In recent years, an increasing number of elderly people in their seventies and eighties have been illegally sentenced and thrown into CCP prisons. In the No. 12 Ward of the Liaoning Province Women's Prison, a ward known as the "Concentrated Training and Rectification" unit, is one of the sealed-off concentration camps the CCP has used in recent years to specialize in "transforming" (forcibly renouncing) and persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. According to investigations, among the 16 Falun Gong practitioners subjected to forced "transformation" persecution here in April 2023 alone (Jin Xiaomei, Kong Ying, Yu Shoufen, Xu Qingfang, Yu Chunmei, Cui Feng, Tan Huali, Guo Peilu, Zhang Yingling, Yang Fengying, Liang Shujie, Kang Guiyun, Song Xiaomei, Guo Shufen, Li Chenying, and Sun Lijuan), ten were over the age of 60 -- about 63 percent of the group -- and four were over 70, about 25 percent. Today's CCP no longer bothers with pretense; it has completely torn off its hypocritical mask.

Scene After Shocking Scene

Wang Guixia, 81, from Jinzhou, Liaoning Province, was placed alone in a room by prison guards as soon as she arrived at the No. 12 Ward on July 18, 2024, and guards then incited multiple criminal inmates to physically punish, brainwash, verbally abuse, and even beat her. Criminal inmates grabbed the elderly woman by the collar to assault her; when she cried out loudly for help, she was charged with "disturbing the prison." She was forced to sit for sixteen hours a day in a designated position as punishment, until her ankles swelled to the thickness of her calves; forced to watch videos slandering Falun Gong; and subjected, through "wheel-battle" tactics, to repeated rounds of criminal inmates using both threats and cajolery to force her to write the "Five Statements" (renouncing her belief). She was denied access to the toilet, water, and food for three consecutive days, and went seventeen consecutive days without hot water to drink... Wang Guixia endured, every moment, torment that exceeded the limits of human endurance.

Yang Fengying, an elderly woman in her seventies from Jinzhou, Liaoning, was likewise taken to an empty room after being sent to the No. 12 Ward on April 3, 2023. Because she refused to renounce her faith, six criminal inmates forced her to stand at attention within the confines of a single brick. When Yang refused to comply, they swarmed her, forcibly bending her forward 90 degrees, twisting her arms behind her back and lifting them upward, causing her unbearable pain. They stuffed a floor-cleaning rag into her mouth and would not let her sleep -- the moment she closed her eyes, they would pluck out her eyebrows; they stuffed toilet paper printed with insults against Falun Gong's founder into her pants, and wrote filthy slanders against the founder on her back. Yang Fengying was forced to stand like this for five days and five nights, until her legs and feet swelled; while she was in a state of exhausted confusion, they tricked her with underhanded schemes into leaving her fingerprint on documents; then, day and night, they forced the elderly woman to write the "Five Statements" without rest... The ward long refused to let her order food, and guards told the inmates assigned to watch her, "This old woman is especially selfish -- even her own family doesn't want to deal with her" -- deliberately extinguishing whatever last shred of sympathy people might have had for Yang Fengying. This is but one snapshot of the prison's internal policy toward Falun Gong practitioners: "physical elimination, economic strangulation, and character assassination."

Wang Sumian, in her sixties, from Dalian, Liaoning Province, was thrown into the No. 12 Ward on November 20, 2019. Guards incited multiple criminal inmates to force her to write the "Five Statements," cursing at her nonstop whenever she refused. The toilet paper she had brought with her was confiscated; she was given no paper when using the toilet, and when she resorted to using dirty water from the toilet basin to clean herself, she was met with a torrent of abuse. She was denied water for days, causing her blood pressure to spike to 195 mmHg. Hardest of all to bear was being forbidden to use the toilet all night: Wang Sumian would hold her bladder starting from midnight, and by 6 a.m., when she got up, she could barely walk. Forcing herself to slowly make her way to the door, she was blocked by criminal inmates who would not let her pass unless she agreed to write the "Five Statements" -- and each time she went, she was made to curse Falun Gong once.

