July 11, 2025 - Epoch Times
03:08
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| You know, we can't speak to or speculate about what the individual motivations of any particular plaintiff is in bringing a lawsuit, but the effect certainly serves the purposes of religious oppression that China has been trying to accomplish. | |
| Because if the Chinese Communist Party is able to discredit those who want to discredit it, then it can use that to justify persecution, justify the terrible persecution that it has committed against many religious minorities, including Falun Gong. | |
| And that's why it's so important to fight for that religious liberty here, that it's not just that other beliefs are tolerated. | |
| It's that it's a fundamental part of who we are as a nation to tolerate people who are different from ourselves and to have value in the exchange of that. | |
| That's the beauty of America, is learning from other people and other people's beliefs and building something better out of it. | |
| But if China can use essentially smear campaigns to discredit people at home, it justifies what they do. | |
| It's kind of obvious when I say it, but I hadn't thought about it this way, that the approach towards faith in communist China is basically antithetical to the approach to faith in the United States. | |
| And so it's particularly noxious when that approach is brought here. | |
| In China, you have the government, and then you have your relationship with God below that. | |
| And they expect your relationship with God to be subservient to the state. | |
| In the United States, we understand that people's relationship with God is the most important thing in their life, and their relationship to the state is subservient to that relationship with God. | |
| The way China is trying to use laws in the U.S. to kind of enforce their own internal law here outside of their country to eradicate people that they've decided to eradicate around the world. | |
| You know, it makes me think of the Chinese government's opening a police station in New York to enforce their local laws. | |
| But that's their mentality, that they get to do around the world what they do internally. | |
| And that's what they're trying to do through this law fair. | |
| They're trying to target the same groups that they would target in China just here in the United States. | |
| They're trying to impose their own concept of what is legal, what is right, what is orthodoxy. | |
| There's no civic orthodoxy in the United States, but they're trying to foist that idea upon us here. | |
| You know, it also strikes me that with the police station example, right, when the police station gets put up first, it doesn't call itself a police station. | |
| It's a community center, right? | |
| And then it starts exerting influence and exerting pressure in various ways and a kind of political correctness at first. | |
| And this is your point about the pushback is so important. | |
| If there's no pushback, then it takes a little more. | |
| If there's no pushback, and it just sort of grows. |
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