Falun
Gong is een rechtse religieuze sekte (op christelijke basis....), die
vooral bekend staat om al haar beschuldigingen aan het adres van de
Chinese communistische partij over religieuze onderdrukking en de
claim dat de Chinese overheid organen oogst bij o.a. gevangenen van
de Falun Gong.
De leden van Falun Gong geloven o.a. dat Trump werd
gestuurd door god om de Chinese communistische partij te vernietigen,
wat meteen het eind van de wereld zou inluiden en de berechting van
zondaars.... ('leuke god ook' als deze figuren als de fascistische
psychopaat Trump gebruikt, hoewel dat zegt weer voldoende over de
bedachte god van de christenen: deze moet minstens een fascistische
psychopaat zijn als hij zoveel ellende laat passeren....)
Opvallend
ook dat de reguliere westerse media deze beschuldigingen aan het adres van de Chinese regering met grote
graagte overnemen, ook al is er geen flinter aan bewijs, 'de
bewijzen' die Falun Gong laat zien bestaan o.a. uit getekende of
geschilderde taferelen die e.e.a. moeten uitbeelden en bewijzen..... Als een,
zelfs rechtse sekte in het westen met dergelijke verhalen zou komen,
maar dan gesitueerd in de VS, zouden diezelfde media of er niet eens een
letter aandacht aan besteden, ofwel de kans zou dan zelfs groot zijn dat deze media de Falun Gong sekte als misdadig zouden afschilderen....... Maar ja het gaat hier om China hè.......
De Falun Gong sekte staat o.a. voor de volgende zaken: moderne wetenschap werd geïntroduceerd door aliens als onderdeel van het plan om het menselijk lichaam over te nemen.... Feminisme, milieu actiegroepen en homoseksualiteit zijn deel van satans plan om ons communistisch te maken...... Nog een 'mooie': het onderling trouwen door 'verschillende rassen' verbreekt onze verbinding met god...... ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Wat een stel gekken, werkelijk nog erger dan Scientology!!
Lees het
volgende artikel en zie zelf hoe Falan Gong in feite een rechtse
religieuze sekte is, die zich van leugens en manipulaties bedient om
China aan de paal te nagelen, de schrijver is Ryan McCarthy, werd eerder gepubliceerd op The Grayzone en door mij overgenomen van Geopolitics Alert (GPA):
Scientology-Like Falun Gong Cult Behind China ‘Organ Harvesting’ Claims
Beijing (GZ) – A wave of corporate media reports on China organ harvesting rely without acknowledgment on front groups connected to the far-right Falun Gong cult, whose followers believe “Trump was sent by heaven to destroy the Communist Party.”
Western
corporate media outlets have gone wild with claims that the Chinese
state is “harvesting” the organs of ethnic minorities and
political opposition figures. But an investigation by The Grayzone
has found that these China organ harvesting allegations originate
from front groups run by the far-right opposition cult Falun Gong.
Falun
Gong, whose devotees can often be seen clad in yellow and performing
coordinated qi gong routines in crowded city centers, runs an
ultra-conservative, staunchly pro-Donald Trump media network that has
been compared
to Alex Jones’ Infowars.
According
to a former member of the fringe religious group, Falun Gong believes
that an apocalyptic judgment day is soon approaching and “that
Trump was sent by heaven to destroy the [Chinese] Communist Party.”
In
order to understand, then, how heavily politicized rumors from an
obscure far-right cult found their way into the headlines, it is
essential to trace the roots of the story through an elaborate
network of front groups.
Falun
Gong in front of the European parliament. Nivent2007 | Wikicommons
In
June 2019, a London-based organization called the China
Tribunal published
a report claiming that the Chinese government has been systematically
executing and harvesting the organs of members of Falun Gong, a
leading force of opposition to Beijing in the diaspora.
The
China Tribunal describes itself as an “independent tribunal into
forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience in China.”
Most Western journalists took the organization at its word.
