Scott’s Blog

The Epoch Times has a good article discrediting a recent New York Times “review” of NTDTV’s recent Chinese New Year Splendor.

“One of those interviews was with John Wright, formerly with the Times own book review department. When asked what he thought of the show, Wright said, “It was very beautiful, very different.”

But the Times published on Feb. 6 a peculiar review of Splendor (under the byline of Eric Konigsberg) that did anything but suggest the consensus response. Backed with quotes from all of three audience members who were critical, only one of whom gave his or her full name, the Times proclaimed in its headline, “A Glimpse of Chinese Culture That Some Find Hard to Watch.”

What made the Times article even more unusual was that its criticisms mimic the line of China’s communist regime, which has engaged in a behind-the-scenes campaign to have Splendor shut down. “

“Lives Hang in the Balance”
(8/4/2006 14:7)

TORONTO (Falun Dafa Information Center) – When the report on organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners in China was published on July 6th (news) by David Kilgour, former Secretary of State (Asia Pacific), and international human rights lawyer, David Matas, we fully expected the Chinese regime to deny the report. A simple Google search with the words: “China Denies,” after all, brings up over 7.7 million entries.

Any other nation faced with allegations of this magnitude involving their own government would, at the very least, state that they would investigate. However, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) continues to deny these claims and the sum-total of its response has been to attack Falun Gong.

The CCP has a 60-year history of suppression and killing through decades of brutal campaigns from the Great Leap Forward, to the Cultural Revolution, to the Tiananmen Square student massacre. It has frequently denied proven atrocities. Yet, why do some Chinese media in Canada continue to carry their denials instead of demanding that they cease these practices?

Consider:

• When allegations of organ harvesting broke in March regarding the Sujiatun hospital, it took over 3 weeks for the CCP to respond, which is ample time to clean up any evidence. It was only after this delay that the Western delegations were invited to a guided show tour of this hospital. It was not an independent investigation.
• The CCP’s rejection of the organ harvesting report published on July 6th was given on the same day the report was released. They attacked the report, not on the merits of the evidence or the process, but solely on its conclusion. They continue to do the same today.
• The CCP statement says nothing of the numerous Chinese state-run websites that advertised organs for sale to foreigners for up to $160,000US with an average waiting time of 2 weeks. Many of these sites were removed immediately after the organ harvesting practices were revealed.
• The CPP says nothing of reports from as far back as 1994 from media and the US State Department confirming that the Chinese authorities have been harvesting executed prisoners’ organs for years, and according to human rights groups, they have done so without consent from the victims.
• The CCP says nothing of the 40,000+ organ transplants done in China for which the sources are not explained.
• If the CCP firmly stands by their conviction that this is not happening, we demand they allow an independent investigation within China to investigate prisons and labour camps where Falun Gong prisoners of conscious are being held. If what the CCP says is true, they will have no difficulty in accepting this request.

The CCP denial and further attacks on Matas and Kilgour reinforce the conclusion that the CCP, if not directly responsible for these crimes against humanity, is certainly complicit in them.

Falun Gong practitioners are innocent victims of a brutal and deadly hate campaign and genocide waged by the CCP. We call on the media to expose such crimes, ask the tough questions and dig out the real story, rather than simply repeating the blanket denials of the CCP.

While so many languish in camps throughout China, and are poised to be carved up, their organs taken and cremated to destroy the evidence, it is vital media plays its role to uncover the truth. Lives hang in the balance.

Source http://www.faluninfo.net/displayAnArticle.asp?ID=9450

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.