Chapter 63

V. The CCP�s Hypocrisy in Human Rights
From Usurping Democracy to Seize Power to Feigning Democracy to Maintain Despotic Rule
�In a democratic nation, sovereignty should lie in the hands of the people, which is in line with the principles of heaven and earth. If a nation claims to be democratic and yet sovereignty does not rest with its people, that is definitely not on the right track and can only be regarded as a deviation, and this nation is not a democratic nation�how could democracy be possible without ending the Party rule and without a popular election? Return people�s rights to people!�
Does this quotation sound like something from an article written by �overseas enemies� intent on slamming the CCP? In fact, the statement comes from an article in Xinhua Daily, the official CCP newspaper, on September 27, 1945.
The CCP, that had trumpeted �popular election� and demanded �returning people�s rights to the people,� has been treating �popular suffrage� as taboo since it usurped power. The people who are supposed to be �the masters and owners of the state� have no rights whatsoever to make their own decisions. Words are inadequate to describe the CCP�s unscrupulous nature.
If you fancy that what�s done is done and the evil CCP cult that has flourished on killing and has ruled the nation with lies will reform itself, become benevolent, and be willing to �return people�s rights to the people,� you are wrong. Let us hear what the People�s Daily, the CCP�s mouthpiece, has to say on November 23, 2004, 60 years after the public statement quoted above: �A steadfast control of ideology is the essential ideological and political foundation for consolidating the Party�s rule.�
Recently, the CCP proposed a so-called new �Three Noes Principle,� [6] the first of which is �Development with no debates.� �Development� is phony, but �no debates� that emphasizes �one voice, one hall� is the CCP�s real purpose.
When Jiang Zemin was asked by the renowned CBS correspondent Mike Wallace in 2000 as why China had not conducted popular elections, Jiang responded, �The Chinese people are way too low in education.�
However, as early as February 25, 1939, the CCP cried out in its Xinhua Daily: �They (the KMT) think that democratic politics in China are not to be realized today, but some years later. They hope that democratic politics should wait until the knowledge and education levels of the Chinese people reach those of bourgeois democratic countries in Europe and America� but only under the democratic system will it become easier to educate and train the people.�
The hypocritical difference between what Xinhua said in 1939 and what Jiang Zemin said in 2000 reflects the true picture of the CCP�s iniquitous nature.
After the Tiananmen Massacre in 1989, the CCP reentered the world stage with a miserable human rights record. History gave the CCP a choice. Either it could respect its people and truly improve human rights or it could continue to commit abuses inside China while pretending to the outside world to respect human rights in order to evade international condemnation.
Unfortunately, consistent with its despotic nature, the CCP chose the second path without hesitation. It gathered together and sustained a large number of unscrupulous but talented people in the scientific and religious fields and specifically directed them to publish deceptive propaganda overseas in order to promote the CCP�s feigned progress in human rights. It concocted a range of rights fallacies such as �the survival right,� or rights to shelter and food. The argument went like this: When people are hungry, do they not have the right to speak? Even if the hungry cannot speak, would it be allowed for those who have eaten their fill to speak for the hungry? The CCP even tried to deceive the Chinese people and Western democracies by playing games with human rights, even blatantly claiming that �the present is the best period for China�s human rights.�
Article 35 of China�s Constitution stipulates that citizens of the People�s Republic of China have the freedoms of expression, publication, assembly, association, protest, and demonstration. The CCP is simply playing word games. Under the CCP�s rule, countless people have been deprived of their rights to belief, speech, publication, assembly and legal defense. The CCP even ordered that the appeal of certain groups be considered illegal. On more than one occasion in 2004, some civilian groups applied to demonstrate in Beijing. Instead of granting approval, the government arrested the applicants. The �one country, two systems� policy for Hong Kong affirmed by the CCP�s constitution is also a ruse. The CCP talks about no change in Hong Kong for 50 years, and yet it has tried to change the two systems into one by attempting to pass tyrannical legislation, Basic Law Article 23, within just five years after Hong Kong�s return to China. [7]
The sinister new ploy of the CCP is to use the fake �relaxation in speech� to cover up the extent of its massive monitoring and control. The Chinese now appear to speak their minds more freely and, besides, the Internet has allowed news to travel faster. So the CCP claims that it now allows freedom of speech, and quite a number of people have fallen for this. This is a false appearance. It is not that the CCP has become benevolent; rather, the Party cannot stop social development and technological advancement. Let us look at the role the CCP is playing regarding the Internet: It is blocking websites, filtering information, monitoring chat rooms, controlling emails, and incriminating net users. Everything it does is regressive in nature. Today, with the help of some capitalists who disregard human rights and conscience, the CCP�s police have been equipped with high-tech devices by which they are able to monitor, from inside a patrol car, every move net users make. When we look at the degeneracy of the CCP�committing evils deeds in broad daylight�in the context of the global movement toward democratic freedom, how can we expect it to make any progress in human rights? The CCP itself said it all: �It loosens up to the outside but tightens up internally.� The CCP�s unscrupulous nature has never changed.
To create a good image for itself at the UN Commission on Human Rights, in 2004 the CCP staged an array of events to severely punish those who abuse human rights. The events, however, were for foreigners� eyes only and had no substance. That is because in China the biggest human rights abuser is the CCP itself, as well as its former General Secretary Jiang Zemin, former secretary of the Political and Judiciary Commission Luo Gan, Minister Zhou Yongkang, and Deputy Minister Liu Jing, of the Ministry of Public Security. Their show of punishing human rights abusers is like a thief shouting, �Catch the thief!�
An analogy could be made to a serial rapist who, when hidden from public view, used to assault ten girls in a day. Then, there are too many people around, so he assaults only one girl in front of the crowd. Can the rapist be said to have changed for the better? His going from assaults behind the scenes to raping in public only proves that the rapist is even more base and shameless than before. The nature of the serial rapist has not changed at all. What has changed is that it is no longer as easy for him to commit the crime.
The CCP is just like this serial rapist. The CCP�s dictatorial nature and its instinctive fear of losing power determine that it will not respect people�s rights. The human, material, and financial resources used to cover up its human rights record have far exceeded its efforts in the true improvement of human rights. The indulgence of the CCP in wanton massacre or persecution throughout China has been the biggest misfortune of the Chinese people.