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I have to mention Falun Gong here as my grandma was a follower and a victim. Falun Gong was used as an example of the human rights violation of China after it was banned by the Chinese government in 1999, about seven years after its introduction. The man who started it claimed himself to be a reincarnation of a Buddha greater than Gautama Buddha. Because he stole most of the concepts from Buddhism, he managed to lure many Buddhists to his cult. Not only did this cult promise health to practitioners, it also advocated that disease is a way to pay off the bad karma from their past lives and that taking medicine would jeopardize this process. One will still suffer in his next life if the karma is not paid off.

As a faithful believer, my grandma refused all medicine whenever she was sick. She managed it mostly, but the last four months of her life were painful and miserable. After hiding her condition for an unknown period of time from my family, she was diagnosed with stage III colon cancer. Her faith was so shattered that she wanted to return to the hospital desperately when waiting for biopsy results at home. It is too easy to recruit a westerner who has no experience with this cult to protest for the cause of human rights and religious freedom. To some of them, victims like my family don't exist, or are "made up" as "government propaganda."

However, China is not perfect. Every Chinese is able to compile a list of flaws, so I am not going to try it here. But in the end, we are not so different from you. We all want more freedom and our human rights protected. We all want China to keep making progress as we have experienced in the past 30 years.

Honest communication is priceless. However, the MSM has been building a tower of Babel with bias, untruthful stories and resentment. Should MSM become the communication barrier between the ordinary Chinese and the Americans, we will not just be lost in translation. Yet everyone is so powerless against the MSM.

In case I totally failed to convince you with my poor English, please try to Google "Ron Paul and Censorship" and look at Google trends of some Republican candidates' names. There was actually a column pu blished titled, "Censoring Ron Paul," (CT, May 23, 2007). If the MSM can censor Paul, they can censor anything about China, and that doesn't include always using the "Communist" prefix.

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