Zhou Yuzhen, in her sixties, from Jinzhou, Liaoning, refused to be "transformed" and was, as a result, watched in shifts by multiple criminal inmates who beat and cursed her, pulled her hair and pubic hair, and denied her sleep for days and nights on end. After knocking her down, they dragged her by both shoulders across the room; Zhou Yuzhen screamed in agony, "Help!" -- a wrenching, piercing cry. She was left covered in wounds from the persecution, her entire body wasted to skin and bones.

The cases above are merely the tip of the iceberg of what occurs in this CCP prison concentration camp. These criminal inmates show no mercy toward women old enough to be their grandmothers, and the prison guards, watching it all unfold on the surveillance monitors, show no compassion whatsoever. Where, exactly, is the humanity in these people? How did Chinese morality slide all the way down to such a state, and why have people today become so ruthless?

Looking Back at History

Human morality originates from divine teachings. Buddhism speaks of "goodness"; Taoism has awakened to "truth"; Confucian culture in China carries the meaning of cultivating oneself and enduring humiliation with grace -- and Western religions carry these same values as well. Together, these have forged the foundation of human morality. China, an ancient civilization with five thousand years of history, is a land where Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism have illuminated one another. Revering Heaven and believing in the divine, valuing virtue and doing good, honoring one's teachers and respecting the Way, honoring the elderly and being filial to one's parents -- these are cultural values dissolved into the very bones of the Chinese people, the basic way of being human. Traditional Chinese culture places "honoring the elderly" at the very starting point of personal character, holding that a person who does not even respect their elders can hardly be expected to practice other virtuous deeds. "Honor the elders in your own family, and extend that honor to the elders of others" is an ancient teaching familiar to every Chinese person. Traditional Chinese people also believed that life is not confined to a single lifetime -- that reincarnation truly exists, and that through spiritual cultivation, one can elevate the level of one's life and being; that a person capable of cultivating practice must possess deep virtue and a spiritual root that remains. As a result, folk belief held that giving a monk even a single meal brings boundless merit, while striking a monk or cursing a Taoist priest incurs boundless sin.

After the CCP seized power, all three faiths -- Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism -- were simultaneously destroyed. Temples were smashed, Buddha statues destroyed, scriptures burned, and monks and nuns forced to return to secular life; belief in the divine was equated with feudal superstition, and spiritual practitioners were smeared as ignorant fools. Confucius, the sage revered across generations, was denounced as "Confucius the Second" [a demeaning nickname], and monks who genuinely carried on the transmission of religious scriptures were expelled from their temples, or even persecuted to death. More than fifty political campaigns, large and small, one after another, destroyed the foundations of Chinese people's faith, broke the backbone of China's intellectuals, and revolutionized Chinese culture out of existence. Through repeated rounds of class categorization, repeated eliminations of dissenters, and repeated purges and rectification campaigns, humanity itself was strangled, and the Chinese people's normal standards for judging right from wrong were twisted beyond recognition.

During the 1951 Campaign to Suppress Counter-revolutionaries, Master Xuyun, then over 110 years old, was branded a peddler of feudal superstition. Ten burly men confined him in his abbot's quarters, denying him food, water, and access to the toilet, demanding he hand over gold and silver -- to which Xuyun would only say, "I have none." The men beat him with iron rods until his head was covered in blood and his ribs were broken, subjecting him to brutal beatings four times in a single day... A few days later, when these men discovered the old monk was still alive, they resumed their brutal treatment... During the 1966 Cultural Revolution, Bian Zhongyun, a teacher at the girls' middle school affiliated with Beijing Normal University, was hung with a placard of denunciation by her own female students, forced to kneel, scalded with boiling water, and beaten to death with a nail-studded wooden club. In 1970, in Guzhen County, Anhui Province, Fang Zhongmou made critical remarks about Mao Zedong at home and was reported by her own husband and sixteen-year-old eldest son; two months later, Fang Zhongmou was labeled an "active counter-revolutionary" and executed by firing squad.

