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