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July 18, 2006
A Call to Awareness and Action in China
Why is it that we as human beings tend to ignore brutal lessons of the past and allow history to repeat itself? What is occurring to practitioners of Falun Gong in China today has parallels in the past. Extensive documentation of the imprisoning, killing and organ harvesting of these peaceful sipritual practitioners points to the reality of a hidden flesh factory and incinerating opertation profiting from the sale of vital organs, removed sometimes from people while they are still alive.
We have been made aware through historical research that what prompted Abraham Lincoln's anti-slavery movement was not actually first and foremost compassion and a desire to 'do the right thing'. We see that before World War II the United States was not suddenly stirred to defending Jewish concentration camp detainees, yet only championed the cause after the events surrounding Pearl Harbor, incidents tied directly to its own interests, occured.
Today, right now, we
are faced with a similar situation to Nazi Germany occurring in China,
and we have a present opportunity to be stirred to action on the basis
of 'doing the right thing' before it becomes the afterthought.
For our
own good as individuals and therefore collectively, we need to take it
upon ourselves to act in thought and action toward freeing the world of
another situation of human extermination. Thousands of good
people
being arrested, detained, abused, tortured, and killed, with their
internal organs being sold on the black market is something that
deserves our attention and action, the world's attention and
action. We need to think about this and place our thoughts and
energies on ending the horror.
The killing and organ
harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners in China will stop one way or
another. If
individuals wait to act, the situation will no doubt continue to change
and the persecution, killing and organ harvesting will nonetheless
cease. But what will instead prompt that ending will be a
political/economic pressure that will then result in a humanitarian
movement. We will do the right thing because it is then in our best
interests to do so.
This would be a tragic
waste of a precious opportunity to rectify the situations of
the past where the right thing wasn't necessarily done for the right
reasons, and create a new model of conduct for the future. It is no wonder the world has continued to exist as it has
under such pretense. But what would it be like in a world where we
went forth under a different pretense, where we actually do the right
thing just because it's the right thing to do?
John Alphonse is reality x editor and publisher.
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