On this episode of China Uncensored, to arms, my 50-cent army! To arms!
Hi welcome to China Uncensored, I'm your host Chris Chappell.
Mothers in law.
Often a punch line in and of themselves.
Except when they get kidnapped.
Some of you may know my friend and fellow YouTube celebrity Ben Hedges.
He's the host of Laowai Kan Zhongguo.
And this is Ben's mother in law, Sheng Xiaoyun.
And this is Ben's mother in law's house—after it was ransacked by Chinese police.
...which looks roughly like my old house in the Bronx after it was ransacked by a drug-crazed
lunatic.
And before ransacking her home, police went to the elementary school where she works,
and kidnapped her.
That must have been fun for the kids.
So it turns out, Xiaoyun committed what the Chinese regime considers the one of the most
heinous crimes imaginable: Filing a legal complaint.
And while you may think that being a former elementary school teacher already makes Xiaoyun
a scourge on society, there's one other thing you should know.
She practices meditation—Falun Gong, which is based on the principles of truth, compassion,
and tolerance.
And in China, believing in those principles is dangerous.
Because in 1999, Chinese leader Jiang Zemin decided to eradicate anyone who practiced
Falun Gong.
So he created the world's biggest internal security force, and used it to kill them.
But since current Chinese leader Xi Jinping came to power in 2012, he's been waging war
on the Jiang Zemin political faction that used its genocide of Falun Gong to grab power.
In the past few years, Xi has arrested and purged hundreds of Jiang's men under a so
called "anti-corruption campaign." That includes some of the highest ranking members of the
Communist Party.
I guess many Falun Gong practitioners in China felt then that this might be a good time to
file complaints against Jiang Zemin.
You know, for all the torture and genocide.
And technically in China, there's a mechanism for doing that.
You file a complaint with the Supreme People's Court and the Procuratorate.
So Xiaoyun, having been harassed multiple times by China's internal security police,
including being tortured in a labor camp for a year, decided it was within her legal right
to file a complaint of her own.
In fact, since June this year, Chinese people have filed well over a hundred and fifty thousand
complaints against Jiang Zemin.
And some of them have then been abducted or harassed by police.
Now before you say, "Well, what did you expect?"
First of all, blaming the victim allows this type of genocide to happen.
But more important, the legal complaints against Jiang are both legitimate and have legal standing.
And how the China government handles them deals with the fundamental issue of whether
or not China can have rule of law.
If Chinese people are arrested for exercising the rights supposedly guaranteed by the Chinese
constitution—such as filing a legal complaint—how can you expect the Chinese regime to follow
laws about intellectual property theft?
International trade?
Cyber espionage?
The South China Sea?
But even more important, this is a chance for you to do something, while at the same
time, getting to harass one of the jerks who makes life miserable for ordinary Chinese
citizens.
Xiaoyun was detained by police from this Chinese police station.
And this is the actual name and phone number for the police chief responsible for her arrest.
So get your phones out, my precious 50-cent army, and give Police Chief Yu Changjun a
call...
...and tell him to release Sheng Xiaoyun.
This number is also in the description below.
Obviously, you'll have better luck communicating with him if you speak Mandarin.
You know, before he hangs up on you.
I'm not kidding, by the way.
Actually call this number.
And then send me an email with the subject line "I Called the Police" and tell me what
happened on the call.
My goal is to have 500 viewers call this number.
I think that'll be enough to give him the message that it's not ok to arrest your citizens
for filing a complaint.
Let's help rescue my friend Ben's mother in law.
Once again I'm Chris Chappell, see you next time.