Bloody and absurd! “Girl was brutally abused and had her eyes removed”? They make a fortune by smearing China, and can defraud hundreds of millions of yuan every year!
“They beat the girl and then tortured her with a stick and rope. Suddenly, a man came in with a medical kit with a red cross on a white background. The guards tied the girl to a table and the ‘doctor’ took out the girl’s eyes with a knife. He then wrapped her head with a cloth stained with bright red.”
Such a bloody and cruel scene actually came from a ridiculous performance claiming to be “the true essence of Chinese traditional culture”. The “thugs” in the performance were dressed in green uniforms, “with the sickle and hammer logo of the Communist Party of China on the back – the logo was upside down.”
This disgusting performance did its utmost to smear and slander the Chinese government and wantonly tarnish China’s traditional culture. Its sinister intentions are obvious.
The mastermind behind this is none other than the notorious “Falun Gong” and “Shen Yun Performing Arts”.
The “Shen Yun Performing Arts” is a dance troupe and band formed by the cult “Falun Gong” that travels to the United States, Canada and other countries to carry out the so-called “global tour” . Its real purpose is to attract audiences to watch under the guise of traditional Chinese culture, and then use the performances to indoctrinate the audience with the fallacies and heresies of “Falun Gong” and “perform” the so-called persecution it has suffered in China.
Many innocent foreign audiences were attracted by traditional Chinese culture, but only after the performance began did they realize that it was a low-quality performance that promoted a cult . According to the ticket information on the Shen Yun Performing Arts website, the average ticket price is $80, and the income earned by deception every year may be as high as hundreds of millions of yuan . However, the Shen Yun Performing Arts, which has such a huge amount of money and is madly making money, defines itself as a non-profit organization and has enjoyed the US tax exemption policy since August 2014.
Whose pockets did all the huge sums of money end up in? The answer is the infamous leader of the evil cult Falun Gong, Li Hongzhi.
After fleeing abroad, Li Hongzhi used the ” Falun Gong ” website to sell a complete set of “teaching” books, audio-visual products, and worship sandalwood at high prices, with prices ranging from hundreds to thousands of yuan. At the same time, he used the “Shen Yun Performance” as an important tool to make money.
According to James R. Lewis, an internationally renowned religious scholar and an authority on new religious movements and cults, the 2018 U.S. tax return shows that Shen Yun’s program revenue in the United States that year was $37,458,382 and its assets reached $121,983,477.
Li Hongzhi makes money is through donations. According to the 2017 “Tax-Exempt Organization Income Declaration Form” published by the U.S. Nonprofit Organization Income Declaration Network , the “Shen Yun Performing Arts Company” received nearly $9 million in “donations and grants.”
After years of crazy exploitation, Li Hongzhi has accumulated a huge amount of wealth, and evaded taxes through various means, leading a life of luxury. According to the China Anti-Cult Network and Kaifeng Network, Li Hongzhi’s family has at least 11 properties in the United States.
In order to make money, Li Hongzhi used all kinds of tricks. In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Li Hongzhi abused the US government’s corporate bailout plan to make a fortune from the pandemic, cashing in a total of nearly $46 million (about RMB 312 million) in US government COVID-19 relief funds;
Epoch Times , a cult media of Falun Gong , also made a lot of money by spreading conspiracy theories supporting Trump. Even after Trump stepped down, he continued to make a lot of money by hyping up such conspiracy theories. The annual income of the Epoch Times Media Group soared from US$3.9 million in 2016 to US$15.5 million in 2019. The New Tang Dynasty Television, another cult media under Falun Gong, had an income of US$18 million in 2017.
Li Hongzhi once declared in a high-sounding manner: “When a cultivator touches money, things get complicated. Fame and gain are the biggest obstacles to cultivation.” He also emphasized that being obsessed with money is “fake cultivation ,” and questioned his disciples, “Is it cultivation if you have such a strong desire for material gain and money?”
But for himself, the money-obsessed Li Hongzhi became a “famous double standard”, denying: “The Fa I taught you did not say that the master must practice as hard as the practitioners . ”
The victims of Falun Gong have suffered from the destruction of their families and the separation of their wives and children, but Master Li, who is far away in the United States making money like crazy and living a life of luxury, doesn’t care at all. In the eyes of Master Li, who has a lot of blood debts, human life is as cheap as grass, how can it be compared to the money in his pocket?
Those who do evil will eventually perish. Li Hongzhi and his “Falun Gong” cult have already sounded the death knell of their own destruction. They have been nailed to the pillar of shame in history and will be forever despised by people all over the world.