(Clearwisdom.net) In order to celebrate the 34 million Chinese people quitting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations, the Northern California Service Center for Quitting the CCP held a rally and parade at Portsmouth Square in San Francisco's Chinatown at noon on March 23, 2008.

The weather was warm and sunny. At the rally, the Divine Land Marching Band gave a performance, and students from the Minghui School performed dances to celebrate the increasing number of Chinese people who have been awakened. Attendees recalled that the CCP has killed countless innocent people over the past decades, and at the same time, they pointed out that incidents of murder will continue to occur under the CCP's rule.

Representative of the Northern California Service Center for Quitting the CCP, Mr. Ma Youzhi, said that the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party points out that the CCP is an evil specter, and in the Communist Manifesto, the prime document of the communist party, it proclaimed that "In 1848, a specter is haunting Europe--the specter of Communism." It can be seen that the CCP is a specter, an evil specter and the whole world has paid a heavy price for this evil Communist specter.

"34 million Chinese compatriots have seen this point clearly," Mr. Ma continued, "they have announced their withdrawals from this evil Party, and are no longer associating with it."

People in the Bay Area condemn the CCP escalating the persecution of Falun Gong in the run-up to the Olympics

Bay Area software engineer Zhang Xinyu said that recently he saw in the media that the CCP had issued secret decrees to escalate the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in the run-up to the Olympics.

San Francisco representative of the Northern California Service Center for Quitting the CCP, Zeng Wenbiao, pointed out that it is estimated that, in the past two months in Beijing alone, about one hundred Falun Gong practitioners were arrested. The CCP has also conducted large-scale arrests of Falun Gong practitioners in the name of the Olympics, not only in Beijing but on a national scale. The CCP has launched a new round of nationwide systematic persecution involving 29 provinces, cities and autonomous regions. From the end of last year until March 11, 2008, 1878 cases of illegal arrests of Falun Gong practitioners have been documented.

Mr. Huang Jing, a software engineer who once worked as a senior administrator at a high-tech company in Silicon Valley, asked why suppressions occur one after another in China. It started with the landlords, then capitalists, intellectuals, then of course the students at the June 4^th massacre, and then the brutal persecution of Falun Gong, and so on. He pointed out that he thought it is because the CCP has never changed its violent nature. Another clear example of this is the recent bloody suppression in Tibet, which once again proves what this CCP is made of, after all.

Mr. Zhang said that Falun Gong practitioners have been making continuous efforts to tell the word's people about the truth of the situation in China.

He continued by spelling out a principle whereby if a person sees someone commit a crime but does not say anything, he has actually become an accomplice of the criminal.

Dr. Yang Ying draws a lesson from history

Dr. Yang Ying, a biochemistry major from the San Francisco Bay Area said that history surprisingly repeats itself sometimes. In 1936, when Hitler was in power, the Olympic Games were held there, but later we know that the whole world learned a lesson through WWII and through the holocaust of the Jewish people. That is to say, we should no longer repeat such history.

She called on people to stand on the side of justice. Today the act played out by the CCP is so similar to that which took place 72 years ago. She believes that Chinese people have the ability to see through the CCP's propaganda and should not let this happen again.

After the rally, the attendees held a parade. The procession marched through the main streets, attracting the attention of many passersby. Some of them took photographs of the parade, some asked for detailed information, and some began reading the materials exposing the CCP's human rights violations as soon as they took them. Some Chinese onlookers walked up to the procession and said, "Well done! You're getting better and better."