When a society could actually raise its hand against a highly revered and virtuous elder monk; when spouses informing on each other, mothers and sons turning against one another, and fathers and sons destroying each other became the norm -- even praised as having a "clear class stance" -- and when young Red Guards could beat elderly women and men old enough to be their grandmothers without a shred of guilt, what kind of society is that? Environment can shape a person. "Song Binbin" changed her name to "Song Yaowu" (meaning "Song Wants Violence") simply because of a single remark from Mao Zedong -- violence, struggle, and opposition to the divine were precisely what Communism encouraged and praised, moving step by step toward its ultimate goal of strangling humanity and destroying mankind. China, this land once known as "the nation of ritual and propriety," was, in an instant, stained red with blood, becoming the country with the least faith anywhere in the world; human nature, stripped of the basic constraints of morality, slid downward without restraint.

A Twisted Concept of Morality

Many people believe that dark chapter of history has already passed. Is that really so? Today, in this moment of history, we should clearly see that as long as this demon called the CCP remains alive, its evildoing will never stop, and its slaughter and distortion of human thought will never stop. It is simply that in the past, wave after wave of political campaigns tortured people to death, denounced and disgraced them, and made them live in constant terror; today, this has evolved into big-data surveillance, suppression of speech, secret disappearances, religious persecution, live organ harvesting, and every kind of systemic crime. In the past, it was the cult of personality, smashing and looting, and inciting the masses to struggle against each other, dividing morality along class lines; today, it has evolved into a chillingly effective brainwashing through Party culture and the export of ideology, cultivating generation after generation of materialistic "profit-worshippers" and "patriotic zealots" who cannot tell the difference between the CCP and the Chinese nation.

The greatest root of the CCP's evil lies in nothing less than its destruction of the Chinese people's faith in the divine, building a society that no longer believes good and evil bring their own rewards, a society of nationwide atheism. Under this education in absolute materialism, present-day Chinese society has spawned every variety of money-worshipping chaos; materialist values have tamed people into pure profit-seekers who need no moral judgment at all -- as long as profit is dangled as bait, such people will stop at nothing, exactly as Mao Zedong once put it: "the absolute materialist fears nothing." Meanwhile, years of patriotic education on the mainland have deliberately blurred the distinction between the CCP and the Chinese nation, thereby smearing defenders of truth who oppose the CCP's tyranny, oppose its bloody slaughter of the people, oppose its trampling of human rights, and oppose its persecution of citizens' beliefs as "unpatriotic," "anti-China forces," "harboring political agendas," or claiming that "the West will never give up its intent to destroy us." In this way, the CCP's naked will to power is disguised as "morality," comprehensively and systematically replacing the traditional Chinese values for judging good and evil, right and wrong, that have existed for thousands of years.

The above analysis is also vividly embodied in the brainwashing indoctrination and "transformation" tactics used in CCP prisons. People cannot imagine that behind a facade of civilized law enforcement lies endless secret house arrest, corporal punishment, sleep deprivation, group intimidation, and violent brainwashing... continuing until the person renounces their faith. People cannot imagine that these prison guards and criminal inmates could brutally torture elderly women in their sixties, seventies, and eighties with such numb indifference, treating it as utterly routine. Nor is it easy to imagine that this CCP concentration camp, day after day, uses so-called "psychological" methods to force-feed atheism, materialism, the theory of evolution, and absurd slander against Falun Gong -- endless brainwashing, forced statements, and periodic assessments -- such that no one in the entire ward dares to admit "there is a God," no one dares mention "universal values," and anyone brave enough to defend "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance" is sent straight to solitary confinement.

