Rally and Parade to Celebrate 60 Million Quitting CCP

Over 60 million people have now publicly withdrawn from the Chinese Communist Party or its affiliated organizations.
Rally and Parade to Celebrate 60 Million Quitting CCP
Rallying in support of the 60 million people who have publicly withdrawn from the Chinese Communist Party or its affiliated organizations - The Youth League and the Young Pioneers. Chinatown, Los Angeles, Sept. 19, 2009. (The Epoch Times)
9/20/2009
Updated:
10/1/2015
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Rallying in support of the 60 million people who have publicly withdrawn from the Chinese Communist Party or its affiliated organizations - The Youth League and the Young Pioneers. Chinatown, Los Angeles, Sept. 19, 2009.  (The Epoch Times)

LOS ANGELES—Over 60 million people have now publicly withdrawn from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) or its affiliated organizations, according to Dr. David Gao, president of the Global Service Center for Quitting the Chinese Communist Party.

Dr. Gao was one of a handful of speakers Saturday afternoon, September 19, before a crowd of some 200 supporters in a park on the outskirts of Los Angeles’s Chinatown.

“The tyranny of the Chinese Communist Party is currently the largest source of China’s social problems,” Dr. Gao said. He continued, “Withdrawing from the CCP is to disassociate with the evil Party and recover the dignity of human nature, which will lead to the awakening of moral conscience. The Communist Party is not China. Withdrawing from the CCP is truly patriotic.”

Dr. Gao likens the CCP to a sinking ship and encourages people to abandon it in order to be safe.

The “Quitting the Party” movement began in December 2004 after The Epoch Times published Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, which provides an uncensored history of the CCP.

Currently between 40,000 and 60,000 people each day are publicly withdrawing.

Theresa Moreau, an advocate for Chinese Catholics persecuted in China, also spoke at the rally. “There is nothing good about the Communist party, and I encourage any and all Chinese people to quit,” she said emphatically.

Ms. Moreau expressed her wish that more Catholics research and come to a clearer understanding of the CCP.

“Unfortunately, the Communist Chinese propaganda machine is so strong and so well-oiled that it successfully brainwashes people around the world including Roman Catholics who really do not know the situation in China and the persecution, the continuation of the persecution of the underground Roman Catholics,” she said.

Kai Chen, sharp critic of the CCP and author of One in a Billion – Journey Toward Freedom – The Story of a Pro-basketball Player in China, noted the tremendous number of deaths attributed to the CCP.

He said, “Inside China, as long as you live long enough under the Communist Party, under this illegitimate regime, you understand the illegitimacy of this regime because it’s not elected, but at the same time it killed 70 million people without answering, without any retribution. This is not right.”

Several other speakers joined the rally including Chris Wu, president of China Interim Government. They spoke about the current environment in China in which citizens’ rights are deprived.

For Chang Yiyuan, a UCLA instructor, those statements hit home.

Speaking to New Tang Dynasty TV, Mr. Yiyuan said, “Today’s ‘Quitting the CCP’ rally means a lot to me because this is very, very personal. Why? Because my family, my mom and my sister, [are] being persecuted right now in China. They were illegally arrested in China since June 4. It’s been 106 days and they are locked behind bars, and we are not able to visit them or talk to them whatsoever.

“I think the reason so many people [are] quitting the CCP is because the government is really doing very bad things to its own people and that’s why. I am here to demand the immediate release of my mom and my sister and stop persecuting Falun Gong practitioners.”


What’s the Chinese government’s response to the “Quitting the CCP” Movement and Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party?

The CCP has remained quiet about the withdrawals, most likely fearing that any further attention to the topic would result in even more massive public declarations against the Party.

In January 2005, however, the Ministry of Public Security issued a nationwide order to suppress the spread of the Nine Commentaries. Soon thereafter, some websites were found to have similar information.

For example, the website for the Financial Department of Xixiu District in Guizhou Province gave the following instructions among others:

“(1) Firmly stop the spreading of Nine Commentaries ... (4) Educate our employees and officials not to listen, believe, read, and spread the Nine Commentaries. Those who keep and further distribute Nine Commentaries will be punished; the active ones will receive a criminal charge.”

The CCP uses censorship to systematically block internet access to the Nine Commentaries

Two studies by the Open Net Initiative, a collaborative project among several universities to document internet filtering practices, have found the Nine Commentaries to be one of the terms most systematically blocked in China.

To read more about the public withdrawal statements posted online, go to www.quitccp.org.
To read more about the CCP’s attempts to curb the spreading of the Nine Commentaries, go to
Opennet.net or http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmselect/cmfaff/269/269we08.htm#n20

(New Tang Dynasty Television contributed to this article.)