The Epoch Times: Singapore Decision Aids and Abets Murderous Regime

December 5, 2006

(Clearwisdom.net) Rumor has it that they're considering posting a new slogan on lampposts and overpasses in Singapore. The proposed text reads

"Good People! Please obey our laws:"
"No chewing gum."
"No spitting on the street."
"No jaywalking."
"No bothering foreign regimes that murder for profit."

Two Singaporeans were convicted on Nov. 30 of "harassing" Chinese diplomats. They were charged after meditating last July on the sidewalk in front of the Chinese embassy under a banner.

The banner under which Ms. Ng Chye and Mr. Erh Boon Tiong were sitting said, "7.20 hunger striking to protest the brutal and inhuman persecution of Falun Gong practitioners by the CCP." "7.20" is July 20, 1999, when the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began its all-out persecution of Falun Gong.

A peaceful protest against a foreign regime ended in jail sentences for Ms. Ng and Mr. Erh.

The foreign regime that they protested, the CCP, is responsible for at least 80 million unnatural deaths of its own people during its bloody history.

That foreign regime, say leading government officials such as European Parliament Vice President Edward McMillan-Scott, today persecutes and tortures 100 million or more peaceful people for their faiths.

That foreign regime, say investigators such as Canadians David Kilgour and David Matas, removes the vital organs of Falun Gong practitioners while they are still alive, and sells them for profit.

The Singapore court's decision, by silencing those who tell the world about murderous crimes now occurring, helps these crimes to continue unchecked.

Singapore is a nation with 4.4 million people, most of them ethnic Chinese, crammed on to a small island. Confucian values run deep in the national psyche, so deferring to an elder brother comes naturally. Singapore's cultural affinity with the ancestral homeland of China places the CCP regime in the role of the elder brother-more precisely, the Big Brother-who need not twist arms too hard to get what it wants.

With few natural resources, Singapore's economy depends greatly on trade. It fears its prosperity would be jeopardized by poor relations with the giants of international trade, such as China. Thus political pressure from the CCP regarding anything important to Beijing is amplified by the economic leverage of the world's most populous country.

Together, these cultural and economic factors make supposedly democratic Singapore a ripe market for China's most cancerous export: irrational oppression, in general, and persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, in particular.

"Big Brother made me do it" is no excuse for what was, from first-hand accounts, a kangaroo-court decision rife with irregularities, such as the judge's refusal to look at evidence and to listen to four of five defense witnesses. Singapore bears the responsibility for more than the harm done to defendants, for more than the damage to the integrity of its own system of justice, and for more than an egregious violation of freedom of expression.

Here is what's worse than the violation of freedom of its own people: Because they put the gag on those who peacefully ask for the end of ruthless persecution, Singapore is aiding and abetting the persecutors. The Little Brother is guilty of complicity in a human rights disaster.

Nevertheless, we cannot lose sight of the whole scenario.

The Big Brother flexes its muscles throughout the world when it rattles sabers through proxies in North Korea and Iran, plays economic blackmail with its huge market and cheap exports, blusters and beguiles through its emissaries, and churns out misinformation through state-controlled media.

For both small and mighty nations, these factors cloud their judgment and move them to act against the rule of law, basic human compassion, and even their own consciences, in order to appease the CCP.

Let's be clear: It is wrong for the world community to keep silent on slave labor, religious persecution, torture, and systematic selling of human organs for profit.

But in the end we must remember who is the world's biggest source of these reckless deeds. We need to remember that it is the CCP who perpetrates those horrors that diminish all of humanity.

Blame Singapore for aiding and abetting. Then blame the CCP regime for the murder of millions.