Dr. Ma Youzhi, a representative at the Northern California’s Quitting the CCP Service Center, was the first to make a speech. He said that it was a really big day to celebrate 50 million Chinese compatriots who have publicly withdrawn from the Party and its affiliates.
“The CCP is so scared of people quitting the Party,” Ma said.
“A recent event illustrates their fear perfectly. One Party member’s house was destroyed to make way for new construction. He asked local authorities for appropriate compensation and arrange proper resettlement according to the relevant provisions of the State and the municipality, but his request was ignored. Then he declared his withdrawal statement from the CCP on the Epoch Times Tuidang (Quit the CCP) Web site. In fear of such a withdrawal announced publicly and the widespread of the Quit the Party movement, the authorities had to pay this former Party member and other victim six million yuan (US$880 billion) in compensation for their demolished houses,” said Ma.
Dr. Zhang Xuerong, one of the rally hosts, said that anyone who still has conscience should step forward and publicly quit the CCP. “Quitting the CCP is the most peaceful way to refuse the evil and to disintegrate the Party,” she said.
Steve Ispas, a former resident of Communist Romania, asked “how much longer can [the] regime stay in power?” and said that China’s military will make a choice at some point in time in the future as to whether it will continue to support the regime.
Ispas cites that the Chinese military “quickly and violently squashes every protest, which number in the tens of thousands every year.”
Also, he drew on past history in Eastern Europe when the Communist regimes fell in 1989, saying that the military “played a crucial role of joining the protests and taking the side of the people against the regime.”
“The Most intense fighting was around the TV station those days. I remember vividly an army general who said on national television in Dec. 1989 in Bucharest that the army was joining the people. There was huge cheering from the crowds and within hours the dictatorship was toppled,” continued Ispas.
Ispas pointed out that this is the sign of “desperation” from the CCP and possible realization that the sole existence and survival of this regime is hanging by a thread.
Another speaker at the event, Abraham Thompson, discussed the various means Chinese people have quit the Communist Party, using unique means in doing so since the Nine Commentaries has been “circulated within China through internet blockade resistant websites, chat rooms, secret boat deliveries, and by other grass-root efforts.”
He added that “Chinese people quitting the CCP spans all sectors of Chinese society, from village farmers to high-ranking CCP officials, and speaks of the widespread civil unrest in China and shows that the CCP is disintegrating.”
After the assembly, people from all over the San Francisco Bay Area held a parade in the China town. Passersby even joined the parade as it made its way through the neighborhood.
