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 Associated Press Photo taken in 2000, Tiananmen Square, Beijing. A plainclothes policeman stepped on the Falun Gong practitioner’s face while another stood on his leg while shoving handcuffs against his neck. |   Photo taken in 2011, Flushing, New York. A Chinese man had torn down a banner carried in the parade by Falun Gong practitioners and three New York policemen immediately subdued him. |
The above two photos each show a group of bystanders in the background and three people in the foreground with one of the three being held down by the other two. On the surface the two photos look alike, but the underlying stories are vastly different.
The photo on the left was taken by an Associated Press journalist on September 30, 2000. It documents Chinese Communist Party (CCP) police attacking a Falun Gong practitioner who had gone to Tiananmen Square to publicly appeal for justice for Falun Gong. A plainclothes policeman stepped on the practitioner’s face while another stood on his leg while shoving handcuffs against his neck.
The photo on the right was taken 11 years later, on February 12, 2011 during the Chinese New Year Celebration Parade in Flushing, New York. A Chinese man had torn down a banner carried in the parade by Falun Gong practitioners and three New York policemen immediately subdued him.
Falun Gong practitioners in China and America both follow the same principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, yet they are treated completely differently, which is quite thought-provoking. The two seemingly alike photos deliver different messages. In a free society, Falun Gong practitioners enjoy the freedom of belief and those the police apprehend are thugs that use violence to disrupt practitioners’ peaceful activities. In China, however, the CCP police wantonly arrest Falun Gong practitioners that exercise their right to stage peaceful appeals.
Maintaining order is a police responsibility in a normal society. Falun Gong practitioners practice Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance and are assets to society. American police protect Falun Gong practitioners’ rights from being violated by unlawful villains and thus they are truly maintaining social order.
The police in China however use “maintaining social order” as an excuse to illegally arrest and abuse Falun Gong practitioners. The plainclothes policemen in the first photo above are a typical example. In fact, the CCP police are the root cause of China's social instability. There is a saying among Chinese people: “In the past the bandits hid in deep mountains; but nowadays they are in the police force.”
Why do the police in the two societies treat their fellow citizens so differently? The police in a free society don't have the CCP to obey. Their job and primary responsibility is to safeguard the public. In the United States, all police officers must take a sworn oath before they are authorized to perform the duties of a law enforcement officer. Here is an example of such an oath:
I........................do swear - that - I will well and truly serve - our sovereign country and state - as a police officer without favor or affection - malice or ill-will - until I am legally discharged - that I will see and cause our community's peace to be kept and preserved - and that - I will prevent to the best of my power - all offenses against that peace - and that - while I continue to be a police officer - I will - to the best of my skill and knowledge - discharge all the duties thereof - faithfully - according to law. so help me God.
(Source: http://www.police-writers.com/police_officers_oath.html)
The oath police officers in a free society take is a principle and a promise made to God.
The CCP police on the other hand must pledge to obey the Party. The oath they take follows:
“I do swear that I voluntarily become a People’s Republic of China policeman; that I will remain loyal to the Chinese Communist Party, to the People and to the Law; that I will follow orders and safeguard secrets; … ; that I will devote myself to the noble public security career and strive to fulfill my vow.”
The CCP police first and foremost pledge to be loyal to the Party. All the brutality they subject Falun Gong practitioners and other citizens to follows their loyalty to the Party.
Unfortunately, the CCP’s interests are often above the law and conflict with those of the general public. As a result, the police force that pledges loyalty to the Party is reduced to a group of henchmen that abuse the people they should be protecting.
In China, the so-called “public security officers” are instead a “public harm.” In order to maintain its grip on China, the CCP spends enormous amounts of money “maintaining social stability.” According to a report published by the CCP, the expense of maintaining social stability reached 514 billion yuan in 2009, about the same as the military spending for that year. Human rights lawyer Chen Guangcheng who is also blind, recently revealed that the local CCP officials received a total of 3 million yuan in “social stability funds” from the central government to monitor him. Just a few years ago, a reliable source indicated that a quarter of China’s GDP was used to sustain the persecution of Falun Gong. Chinese taxpayers unwittingly pick up the tab.
A free society does not have to make any claim of maintaining social stability. Safeguarding its people’s interests is always the government’s top priority. No matter how often the power shifts, in a free society there is never an incident like the one in China when 40 million people once died of starvation. The reason is simple. In a free society there is no regime like the CCP that overrides everything.
The sharp contrast between the two photos indicates that the CCP is the biggest tumor in China and is the root cause of social instability. It is extremely important for the Chinese people to rid itself of the CCP.
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