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Đầu tiên, tôi muốn nói với các bạn một ít về tờ Đại Kỷ Nguyên. Chúng tôi đã bắt đầu với một nhóm nhỏ các ký giả tại Trung Quốc, có giấc mơ làm một tờ báo để phổ biến những tin tức không bị kiểm duyệt tại Trung Quốc. Sự dấn thân, tận tụy và hy sinh là điều bắt buộc. Từ lúc chúng tôi khởi đầu vào năm 2000, hơn chục phóng viên của tờ Đại Kỷ Nguyên đã bi. bắt tại Trung Quốc. Hiện thời, 4 trong số đó vẫn còn bị giam trong tù vì họ đã tính đi lấy những tin tức mà chế độ Trung Quốc muốn kiểm duyệt. Một một trong những nhân viên của tờ Đại Kỷ Nguyên đã phải hy sinh hứng chịu đó là Dr. Yuan Li, tại Atlanta, Georgia. Truyện về ông ấy có trên trang nhất báo Đại Kỷ Nguyên tuần trước. Sự đàn áp của Trung Cộng đã lan từ Trung Quốc sang tới Hoa Kỳ, vì ông Li đã bị đánh đập và cướp phá ngay trong nhà ông ấy, một khu rất an ninh. Ông ấy đã phải khâu 15 mũi, và bọn cướp không lấy gì quý giá, mà chỉ lấy đi 2 computers laptop.Đó là những cố gắng của bọn họ nhằm khủng bố nhân viên của tờ Đại Kỷ Nguyên, nhưng công việc của chúng tôi vẫn cứ tiến hành, và chúng tôi sẽ vẫn cứ tiếp tục thông tin về những chuyện thật đã xảy ra bên Trung Quốc, bất kỳ chúng ra sao.

Steve Ispas writes:

> Here is my speech to introduce EET and 9ping.
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> The ripple worldwide effect of the Nine Commentaries on the
Communist Party
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> Good morning, it is a pleasure to be here. I am Steve Ispas, the San
Francisco Bureau Chief for The Epoch Times. It is my honor to welcome
all of you to this seminar on the Epoch Times' 9 Commentaries on the
Communist Party here in San Jose.
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> I would like to start by telling you a little bit about The Epoch
Times. We started with a small group of journalists from China who had a
dream of creating a media company dedicated to providing the readers
with uncensored news from China. Their commitment, dedication and
sacrifice is indeed commendable. Since our start in 2000, more then a dozen
Epoch Times reporters have been arrested in China. Currently 4 of them
are still in prison for their attempt to cover news otherwise censored
by the Chinese government. One example of the sacrifice that Epoch
Times employees have to go through is Dr. Yuan Li from Atlanta, Georgia.
His story is on the front page of our last week's paper. The crackdown
from China has extended to the US, as Mr. Li has been beaten and robbed
in his own home, in a very safe neighborhood. He needed 15 stitches on
his far, as the robbers left behind several valuables, but took 2
laptop computers. With all the attempts to intimidate the Epoch Times
staff, our work will continue, and we will go on and report the true stories
from China no matter what they are.
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> Today we are an international media company in print and on the web
currently publishing editions in 8 languages and 28 countries. If we
include our website editions we have 13 languages and 30 countries. The
Chinese edition of The Epoch Times became the most widely distributed
Chinese-language newspaper in the world. The circulation is over 1.2
Million for the Chinese edition alone.
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> Our mission is to report the news responsibly and truthfully, not on
the basis of sensationalism but of news that are of lasting
significance. Epoch Times local reporters throughout the world uncover stories
that are authentically local, yet also globally relevant. Our
independence from any government or corporate entity enables us to report news
broadly with a diversity of opinions.
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> Today, we have come together to talk about something particularly
important to The Epoch Times-human rights in China. This is not only a
crucial element of China's future, but also of the future Europe and the
rest of the world. China is a country that, like it or not, will have
and is having an impact on all of our lives.
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> It seems like everywhere you look today, China is in the
headlines-often in unsettling ways. On one side you hear about big business
opportunities; and on the other side you hear about severe human rights
violations under a dictatorial regime.
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> What is this dictatorial regime? The Chinese Communist Party, or the
CCP, rules China and her people with an iron fist. The CCP uses
violence, deceit, threats, and murder to control more than the policies of the
government. These tactics are used to control the very hearts and minds
of the Chinese people.
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> The Nine Commentaries are a book-length series of nine editorials
that were published by The Epoch Times at the end of November and the
beginning of December 2004. They set forth in detail: the massive crimes of
the CCP; its rule of China through terror, lies and the control of all
information; and its attempt to eradicate all traditional morality and
religious belief.
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> Drawing upon official CCP records, eyewitness accounts, third-party
records, and extensive personal testimonies, The Nine Commentaries is
arguably the most comprehensive analysis of the CCP reign in China. It
discloses how the CCP came to power and provides insight into the
policies and methods it has used to rule China for the past 55 years, many of
which have never before been disclosed in full, including the killing
of 80 million Chinese during peace times.
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> Perhaps we have forgotten how quickly the Berlin Wall fell, how
little notice we had beforehand, or how even in the days leading up to the
historic event the Eastern Block appeared as strong and imposing as
ever?
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> The fall of the Berlin Wall symbolized the fall on communism in
Europe, the coming fall of the Red Wall will be the end of the communism in
the world. With 74,000 protests in China last year (reported by media
such as Radio Free Asia and others), one would guess that a collapse
could happen at any time.
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> To know the real story of China we can't rely on Western media, whose
content is authored largely by foreigners standing on the outside
looking in. Much less can we count on Chinese nationals, whose allegiance to
the CCP dictate that accurate and fair reporting taking a backseat to
making the Party look good.
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hard decades under CCP rule, who have come to know the inner workings
of the CCP first-hand, and who have watched the CCP evolve into what it
is today.
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> And that is precisely what The Nine Commentaries provides. It offers
a penetrating look at China's Communist Party then and now, and in so
doing reveals as never before what the Party's plans are for China and
the world.
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> If here in the West we put too much weight on the business and market
opportunities in China, ignoring the crimes of the communist leaders,
then the massive awakening of conscience of the Chinese people will be
held back. On the other hand, if these Chinese people have us as good
references, they are willing to give up immediate benefits and risk their
lives to say goodbye to darkness and embrace brightness-in order to be
able to live a life with dignity in a world that will not have human
rights for sale.
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Like almost everybody who had the bad luck to be born and live under the red terror my family was victimized by the communist regime. One of my uncles was beaten to death with absolutely no reason. He was living in a small village and was a very kind and mild person. Everybody in that village new him. He didn’t have any enemies and was never involved in politics. One day it happened that one of his neighbors somehow got upset with him and, in order to “punish” him, she “denounced” him to the “security of the state” from a nearby city. The “security of the state” was the Romanian equivalent of the former Russian KGB, east German “stassy” and the actual Chinese 610 office. It was the main tool used by the communist party in Romania to monitor and suppress the population, it was what everybody in that country was most afraid off because over there, like everywhere else in any other communist country, they could do any crime under the order of the communist party without having to bear any responsibility. Nobody knows what that neighbor lied about my uncle. The fact is that they, the plain clothes secret policemen from the “security” came in the middle of the night, they took my uncle from his bed, and the next day they returned to my aunt and her 3 kids a sealed coffin that contained my uncle’s dead body and a death certificate that said “heart attack”. My uncle’s family was not allowed to open the coffin. The only thing that they were allowed to do was to take it to the cemetery ASAP.

