(Clearwisdom.net) On July 6, 2011, Hong Kong-based Asia Television (ATV) reported Jiang's death, but the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has not acknowledged his death. Even though people were not sure if Jiang had indeed died, they began setting off fireworks to celebrate. A “Preparatory Committee to Celebrate the Death of Jiang Zemin” popped up on the Internet.
There was a popular joke that Jiang Zemin went to find a monk to have his fortune told. When he asked when he would die, the monk told Jiang that he would die on a holiday. When Jiang asked which holiday, the monk said that whichever day that Jiang died, it would become a holiday.
Eight years ago, I wrote a series of articles on the subject, "Why Jiang Zemin is the most vicious person in history." Today, with Jiang Zemin either dead or dying, I'd like to cite several paragraphs from one of the articles, “Who Planted Hatred Against Falun Gong in People's Hearts?” (http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2003/9/7/39977.html)
If we take a look at how Jiang Zemin employed the most evil means in persecuting Falun Gong and Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, we will then understand why the date of Jiang Zemin's death will come to be celebrated as a holiday.
Jiang controlled a huge media system, with the Party's newspapers, TV stations, radio stations, and computer systems. Jiang's lies about Falun Gong could be spread around the world almost instantaneously. From the staged "Tiananmen Square Self-immolation Incident," to "The Murderer Fu Yibin," to "The Killing of Beggars in Zhejiang Province," the false propaganda campaigns put together to discredit and turn public opinion against Falun Gong were heard not only in China, but also in the U.S., Taiwan, and in fact, around the world.
Jiang tightly controlled organizations at all levels in China, including the Party, various levels of government, the army, the police, special agencies, foreign affairs, labor unions, student associations, women's associations, political associations, scientific associations and more. He used all of these organizations as tools to brutally suppress, monitor, and persecute Falun Gong practitioners, a group of peaceful people.
Both people and science were employed to cover up his crimes. He didn't allow people to appeal to higher authorities, to spread truth-clarification materials, or to hold up banners. He forbade media from reporting the facts about Falun Gong. He built an army of Internet police, and set up Internet firewalls to block Falun Gong websites from abroad. In a word, he used all kinds of ways to block the facts about Falun Gong. Concealing his crimes is a huge part of Jiang's nature.
Jiang used every chance he could to spread lies about Falun Gong when he talked to the international media or leaders of other countries. During an interview with the French newspaper Le Figaro, he defamed Falun Gong directly. During an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit meeting, he personally handed a booklet slandering Falun Gong to the American president. When he was interviewed by CBS, he claimed several thousand Falun Gong practitioners had committed suicide. When meeting with officials from Japan, he said he had never heard of Falun Gong before he launched the persecution. However, on another occasion, he said he knew all along that one of his classmates went insane because of practicing Falun Gong.
Jiang was head of state for the biggest potential market in the world, with over one billion consumers. He held this over the heads of other nations, so that they would repeatedly yield and compromise with his crimes of persecuting Falun Gong and other groups.
Exploiting people's notions, Jiang forced people to accept his lies and engendered hatred toward Falun Gong. For example, if you believed in science, he would tell you that Falun Gong was superstitious. If you didn't like politics, he would tell you that Falun Gong had a political agenda. If you were jealous of people who went abroad and got rich, he would tell you that Falun Gong had collected tons of money from overseas. If you were tired of cults of personality that past leaders of China developed, he would tell you Falun Gong would control your mind. If you were patriotic, he would tell you that Falun Gong is a tool of overseas forces bent on damaging China. If you didn't believe that qigong was effective, he would tell that you practicing Falun Gong would lead people to mental illness. If you wanted a stable society, he would tell you Falun Gong undermines social stability.
He would make up lies, each one bigger than the other. From hurting oneself, to committing suicide, to setting oneself on fire, from killing one's own family to killing a stranger, from killing one person to killing a group of people, he would tell you so many lies that eventually you would accept them as facts. If you had sympathy for Falun Gong, he would connect your personal evaluations and advancement opportunities with how you treat Falun Gong. You would lose your bonuses, be demoted, or even lose your job if one of your subordinates went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. In this way, he would force you to be an enemy of Falun Gong.
Jiang ordered the arrest of Falun Gong practitioners and sent them to "transformation classes." In order to force practitioners to sign a guarantee statement to give up practicing Falun Gong, they used all kinds of ways to attack practitioners' weaknesses. Then they would expand on those weaknesses by using distorted theories, pressuring practitioners' families to persuade them, threatening practitioners with not allowing their families to work or go to school, and physically torturing practitioners. They would then order the "transformed" practitioners to brainwash other practitioners until they also gave up their righteous belief. The purpose was to transform people with high moral standards into automatons that didn't respect virtue.
Out of his personal jealousy, Jiang Zemin launched a war to attempt to eradicate Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. People had been waiting for this opportunity to rebuild respect for virtue, but Jiang Zemin did his utmost to undermine it. Hasn't he committed a huge crime? It is important for people to see Jiang and his crimes for what they are, and awaken from the lies fabricated and instilled by him.