The Portrait of an Endtime "Olympic Host" -- Nine Commentaries, Three
Years, 30 Million Resignations

Nine Commentaries, Three Years, 30 Million Resignations
Israeli press conference lauds 30 million resignations from CCP

By Dalia Harpaz
Epoch Times Israel Staff
Jan 10, 2008

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Israeli Epoch times staff and human rights advocates announce support
for 30 million Chinese people quitting the CCP. (The Epoch Times)

On January 6, a press conference was held in front of the Chinese
embassy in Tel Aviv, announcing that over 30 million Chinese people
renounced their membership in the Chinese communist party and its
affiliated organizations. "Renouncing" the party is not something to be
taken lightly when it comes to the Communist dictatorship in China.

"Chinese embassy employees, we are here because we believe there is
goodness in your hearts", Epoch Times representative Ben Kaminsky said
in Chinese. "This is a historical period of time that might not last
long. After everything is over, when the crimes are all exposed, and the
communist party is dissolved, no chances will be left … Renounce the
party now, and save later regrets," continued Kaminsky.

Kaminsky made his remarks at a press conference held by The Epoch Times
Israel staff and human rights advocates, in front of the Chinese embassy
in Tel Aviv, on January 6

The press conference supported the 30 million Chinese people who have
renounced their membership in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its
affiliated organizations. The conference had the additional goal of
raising the public and media's awareness of the fascinating phenomenon
of the giant wave of renouncements.

Banners, displayed in a long line, told the story of the various crimes
against humanity carried out directly or indirectly by the CCP. Crimes
such as torture, murder, organ harvesting from live Falun Gong
practitioners, the massacre in Tibet, demolishing citizens' houses and
restricting freedom of expression vis a vis the upcoming Olympics, and
the 80 million citizens who died unnatural deaths during the party's
rule. Representatives of Burmese refugees living in Israel also attended
the conference and displayed banners protesting the CCP's support of the
military junta in Burma, as well as banners in Chinese calling the
Chinese people to renounce the CCP.

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The Nine Commentaries―The book which sparked the wave of resignations
(The Epoch Times)

A Wave of Resignations

The wave of renouncements from the CCP began in November 2004, following
the publication of the Nine Commentaries on The Communist Party. 1 The
book is a series of nine essays thoroughly reviewing the almost 60 years
of the Chinese communist party's existence. Since its publication, the
Nine Commentaries has been distributed in China widely but
clandestinely. (Possession of the book is a criminal offense inside
communist China.). Many Chinese find great relief in reading the The
Nine Commentaries, because the book stated clearly the facts that the
Chinese people were forbidden to mention. The Nine Commentaries,
relieved nationwide feelings of distress that were repressed by fear of
the party's terror tactics.

For Chinese, joining the party and its affiliated organizations is a
process which begins in childhood, by joining the Communist Youth League
and Young Communist Pioneers. In institutions for higher education and
places of employment, being a party member is mandatory for receiving
benefits and promotion. Quitting the party was always something unheard
of, and if carried out would result in immediate retaliation.

Amongst those who resigned are many high-ranking party members. Their
consciences could no longer put up with the assignments they were forced
to carry out.

How Do Chinese People Quit the CCP

Every day, over 40 thousand Chinese announce their resignations. The
formal resignation is performed on an Internet website called Tuidang
("Resigning the Party" in Chinese"). It can be done using a nickname to
avoid jeopardizing the lives and freedom of those who resign, as well as
their families. Those inside China, must use sophisticated technology to
access the website, which is censored by China's Internet firewall ―the
biggest of its kind in the world.

The number of resignations has now surpassed 30 million, and the numbers
keep rising day by day. Not all resignations make it to the website.
Chinese who live in remote villages and have no access to the Internet
use a third party to pass on their resignation statements to the
website. In these cases the resignations take longer to arrive. Some
people glue detailed resignation notes to walls in public places or even
scribble their resignation on bank notes.

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A visitor examines A China More Just, written by jailed rights advocate
and attorney Gao Zhisheng. (The Epoch Times)

Crimes Against Humanity

Ora Feidman, representing the Falun Gong spiritual movement, stated
that, "The CCP's dictatorial regime employs terror inside China, in a
way that even those who wish to put an end to the crimes, or even
mention them, find themselves persecuted―like human rights activists Gao
Zhisheng and Hu Jia, [who were arrested by the regime for championing
human rights;] their whereabouts are unknown."

Feidman called the Chinese authorities to open forced labor camps and
the hidden camps which are associated with harvesting organs from live
Falun Gong practitioners. "We call all ranks of the Chinese government:
let the Chinese people live respectfully without having to give up their
consciences," concluded Feidman.

Feidman talked about crimes against large numbers of practitioners:
"Their organs are harvested while they are alive, and sold for a profit
in the transplantation market developed by the CCP. After the organ
harvesting the practitioners' bodies are cremated―exactly like in
Auschwitz. They are even cremated while still alive―to hide evidence."

Olympics and Crimes Against Humanity?

Yaniv Nitzan, representative of the Human Rights Torch Relay, spoke at
the conference. The torch passes through 150 cities in 37 countries
echoing the thought that, "The Olympics and crimes against humanity
cannot coexist in China." "The Torch will arrive in Israel in February",
said Nitzan, "and student associations and youth movements have already
expressed their wide support", he continued.

Civil Responsibility

Tamuz Itai, CEO of the Israeli offices of The Epoch Times, talked about
why the newspaper welcomes the resignation phenomenon. "The press is the
watchdog of democracy and rule", says Itai, " The Epoch Times is a
global newspaper therefore it has global responsibility.

"For example, Washington Post exposed the Watergate Scandal. At first
people attacked the paper, but Nixon's regime went down as a result of
the scandal being exposed, and the newspaper won prestige it continues
to enjoy up to the present day.

"It's the same with our newspaper. It exposes, for the first time in
history, the CCP's real face, the brutality, the arbitrariness, the
murder and the evil. We saw it as our civil responsibility to do it. A
year prior to the Nine Commentaries' publication, our newspaper also
exposed in the world for the first time the Chinese regime's scheme to
conceal the SARS epidemic in China.

Itai continued, "In March 2006, our newspaper was the first to expose
the fact that the CCP is running an operation for harvesting organs from
Falun Gong practitioners.

"From the moment the newspaper did its part and exposed the CCP's
nature, the responsibility shifted to the shoulders of the Chinese
citizens, and now they are beginning to carry out their responsibility.

"In the way the people of Eastern Europe dismantled the Communist block
in the late 1980's, now the Chinese are doing it. If something can be
learned out of history and how it ended in Eastern Europe, I think it
can be learned here. Then no one will be surprised when the communist
regime in China falls, very soon".

[1] The Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party won the Asian American
Journalists Association (AAJA) award and has been translated as a book
into 31 languages.

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