Jiang even revived a vile scheme dating back to the dynasties, implicating everyone associated with a practitioner. Family members are subjected to imprisonment and fines, while even work unit supervisors, residential committee members and local public security officers are fired and prevented from working at state enterprises if Falun Gong practitioners in their areas go to appeal. Countless practitioners were imprisoned, sentenced to forced labor camps without trial, and even sent to mental hospitals.Jiang: In the Qin Dynasty, the Yongzhong Emperor used a scheme to punish a person's entire family -- now I'm going to take it even further! I'm going to encourage the police to do their worst against Falun Gong, and even if they beat the Falun Gong practitioners to death, they can just count it as suicide! There's no way this will fail!"
They came up with the most insidious plot of all. On January 23, 2001, Jiang and his underlings staged a self-immolation on Tiananmen Square to turn public opinion against Falun GongTiananmen Headquarters: "OK, we're ready, go ahead!"
TV crew: "Hey, what a great shot!"
So the carefully planned plot went forward to frame Falun Gong practitioners and to depict them as committing group suicide. Five fake practitioners lit themselves on fire, but little did they know that they weren't all going to be "saved" by the police as planned. On the video footage publicized by the Chinese authorities themselves, one of the people was clearly struck on the head by a policeman while she was on fire."Help, hurry up!"
Not long after, people started pointing out obvious fallacies in the story. Especially in the West where people can see what kind of people Falun Gong practitioners are, the staged episode is totally unbelievable.So many questions: Was that lady committing suicide or was she murdered? How could the girl sing in the hospital just days after having emergency tracheotomy? How come the picture of one of the self-immolators, Wang Jindong, that are provided by CCTV don't match what he looks like on the video at all? How come the supposed Falun Gong practitioner is sitting in the wrong position and with his hands joined the wrong way?
Besides his endless propaganda in China, Jiang went all over the world to slander Falun Gong, making a spectacle of himself.While Jiang spews gibberish in front of world leaders everywhere, bystanders are wondering how the leader of a great country can act so shamelessly.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
From: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2003/1/11/30769.html
