一、中国政府为什么取缔“法轮功”

　　因为“法轮功”在中国犯下了严重的侵犯人权的罪行。

　　（一）残害生命

　　在“法轮功”的头目李洪志严酷的精神控制下，1000多名“法轮功”练习者按照他关于“法轮功”练习者有病不能吃药的歪理邪说，拒医拒药而死；几百名练习者按照他“放下生死就是神”的要求自残、自杀，30多人无辜被“法轮功”痴迷者杀害。最典型的例子是：2001年1月23日，7名“法轮功”人员按照李洪志“放下生死”、“追求圆满”的要求，在北京天安门广场集体自焚，造成2人死亡、3人重伤致残。

　　（二）严重侵犯公民和新闻单位的言论自由权利

　　1998年，山东省一家报纸报道一名“法轮功”人员有病不治导致死亡的消息，“法轮功”组织了1000多名“法轮功”人员围攻该报社。同年5月，北京电视台报道了一位博士生因练“法轮功”、痴迷李洪志的歪理邪说导致精神分裂的情况，“法轮功”也组织了1000多名“法轮功”人员围堵北京电视台。在被中国政府取缔前，“法轮功”的这种围攻行为有300多起。

　　　“法轮功”违法犯罪、侵犯公民合法权益的行为，直到现在还在进行。据不完全统计，自2002年6月以来，“法轮功”攻击中国的通信卫星，次数已达200次，攻击时间累计超过100小时。“法轮功”还公开煽动破坏广播电视有关的公共设施，在中国大陆已发生了100多起“法轮功”人员破坏光纤电缆、非法实施电视插播的案件。您在“法轮功”总部的网站上可以找到大量的教唆破坏通讯电缆的文章。2002年10月，华裔美国人、“法轮功”人员李祥春在江苏省扬州市破坏通讯电缆未遂。李在法庭上竟然宣称，虽然他企图破坏通讯电缆的行为是事实，但只要是为了宣传“法轮功”，这些行为都不犯法。“法轮功”还有组织地通过因特网发送垃圾邮件，并向中国大陆居民拨打数以千万计的骚扰电话。据不完全统计，从境外向中国大陆发送的“法轮功”垃圾电子邮件平均每月都超过3000多万封。

　　二、关于宗教信仰问题

　　一些美国人士喜欢把“法轮功”问题当作宗教问题来看待。事实上，“法轮功”同宗教没有任何关系。1992年，李洪志创立“法轮功”时，自称是气功师，目的是用他所谓“自身的能量”――亦即气功给别人治病，以此挣钱。其结果是致使一些病人延误治疗而死亡，他不得已另谋出路，编造了一套理论，通过卖书来挣钱，最后发展为利用精神控制来骗取钱财。这就是“法轮功”由来的事实，看不出它同神圣的宗教有什么关系。李洪志的理论，都是为他对练习者实行精神控制服务的。如，他说世上一切的事情都是他在无数年前安排好的，连希特勒大屠杀都是天意。他不许“法轮功”人员信仰宗教，说宗教都是误人的，只有“法轮功”在救助人们逃离就要爆炸的地球。这就是宗教信仰吗？

　　三、中国政府处理“法轮功”问题的政策

　　中国政府处理“法轮功”问题的政策是：教育、帮助、挽救绝大多数受骗上当的普通练习者，依法惩处违法犯罪的少数“法轮功”组织骨干。在200万“法轮功”人员中，98%以上的是普通练习者，政府动员全社会帮助他们认清“法轮功”的邪教本质，帮助他们恢复因为痴迷“法轮功”而放弃的生产、生活，使他们重新回到正常社会中。目前这98%以上的练习者均已摆脱了“法轮功”的精神控制，已经融入正常社会中。他们不仅没有受到任何歧视，还在生活、生产、工作中受到一些优惠待遇，因为这些人曾因痴迷“法轮功”而抛家舍业，成为弱势群体。

　　对极少数从事犯法犯罪活动的“法轮功”骨干分子，中国司法机关依法进行处罚，这并不是因为他们练习了“法轮功”，而是因为他们从事了违法犯罪活动，触犯了刑律。犯了法，就应当依法惩处，这在任何国家都一样。

　　中国的民众支持政府依法取缔“法轮功”邪教，支持政府帮助、挽救绝大多数普通练习者，支持政府依法惩处少数违法犯罪的“法轮功”人员。中国政府必须按照民意办事，其他任何外部因素影响不了中国政府落实民意。

Three key issues regarding Falun Gong

1. Why did Chinese government ban on Falun Gong?

Because Falun Gong has committed serious crimes infringing on human rights.

