China's Easy Target: FALUN GONG

Reports continue to expand on one of the most amazing stories in 2006: China harvests organs from prisoners. The Falun Gong have been claiming that China is taking the organs from arrested Falun Gong practitioners... most arrests are unjustified and inhumane. Now we begin to see the Chinese Military connection to the practice. As this story unfolds, we will have to decide if China is ready to stand with the civilized world, and be considered an equal.

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

January 31, 2007: Investigations into the growing organ transplant industry in China indicate that a major player is the Chinese military. There is a worldwide shortage of organs for transplant. Since China still executes hundreds of criminals each year, and has thousands of political prisoners, who often go into prison camps and just disappear, there always seems to be available organs for transplant in China. Desperate, and well heeled, foreigners come to China, get their life-saving transplant, and notice that there are a lot of military personnel working in the hospitals. The military is a major player in Chinese medical care, with a large network of hospitals for its millions of troops and their dependents.

Study: China's Army Harvesting Body Parts From Live Prisoners, Particularly Falun Gong Members

China's military is harvesting organs from unwilling live prison inmates, mostly Falun Gong practitioners, for transplants on a large scale — including to foreign recipients — according to a study.

The report's authors — Canada's former secretary of state for the Asia Pacific region David Kilgour and human rights lawyer David Matas — implicated dozens of hospitals and jails throughout China in July, after a two-month investigation.

"The involvement of the People's Liberation Army in these transplants is widespread,'' Kilgour said at a press conference.

Consulte Gets JIggy WIth It!

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Seems the Chinese Consulate in Houston has been sleeping at the wheel. Someone forgot to tell one of their officials "Chen Guangda" that China is killing, torturing, and cutting organs out of the Falun Gong. But hey, it's never to late to learn. He could always read Cover For Action to learn about China's persecution of the FLG.

NEWS ALERT!!!! Chinese Consulate in Houston wants to help the Falun Gong. Let me guess, "we can help you sell your organs".

Related story below:

Group Claims China Harvesting Members' Organs

Chen Guangda at the Chinese consulate in Houston denied the allegations. "The Chinese government never persecuted Falun Gong practitioners. We just outlawed Falun Gong because it is anti-social, anti-humanity and anti-science cult," Guangda said. "We just want to help them."

Bobby Fletcher: In The News

Amazing how Bobby Fletcher gets around...so much so that he's in the news now! He's been to my blog several times.... to bad the article did not address the other pro-communist comments that have come out of Bobby.... i.e. Wen Ho Lee, Chi Mak, etc. etc.

Western Standard (Alberta): Sowing Confusion; Embarrassed by reports of live organ harvesting, China's sympathizers launch a high-tech disinformation campaign

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April 9, 2007 Monday
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HEADLINE: Sowing Confusion; Embarrassed by reports of live organ harvesting,
China's sympathizers launch a high-tech disinformation campaign

BYLINE: Kevin Steel, Western Standard

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He posts his messages everywhere under several different names on Internet
blogs and discussion groups. He writes letters to the editor anywhere and
sends e-mails to anyone--anyone who might take seriously shocking evidence
that the Chinese government "harvests" and sells live organs from political
prisoners. His main message is that the Falun Gong--the group which first
brought evidence of live organ harvesting to light--and the Epoch Times
newspaper that broke that story are spreading propaganda against China's
Communist government. And he's not even Chinese. He is Charles Liu, a
40-year-old Taiwanese-born technology consultant who lives in Issaquah,
Wash., and does business in China.

Liu has been so active and so pro-Beijing in his writings that some Falun
Gong supporters--in particular Epoch Times reporter Jana Shearer--have
accused him of being an agent for the Chinese government, waging a
disinformation campaign against them, trying to confuse people, and
deliberately wasting everyone's time.

It's a charge that upsets Liu, who dismisses it as "a bunch of kooky friends
making unfounded accusations. It's just a bunch of blog BS." As for why he
devotes so much energy to attacking the Falun Gong and the organ harvesting
allegations, he says, "My position is that I simply don't agree with their
brand of politics, because I observed their politics turning from
anti-Communist party, to anti-China, . . . and recently it's morphed into
this anti-Chinese hysteria and that's going to be hurting people," he says.
As an Asian-American, he says he decided to speak up.