In order to conceal the evil within its own system, the CCP must disguise evil as good and describe bad as good, and it must also monopolize the right to define "morality." Prison guards try to conflate "morality" with "patriotism," while at the same time blurring the distinction between "the nation" and "the Party," equating "loving the nation" with "loving the Party" -- ultimately arriving at the absurd logic that whatever aligns with the CCP's will is "moral." And in practice, this is indeed exactly how they operate. On the other hand, in today's unprecedented crisis of moral conscience, many people care only about personal gain and loss, adept at weighing costs and benefits, and the ward's internal mechanism of "reverse selection" happens to perfectly cater to the needs of these criminal inmates, who claw their way up by stepping on Falun Gong practitioners, competing for credit, and securing greater chances of survival. Under the sway of this mindset, whenever guards instruct -- or even merely hint -- at whom to persecute, these inmates pile on without the slightest hesitation. This is chilling, yet it will not strike mainland Chinese, especially those within the CCP system, as unfamiliar at all. In essence, this mode of thinking and this concept of morality run through the entire brainwashing, speech suppression, and behavioral manipulation of the Chinese people throughout the whole period of CCP rule.

What the CCP Defines as "Moral Corruption"

Under totalitarian tyranny, "clarity of mind" comes at a heavy price. Zhang Zhixin, who dared to speak the truth during the Cultural Revolution, was gang-raped until she lost her sanity, and her throat was slit before her execution; and there were the many thousands upon thousands of intellectuals branded "rightists" -- people of independent thought capable of clearly judging right from wrong -- who were reduced to "stinking intellectuals" with no hope of ever recovering their standing. In that era, when morality was determined by class stance, the sycophants who pointed their fingers at those being denounced believed that trampling another person underfoot was itself proof of "ideological progressiveness" and "morality."

Looking now at this concrete microcosm of the CCP concentration camp today, it becomes easy to understand why criminal inmates who grow close to Falun Gong practitioners come to be labeled "morally corrupt" here. Even as they persecute Falun Gong practitioners, prison guards also work to ruthlessly crush any "renegades" or "liberals" whose behavior runs counter to the CCP's will. On August 29, 2023, criminal inmate Yuan Linjie was publicly denounced after a month of "concentrated training and rectification," vilified by fellow inmates as "not even human," and labeled "morally corrupt" by guards -- all because she had helped Falun Gong practitioners stay in contact with one another. Chen Xuefei, a criminal inmate and former senior bank executive in a certain city, had been appointed a "squad enforcer" in the No. 12 Ward because of her sharp intelligence, tasked with taking part in the "transformation" and persecution of many Falun Gong practitioners. She, too, was stripped of this status entirely over "a matter of principle," publicly denounced as "hypocritical" and having "bad morals." During work assignments, though slight of build, she was assigned by guards to unload cargo, hauling crates weighing dozens of pounds by hand every day, doing the most exhausting labor, struggling to get through each day. Once, on a scheduled family visit day, she was made to squat in punishment in front of the gate by guards, delaying her visit; the guards told her parents she was being punished for her "labor performance." When Chen saw her parents, she pretended everything was fine, but could tell from their worried, anxious expressions that they suspected otherwise... At this point in recounting the story, Chen's eyes reddened. From then on, whenever guards instructed -- or even merely hinted -- that she should do something to a Falun Gong practitioner, she never dared to hesitate; misreading their intent, even slightly, meant being scolded and punished as a matter of course.

In the concentration camp of the No. 12 Ward of the Liaoning Province Women's Prison, the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners is mostly kept sealed off within a single room, with all news of it suppressed; but the treatment meted out to these criminal inmates is carried out in plain view, ostensibly justified by all manner of bizarre, high-sounding pretexts, though in essence nearly all of it comes down to failing to satisfy guards in matters of persecuting, "rectifying," brainwashing, surveilling, controlling, or supervising Falun Gong practitioners -- sometimes simply appearing "insufficiently enthusiastic" is enough to draw suspicion. And so, from time to time, a few "examples" emerge, punished daily by being made to squat, forced to sit on small stools, forced to recite prison rules facing the surveillance camera, forced to scrub the entire corridor with a small brush, forced into "concentrated training and rectification" sessions and public denunciation, or subjected to starvation punishment -- given only a small piece of flatbread per meal, until they grow sallow and emaciated, mentally listless, all accompanied by guards occasionally screaming abuse at the top of their lungs... all so that everyone watching will be made an example of. Through wave after wave of such "rectification," those criminal inmates who still retain some conscience are forced to see through the unwritten rules of the place and to keep firming up their stance, never daring to show the slightest mercy toward Falun Gong practitioners. Kindness between people is artificially severed and turned into hostility; in this space saturated with Party culture, even the warmest concern shown in ordinary times can turn, the instant the political wind shifts, into people in the same cell turning weapons on one another -- forcibly transforming human beings into demons. The CCP's destruction of human nature is unprecedented in its evil. If, during the Cultural Revolution, "morality" was divided along class lines, then in today's CCP concentration camp, "morality" is divided according to one's attitude toward Falun Gong. Across these several decades, the CCP's essential nature remains exactly the same, laid bare for all to see.

