Germany: Inspiration From a Toronto Practitioner Who Won a Lawsuit Against the Chinese Deputy Consul General

Recently the matter concerning Canadian Falun Gong practitioner Joel Chipkar, who won a lawsuit against Pan Xinchun, Deputy Consul General of the People's Republic of China on charges of libel, has caused an extraordinary stir in various circles. It has without doubt dealt a significant blow to the evil regime and is a warning to Chinese diplomats who enjoy diplomatic immunity but slander Falun Gong and abuse human rights overseas; justice will eventually overpower injustice and evil. It is possible to imagine the impact of the Superior Court of Justice’s ruling in legal circles. To the conservative judges and prosecutors who failed to uphold justice because of the Vienna Convention (on the Law of Treaties), this is a clear message. What kind of inspiration has the Toronto practitioner who won this lawsuit provided other Dafa practitioners?

The Jiang regime’s persecution against overseas Falun Gong practitioners is widespread. Wherever there is Falun Gong, there is interference and destruction from Chinese embassies and consulates. The approach they usually take is overt fabrication and slander, incitement of hatred and misleading people. These kinds of things have happened in many countries, especially in Europe. Besides clarifying the facts about Falun Gong in political circles and to the media, Falun Gong practitioners have also resorted to legal action to stop the evil acts. A significant obstacle they have encountered is from the so-called “Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties” which stipulates that diplomats residing overseas shall not be prosecuted by other countries. Since the evil perpetrators have yet to be punished by relevant laws, they have become even more vicious. This is also one of the loopholes used by Jiang’s regime to extend its persecution overseas.

As a Dafa practitioner, how should we regard this matter? Isn’t the fact that they commit wrongdoings regardless of the law without being punished an arrangement made by the old forces? Isn’t it a thorn in our side that the old forces have arranged for us? Dafa practitioners cannot acknowledge these arrangements. We are the protagonists in this historical drama and should shoulder this significant historical mission during this unprecedented Fa-rectification. If we keep silent or step backward, it would become an acknowledgement of the evil and undeserving of the title of Fa-rectification period Dafa disciple.

No matter whether it is a prosecution or a lawsuit, what is really important is the process. The objective is to let more people come to know the facts so that they can be saved. Those in legal circles are also beings to be saved by us. Any of their deeds are related to their positioning themselves. We may have various unrighteous thoughts, such as notions that it is no use to sue them because they enjoy diplomatic immunity; that we may as well focus our energy on other aspects since the lawsuit against Jiang’s regime is so important; that it is the mentality of struggling to prosecute Jiang, etc. As long as our first thought is unrighteous, the perspective from which we view problems will be human notions, not the Fa. Joel Chipkar told reporters that the reason for his filing the lawsuit is that he cannot give consent to the slander of cultivating “Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance;” otherwise, it would be tantamount to giving consent to killing people. He wanted to expose the facts about these matters. He believes that those who understand the facts about Falun Gong will no longer accept the slander of cultivating “Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance” and thus the persecution in China will be brought to an end. Isn’t winning this lawsuit a manifestation of righteous thoughts?

Moreover, his winning the lawsuit is also a manifestation of practitioners’ situation in that area as a whole. Had Joel Chipkar proceeded with the matter single-handedly and dealt with pressure from all sides alone, the result might have been been quite different since the evil utilises every possible loophole to interfere. I think that one significant reason for winning this lawsuit is the coordination and co-operation among Canadian Dafa practitioners. They helped one another, and cultivated a very good atmosphere through exchanging views based on the Fa. This is what practitioners in other countries can learn from this situation, so as to do Fa-rectification things well from now on.