He doesn't really explain, when asked, why he started a blog last year
called "The Myth of Tiananmen Square Massacre" under the name of Bobby
Fletcher (one of his online aliases, which he also uses to comment on the
Western Standard's online blog). On that blog, he pushes the minimal 250
casualty figure that the Chinese government has always maintained died that
night in 1989 (more reliable estimates put the figure at at least ten times
that).

Liu's actions mirror disinformation campaigns waged by the Chinese
government in the past. Typically, these include the deliberate spreading of
false or misleading facts to sow confusion or doubt among the conflicting
accounts. The classic example is the Tiananmen Square massacre; the Chinese
government has maintained that no one died in the square itself, that there
was only pushing and shoving on the streets around the square, resulting in
a few military casualties. Overseas, the CCP relies on its United Front Work
department, part of the Chinese intelligence service, to propagate its
message. During the Cold War, the Soviets employed many overseas flunkies
through their Disinformation Department.

Former Canadian MP David Kilgour, who co-authored a report on China's
macabre organ harvesting industry, has received many propaganda e-mails from
Liu. For instance, Liu has written repeatedly that a U.S. congressional
committee looked into the organ harvesting allegations and found nothing.
"[David] Matas and I gave evidence to that subcommittee and got support from
both the Republican chairman and the Democratic vice-chair," says Kilgour.
"I just came to the conclusion he was trying to waste my time, and I have
other things to do."

Winnipeg-based human rights lawyer, and Kilgour's co-author, David Matas,
really doesn't know what to make of Liu. "I don't know who he is, but what
he does is spend a lot of time replicating nonsense to defend the Chinese
government," Matas says.

The only concern Matas has is that Liu seems to know who he and Kilgour met
with in the United States to discuss their report. Matas discovered Liu had
sent e-mails to politicians--and their staff--prior to the meetings. "The
only people who would have that information would potentially be the Chinese
government. I can't imagine how Liu would know we were meeting with those
people," Matas says. "We're not super-secretive, but you can't find
information on the Internet or in any public place about who we're meeting
with, where and when." He himself has received at least 10 e-mails from Liu,
all of which he's ignored. Maybe Matas is onto something with that approach.

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Colour Photo: CP, Dave Cahn; David Kilgour (left) and David Matas,
co-authors of a report on China's organ harvesting industry: How does Liu
know who they're meeting with? ;

LOAD-DATE: March 29, 2007

China Prepares To Take Back Taiwan By Force

I just returned from a trip to China, so I'm sorry I have not been able to post. Anyway, I'm back for few months before I travel again.

China will go to any lengths to take back Taiwan, even send covert operatives into the U.S., penetrate sensitive defense contractors, and steal U.S. technology. The trial of Chi Mak begins and for the first time we get to see the inside of Mak's CCP intelligence operation.

SANTA ANA, Calif. — The career of a Chinese-born electrical engineer, Chi Mak, over four decades is a textbook example of how China's spy services encourage their agents to burrow into American society in order to steal America's defense secrets, federal prosecutors said yesterday.

The naval technologies Mr. Mak worked on for a defense contractor, Power Paragon, were of interest to China because of its ambition to gain control over a democratically governed island off the mainland, Taiwan. "Their no. 1 goal is to support the retaking of Taiwan, if it comes to that," the prosecutor said. He said the main obstacle to the Chinese effort is the presence in the area of the American 7th Fleet. "The Chinese Navy has determined that it cannot fight the 7th Fleet face to face, but the way to attack the 7th.

Mr. Staples said the high-grade encryption was the hallmark of an espionage operation. "It's not an encryption program that you can go to Fry's or Office Depot and buy. It was a custom-made encryption program and its author was a Chinese man," the prosecutor said. He alleged that American investigators would have been unable to break the encryption if a search of the home of Mr. Mak's brother hadn't turned up a key to the code.

China Says It's Creating Its Own Democracy

China claims to be creating it's own form of democracy, one not like the U.S. One has to wonder what this will be... I think I know where the Chinese are going with this one. Here's what I mean.

Webster's on-line definition of a democracy:
A system of government in which there is free and equal participation by the people in the political decision-making process.

And Webster's definition of communism:
A totalitarian system of government in which a single authoritarian party controls state-owned means of production with the professed aim of establishing a classless society.

Now, it's pretty clear the distinction here. China definitely fits into the communism definition, which makes sense because that's what they are. But, rather than create a new form of democracy, what the Chinese are doing is their normal propaganda... they are changing the definition of democracy not their way of governance. Below is how the Chinese will define democracy:

China's Definition of their new democracy:
A totalitarian system of government in which a single authoritarian party controls state-owned means of production with the professed aim of establishing a classless society.