A prison ought to be a place that transforms bad people into good people, yet here, the persecution of good people who believe in Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance has itself become "forced labor" for the inmates, who are made to continually learn how to act and lie, how to torment and control others, how to beat, curse, and torture... The more zealously, cunningly, and viciously one persecutes, the closer one gets to "the government," and all of this, within this sealed-off environment, is glorified as "justice" -- black and white inverted, with "whatever exists must be justified." Guards trample the law with impunity, all while claiming to represent "the government," terrorizing people into submission, then standing atop this pinnacle of power to pronounce judgment on good and evil, right and wrong -- so that the most conscienceless acts of persecution are all defined as "moral." This is the CCP's concept of morality. Here, there are no universal values -- only the will of the CCP.

Perhaps some of these guards never truly wanted any of this -- as members of the CCP system, they too are victims swept up in it. From young people who graduated from police academy once harboring good intentions, to individuals who show no mercy in torturing women old enough to be their grandmothers in their seventies and eighties, becoming the devil's mouthpiece on earth -- this kind of transformation into a demon is something people outside these walls find difficult to understand or even imagine. Just how far does the CCP intend to degrade human nature? Where, exactly, does it intend to lead a person? It seems the old saying truly applies here: blocking the road to heaven, and flinging open the gates of hell.

Positive Lessons from History

The positive lessons of history offer us this insight: the standard for measuring morality is eternal and unchanging -- it does not shift according to the will of power. A "morality of power" that departs from universal values cannot last; its outcome inevitably leads to a vacuum of faith and to dictatorship. A classic example: Nazi Germany.

The Nazis, driven by the will of a single party, slaughtered six million Jews whom they regarded as an inferior race -- forever nailed to history's pillar of shame. In 1945, at the Nuremberg trials, Nazi officials, concentration camp administrators, the Gestapo, the SS, even doctors and nurses, along with fourteen judges, all stood in the dock. Most of them argued in their defense: "I was only enforcing the law, only carrying out orders from my superiors." The tribunal did not accept this defense, because the Nazi genocidal policies they had carried out already constituted the crimes of "crimes against humanity" and "genocide," resulting in the deaths of six million Jews. History's judgment sentenced "Nazism" to death, and more than that, left future generations with a witness to justice and a universal standard for judging good and evil -- no one in today's world would ever again endorse the Nazis' "moral logic."

In 1992, after the fall of the Berlin Wall and German reunification, a Berlin court convened to sentence East German border guards who had shot and killed people attempting to climb the Berlin Wall to flee to freedom. Their defense lawyers argued: "These soldiers were merely carrying out orders -- they had no right to choose otherwise." But the Nuremberg principles established after World War II no longer permitted this kind of defense, and governments around the world unanimously took the same position: immoral acts cannot be excused on the grounds of carrying out government orders. The judge explained it this way: "There is, beyond the law, something in this world called 'conscience.' When law and conscience come into conflict, conscience is the highest standard of conduct -- not the law. Respect for life is a principle that holds true across the entire world."

