Since the September 11 attacks, terrorism has become a household word. Suddenly, we have come to learn that terrorist activities can occur even very close to home. Since September 11, the threat of terrorism has become part of our daily lives. We live in the shadow cast by the terrorists, and wonder whether new tragedies are imminent. This is precisely the goal of the terrorists.
This is invisible terror. It is different from the kind that does astonishing harm in an instant. Rather, it is a kind that resides in people's hearts and makes them surrender mentally to the evil power.
Tyrannical governments have access to terrorist measures that are more effective, more powerful and more comprehensive in creating terror in people's hearts. Using government offices, legislative bodies, courts, police, secret police, prisons, military and other bodies of the state, they exploit the government apparatus to crack down on any opposition. Using the media to spread carefully planned threats and propaganda, they drive their people to live in terror. If allowed to continue unabated, this type of terror becomes deeply rooted in people's hearts, making them react in fear compulsively to any different voices.
Such state terrorism intimidates the entire nation of China. For example, people are murdered openly by government forces. People condemn each other publicly. So-called "guilty ones" are paraded in the streets. During the "Cultural Revolution," this type of state terrorism also took place. Incidents such as public beatings and humiliation, the murder of those with opposing views and the ransacking of homes caused the terror in people's hearts to reach an extreme. Having lived through the "red terror," terrorism has already made a deep impression in the Chinese people's hearts. An effective conditional reflex has been established, namely: Opposition - State Apparatus - Persecution.
People become subconsciously fearful of having different ideas and opinions and for voicing different thoughts. In order to be free from this kind of terror, people suppress their thoughts and seal their lips. In order to be free from this kind of terror, people lie, deceive each other and live without dignity.
This kind of hidden, invisible terror has become the typical mental state of the Chinese people and has become an evil force that is chipping away the soul, the willpower and the sense of justice of the nation. After the September 11 tragedy, one could catch a glimpse of this evil force by taking a look at the sarcastic comments made by many of the Chinese people as well as the arguments made by some Chinese scholars in defense of the terrorist acts.
Perhaps the terror in the hearts of the people created by China's tyrannical government doesn't seem as powerful as the bomb in terms of causing instant catastrophes. However, the degeneration it causes through the erosion of the people's sense of righteousness over the years can be much more damaging than bombs.
Source:http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2001/11/26/16219.html
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