(1) Endangering lives

Under the severe spiritual control of Falun Gong ringleader Li Hongzhi, more than 1000 Falun Gong practitioners lost their lives because they refused to take medicine or see doctor, believing in the fallacy that Falun Gong practitioners should not take medicine when fell ill; several hundred practitioners committed suicide by following Li Hongzhi's appealing that "you will become immortal once you neglect life or death"; and over 30 innocent people were killed by Falun Gong fanatics. A typical example is the Tian'anmen Square self-immolation incident: on January 23, seven Falun Gong practitioners set themselves on fire on the Tian'anmen Square in order to achieve the so-called "consummation", resulting in 2 deaths and 3 disabled because of serious injuries.

(2) Seriously infringing upon other people's rights and freedom of speech of the news media

In 1998, because a news agency in Shandong Province published a news report on a Falun Gong practitioner who had died for refusing to take medicine, Falun Gong organized more than 1,000 Falun Gong members to have besieged the news agency. In May 1998, Falun Gong organized more than 1,000 Falun Gong practitioners to have besieged Beijing TV station because it reported on a PhD student who suffered schizophrenia because of practicing Falun Gong and obsessed in Li Hongzhi's fallacies. Before it was banned by Chinese government, Falun Gong had organized over 300 such besieging actions.

So far Falun Gong didn't ever stop committing crimes and infringing upon other people's legal rights. According to an incomplete statistics, since June 2002, Falun Gong has attacked Chinese communication satellites for more than 200 times with a total time amounted to over 100 hours. Falun Gong also publicly instigated Falun Gong members to attack public infrastructure for radio and TV broadcasting. There had been more than 100 cases for Falun Gong members to be involved in attacking optical fiber and cable and having illegal TV program broadcasting. Many instigative articles on attacking communication cables can be found on Falun Gong website as well. In October 2002, Li Xiangchun, a Chinese American Falun Gong member had an abortive attack on the communication cables in Yangzhou City of Jiangshu Province. In the court, Li claimed that although it was true that he had attempted to attack the communication cable, he didn't violate law since he was to publicize Falun Gong. Falun Gong have systematically sent junks to internet users in Mainland China and made harassing calls targeting at Mainland Chinese. Incomplete statistics indicates that monthly Falun Gong junks sent from overseas to Mainland China amounted to over 30 million.

2. About the issue of religious belief.

Some Americans intended to look on Falun Gong as a religious issue. In fact, Falun Gong had no relationship with religion. In 1992 when Li Hongzhi founded Falun Gong, he claimed himself to be a Qigong master so that he could make money by curing disease for others with his alleged "energy"--qigong, which in turn resulted in some patients died for not having been treated in time. Therefore Li Hongzhi had to resort to other trickeries. He fabricated his theories and made money by selling his books. As it further developed, he eventually resorted to spiritual control to amass money. That is the fact about the evolution of Falun Gong, for which no relationship can be observed with religions. All Li Hongzhi's theories serve to realize his mind control over Falun Gong practitioners. For instance, he said that things in the world have been arranged by him countless years ago; the Nanjing Massacre and Hitler's killing were caused by changes of astronomical phenomena; he prohibited Falun Gong members from believing in religions, saying that all religions were fake and could not save people from torment, and only Falun Gong could help people escape from the exploding earth. Can such ideas be regarded as religious belief?

3. Policy of Chinese government on Falun Gong.

The policy adopted by Chinese government on the Falun Gong issue is: educating, converting and emancipating the majority of the Falun Gong practitioners who have been deceived by Li Hongzhi and his Falun Gong, and punish, according to law, the few who cherish ulterior motives and disrupt public order. Among the estimated two million Falun Gong members, 98 percent were ordinary practitioners. They have now broken away from Falun Gong and come to normal life with the kind help from society, their units and families. After their converting, they are not discriminated, but have received certain preferential treatments in their work and living since they have become quite vulnerable after their obsessing in Falun Gong.

Only a tiny number of Falun Gong core members have been punished simply because they have engaged in criminal activities in violation of law instead of having practiced Falun Gong. It is an international practice to investigate the criminal responsibility of those who engage in illegal activities and those who violate the law.

Chinese people support their government's banning and cracking down on cult Falun Gong, helping and emancipating the majority Falun Gong practitioners and punishing those few Falun Gong members engaged in criminal activities in violation of law. Chinese government must follow the public will and no external factors can stop it from such determination.