Among those who blindly followed the crowd in the CCP's successive political campaigns, some became scapegoats bearing historical guilt, while others may have, once that page of history had turned, suddenly awoken to the absurdity of it all. For those still within the CCP system today who cannot tell the difference between "the CCP's will" and "morality" -- or who have abandoned universal values and traditional standards of judgment -- the lessons of the past still stand as a warning.

The CCP's Cult-Like Nature

Looking back through history, people cannot fathom why the CCP destroyed all three faiths simultaneously after seizing power, leading temples and Taoist shrines that should today be places of quiet devotion under lamplight to instead become money-grubbing tourist attractions. Standing outside the high walls of this CCP concentration camp, people cannot imagine that guards would actually incite criminal inmates to subject elderly women in their eighties to a relentless, revolving-door of torment, simply because she refuses to give up her belief in "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance." Living in a free society, people find it hard to understand why the CCP would mobilize its entire state apparatus at full throttle to suppress a group of Falun Gong practitioners who bring nothing but benefit to society and no harm whatsoever, while judicial, procuratorial, and public security personnel turn a blind eye to the law, churning out one unjust, false, and wrongly decided case after another on an assembly line, utterly numb to it all. Even more inconceivable is that a modern nation could actually criminalize "belief" and "ideological consciousness" itself.

Why does the CCP carry out "transformation"? Why does it forcibly change a person's beliefs, forcibly change a person's thoughts? Why does the CCP spend enormous sums of money to block the internet, prevent Chinese people from accessing the free world, suppress free speech, and control its citizens so harshly? Freedom of thought and belief is universally recognized today as among the most fundamental of human rights. The CCP speaks of "freedom" on the surface, while in reality it hijacks every single Chinese person into conforming to its own ideology. Is this something a political party ought to do? Is its true nature even that of a political party?

The documentary The Awakening of 400 Million People offered this author an important insight: what sets the CCP apart from every other political party in the world is that it constructs an entire system of thought for people to internalize. This system includes: a "cosmology" that leads people to believe no god exists; a "philosophy" holding materialism as the sole truth; a "view of history" (historical materialism) that convinces people communism represents the highest stage of human development; it also constructs a "worldview" telling people that capital and private property are evil, and that the family must therefore be abolished, private property eliminated, and the independence and freedom of property owners revoked, with violence used to smash the existing social order in order to realize a so-called paradise on earth; and it instills an identical "outlook on life" in everyone: sacrifice yourself, struggle to realize communism... This entire system -- "cosmology," "philosophy," "view of history," "worldview," and "outlook on life" -- is forcibly, systematically, and continuously instilled and imposed upon the Chinese people, from kindergarten through university and across the whole of society.

The proper role of a political party is to govern and administer society; no political party anywhere in the world today has ever subjected its people to this kind of "thought reform." This entire ideological system actually belongs to the category of "religion" -- in other words, only a "religion" could possess a system like this. As the renowned historian Xin Haonian has put it: "The most remarkable thing about us Chinese people is that, for five thousand years, we have always had freedom of religious belief -- this is unique in the entire world, the most remarkable thing of all... The Communist Party's rule is a religious rule, and specifically a religious totalitarian rule. What does totalitarian rule mean? It means ruling both body and soul together. It must control not only your life and livelihood, but also your thoughts and your soul -- your thoughts and soul must not differ from its own, and the moment it discovers that what you think differs from it, it will move to destroy you."

Historically, why did the CCP destroy all three faiths at once? Why has the CCP, for twenty-six years, persistently persecuted Falun Gong practitioners who believe in Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance? Because the CCP, which champions atheism, regards every believer in the divine as an enemy, and regards every traditional religion as an enemy. Whatever attacks goodness must be evil; whatever teaches people to turn away from the divine can only be the work of the devil. Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance are universal values, the standard by which good and evil, right and wrong, are measured. Anyone in this world who still retains a shred of conscience would never say "no" to Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance -- even those who fail to practice these three virtues themselves would, deep down, still wish for others to treat them according to these same three virtues. Consider: who would set people against Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance? Who would teach people to be untruthful, unkind, and intolerant? Who would teach people to act out lies, persecute the good, and turn on and suppress one another? The only answer is the devil. Marx himself made this clear in the opening line of The Communist Manifesto: "A specter is haunting Europe -- the specter of communism." That word "specter," when translated into Chinese, can also be rendered as "evil spirit." The true nature of the CCP is that of an evil cult -- an evil cult that rules society under the banner of a political party. It is simply that this cult has been "established as a state religion," using the political party as its vehicle and the name of the government to define good and evil, which is precisely what makes it so difficult for people to recognize for what it truly is.

