Aunt Cai is a petite, 64-year-old Chinese lady. This past Sunday on the streets of Flushing, New York, she was passing out fliers that called for Chinese to withdraw from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Five Chinese women surrounded Aunt Cai, backed her up against a wall, and began yelling at her.
Their faces hardened with anger, they waved their fingers at Aunt Cai and shouted, "Do you have any sense of shame? Are you a Chinese? Why are you doing something like this?"
Two Western women happened upon this scene and asked a bystander what was going on.
One of these women was tall, with very broad shoulders and a muscular build. She yelled at the group of young Chinese women, "Why would you treat an old woman like that?'
A young Chinese woman replied, "She is not old."
The Western woman replied, "You shouldn't be treating an old woman like that."
The young woman replied, "Go home."
The large Western woman said, "Go home? This is my home. You go home!"
Then she began to swear at the young Chinese women and, with her head lowered, began walking determinedly right at them. The young Chinese women backed away.
The Western woman put her large arm around Aunt Cai's slender shoulders and led her away to safety.
Death Threats
Mobs of Chinese began gathering in Flushing on Saturday, May 17 to harass Falun Gong adherents who have peacefully come there on a daily basis for four years to urge Chinese to quit the Chinese Communist Party.
Chinese in Flushing who survived the Cultural Revolution in China are now having flashbacks, as the organized violence and indoctrination of that era seem to have come to the streets of New York.
Crowds have chanted death threats directed at Falun Gong. Members of the crowd have stopped individuals and told them, "We will kill you." They have thrown bottles and have punched, pushed, kicked, and spat on Falun Gong adherents, some of whom have been injured.
This mob action has not happened by accident. The Chinese Consul General for New York City, Mr. Peng Keyu, was recorded by an investigator for the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong as he admitted that he had "encouraged" the mobs in Flushing.
The Consul General says, "I have always gone to them and thanked them in person." He continues, "I ran other things on the scene."
CCP Incites Flushing Mobs
Earthquake
The Consul General admits in that conversation that he is playing on the passions generated among the Chinese people by the Sichuan earthquake.
The Chinese-language media controlled by the Chinese regime have thrown a match on these combustible feelings by reporting that Falun Gong practitioners in Flushing have interfered with the collection of earthquake relief and are against China—although those media reports do not have a single piece of evidence to back up their claims.
The Chinese regime needs to scapegoat Falun Gong practitioners, whom they have brutally persecuted for nine years, because it has an earthquake problem.
Earthquake experts in China, using techniques that had accurately predicted earthquakes in the past, warned the regime of an impending earthquake, as did ordinary people who paid attention to the traditional ways of prediction, such as the behavior of animals. The regime silenced their warnings, most likely concerned about bad publicity prior to the Olympics.
When the quake happened, the regime's response, which has often been praised by Western media, was in fact very slow. Some areas of Sichuan never received any relief.
But even if there had been prompt relief efforts, the death toll was far higher than it should have been because of the CCP-sponsored corruption in China. Buildings—in particular school buildings —collapsed as though they had been dynamited.
The buildings lacked sufficient structural steel, and their concrete could be ground into powder by a single hand. Grieving parents could often see, standing near the ruins of the building in which their only child had died, a CCP administrative building standing without a crack in it.
And so the Consul General of China for New York City has helped manufacture mobs who will loudly say that Falun Gong practitioners are at fault. And then, at the Consul General's direction, Chinese-language media have reported back to the people of mainland China what these Flushing mobs are doing.
This entire setup is a shadow play staged by the CCP in order to turn the Chinese people's grief and anger away from it and toward a common "enemy."
'Home' in China and the United States
The young woman who tried to bully Aunt Cai has fallen for this propaganda trick hook, line, and sinker.
In asking her, "Are you Chinese?" she was suggesting that anyone who criticized the CCP could not be a good Chinese.
This identification of the CCP with China has been fundamental to the CCP's propaganda since the Party's beginning, but especially since the massacre on Tiananmen Square in June 1989. Communism was finally discredited by the blood of the students, but patriotism has given the regime new life. All Chinese are called upon to love China, and loving China means loving the CCP.
That young woman—she looked to be only 20 years old—could not be expected to know the real record of the CCP's crimes in China. If she had read the two-page flier Aunt Cai tried to give her, she might have begun to think differently of China, the CCP, and many other things. She would understand that all those who love China have no alternative but to reject the violence and deceit of the CCP.
But this woman's patriotism, inflamed by her sorrow over the Sichuan earthquake, has her blind and deaf to such appeals. Like many of the people in mainland China and many Chinese immigrants in this country, she can be easily manipulated by cynical old men like Consul General Peng.
The United States was born of an idea, and patriotism in the United States has always been less about ethnic or national heritage than about whether someone lives according to the principles of democracy and human rights inscribed in the U.S. founding documents.
The large Western lady who said she was already "at home" was probably not thinking of herself as patriotic when she rescued Aunt Cai from the mob. But in defending Aunt Cai's rights, she was every inch an American patriot.
As of this writing, not a single U.S. public official at the local or national levels is known to have condemned the actions of Consul General Peng. These officials would do well to look to the actions of that one good-hearted Western woman on the streets of Flushing.
She knew without saying so that the principles she believed in could not allow these hateful actions to continue. In order for her to be "at home" in the United States, this had to stop.
People, whether Chinese or Americans, naturally love the country of their birth. The tragedy of China under the CCP has been that love of country has been twisted to support an evil regime so that people's love of home is turned against themselves.
If the United States stands up in Flushing and says clearly, "This is our home. You can't act that way here," then perhaps the Chinese people will begin to understand that a home can't be based on lies and violence. They will begin to learn the principles they need to find their way home, whether they live in Flushing or Beijing.
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