Up
to and after it published the report, the China Tribunal received
scattered coverage from various mainstream media outlets, including
The Wall
Street Journal, Forbes,
and The
Guardian.
In September, the coverage ramped up considerably after the China
Tribunal presented its case to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), with
major outlets like The
Independent and Reuters joining
in.
One
thing all this reporting has in common is that it assumes the China
Tribunal is truly “independent.” On its website,
the China Tribunal says that it was “initiated by the International
Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China (ETAC), an international
not for profit organization, with headquarters in Australia and
National Committees in the UK, USA, Canada, New Zealand, and
Australia.”
So
what is ETAC, really?
On
ETAC’s website, one finds a “management”
page with
a list of people, devoid of any information except their names,
photographs, and positions in the organization. The executive
director and co-founder is Susie Hughes; Margo MacVicar is named as
the New Zealand national manager; Rebecca James is the UK national
manager for outreach, and so on.
Where
do these figures come from, and what brought them together? The
website has no bios. But follow the names, and it soon becomes
apparent that there is another connection apart from ETAC — the
Epoch Times.
Some
of the $1.5 million worth of pro-Trump Facebook ads from Falun Gong’s
propaganda arm the Epoch Times
Table
of Contents
A far-right anti-China organ harvesting propaganda network run by a cult
The
Epoch Times, which uses the slogan “Truth and Tradition,” has
marketed itself as just another conservative, pro-Trump media outlet.
But
NBC News published a major
exposé in
August revealing it to be the media arm of the opposition cult Falun
Gong. The report details the bizarre workings of the Falun Gong
organization, showing how the Epoch Times is carving a place for
itself in American right-wing media.
NBC
News found that the Falun Gong website spent more than $1.5 million
on roughly 11,000 pro-Trump advertisements on Facebook in just six
months, “more than any organization outside of the Trump campaign
itself, and more than most Democratic presidential candidates have
spent on their own campaigns.”
And
while the NBC reporters, Brandy Zadrozny and Ben Collins, cautiously
refer to Falun Gong as a “spiritual community,” the behavior they
document very easily fits into the popular definition of “cult.”
(It’s okay, Zadrozny and Collins, you can say it — say it with
me: “Falun Gong is a cult.”
Now doesn’t that feel better?)
A
quick look at Falun
Gong’s official emblem,
posted on its
website,
should raise some eyebrows: it features an ancient swastika symbol.
Falun Gong reassures skeptics on the web page, “Some people say:
‘This symbol looks like Hitler’s stuff.’ Let me tell you that
this symbol itself does not connote any concepts of class.”
Falun
Gong’s official symbol
So
where do the ETAC managers fit in with Falun Gong? Susie Hughes has
photographer credits on several Epoch Times articles (her name seems
to have been scrubbed, the photos merely credited to “The Epoch
Times,” but the credit
still shows up on Google searches at
the time of writing). Margo MacVicar has numerous
articles gushing
about Shen Yun, Falun Gong’s traveling dance show. Rebecca “Becky”
James shows up organizing
a Falun Gong art exhibition in Bristol and sharing
vegan drink recipes.
ETAC’s
UK national manager for initiatives, Andy Moody, is credited
by Epoch Times as
a reporter for its sibling NTD, or New Tang Dynasty Television, Falun
Gong’s TV arm. (Concerned Canadians have noted that the cult’s
propaganda network has received millions
of their tax dollars worth
of disproportionate funding.)
ETAC’s
UK communications coordinator Victoria Ledwidge appears in another
Epoch Times article,
coming to greet Shen Yun performers in London and, of course,
acclaiming the “amazing” performance.
As
one goes down the list of ETAC management, these Falun Gong
connections spring up for almost everyone. ETAC is very clearly a
Falun Gong front group.
Neither
ETAC nor China Tribunal disclose these connections, but it hardly
takes an intrepid investigative journalist to find them. So why was
this level of basic research a step too far for, say, Owen Bowcott at
the Guardian, who does little more than transmit ETAC’s talking
points?
