Jan Jekielek

And because it's always, it's the big power in the world.

And it's also the one that fosters freedom and free thought, which communism is kind of deeply opposed to.

And then there's also an internal enemy.

And that internal enemy changes.

At different times, it was the landowners when it was convenient to seize people's land so that those people became the enemy.

Then it was in 1989, it was the students, that big student democracy movement that got crushed.

And by the way, it's not the purpose of the enemy isn't just to crush the enemy.

It's also to remind everybody else of the incredible coercive power that the Communist Party yields.

Okay, so now that brings us, let's say, to closer to today and how this whole organ harvesting industry began.

In 1999, there was a very popular spiritual movement called Falun Gong.

70 to 100 million people by the end of the 90s were doing this very grassroots, bottom-up

truthfulness, compassion, tolerance-oriented spiritual discipline and meditation.

It also had profound health benefits, which is why people think it grew so quickly organically, basically shared person to person.

There were more people that did this practice in 1999 than there were Communist Party members, and that was by official government estimate.

And the dictator at the time, Jiang Zemin, decided he's going to, to use his own words, eradicate it.

That didn't necessarily mean kill everybody.

It meant that they were going to re-educate people out of this.

Remember, now these people are putting truthfulness, compassion, forbearance, these kinds of principles in a higher position than the party.

And of course, truthfulness in particular is a problem for communist parties because communist parties are sort of the I am the truth variety, whatever the party deems to be true.

is what you have to either really believe or performatively kind of accept.