Sound familiar? Let me ask this question. Do you think China will ever allow free speech, freedom of expression, freedom to assemble etc. etc.? That will be the true test as to a "new China". As long as they continue to cut out the organs of Falun Gong, Kill those practicing a different religion, and run tanks over protester's... they will continue to be simple COMMUNISTS!!!

Social Unrest In China Grows as Does the Need For Basic Democracy

Democracy is almost nearly a matter of being human, and as the people of China are slowly finding out, a good part of the world are free to protest, practice religion, and speak out. As Chinese citizen begin to gather momentum, we see the growing democracy of the counties underground in subtle ways, i.e. Social Unrest.
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Witness: 1 Killed in China Protest


BEIJING -- A student was killed and at least 60 people were injured in central China when villagers armed with bricks and rocks clashed with baton-wielding police.

The crowd swelled to about 20,000 by Monday and the demonstration turned violent when local authorities dispatched police, who started attacking people, said Zhang, who rushed to the scene after a resident telephoned him.

The protesters in Zhushan were "very, very angry and were shouting 'Beat the government dogs to death,'" Zhang, 22, said in a phone interview. They were throwing rocks and bricks at the officers and set fire to five police cars, he said.

At least 1,500 paramilitary police and riot police wearing helmets and carrying batons yelled back "Beat them to death," Zhang said.

A Story of Torture

Google Falun Gong, Torture, and China... you'll find a literal library of anecdotal horror. Yet another story of why the U.S. should steer clear of the CCP. Tell me how they can claim the U.S. has bad human rights!

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Winston Liu is a University of Calgary mechanical engineering PhD student who was arrested and detained several times in China for practicing Falun Gong. In 2001, both Liu and his wife, Yao Yue, were arrested for downloading and disseminating material about the Falun Gong. They were sentenced to three and 12 years in jail, respectively. During his time in jail, Liu said he was interrogated until fatigued and suffered various forms of torture, including sleep deprivation and physical abuse with an electric baton. He was also forced to sign documents recanting his faith.

According to the United Nations Falun Gong Human Rights Working Group, part of the Chinese government's disinformation campaign includes telling the public that Falun Gong causes people to die or go insane

Despite continued persecution, practitioners of Falun Gong, both within and outside China, risk apprehension in their quest to reveal the brutal realities facing fellow practitioners.

The CCP Believe CIA is Behind the Falun Gong

In the never ending drama of the CCP, they now surmise the CIA is the funding source behind the Falun Gong.

Falun Gong owes its existence largely to the spiritual vacuum created by the communists in the early 1990s. With the launch of the economic reforms, the party stopped caring for the masses, subjecting them instead to the short sharp shock of turbo-capitalism. That was too much for many Chinese, who yearned for spiritual stability, which they found by rediscovering their own cultural roots and traditions. Many Chinese began frequenting parks again in the mornings, meditating and performing ancient exercises that the state had long prohibited.

....the party has branded Li as a serious threat to its rule, claiming that the CIA is financing his organization in a bid to topple the Chinese government.

The party's initial hostility to the group has sparked a bizarre religious war. A special secret service unit created in 2004 (Department 610) persecutes Falun Gong members in China and even targets Chinese nationals living abroad.

Check out Spiegal's great photo series of the Falun Gong.

You're Kidding Me: China Lectures The U.S. On Human Rights

Are you serious? Just goes to show you how active the Chinese propaganda machine is, and what lengths they will go to. The average American will find this article FUNNY! CFA responds in Blue

"Injustice of the judiciary is quite shocking," the Chinese report states. "In some cases, defendants were sent to jail without a guilty plea or a trial, or tossed from their homes without a proper proceeding.

Yes, well anyone deemed a threat by a grand jury (like someone suspected of child rape) will await trail in jail. But, China should keep in mind a Jury put them there and that while in jail they can rest assured they will be able to keep their organs.

"Abuses in U.S. prisons are also common. The United States is the only country in the world that allows the use of police dogs to terrify prisoners," it added.

Yes, dogs help keep prisoners in line and are used as protection if a riot were to break out. But somehow this does not compare the serious torture and cutting out of organs. And oh yes, these prisoners have also had a fair trial and were sentenced to prison by a jury of their peers, not by a blood and organ thirsty government, like is done in China.