In
fact, Falun Gong itself is actively spreading this “organ
harvesting” rumor in major North American cities. The
Grayzone’s Ben Norton saw
some of the cult’s activists standing in central Toronto next to a
giant banner titled “Stop Forced Live Organ Harvesting in China.”
They
handed out pamphlets to passers-by declaring that the “Chinese
Communist Regime Is Slaughtering Innocents” (using a painting as
supposed evidence) while preaching about the “great health
benefits” of Falun Gong.
The
far-right cult is clearly using these rumors to proselytize and
recruit new supporters.
China Organ Harvesting ‘Research’ overseen by a cult that sidelines real doctors
Turning
to the China Tribunal’s report itself, it is apparent that, despite
the authors’ claim to “have maintained distance and separation
from ETAC in order to ensure their independence,” they rely heavily
on information curated for them by ETAC.
The
introduction, after describing ETAC as “a not-for-profit coalition
of lawyers, medical professionals and others”, goes on to state
that “ETAC’s main interest has been the alleged suffering of
practitioners of ‘Falun Gong’, a group performing meditative
exercises and pursuing Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance, but
regarded by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) since 1999 as an
‘anti-humanitarian, anti-society, and anti-science cult’.”
It
is understandable that critics might hesitate to take the PRC’s
characterization of Falun Gong at face value. But it is easy to make
a fair evaluation of the group’s true character simply by perusing
their own publications, where one will learn, for instance,
that modern
science was invented by aliens as
part of a scheme to take over human bodies; or that feminism,
environmentalism, and homosexuality are part of Satan’s
plan to make us into communists;
or that race-mixing
severs our connection to the gods.
What
Falun Gong means exactly when it preaches the timeless values of
“truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance” is beyond this
article’s scope. I leave it to the reader to judge how the above
doctrines correspond to them.
The
report summary goes on to state: “Evidence was submitted by ETAC
for the first hearing, amplified by further evidence following the
first and second evidence hearings.” So despite framing their
investigation as separate and independent of ETAC, the authors admit
that they began with evidence fed to them by ETAC.
Their
reliance on ETAC is further highlighted later when several doctors
are named who expressed skepticism about the Falun Gong organ
harvesting narrative. These doctors are listed as “doctors speaking
favorably of the PRC.”
The
report then states:
“All
of these doctors were invited by the Tribunal to participate in the
Tribunal’s proceedings. Their participation would have greatly
assisted the Tribunal in its work; they all declined the invitations.
Further, although each did contribute in-person to a recent report by
an Australian Government Committee their contributions have been
subject to review by ETAC that reveals that they produced no hard
evidence to support what they said and could be criticized for their
methodology or their experience in transplant surgery.”
In
other words, the China Tribunal didn’t see any need to consider
their testimony, because ETAC had already looked at it and declared
it to be bogus.
One
of these doctors, Francis Delmonico, was contacted by the science
journal Nature for
its article on the China Tribunal’s report — a rare case of a
dissenting opinion being registered, however grudgingly.
Delmonico
was asked specifically for his opinion on a research paper cited by
the China Tribunal, which was published on the scientific archive,
SocArXiv, by Matthew Robinson – a research fellow of the famously
impartial Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation:
“But
Francis Delmonico, a surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital in
Boston, says that although there is evidence that organs were taken
from prisoners in the past — which he condemns — he is not
convinced by the SocArXiv evidence because it is not direct.
Delmonico is chair of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Task Force on
Donation and Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues and has been
supporting organ-donation reform in China for more than a decade,
although he made his comments to Nature in a personal capacity.”
Lobbyists for an anti-Iran cult go to bat for an anti-China one
The
China Tribunal’s report is not the first alleging that the Chinese
government is murdering Falun Gong prisoners en masse to harvest
their organs. It relies heavily on an earlier document, known as the
Kilgour-Matas report, which was initially released in 2006 and
updated several times since then, with the title “Bloody Harvest.”
This
previous report was commissioned by the Coalition to Investigate the
Persecution of Falun Gong in China. Unlike ETAC, CIPFG
plainly states that
it is a Falun Gong organization.
