By Alan Adler Executive Director-Friends of
Falun Gong
Dear President Obama,
There is still time—but not much—to change your position on the
communist regime in China. In the battle between good and evil, there
can be no bystanders.
The gang that has terrorized its own people for 60 years is playing
an end game. More than 115 million members of the Chinese Communist
Party, Youth League, and Young Pioneers have withdrawn their membership
and their hearts. Civic unrest and voices of dissent form a rising tide
that the corrupt security apparatus cannot stem.
A victory for those that support Falun Gong will be a victory for all the good people of China.
China’s own people can no longer tolerate a regime responsible for
more than 80 million unnatural deaths—nor should your administration, in
the face of evidence of the unprecedented human rights violations the
regime has perpetrated.
Media reports have often described the series of events, including
the attempted defection of Deputy Mayor and former Chief of Police Wang
Lijun to the U.S Consulate in Chengdu that revealed a plan by Chongqing
Party chief Bo Xilai and domestic security czar Zhou Yongkang to launch a
coup, the removal of Bo Xilai from office, etc. as instances of
infighting among the high-level officials in the Chinese Communist Party
(CCP), but the story is not that simple.
As you know, in July 1999, Jiang Zemin made a fateful decision to
persecute tens of millions of Chinese practicing Falun Gong. What
followed was a campaign of terror, imprisonment, lies, torture, and
killing on a scale the world has never seen. It is a campaign of pure
evil against a group of people who have no political aspirations, but
aspire only to be good people.
The ghastly crowning achievement of this persecution is that the
regime perfected techniques of removing organs from living Falun Gong
practitioners, killing untold thousands for profit, with the blessing of
officials up to the Politburo level.
Through its history, the United States has made good choices and bad
choices when deciding to support one group or another for political
power in foreign lands. This time, the choice is far beyond two groups
seeking control. It is a stark choice between those who have wielded
torture and genocide vs. those who wish to redress wrongs and heal their
nation. On a higher plane, it is a choice between good and evil, the
kind of historic choice that a generation may get a chance to make just
once.
The Falun Gong issue is the issue in this tense fight. The different
factions have staked their careers on either side. A victory for those
that support Falun Gong will be a victory for all the good people of
China and all the groups and spiritual organizations that have been
repressed and brutalized since 1950. The U.S. can side with the good
mainstream people of China (Falun Gong) or placate the CCP, fall into
their trap by continuing to support this evil, tyrannical regime with no
future, by doing nothing. If someone is doing something evil, and you
sit by and let it happen, your inaction is immoral. That is not who you
are. That is not who the people of this great country, that you
represent, are.
What you can do specifically now:
• Convey to President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao that you
support efforts to redress the wrongs perpetrated against Falun Gong
practitioners since 1999.
• Support all lawsuits brought against Jiang Zemin, Zhou Yongkang, Bo Xilai, (and others) in U.S. and international courts.
• Publicly proclaim, clearly and unambiguously, that the
persecution of Falun Gong in China violates numerous fundamental human rights and must cease immediately.
We urge you to come forward quickly, since the situation in China is
dynamic and moving with unforeseen speed. The speed with which the
Soviet Union fell is a recent example.
Some 7000 Falun Gong practitioners from all over the world gathered
in New York this past weekend to celebrate 20 years since the public
introduction of the practice in China—as well as to peacefully call for
the end of 13 years of persecution. They would welcome your coming
forward now at this moment.
It would be even more welcomed by the tens of millions of good
Chinese people that have suffered for thirteen long years simply because
they strove to improve their health and character by following the
universally good principles of Truth-Compassion-Forbearance in their
daily lives.
Your legacy, and the fate of millions of innocent people, hangs in
the balance. The choice is yours. We urge you to do what is right.
Sincerely,
Alan Adler
Executive Director
Friends of Falun Gong
