NEW YORK - On the busy streets of Flushing, parade marchers shouted in Chinese, “Quit the Party! Quit the Party! Quickly quit the Party!” The locally organized parade was held on Sunday to support the wave of 4 million people renouncing their membership in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which currently rules China.
“China is at a crossroads,” said parade participant Howard Wang.
“China’s president Hu Jintao can become the next Gorbachev and lead China towards democracy and freedom or become the next Stalin and continue to suppress freedom of speech and freedom of belief,” said Wang, who is chairman of the political action and education student committee at Yale.
Wang said, like all other students in China, he was forced to join the Communist Youth League at a young age. After reading, Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, Wang and his parents decided to cut any remaining communist ties and publicly withdraw from the CCP.
The Nine Commentaries was published in November 2004 by the Chinese-language version of The Epoch Times, and has since been credited with sparking a wave of withdrawals from the CCP. The Nine Commentaries is banned in China.
“The human suffering in Communist China is a world tragedy for world history books,” said John Patrick, director of China Support Network, during a rally before the parade. Since its inception in 1949, the CCP has been credited with killing approximately 80 million of its own people.
“They [the CCP] are the biggest terrorist organization,” said Mr. Li Qike, a former colonel in China’s military. Li served in the military for 26 years, but said he fled to Hong Kong in 1996 to escape communist China. At the rally, Li encouraged other Chinese people inside and outside of China to publicly renounce their communist ties and help create an environment for others to do the same.
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Patrick also urged the crowd to come out and protest when Chinese President Hu Jintao visits the United States next month. Hu’s visit will include Microsoft headquarters in Washington State, the White House in Washington, DC, and the UN Headquarters in New York City.
Patrick said he hopes the Bush administration does not give an honorary 21-gun salute to Hu and other visiting Chinese delegates, who he described as, “mass murderers, who surpass Adolf Hitler in their quantity of victims.”
View video report on the Flushing parade, courtesy NTDTV clip
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