He Was Forced to Make Christmas Lights in a Chinese Prison—Then Saw Them in U.S. Stores
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Time
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It was a very moving interview with a felon gong practitioner.
And he's talking about how he was in prison in China.
And he said the guards would say, Yeah, the Americans know all about it and they don't care.
And no one could believe.
And the person who spoke said, no one could believe it, really, because the Americans would never turn a blind eye to this kind of suffering or this kind of indignity, this kind of torture.
But in fact, when this person left, this person came to the United States where he now lives and he saw at Christmas time that some of the Christmas lights that he'd indeed been forced to make in prison were for sale in American markets.
And that to me, when he told me that, that just chilled me.
And I hope other Americans reading the book are really chilled by it too, saying, gosh, that's just terrible.
And especially, you know, I mean, Christmas time.
And so that's what, you know, that's where some of our, you know, some of our Christmas cheer comes from, from this incredible suffering and torture.
So, yeah, that's one of the things that I wanted.
That's one of the things that I wanted to drive home here.
It's not just about foreign policy and it's not just about trade, but this is a communist regime and they're disgusting and they're disgraceful.
And, you know, and obviously it's not an attack on Chinese people, but it is making a case saying the people who rise to the top of this regime have climbed atop the corpses of tens of millions of fellow Chinese.
It's just disgusting.
And the fact that Americans have strengthened, have empowered this regime, not only now to hurt their own citizens, but to hurt Americans.