(Clearwisdom.net) At the beginning of 2007, news suddenly broke in the Catholic Church in Poland that the newly appointed Archbishop of Warsaw, Stanislaw Wielgus, was accused of secretly cooperating with the secret police of the communist regime. At first, Wielgus tried to defend himself, arguing that he had not harmed anyone. As facts were revealed, on January 5, 2007, he published a statement admitting that "since I denied the fact of collaborating with the communist secret police, I did harm to the Church." On January 7, 2007, just 30 minutes prior to the Mass in which he was to be inaugurated in the capital of Poland, Wielgus resigned.
What did Wielgus do? A statement from the history committee of the Catholic Church in Poland said, "Plenty of evidence has indicated that Wielgus conscientiously collaborated with the communist secret police." Wielgus defended himself, saying that during the communist rule, all he did was to promise to notify the secret police of the agenda of overseas academic conferences that he was to attend, and agreed privately that he would not participate in any anti-communist activities, and that he did this under coercion.
Regardless, the public and Wielgus both acknowledged one point in the end: collaborating with the communist regime's secret police is shameful. This is especially so considering that prior to Poland's transition away from communism in 1989, the communist regime had killed 8 million Polish people during its 40 year reign. Any person who collaborates with a dictatorship regime, even if it was just signing an agreement, would have encouraged the butchers who held their knives high and helped the dictator in intimidating the people. An agreement signed in black ink back then is a shame that cannot be washed off today.
This case of Warsaw's Archbishop may cast some doubt among collaborators who willingly or unwillingly have signed agreements with the CCP in China, causing them to ask themselves if it is worthwhile to leave this shame that cannot be washed off just for the meager short term gains it may bring.
The attitude of the Polish public regarding collaborators with the communist secret police also brings to mind companies and organizations that recently canceled 2007 Spectacular contracts with NTDTV under enticement and threats by the Chinese communist secret police and spies. They probably should seriously read through the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party to learn about the true face of the evil Party that has killed 80 million Chinese people and still carries out the killing even today, and to learn about the cruel facts of the Chinese Communist Party's profiting from organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners. They should learn about the role NTDTV has played in spreading traditional Chinese culture and exposing the communist brutality - raising fear from the Communists while helping to awaken the Chinese public - 17 million of whom have published statements quitting the Communist Party and its affiliated organizations, the CCP Youth League and the CCP Young Pioneers. Those who have compromised with the Chinese Communists because they wanted immediate gains will hopefully discover a sense of shame and regret. Hopefully they will make the right choice.
How many billions of dollars worth of public relations campaigns would it take to wash off the shameful history of collaborating with butchers that lack any human nature?
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