In China today, the Chinese Communist Party is clinging to its traditional Mao-era forms of persecution against any group that stands for the democratic principles enshrined in its Constitution -- freedom of religion, freedom of speech and assembly, equality before the law and other due process rights. The victims have included lawyers, journalists, labor rights activists, Tibetans and especially, members of the spiritual practice of Falun Gong. As Mao targeted the landlords and the intellectuals, his successors targeted other groups with the same tactics -- isolate group members, humiliate them publicly, subject them to torture and in many instances execution in order to annihilate the group or its beliefs.

Psychiatric abuse and police complicity have played a major role in these tactics. In China today, Falun Gong practitioners are arrested illegally by the police and sent to detention centers, prisons or hospitals for further abuse. This type of abuse is now being attempted in the U.S. by those who follow the Chinese Communist Party line in Queens County and Brooklyn, New York. Since May 17, 2008, Chinese Communist Party agents have attempted to incite the police, psychiatric hospital staff and others to apply the Mao-era tactics to U.S. Citizens and residents who practice Falun Gong.

These efforts have failed miserably because unlike China, the United States is a rule of law nation which does not isolate and persecute persons based on their thoughts or beliefs. Instead of putting Falun Gong practitioners on trial, the police, prosecutors and courts have arrested and found guilty those who have sought to export the persecution of Falun Gong to the United States.

Recently, on October 12, 2008, the police were misinformed and told that a Falun Gong practitioner was suicidal. Unfamiliar with the role of lies and misinformation in the campaigns waged against 20th and 21st century victims of mass persecution or genocide, i.e., the Tutsi by the Hutu in Rwanda, the Jews by the Nazis in Europe, the landlords, intellectuals, pro-democracy activists and Falun Gong in China, the police and hospital staff at first believed the lies and placed the practitioner in a mental hospital. Medical staff said she was admitted because someone reported that she was suicidal, unaware that the author of the report was setting her up. The physician released her after a few hours when he found out about the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China and understood that this was a set-up. The physician apologized for the detention of Ms. Zhang Doreng in the hospital and stated that he was going to distribute printed information about psychiatric abuse in China with his superiors.

This is another example of how the CCP tries to manipulate law enforcement and acts as if the United States were China where Falun Gong practitioners do not have rights, due to this senseless persecution. Although the CCP tried to repeat the psychiatric abuse practiced in China, those who practice Falun Gong in the U.S. exposed and clarified the real situation to those involved.