“What directly motivated our impeachment,” said Liu, “was perhaps the two politicians’ rudeness and indifference to Judy Chen and at least 100 other Falun Gong practitioners who were beaten up and threatened with death by pro-communist mobs for their belief.”
Judy Chen, American Citizen and mother of two U.S. Marines, was volunteering at Flushing’s Service Center for Quitting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on May 19 when a group of mobsters surrounded their booth, spat on her, shouted obscenity and insulted her, hit her on the head and neck and scratched her face. Since May 17 scenes like this have occurred everyday on Flushing streets where hundreds of mobsters attacked Falun Gong practitioners.
Though at least 12 were arrested for attacking Falun Gong practitioners, John Liu and Ellen Young supported the mobs by encouraging their behaviors in public speeches and interviews, meeting with the arrested mobsters in office, and inviting mobsters whose violent behaviors were caught on camera and exposed on newspapers to file complaints against the media exposure.
In a meeting with some Falun Gong practitioners almost two months after the attacks started, which the two politicians repeatedly refused previously, Liu and Young both refused to condemn the mobs’ violent behaviors. Liu denied such attacks happened despite of video evidences, and Young responded with criticizing Falun Gong practitioners handing out flyers “blocked the sidewalk.”
Liu said many people were angered when Judy Chen was beaten for her belief while her sons were risking their lives in Iraq. “Our soldiers are risking their lives defending peace and justice, but their families are being persecuted back home,” said Liu. “Everyone in the community should stand up for them because this is our responsibility. But when Judy’s son came back from Iraq and asked to meet with John Liu, the politician his mother voted for, to seek help, John Liu shut him out.”
Liu said he did not understand how John Liu could deny the Flushing mob attacks were hate crimes while assailants Called for the extermination of Falun Gong Liu said John Liu knew clearly what hate crime is. “On August 12, 2006 two young Chinese were beaten by two white males in Bayside near Flushing,” cited Liu. “When John Liu heard about this case he condemned it as a hate crime because some Chinese were verbally and physically assaulted.” “But now, when Falun Gong practitioners are assaulted and threatened with death, Mr. Liu claimed that it did not constitute a hate crime.” Liu continued with indignation, “Liu is on the side of the mobsters because the CCP is behind the attacks.”“We can’t tolerate our representatives to gang up with the CCP, because that is an evil regime that murdered young students with tanks, machine guns and dum-dum cartridges,” said Liu.
Liu criticized John Liu’s pro-Beijing attitude. “When a few years ago a female Chinese illegal immigrant was repatriated and had a miscarriage on her way back to China, John Liu said that the U.S. government was simply a terrorist organization. But facing the CCP’s nine-year persecution of Falun Gong with close to 4,000 confirmed deaths from torture, I would like to ask Liu, ‘Have you ever, ever said the CCP was a terrorist organization?’ No, not a single word!”
But John Liu was not always so silent, he said. “In 2005, China launched a manned satellite into orbit together with a spy satellite targeted at the U.S.. But Liu, a U.S. Council member, immediately issued a special greeting to the Chinese Embassy.”
Liu believes impeaching John Liu and Ellen Young is necessary for maintaining the country’s spirit of democracy, because “John Liu and Ellen Young have completely betrayed this spirit.”
“If our politicians cannot represent public interests, we impeach them. It’s that simple,” said Liu.