"We urge the U.S. government to acknowledge its own human rights problems and stop interfering in other countries' internal affairs under the pretext of human rights," said the lengthy report.

Ya, CFA urges China to stop cutting open people who practice a religion or who are Falun Gong practitioners. When you end up in a U.S. prison it's because you've raped, murdered, and injured. Free speech is not a crime here. Perhaps China ought to be pointing the finger toward themselves.

You know, their lash out against the U.S. speaks volumes as to the pressure they must be feeling.

Falun Gong Sue Jiang Zemin

I sure wish these law suites had some teeth, I'm afraid they don't but at the very least they help illustrate the growing body of knowledge of how miserable the CCP is to it's citizens. CFA Thanks Jana for sharing the article.

A civil lawsuit against former leader of the Chinese Communist Party Jiang Zemin, may see the Australian courts set a precedent on the extent diplomatic immunity can protect foreign members of state.

Ms Zhang was detained in 2000 and tortured for eight months after appealing in Beijing for an end to the persecution of the spiritual practice, Falun Gong. She is suing Jiang Zemin for wrongful arrest, torture and false imprisonment.

Red China, more than most, would fall into the category of a foreign state that has little respect for the law or human rights.

Late last year, an Amnesty International report highlighted China's deteriorating human rights record across a range of areas, including freedom of speech and spiritual practice. Worse still a recently updated report compiled by former Canadian secretary of State, David Kilgour, and internationally respected human rights lawyer, David Matas has concluded that thousands of Falun Gong practitioners have been incarcerated without trial and slaughtered to service China's lucrative organ transplant business.

China's Spring Harvest: Organs

Photo From UCLA Asian Studies

Former Canadian cabinet member David Kilgour decried "organ tourism", whereby rich foreigners go and pay for a transplant which, Kilgour said, may have cost a Chinese citizen his life.

Kilgour and lawyer David Matas presented a report they say leads to the inescapable conclusion that Falun Gong dissidents and other prisoners in China are killed for their organs.

"Once a customer arrives into China, somebody's killed for the organ, whether it's a prisoner sentenced to death or a Falun Gong practitioner, and they just have this huge supply of people in jail waiting to be killed for organ donations," Matas told reporters.

Chinese Vice-Health Minister Huang Jiefu called last November for a network to register all organ donations in what would be a step toward regulating the transplant market.

Jiefu said that most organs came from executed prisoners rather than from traffic fatalities.

Another Chinese Killer; 2006: 4,746 Worker Killed

Another mine blows, killing the workers of her caverns. Last year we read story after story about the deplorable conditions of mines in China... one reporter attempted to bring the story to the public eye, he was later beaten to death for the report. It's true that if you're in China you cannot read this blog, but it's also true that I can report this news to readers of CFA free of worry that I'll have my head bashed in tomorrow... I HOPE! Some of the Falun Gong who have been beaten in the U.S. have argue otherwise, perhaps I should double lock my door at night.

By late on Wednesday, rescuers had found the remains of 15 dead miners. Seventeen miners survived, Xinhua reported. They were mostly local farmers.

China has the world's deadliest major coal industry, and while mine deaths have been falling after a safety crackdown, accidents like the latest explosion remain commonplace.

Last year, 4,746 workers were killed in mine blasts, floods and collapses as collieries pushed production beyond safety limits amid buoyant demand.

Hu's Beating Down Petitioners, Cutting Open The Falun Gong

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Chinese Policy: If you are Falun Gong, we cut you open. If you have an issue, we beat you senseless, jail you, and torture you. WE ARE CHINA.

Tiananmen Square is almost empty. Rows of policemen standing under Chinese flags stop anyone from getting close.

In the past few days, China has rounded up and jailed those most desperate to be heard, petitioners who need the state's help.

In a country without elections, it is often the only way anyone get can noticed.
But now that the parliament is in session, China wants to make sure that petitioners do not get in the way.

Rei Jiancai has spent a decade campaigning against local corruption. He holds up his petition as he speaks.

"I've been tortured three times," he says. "My wife is being held in a labour camp. But I can't give up."

The petitioners point to the bed of another petitioner, he was dragged out at three in the morning.

He did not even have time to collect his belongings, which are left in two plastic bags hanging on the wall.

