong!”
That’s how after a span of almost five decades, my brother finally quit the Party.
An aunt in my extended family believed the Party's propaganda against Falun Gong and refused to listen to our relatives who practiced Falun Gong.
In the early summer of 2015, my aunt came down with a severe cold accompanied by high fever. That lasted for many days. Despite spending thousands of yuan on treatments, no cure was found.
Her younger siblings who practice Falun Gong went to pay her a visit. They said to her, “We have nine words that will guarantee you’ll recover.”
"What nine words?" My aunt was eager to know.
“Falun Dafa is good! Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good!” They told her. “Try it.”
My aunt, eager to get well, promised that she would.
Early the following morning, my aunt called to announce to her siblings, “It’s truly magical. I spent thousands of yuan with no cure, I said the nine words you taught me, and I’m cured. My fever is gone. My body feels brisk and fresh.”
Then, she asked them in her next breath, “Please help me quit the Communist Party!”
I have a relative who is over 70 years old. Every time I would tell her about the persecution of Falun Gong, she would be skeptical and remain silent. When I would bring up the subject of her quitting the Party, I would also get nowhere.
At the end of 2014, she went on a guided tour to the United States.
Upon her return, she said to me with very mixed emotions, “In America, I got to see so many Falun Gong practitioners being free to do the exercises in public. On the streets, they are talking to everyone freely.”
“I also saw many of Falun Gong’s display boards. I noticed their contents and what the Communist Party has been telling us all these years are not the same.”
“Now, I know it’s actually the Communist Party persecuting good people and forbidding people to practice Falun Gong. Now, I know that when I was told Falun Gong is good, it’s really the truth.”
“Now I believe what you have been telling me all along. I want you to help me quit the evil Party and withdraw completely from all of its organizations.”