More
interesting connections arise when probing the backgrounds of the
co-authors of the report, David Kilgour and David Matas.
David
Matas is the senior legal counsel for B’nai Brith Canada, a
right-wing pro-Israel lobby that works hard to tar any critique
of the occupation of Palestine as anti-semitism.
He was also a member of the Canadian government’s now-defunct
Rights and Democracy board, in which capacity he lobbied
on behalf of the
Iranian opposition cult Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK), as part of an effort
to remove the MEK from the Canadian and US lists of terrorist
organizations — an effort that was eventually successful.
The
Rights and Democracy board’s chairman, Aurel Braun, was also a
strident MEK advocate, who promoted the cult as a replacement for
Iran’s present government. Rights and Democracy eventually
dissolved due in part to Braun’s and Matas’ relentless attacks on
another board member for supposed contacts with Hezbollah and Hamas.
The
MEK emerged in 1960s Iran, promoting a strange mixture of Marxism and
Shia Islam, and supported the 1979 Revolution until the Mullahs
turned against it. MeK leadership then fled to Europe, from which
they launched a series of terrorist bombings. They simultaneously
maintained a presence in Iraq, where they enjoyed Saddam Hussein’s
patronage, massacred Kurds on his behalf, and even fought with his
troops against their own country.
The
MEK promote themselves, to anyone who will listen, as the Iranian
opposition and the best democratic alternative to the present
government — and politicians and think tanks seeking regime change
in Iran readily indulge them, despite wide reports of their cult-like
behavior.
In
August 2019 Canada’s National Observer published a report about
Canadian politicians who love the MEK. Prominently featured in the
article is the other co-author of “Bloody Harvest,” David
Kilgour, a former MP who is co-chair for “Canadian Friends of a
Democratic Iran” and has been doing PR for the MEK for years.
So
both authors of “Bloody Harvest” advocate on behalf of, not one,
but two cults that also happen to be darlings of regime-change
enthusiasts in and around Western governments. (The latest edition of
“Bloody Harvest” includes a third co-author, Ethan
Gutmann,
who, notably, has been affiliated with the Gulf monarchy-funded
Brookings Institution and the neoconservative Foundation for Defense
of Democracies.)
How
does one unwind from all this hard shill work? David Kilgour makes a
point of seeing
Shen Yun’s dance performances year
after year and effusing about it again and again and again to
the Epoch Times.
A few reporters notice Falun Gong’s seamy side
In
March, Jia Tolentino published her impressions of Shen
Yun in the New Yorker.
Like the aforementioned NBC piece on the Epoch Times, Tolentino ‘s
article shows that more and more people are noticing that there is
something very odd about Falun Gong.
From
the “baroque and surreal” Shen Yun dance-propaganda show, which
bills itself as the last bastion of genuine Chinese culture, she
moves to consider some other very troubling aspects of the Falun Gong
organization, such as their penchant for resisting journalistic
inquiry and harassing critics.
Tolentino
also mentions a 2017 Washington
Post investigation by
Simon Denyer, which, while hardly a pro-PRC puff piece, casts serious
doubt on the claims of the Kilgour-Matas report on organ harvesting.
Denyer
may be the only journalist in the mainstream US press who conducted
an independent investigation on organ harvesting in China and
seriously questions Falun Gong’s organ harvesting narrative.
Naturally, Ethan Gutmann felt compelled to run a rebuttal
to Denyer’s report on ETAC’s website —
and one can only imagine the kinds of emails and phone calls Denyer
has been getting since he dared to publish that piece.
For
most of the Western corporate media, the “Bloody Harvest” horror
story is too ghoulishly titillating to subject to serious scrutiny,
especially when the “Yellow Peril”-style villain is an
increasingly powerful state threatening the old hegemonies.
This
post, Reports on China ‘organ harvesting’ derive from front
groups of far-right cult Falun Gong, originally ran on Grayzone and
was republished here with permission.
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