I’ve read the Epoch Times for at least ten years, long before it began showing up on Free Republic, which was probably only 2-3 years ago.
It was glaringly obvious after reading it about four or five times that it was connected to Falun Gong. My only question about this supposed expose is “what took them so long?” Probably the fact that the Epoch Times is now advertising on You Tube.
When you read the paper there’s always a Falun Gong persecution story in each issue. The connection that masquerades as no connection is very similar to how the Moonies have these non-descript sounding groups like “International Group for Peace”, or “Global Family Foundation”, and when you read their material they are giving out humanitarian awards, and lo and behold, they’ve chosen Reverend Moon to get one.
And BTW, I know some long-time Moonies, and I even accepted an invitation to see Moon speak a few years before he died, at a major hotel function room. Boring, but hardly sinister. I’m also aware that the Moonies bankroll the Washington Times, which has never stopped me from reading it.
I don’t have any particular beef with the Falun Gong people. I don’t know who they are, and I don’t know what agenda they have other than really not liking the Chicoms.
I don’t know what kind of threat they pose to the Chicoms, other than the fact that they are a social movement not controlled by the Party. The only thing I find a bit shady is that they deny there’s any structure or organization to it, and there obviously is.
That may be defensive, but when they claim that all their works are just the coincidental spontaneous outpouring of sentiment by hundreds or thousands of completely unconnected people, all just meditating on their own, it doesn’t pass the laugh test.
I’m not sure what your point is.
Of course this is a FaLun Gong related publication.
That’s never been a secret.
FaLun Gong have been among the few groups willing to stand up to the communist party since the Tiananmen Square massacre and the most effective one.
Yeah, I think their beliefs are goofy. So what?
The reason the MSM is against them now is competition and ideology.
The Epoch Times is a real competitor now, mainly because it reports actual news the MSM will not, and this relates to the ideology. The MSM won’t report it because it could harm Dems and leftists. Consequently, Epoch Times gets traffic that NBC could get if it actually reported news.