(Clearwisdom.net) Wenquan Town in the Haidian District in Beijing is one of the areas where practitioners are being persecuted the most severely. There are three residents' committees near the police station in Wenquan Town. They are Taizhouwu, Yangzhuang and Yiyangshangshuiju. They are among the rare residents' committees in Beijing that have continued for several years to hang signs slandering Dafa in front of their offices and at the gates of their districts. This has been reported by Clearwisdom.net many times.
I moved to Wenquan Town in 2001. Every day I bike down Wenyi Road from Wenquan to the Summer Palace. Starting in about 2003, I noticed that along the road in the area controlled by these three residents' committees, many signs appeared slandering Dafa, and they stayed there for a long time. Regarding this, I wrote letters to advise them, delivered copies of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party to them, and posted stickers clarifying the truth about Falun Dafa. Other practitioners in this area also did a lot of work. Once, two practitioners went to the residents' committees to clarify the truth to them directly. However, they were reported, illegally arrested, and taken to the police station. Later, we focused on sending forth righteous thoughts, clarifying the truth, and distributing Dafa material. This went on for three years. After the second half of 2005, practitioners' joint efforts took effect. Along this road, there were no more signs slandering Dafa.
In February 2006, on the day before Chinese New Year, I notice that to the right of the Yangzhuang District gate, on an iron fence between the security office and a small shop, there was a giant banner slandering Dafa. It was about a meter and a half wide and more than 10 meters long. By that time I was really fed up. This banner faced an open-air farmers' market. To the left of the banner was the road that everyone in the district had to pass by. To the right of the banner was Wenyi Road. I wondered how many people's minds it was going poison. At that time a thought came from my heart; "I cannot let the evil and black hands in other dimensions be so popular and poison so many people; I cannot let them succeed. I must remove this banner and clean up the area. If I cannot do it, I'm not a Dafa practitioner."
I looked at it carefully. The banner was tied very tightly. Besides that, it was wide and long. It was hung with thick nylon rope going through red cloth and tied to each of the iron rods of the iron fence. I decided to use scissors to cut off the characters "Falun Gong." The next day on my way to work I brought scissors and rode where the banner was hanging. I waited for several minutes and made sure that no one was within 50 yards. I left my bicycle on the roadside, went up to it, and started cutting. Once my scissors cut through the red fabric, I felt that my hand had just moved a little bit and the red fabric was cut from top to bottom. Then I started to cut the nylon rope, which also took only one cut per tie. It was very quick. The ropes came apart as soon as my scissors touched them. It was so fast that it only took about twelve seconds. Then I put the red fabric with the characters "Falun Gong" into the basket on my bike and left. I wanted to cut the red fabric into strips and throw it away, but when I tried to cut it again, my old scissors could not cut it at all. I tried several times but it did not work. I had to put the red fabric on the scissors and use both of my hands to cut it. It was also very difficult to cut the nylon rope. I was amazed. I realized that it was Teacher who had strengthened me and given me the power to finish the task so quickly.
The banner I cut stayed there until the eighth day after Chinese New Year, when everyone went back to work. The authorities took it away. After it was removed, from February until October 2006, there were no other evil banners. In October 2006, the CCP started to hang all kinds of signs in all the districts. Suddenly, one day while going to work, I found another banner slandering Dafa in the same location. It was about half a meter wide and more than 10 meters long. Based on my previous experience, I bought a paper cutting knife after coming home from work. I used the knife to cut the red fabric and the nylon ropes. It also took me only about ten seconds. The difference was that, this time I kept the words "Falun Gong" and cut off the rest of the red fabric and left it on the ground. The wind blew it away.
After this evil banner was removed, I found another banner more than 10 meters long slandering Dafa on the gate of Yiyangshanshuiju. To the left of the gate there was an iron wall over 10 meters long. There were several cement pillars with strong lights installed on them. The banner started from the left of the gate and covered the entire wall. The security stand of this residential district was located immediately in front of the banner and to the right. Most of the time, security guards were standing there. At night, they sat in a small, one-person, sentry box with windows installed in all four walls. It would be very difficult to get rid of this banner. It would be like pulling teeth from a tiger's mouth.
I went there twice to check it out. I thought about how to approach the banner, how to do it, and how to leave if someone saw me. I also thought about sending forth righteous thoughts to fix the security guards or let them not be able to see me. However, I felt that these things were not likely to succeed. The third time I went there an idea came to me. I decided to wait until it was dark. Then, while the security guard sat in the sentry box, I could get into the district and get behind the banner and behind the strong lights. Then I would use the knife to cut the banner down. The fourth time I went there, the security guard was standing outside and the door of security office was open. There were too many people for me to do it then. The fifth time I went there, the head of the security guards was giving a lesson to several guards. I could not do it then, either. The sixth time, the security guard was sitting in the sentry box and there was nobody near the banner. I used a knife to cut the banner into three sections. Then I cut off the section most distant from the guard,and threw it on the ground.
This time it did not take me very long either, maybe just one minute. After I was done and was walking towards my bike, suddenly a car came towards me with its headlights on and parked right in front of the banner I had just cut. I thanked Teacher for his protection in my heart and left on my bike.
Two days later, I went there again after work. There was a small sign saying "Close the Doors and Windows and Prevent Thieves from Breaking In." I realized that the security department of the realty company had hung the sign and that its purpose was to occupy that spot so that people from police stations and residents' committees could not hang banners against Dafa again. Since then, from October 2006 until today, while commuting to work down Wenyi Road, I have not found any more evil banners slandering Dafa.
My fellow practitioners and I in the same study group all experienced Teacher's strengthening and protection during the process of clarifying the truth, distributing flyers, and posting stickers. The less we fear, the more we can do and the more we feel protected. This kind of incident happened to me more than once. When I was paying for something, I spent paper money with words about quitting the CCP written on it. I used all eight "Quitting CCP" bills that I was carrying. They were 10-yuan and five-yuan bills with large characters written on the backs of them. The left side said, "Please remember that Falun Dafa is good" and "Truth-Compassion-Tolerance is good." The right side said: "Gods will eliminate the CCP, quit the CCP to be secure." To my surprise, the cashier organized the bills together, looked at the backs, and counted them one by one. At that moment I was neither afraid nor worried. I just watched her count them. Those characters were so large and printed so well, but the cashier counted them twice without saying anything. (Maybe she knew the truth.)
I have been reading the reports on Clearwisdom.net and realized that there are still places where the authorities are hanging banners slandering Dafa. Our practitioners should not allow these banners to poison more people. From the experience I had cutting up the banner from behind, it was not difficult. With enough preparation and security procedures, all it took was just a knife and less than one minute. One of my friends said it well: "There are many spies, policemen and security guards in Beijing, but they are under the light. We are among ordinary people, and there are more and more people cursing the CCP and saying that Falun Dafa is good. It is difficult for them to find us. We are also helped by many gods and protected by Teacher. So as long as we get rid of the fear and dare to do what practitioners should do, it will be very easy." Practitioners in our study group can do it, so other practitioners in Beijing must be able to do it as well. Let's all try our best to do what we, as Dafa practitioners, need to do.
May 13, 2007
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