(Minghui.org) After the United States House of Representatives passed the Falun Gong Protection Act on June 25, U.S. Senator Marco Rubio introduced the bill to the Senate on July 31. Once approved and signed into law by the U.S. President, the bill would focus attention on forced organ harvesting by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), sanction those involved in the atrocities, and urge the CCP to end the persecution of Falun Gong.
Australian federal MP Andrew Wallace submitted notice of a private member’s motion to the Australia House of Representatives on July 3 calling for an end to the CCP’s persecution of Falun Gong.
Dr. Feng Chongyi, an Associate Professor at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and an expert in China studies, recently commended this progress. “I am happy that the United States is taking the lead in the free world to bring this matter and moral obligation into legislation. Furthermore, I am very pleased that other democratic countries such as Australia are also taking similar measures,” he said during a recent interview.
He said the progress demonstrates that Western society has now gained a better understanding of the CCP’s vicious nature. This legislation not only endorses Falun Gong practitioners’ decades-long efforts and provides practical help to practitioners who are still suffering in China, but also encourages anyone who counters the CCP regarding human rights in China.
The Most Powerful Affirmation
After the CCP began persecuting Falun Gong in 1999, practitioners risked their lives to tell the world’s people the facts and expose the brutality through Minghui and news media including Epoch Times and NTD Television, explained Dr. Feng.
But these efforts met with resistance and misunderstandings due to the CCP’s decades-long defamation campaign and the business interests of those who work with China. Therefore, legislation that sanctions the CCP perpetrators is a more powerful affirmation of Falun Gong practitioners’ persistent efforts in the past 25 years, according to Dr. Feng.
Practical Assistance and Protection
Based on traditional values, Falun Gong improves practitioners’ physical and mental health and morals through the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. This spiritual cultivation is especially important to raise the moral standard in China after communism ideology collapses, Dr. Feng said.
But the totalitarian CCP regime cannot tolerate it. After the Cultural Revolution ended, there was a period of relative political relaxation. This allowed for the revival of traditional Chinese culture and the importation of foreign values. Falun Gong also emerged in this gap and attracted millions of practitioners.
As a totalitarian regime, the CCP’s tyranny by nature does not tolerate belief systems, dissident forces, and social groups that are not under its direct control. What’s more, Falun Gong’s beliefs in Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance are at odds with the Chinese Communist regime. The CCP’s tactics for survival and expansion rely on violence and lies. It not only relies on unbridled violence to seize and consolidate power, but also relies on shameless lies to cover up its crimes, gain trust, and deceive the world.
Dr. Feng said that Falun Gong practitioners are truthful and they work tirelessly to seek the truth while exposing the brutality. The CCP intends to eradicate the practice to maintain its lies. Plus, Falun Gong’s kindness and selflessness fundamentally contradict communism’s brutality and hatred.
In the past 25 years, countless practitioners were detained and tortured, and their families were broken. To make things worse, some practitioners were killed for their organs. The parliaments in the free world have passed a series of resolutions in these years to condemn the suppression. The Falun Gong Protection Act further provides practical help to Falun Gong practitioners. The sanctions will also discourage CCP officials from persecuting practitioners recklessly.
Encouragement for Human Rights Advocates
By safeguarding their freedom of belief, Falun Gong practitioners have been countering the CCP for many years on a large scale, making them the largest group in China that oppose the CCP’s brutality.
Dr. Feng said that’s why such legislation that protects Falun Gong encourages all people who intend to improve the human rights situation in China and stop the CCP’s brutalities.
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