All Chinese People are "Kidnapped"

[Minghui Net] It can often be seen in the moviesshocking scenes of barbaric kidnappings, political gangsters placing bombs in a multi-story building, or the hijacking the President's private plane, requesting an exchange of their imprisoned associates; Japanese invading soldiers threatening to kill women and children when demanding the surrender of the Chinese Eighth Route Army, whose soldiers were protected by local people; a robber clutches an innocent pedestrian with a gun against his/her head to coerce pursuing police to allow him a way out

Walking out of the movie theatre, moviegoers' tightly stretched hearts are finally put at ease, as villains met with retribution for their evildoing, kidnappers ended up being shot, falling from high buildings to a cruel death, or being captured by the police.

There is one, even more sinister method of kidnapping. Though it has not been dramatized in a movie as of yet, the majority of Chinese people have experienced it in their practical life, or are currently experiencing it. That is, the recent, clamorous "million-signature" campaign. At first glance, it could be seen as another "Great Cultural Revolution" -like "mass movement" aimed at Falun Gong. Examining it carefully, it is actually a political kidnapping of all Chinese people.

During the "Great Cultural Revolution" [in 1960's and early 1970's], the general headquarters of workers along with the Red Guard charged their enemies' positions with fervor to safeguard the proletariat headquarters with their lives. As time passes by, life has been greatly changed: foreign-style skyscrapers stand tall and erect, human desires and pursuits run rampant, and money-hungry people lead corrupt lives. People have perhaps lost interest in even ridiculing the type of blind devotion that could be found during the Cultural Revolution. In other words, the overwhelming majority of Chinese people disdain to bother themselves with the empty slogans of Jiang Zemin, namely, "to stress politics," "to rule the country with virtue" and "to curb [slanderous word omitted] religion." But everybody is drifting along with the current pursuing fame, profit and sentimentality. When Jiang Zemin's group uses an autocratic machine and intimidates people by threatening their personal interests, the Chinese people are "kidnapped"-- clutched by the throat.

It is not a movie, but more than a movie. Government leaders from all levels must, layer upon layer, make statements to declare their positions. Everyone, from high-ranking officials to ordinary people, from the elderly to the young (including elementary students), must sign against Falun Gong to pass the "test." Take Beijing Capital Steel Corporation as an example: if workers and staff members do not sign the document slandering Falun Gong, they will have their wages stopped, pensions cancelled, their jobs lost and their houses confiscated and so on; stubborn workers who refuse to sign the document will be forcibly sent to "transformation classes" outside Beijing. In this nation-wide political kidnapping, as for those who refuse to sign the document, the lightest punishment for them will be the loss of wages and other benefits; the heavier punishment is to be labeled as being "against the party and against government." Jiang Zemin's group has put a muzzle to the forehead of all Chinese people. The only difference is that their gun is much more ferocious: it represents layer upon layer of dictatorship and networks of administration. Jiang Zemin's way of kidnapping is also more ferocious: if you do not sign and make a statement, not only you, but your entire family will be out of luck, and you will lead a miserable life whenever and wherever you are.

Actually, looking back over the nearly 20-month persecution of Falun Gong, Jiang Zemin's group has been using this political kidnapping, by threatening personal interests, all along to threaten and tempt Falun Gong practitioners or those who support and sympathize with Falun Gong, the only difference is that now they have expanded this kidnapping to all Chinese people by launching a signature campaign against Falun Gong. Do you want to continue practicing Falun Gong? Or you do not practice, but do you say Falun Gong is good? Then if you are a student, you are not allowed to graduate, or you are expelled from school; if you are on staff as a worker, teacher or another staff member, you will be dismissed from your public service, with wages and bonuses withheld. You will be fined, and have your house confiscated, so that you have no way to make a normal living; if you are public security or military official, you will be dismissed from your military appointment and be tried in military court or sent to a mental hospital; if you are a common resident or a traveler, sorry, you have to be illegally questioned, body-searched and placed under surveillance; if you persist in practicing Falun Gong and appeal for it, your residence will be under 24-hour surveillance, and you will be sent to a "transformation class", or be detained as a criminal, "re-educated" through forced labor, sentenced to jail or sent to a mental hospital. During that period of persecution, you will subjected to severe torture; as a result, you will be either tortured into disability or tortured to death. As for the latter case, the corpse will be cremated immediately to cover up the evidence, so no one will be liable for beating you to death, on the contrary, you will be counted as having "died in vain" or having "committed suicide." Today, the situation is that all people are kidnapped. Not only Falun Gong practitioners, but also all Chinese people are under coercive political terror.

The political kidnapping and political coercion in everyday life may not be as thrilling as in the movies that have been through editing and artistic processing, but they are indeed brutal acts. Perhaps, we were in a mood of appreciation when entering the movie theatre, and also felt a flurry of shock and alarm after walking out of it. But after all, we view the movie characters as an outsider. In political coercion and terror, or while our family members, relatives, friends, colleagues, and neighbors are subjected to the political terror or political persecution, can we still observe this as an on-looker and feel indifferent?

When we analyze this again clearheadedly, shouldn't we show sympathy for those victims who are pressured by Jiang Zemin's political coercion? Shouldn't we expose and condemn the political kidnapping committed by Jiang Zemin's group? Shouldn't we sympathize with and support those Falun Gong practitioners who are persecuted and harassed for living up to the universal principle of "Zen-Shan-Ren [Truth-Compassion-Tolerance]", and for persisting in being good people and for the freedom of practicing exercises? If we can switch from being the audience to the litigants who resist Jiang Zemin's political coercion, these political kidnappers' hands will become weak; this farce of "the mass movement" directed by these kidnappers will be self-defeating. Certainly, these political kidnappers' end will not be any better than those criminals in the movies.