Bloggers Hacked at the Knees While the Falun Gong Fight to Keep Their Organs

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While news of CCP and PLA harvesting Falun Gong organs breaks world wide, average Chinese citizens are clueless. Why? Not only are sensitive media articles black listed, but China is also blocking entire blog sites like this one: Blogspot..... as well as, Typepad. The citizens of China are living in a artificial world, while their government kills their neighbor for in order to get top dollar on a liver.

Confirmed: All Typepad blogs blocked in China
Asiapundit first sounded the alarm. Now it's confirmed. All Typepad blogs, including this one, cannot be seen in China. (Note that Blogger has been blocked in China for some time.) I asked some people in China to attempt accessing this blog and a long list of other random Typepad blogs (including ones that never discuss China), without using a proxy. None could be accessed. Now all Typepad blogs wanting to be seen in China will have to migrate to another blog hosting service or onto an independent server

A New Great Wall

The U.S. provides a safe place for the Falun Gong to raise up... now we should join the movment to help people in China rise up and ride themselves of the communist party.

Los Angeles
Falun Gong practitioners built what was described as "The Great Wall of Courage" with continuous banners on both sides of the boulevard to disseminate the message of Falun Gong's persecution in China as well as to celebrate 19 million withdrawals from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations.

John Li is the Falun Gong organizer for "The Great Wall of Courage" in this parade. He said that Falun Gong practitioners have made great efforts to let the Los Angeles Mayor know about the persecution of Falun Gong in China, especially the atrocity of harvesting organs from living Falun Gong prisoners.

Chinese spies ‘very aggressive’ threat to US

Chinese spies ‘very aggressive’ threat to US

China’s intelligence agencies are among the most aggressive at spying on the United States, followed by Cuban, Russian and Iranian spy agencies, The Washington Times quoted the US government’s top counterintelligence coordinator as saying.

Ya, not only do they just spy, but they break into homes and assault U.S. citizens.

The PRC is Jamming TV Again!!!!!

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The document, translated at the bottom of this article, orders that the NTDTV New Year Show should be destroyed by "any and all means", and if not possible, to "contain them and minimize their impact."

The Chicago affiliate of NBC (the U.S. National Broadcast Company), WMAQ Channel 5, reported Feb. 6 on the interference with the Spectacular in Chicago,"Someone in China has been tying up their phone lines, and the consulate has been calling the event's sponsors, including NBC 5 T.V."

Chinese Military Is Hacking Up the Falun Gong

Yet again, someone else reports the Chinese Military is taking a slice out of the Falun Gong. Will anyone ever do anything about this?

China accused of organ harvesting
A US human rights lawyer has today accused the Chinese military of harvesting the organs of imprisoned Falun Gong members to sell to foreign customers.

The report claims that Falun Gong prisoners, jailed for membership of the outlawed spiritual group, are singled out for the transplants during which many of them die.

It says Falun Gong prisoners are given systematic blood tests and medical tests, while some hospitals have admitted they have Falun Gong organs for sale.

The report, co-written by former Canadian secretary of state for the Asia Pacific region David Kilgour, accuses China of state sponsorship of the practice.

Falun Gong Get To Keep Their Organs, But Not For 100 Years

Ya, you heard me right! Turns out the Falun Gong will have to wait at least 100 years before the China grows-up, into a democracy. For now, growth is more important that human rights, buildings more valuable human suffering, and corruption more meaningful then equality and fairness. China says it will be 100 years before they are ready for democracy. That's a nice way to get away with atrocities. If you tell people it will take 100 years before you are more conscientious, well then... they will leave you alone until then. It some how seems ok to the lay person... they end up saying "it's ok to cut out organs... they will fax that problem in 100 years." LISTEN UP PEOPLE.... China has had 5000 years to advance into a equalist country... they have chosen communism not democracy. The only thing 100 years will bring is more pain and suffering. The great leap forward is only status-quo when it comes to Human Rights.

Leap forward a century away

DEMOCRACY in China could be 100 years away, its communist leaders say.They had no plans to allow it in the near future because they had to focus on economic development before political reform, Premier Wen Jiabao said in comments published yesterday.
Mr Wens' comments, which appeared as the Government prepared for its annual parliamentary session, came as activists press for an end to the ruling party's monopoly on power.

F-U is for Filter Unlimited

Hackers bust out a massive database of secret filtered words in China. A partial list is provided below. Hit the link for a larger list.

The Words

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