| Ghandi and Martin Luther King, Jr. advocated | | | | willing to deny in tandem any wrongdoing. It |
| peaceful nonviolence to change ailing social | | | | is similar to sixty million criminals all |
| systems. They and their followers were able | | | | proclaiming their innocence together at the |
| to successfully change the social conditions | | | | same time.In Nazi Germany you had a smaller |
| of their times. Recently, a lawyer in China | | | | group of people who were able to plunge the |
| named Gao Shizheng has called for symbolic | | | | entire world into war and commit horrible |
| ongoing hunger strikes across China to | | | | human rights violations. It could be said |
| support people who have encountered violence | | | | that they were an organized group of thugs |
| and ongoing persecution perpetrated by the | | | | similar but perhaps not as vicious as the |
| Chinese Communist Party which currently rules | | | | Chinese Communist Party operating in China |
| China.For over six years now, since July of | | | | today. In fact the Chinese Communist Party is |
| 1999, the peaceful Falun Gong practitioners | | | | responsible for far more deaths over the |
| have used nonviolent actions to draw world | | | | decades than the Nazis were in their day.The |
| attention to the ongoing persecution of Falun | | | | Nazis are gone but the Chinese Communist |
| Gong practitioners by the Chinese Communist | | | | Party is still operating, still grossly |
| Party. If past history is any indication, | | | | violating human rights and still denying |
| the Falun Gong practitioners and human rights | | | | their own bad deeds at every turn. How long |
| advocates such as Gao Shizheng will be | | | | can something like this go on? It could go |
| successful in the long run.The Chinese | | | | on for a much longer period of time, if |
| Communist Party is a large stumbling block to | | | | people don't stand up and speak out against |
| overcome. They are unwilling to admit that | | | | the atrocities.Staying in tune with the |
| human rights violations are occurring in | | | | nonviolent means of achieving social change |
| China. Fortunately, the world knows better | | | | in history, it becomes the duty of every |
| thanks to groups like the Falun Gong | | | | individual in the world to speak about the |
| practitioners, Amnesty International, Freedom | | | | atrocities. As much and as often as the CCP |
| House and even the United Nations Special | | | | denies human rights violations every person |
| Rappateur on Human Rights.One can find all | | | | should speak out about them. With many more |
| kinds of evidence including testimonials, | | | | voices ringing with truth to counter the lies |
| video footage, and other documentation to | | | | of the CCP, ending the human rights |
| prove the gross human rights violations | | | | violations is an inevitable conclusion. |
| perpetrated by the Chinese Communist Party. | | | | However, it is a conclusion that must come |
| In addition, the very existence of a labor | | | | sooner rather than later because people are |
| camp system in China demonstrates the | | | | suffering.To learn more about the persecution |
| systematic nature of the human rights | | | | of Falun Gong practitioners in China visit |
| violations.Virtually everyone in the world | | | | the FalunInfo or the Clearwisdom websites for |
| knows what is going on, yet China continues | | | | additional information. A simple action that |
| to deny the facts. One is reminded of the | | | | you can take today to help in the spirit of |
| many murderers throughout history that have | | | | nonviolence is to call the nearest Chinese |
| committed terrible crimes and yet proclaimed | | | | Embassy and say, "Stop persecuting Falun Gong |
| their innocence. They are met with justice. | | | | practitioners. Stop the human rights |
| But these are individuals in society and here | | | | violations."Change is inevitable. As an |
| we are talking about a large group of people, | | | | individual you have the ability to help bring |
| the Chinese Communist Party, acting in unison | | | | an end to the atrocities sooner rather than |
| to perpetrate, hide and then deny their | | | | later.David Snape writes for All Things |
| abuses. It is harder to bring an entire | | | | Pondered: - where you can have your say and |
| group to justice or convince them to change | | | | (almost) anything is pondered. He also |
| their behavior.The CCP (Chinese Communist | | | | writes for To Be Informed: - a site |
| Party) numbers around 60 million people. | | | | supportive of health, fitness and wellness. |
| That is sixty million individuals that are | | | | |