My uncle was killed for nothing but he was not the only one who suffered in my family. My grand parents, my father and his sister, my aunt suffered a lot too. This was because my grand parents were labeled as “land lords”. They owned land, some of this land was inherited and some was bought by themselves with the money they earn by working very hard during their whole life. After the communists took the power in Romania they implemented the “land reform” during which they robbed all the land owners of their properties. The way they did it was extremely vicious. They didn’t just confiscate all their land, they wanted the owners themselves to “donate” it to the state, apparently by their own “free will”. This is a usual technique the communists used everywhere in order not only to break people physically but also to completely destroy their will and human dignity. In order to “educate” people’s “free will” the communist power persecuted them in many different ways. In my family case they expelled my father from the university, fired my aunt from her job and threaten my grand parents with deportation in case they don’t “donate” their land. My grand parents couldn’t sustain this persecution for too long time and they “donated” their land, as everybody else in their situation did. This was not the end of the story. My father had to bear the consequence of my grand parents “disobedience” for a very long time. As a usual way in any communist country every citizen has a secret personal file that is filled by the party officials and is not available to himself. It is checked and modified only by the party’s officials whenever they consider. It was usually checked when a person wants to get a job, to attend school etc. My father was expelled multiple times from the university without any reason and forced to start it again from scratch. Professors failed him many many times because of the orders they received from the party. This was a very common procedure used everywhere, which is, having party’s order overrule everything at any time everywhere. My father was able to graduate from the university when he was 40 years old was married and had 2 kids, my sister and me. In order to be able to escape the nightmare generated by his bad “personal file” he accepted to join the party when he was proposed to do so even if he was completely against the communist ideology.

When I was asked to join the party, as a young student at the university, I too accepted. I new quite well from my family’s experience how bad that party is but even my family put a lot a pressure on me to accept to become a communist party member. Everybody was afraid that if you say NO to this kind of proposition you would make a lot of trouble for you, your family and your friends, so better say YES and avoid those troubles. We did not realized at that time that was exactly by saying that YES we were enforcing their vicious power against our own conscience and with our own action. On the other hand, without being a party member in that kind of society you had to leave almost like an outlawed : you could never go in a trip outside the country, you couldn’t get a job in management, you couldn’t get a PhD degree, and a lot of other discriminations. This was one of the reasons that almost everybody who had the “chance” to become a party member would accept it, even if they didn’t agree at all with anything that party said, did or was. Another major reason was FEAR. Everybody was so afraid that the party could retaliate using any means at any time against anybody disregarding any law.

I would like to take this opportunity to make public the fact that I want to resign from all of the communist party’s organizations and I would like to do this in my father’s name too. He died long time ago but, if he were alive I am sure he would be more than happy to do this himself. By doing so I also want to show my support for those 8 million Chinese people who did the same thing in China. I would also like to pay respect to their courage to do this because I know very well that saying NO to the communist party when it is still in power is no less than an act of heroism. This is not at all an exaggeration, it is the reality. It is their own life that those people in China put at risk for the simple fact that they express their whish to not be part of this criminal gang that is called “communist party”. Their peaceful act of resigning from the CCP is of major importance. It shows to the CCP and to the whole world that Chinese people’s conscience is more powerful than the communist party’s violence and crimes. It is the hope for a future world where human beings can live their lives in dignity like normal human beings and not like slaves of a bankrupt ideology, communism, which led to major catastrophes everywhere where it had the chance to control peoples’ minds.