Posted on 02/09/2005 7:39:49 PM PST by wagglebee
Beginning Feb 6, 2005, dozens of homes and individuals in the Washington D.C. area have been bombarded by phone calls with recorded messages that apparently come from China's Communist regime.
The messages contain propaganda, demonizing the practice of "Falun Gong,” and claiming the Chinese Government is defending "human rights” by "saving” people from the Chinese spiritual practice.
The curious and remarkably benign target of the phone campaign, Falun Gong, also known as "Falun Dafa,” is a spiritual practice that consists of gentle exercises and postures, combined with a meditation component.
Three values - truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance - form the core of Falun Gong’s philosophy. Many liken its technique to tai chi or yoga. The discipline went public in May of 1992, introduced by its founder, Li Hongzhi, and today is practiced in over 50 countries.
When Chinese leader Jiang Zemin banned Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, up to 100 million people in China were suddenly outcast. Evidence suggests that Jiang feared the growing numbers of practitioners and was envious of the practice’s popularity.
Reportedly, over time, Jiang intensified the regime’s propaganda against Falun Gong, while persecuting those who practice it.
At a press conference at Washington’s National Press Club, Wednesday, various people who received the calls shared the experience, playing recordings from their phone answering machines and declaring their chagrin that such propaganda could reach them in America.
Individuals described receiving the calls as "shocking,” "disturbing,” "outrageous,” and "frightening.”
According to sponsors of the press conference, the "phone assault” was not limited to the Washington, D.C. area but targeted hundreds of Falun Gong practitioners throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia - at about the same time.
The message, both in Chinese and English, centered on reports by the Beijing regime attempting to link Falun Gong with an alleged self-immolation incident in 2001.
By midnight Feb 7, at least 23 individuals and families in the metropolitan Washington DC area received phone calls with a prerecorded message, slandering Falun Gong. Some received as many as 18 messages. Most recipients were Falun Gong practitioners.
If only every, every other, or every ten thousand homes in China had a phone, this might work. We could bake messages into Fortune Cookies-my bad, that is their method of communicating with us.
Reminds me of the Saudi "love us" TV ads.
I think we should all post pictures to FR from the official Chinese Communist Party website. Then ping each other incessantly until their server crashes.
It's even worse!!!! I got one of these calls and after his communisim wouldn't sale he went on for 20 minutes trying to get me to change long distance companines!!!
ACKKKKK!
Awesome idea :D
The world would be a better place if Chicommunists were vaporized...
cant speak chinese, but count me in!
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