Falun Gong heckler agrees to plea deal
I just learned that last week, Wenyi Wang, the Falun Gong “White House Heckler” agreed to not protest any visiting foreign officials for one year in exchange for having all charges against her dropped. She received instantaneous international recognition when she bravely voiced her protests against visiting Chinese Communist leader Hu Jintao. In her remarks, she urged President Bush to help stop the persecution of Falun Gong. Wang said she decided to protest President Hu after her involvement in investigations of Live Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners in China, and the subsequent silence of the international media (aside from the BBC in this article).
The harvesting continues today, as does the brutal persecution of Falun Gong.
In addition, it appears that Falun Gong practitioners are not alone in their receipt of brutal persecution in China’s Communist regime.
June 28th, 2006 at 1:58 pm
Say Scott, have you looked into the veracity of Falun Gong’s claim?
- US State Dept investigation found Epoch Times NY’s “Auschwitz” allegation not credible:
http://tinyurl.com/ghncd (shortened by Editor)
- The hospital FLG accused is a joint-venture with a company affaliated with the Malaysian government. The place is open to public, and Malay officials have visited in previous years:
http://tinyurl.com/gpx35 (shortened by Editor)
I’ve never heard of death camp advertising for foreign investment and official tours.
I recommend you goto Epoch and take a close look at the gory photo they are using. I showed it to a pathologist and he said it’s an autopsy photo, not evidence of vivisection or torture.
Pay attention to all the incisions around the neck area - there’s no neck organ to transplant. The incisions were to reveal the hyoid bone for signs of strangulation.
If it is as alleged, the Chinese government wouldn’t bother to hold murder investigation and autopsy.
June 28th, 2006 at 2:26 pm
Unfortunately all outside investigative bodies are subject to the limitations placed on them by the Chinese authorities. It is not surprising at all that US State department was not able to find any evidence. Couldn’t the CCP have merely cleaned it up and moved the operation elsewhere where the international spotlight was not shining?
The same thing happened when the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights went to “investigate” Masanjia Labor Camp. When they got there, they were told who they could speak to, what to ask, CCP officials had to be present, all of the cells where they visited had all been freshly painted, etc, etc.
The CCP is very adept at controlling the conversation of what happens in China.
As far as the hospital being a joint venture with the Malaysian government, I’m not sure how this helps your case. The CCP organ trade is well-known internationally and is BIG business. Why would they not advertise it. Lining their [and their friends’] pockets is all the CCP stands for, right?
As this recent AP article states, the Malaysian government recently suspended the circulation of The Epoch Times. Hmmm, do you think that the CCP had any influence on this?
And whether or not The Epoch Times had an actual picture of a live organ harvesting victim or merely a *regular* torture victim is irrelevant. It is well known in the world that the CCP routinely tortures Chinese citizens. It is also well-known that the CCP has a huge organ harvesting business. It is further well-known that the CCP routinly executes more people than the rest of the world combined, many times over.
Now, judging by the number of people who have claimed organ harvesting of prisoners who were alleged to have been killed FOR their organs by people who were not Falun Gong practitioners, I can easily believe that this is also occurring for Falun Gong practitioners.
And for your last point about why the Chinese goverment would hold an autopsy…. The CCP has nothing to lose in this. They control everything. They say, “Here, investigate this person right here.” Because they probably know that that person did not get killed that way. They control the conversation.
And they have been doing so ever since China caught this CCP virus 50+ years ago….
Have you read The Nine Commentaries of the Chinese Communist Party?
June 30th, 2006 at 4:04 pm
Beg to differ. Those photo Epoch are using in thier “Auschwitz” cry wolf articles are recycled from older Minghui articles that mentioned nothing about vivisection, then it is not proof of live organ harvesting at all.
Those photos is to elicit emotional response, and that is called propaganda.
All you have is hearsay and conjecture. Where’s the proof? Two US investigation started 2nd week of March found the claim not credible. And Nowak’s decision on no-action is also clear where this tall tale is going.
July 2nd, 2006 at 5:15 pm
To put one’s entire conclusion as to the voracity of claims of extreme torture in a single photo is folly.
You sound like those silly neo-nazis who deny that the holocaust happened.
I have nothing but respect and admiration for China and her long and glorious history. They invented most of the most basic of inventions that the world now enjoys. They appear to have first discovered America and to have circumnavigated the world- extremely earlier than Magellan.
But today’s China has been marred by the CCP. The CCP’s only legitimacy is in money and power. To make money, they must exercise power- often brutal and violent.
Once the Chinese people learn the truth of the CCP they will begin to reject it and begin the curing process of this terrible disease they’ve suffered with for 50+ years.
April 10th, 2007 at 10:36 pm
Hey Scott, I thought you might be interested in reading this piece about Bobby who’s commented on your blog. He’s been all over the blogosphere discrediting the organ harvesting report. Have a look.
Western Standard (Alberta): Sowing Confusion; Embarrassed by reports of live organ harvesting, China’s sympathizers launch a high-tech disinformation campaign
http://organharvestinvestigation.net/media/WesternStandard_040907.htm
April 9, 2007 Monday
Final Edition
HEADLINE: Sowing Confusion; Embarrassed by reports of live organ harvesting,
China’s sympathizers launch a high-tech disinformation campaign
BYLINE: Kevin Steel, Western Standard
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
February 14th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
http://tinyurl.com/2c9b6j
http://digg.com/political_opinion/About_that_woman_who_made_trouble_for_visiting_Hu_Jintao
On June 21, 2006, the US Court in Washington, D.C., dropped all charges against Dr. Wang. I hope that her one-person public protest in the White House on April 20, 2006, will be recalled in marble and bronze. But at any rate, let us recall it in 2008 in this column, for neither President Bush, nor any presidential candidate as of today, has said a word about the torturing to death in China as punishment for no crime.
http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2008/lev2_08.asp