This evil cult that is the CCP has constructed a society of nationwide unbelief in the divine, exalting violence and struggle between people, systematically destroying the foundations of the Chinese nation's faith, cultural heritage, intellectual substance, and national spirit -- making people disbelieve in the cycle of life, death, and rebirth, disbelieve that good and evil bring their own rewards, and stripping people of their capacity for normal value judgment, even for independent thought. Behind the fantasy of a "great harmony" in society and a "paradise on earth" lies the extreme protection of the interests of a ruling clique, the forcible unification of ideology, the total repudiation of traditional culture, and the coercive monopolization of universal truth... Continuously suppressing people's thoughts, distorting their moral judgment, and warping the Chinese people's sense of morality. For many years, the CCP has consistently used the name of "morality" to educate and indoctrinate people; in reality, amid the crisis-ridden atmosphere created by its high-pressure totalitarianism, through wave after wave of mass political campaigns, and through one instance after another of "Party spirit" triumphing over human nature, what has actually been destroyed is the morality within people's hearts.

Conclusion

Reflecting on the painful lessons of human civilization's history -- from Nazi Germany's concentration camps, to the Soviet Communist Party's Gulag camps, to today's CCP prison concentration camps -- "concentration camps" all share certain common features: they are backed by the machinery of the state, employ violence as their method, and are characterized by the deprivation of human rights. But unlike the notorious Nazi concentration camps, the prison concentration camps the CCP has built to persecute believers in Falun Gong use physical abuse merely as a means to an end. Their primary goal is to annihilate people's faith, erode their thinking, and mold them into faceless, identical, walking corpses who grovel before the CCP. To this end, the CCP does not hesitate to turn some people into obedient executioners, treating whomever the CCP designates as an "enemy" with the cold ruthlessness of the harshest winter. This "enemy" was once landlords and rich peasants, counter-revolutionaries and reactionaries, a segment of the petty bourgeoisie, a small clique of rightist intellectuals; today it is pro-democracy activists, petitioners and rights defenders, whistleblowers who expose inside information, and those brave enough to speak the truth. Yesterday it was "the evil American imperialists"; today it is the Western free world that supposedly "will never give up its intent to destroy us." Yesterday it was traditional monks and Taoist priests carrying on the scriptures of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism; today it is Falun Gong practitioners who believe in "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance"... People never know who the next "enemy" will be.

The greatest crime that can be committed against a person is nothing less than the strangling of the soul and the destruction of human nature; the most terrifying disaster that can befall a society is nothing less than the inversion of good and evil, right and wrong, coercing people into committing evil in the name of "goodness," and extinguishing society's conscience along with its last moral boundary. The CCP's crimes against the Chinese people run deep. In this Chinese society that has been castrated by the CCP, how can the righteous way of the human world be restored? What, ultimately, is the proper way to be human? For each individual, only by withdrawing from the evil-cult organizations of the CCP's Party, Youth League, and Young Pioneers can one erase the possessive control of this evil spirit over oneself, and free oneself from this entire system of Party culture's stranglehold on human thought. In reclaiming faith in the divine, reclaiming respect for life, and seeking one's roots in authentic traditional Chinese culture, one may perhaps find hope for the moral restoration of the Chinese people.

It is with this article that we hope more people within the CCP system will reflect deeply, and with this article that we call on mainstream society around the world to pay attention to the brutal persecution of Falun Gong believers that continues to this day in CCP prison concentration camps -- the greatest humanitarian catastrophe in human history.