BLOOD LETTERS # 2
IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH - HTTP://WWW.CINOPSBEGONEBLOGSPOT.COM - MAR. 18/19
IN MEMORY OF THE CHINESE FREEDOM FIGHTER EXECUTED ON APRIL 29, 1968
From the book by Lian XIm "Blood Letters" The Untold Story of Lin Zhad, A Martyr in Mao's China.
Introduction - 4- 6
"At a certain point, having poked the fingers on her left hand so many times, she could no longer draw blood from them. They turned numb when pressed. In a letter to her mother dated November 14, 1967, she wrote: 'The small puddle of blood that I squeezed out for for writing is almost all gone. My blood seems to have thinned lately; coagulation is quite poor. It may be partially due to the weather getting cold. Alas dear Mama! This is my life! It is also my struggle! It is my battle!'
"The fullest expression of Lin Zhao's political beliefs is found in her 1965 letter to the editorial board of People's Daily. She chose July 14, the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille, as the day to begin writing it. It took her almost five months to complete letter, which ran to about 140,000 characters, 137 pages in all. She did it ink. but stamped it repeatedly with a shirt button sized seal bearing the character zhao and inked with her blood.
"In the letter, Lin Zhao challenged the theory of a "continued class struggle"which the Communists saw as intrinsic to human history from which there is no escape. Since the 1920s, the CCP had looked upon this theory as an immutable truth and had used it to justify the so-called dictatorship of the proletariat after 1949. The doctrine gained new urgency in the 1960s when Mao declared that "class struggle must be talked about every year, every month, and every day.
"Lin Zhao scoffed at this, " I do not ever believe that, in such a vast living space that God has prepared for us, there is any need for humanity to engage in a life-and-death struggle." The CCP dictatorship was but a modern form of "tyranny and slavery," she wrote in her letter to the party's propagandists. as long as there are people who are still enslaved, not only are the enslaved not free, those who enslave others are likewise not free!" Those seeking to end communist rule in China must likewise not "debase the goal of our struggle into a desire to become different kind of of slave owner," she wrote. "The lofty overall goal of our battle dictates that we cannot simply set a simple transfer of political power - the goal must not and cannot be a simple of transfer of political power!" The end was "political democratization ... to make sure that there will never another emperor in China!"
"Lin Zhao wrestled with the moral question of whether violence was a justified means to that end. Her Christian faith had hardened her for the fight. At the same time, it also tempered her opposition. She acknowledged the occasional "sparks of humanity" even in those who were at the "most savage center" of Chinese communism. As strenuously as she argued against her imprisonment, against Mao's dictatorship, and for a free society, she was unable to sanction violence to that struggle. "As a Christian, one devoted to freedom and fighting under the Cross. I believe that killing Communists is not the best way to oppose or eliminate communism. She admitted that, had she not "embraced a bit of Christ's spirit," she would have had reason to pledge "bloody revenge against the Chinese Communist Party."
"For her refusal to submit to "thought reform" and her unflagging sacrilege against Mao and his revolution. Lin Shao'a sentence was changed to the death penalty. On April 29, 1968, she was shot under the order issued by the Shanghai Military Control Committee of the People's Liberation Army.She was 36.
Lin Zhao died with unfulfilled wishes: having called her mother much grief because of her involvement in politics, she had wanted to make amends by caring for her in her old age. She told her mother in one of her last blood letters, written in November 1967: "When the morning light of freedom in a century of human rights shines upon the vast land of this country, we shall pour out our hearts to each other!" That letter, and her other blood writings were confiscated by the prison and never sent.
She had vowed to make pilgrimage one day to the tomb of America president John F. Kennedy to pay her respects, for he had taught her - in his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech of 1963 - that freedom is indivisible and that "when one man is enslaved, all are not free...."
"Communism is a public sector cancer. To kill this cancer, it needs to be outlawed in each country. I believe it is outlawed in the U.S. because it believes in the violent overthrow of the U.S.A. Communists are masters of deceit and deception; Delenda est.
No comments:
Post a Comment