In 1999 Jiang Zemin, then the head of the Chinese Communist Party, outlawed Falun Gong, a meditation practice built on truth, compassion and forbearance that Janice Trey says had grown to tens of millions of practitioners. He was jealous of its popularity, she tells Jenny Beth Martin, and the laws were written to apply retroactively. The spies the Party sent into the practice found nothing wrong and often took up the exercises themselves. Then the Party found a business.
Practitioners do not drink and do not smoke. In a country where smoking is common among men, Trey says, that made their organs the healthiest available, and a transplant patient does not want a smoker's lung or a drinker's liver. So the healthiest people became the target: imprisoned, tortured, and, she says, killed on demand for their organs. She calls what followed the largest and longest peaceful resistance in history.
What she asks of American viewers is specific. The Falun Gong Protection Act passed the House, she says, and its Senate companion has cleared the Foreign Relations Committee. It would sanction the people directly involved in forced organ harvesting and require the State Department to report every year on whether it meets the definition of genocide. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, she notes, was the bill's original sponsor as a senator. American universities and hospitals, she says, must not be complicit. Jenny Beth Martin closes by stating plainly what the bill is about: organs taken from live bodies, not dead ones.
Guest: Janice Trey, chairman of the board of The Epoch Times and NTD, former CEO of The Epoch Times, former executive at five Fortune 500 and Global 500 companies, born in a forced labor camp during China's Cultural Revolution.
In this segment:
• Jiang Zemin outlaws Falun Gong in 1999, retroactively
• The spies who found nothing wrong and learned the exercises
• Why the Party saw a business: practitioners do not drink or smoke
• The healthiest organs, and who wants them
• The largest and longest peaceful resistance in history, by Trey's account
• What the Falun Gong Protection Act would do: sanctions and an annual report
• Secretary Rubio, the House vote, and the Senate committee
• Universities and hospitals must not be complicit
• Jenny Beth Martin: live bodies, not dead bodies
Ask your senator to pass the Falun Gong Protection Act: call the Senate switchboard at 202-224-3121.
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00:00 — Jiang Zemin starts the persecution of Falun Gong
00:27 — Spies sent in found nothing wrong, and learned the exercises
00:47 — The health surveys she cites
01:01 — People she knew who were healed
01:34 — Recognized abroad despite the persecution at home
01:44 — Why the Party saw a business: they do not drink or smoke
02:11 — You do not want a smoker's lung
02:24 — The largest and longest peaceful resistance in history
02:54 — Engage the grassroots, not just the leaders
03:05 — The Falun Gong Protection Act: sanctions and an annual report
03:28 — Secretary Rubio, the House vote and the Senate committee
04:00 — Universities and hospitals must not be complicit
04:44 — Jenny Beth Martin: squeezing a lot in before her flight
05:04 — The bill, the practitioners, and live bodies, not dead bodies
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