Editor’s note. This is excerpted from the third in a four-part series of opinion pieces by Ms. Littlejohn on the reasons that the Chinese Communist Party will never abandon coercive population control.
…If China’s Family Planning Officials were an official army, they would tie with North Korea as the sixth largest in the world.
This “army” can be turned in any direction to crush dissent of any sort. Does the Chinese Communist Party [CCP] regard this as necessary to maintain control in a tinder-box situation?
Officials employ a “vast system” of control and intimidation to enforce their policies, as blind Chinese activist lawyer Chen Guangcheng, himself a former torture victim at their hands, told U.S. officials this spring.
When China announced its new Two-Child Policy, Chen was not impressed. He tweeted:
This is nothing to be happy about. First the #CCP would kill any baby after one. Now they will kill any baby after two. #ChinaOneChildPolicy
Government officials, he told the U.S. Congress, routinely form large groups that “[act] like bandits” to enforce its policies at any cost, usually with no accountability to the law.
Chen cited signs posted by officials in various provinces to terrorize citizens into compliance with child limitation policies. For example, in Yunnan: “All villagers will be sterilized once a single villager violates the birth quota.”
In Sichuan: “Anyone avoiding sterilization must be punished by bulldozing their house; anyone avoiding abortion shall surrender their cattle and house.”
In Jiangsu: “We’d rather see a river of blood than a single baby born alive.”
Clearly, it’s in China’s interest to keep such an experienced, and brutal, force on hand as the country continues to destabilize. The million-strong army of Family Planning Officials fits the bill perfectly.
Other examples of Family Planning Official thuggery include:
• In September of 2013, Shandong Province Family Planning Officials kidnapped Liu Xinwen, who was illegally six months pregnant, after breaking down the door and dragging the 33-year-old out of her bed. She was forced to undergo an injection that killed her unborn child.
• Similarly, 23-year-old Feng Jianmei, whose photograph with her murdered baby became famous in 2012, had been blindfolded, forced into a van, and told to sign a document she couldn’t see before her unborn girl was killed by two injections.
The spirit of the Cultural Revolution lives on in the Family Planning Police, who brutalize people with impunity with a fervor reminiscent of the Red Guard. These ubiquitous, barbarous brigades appear indispensible in maintaining order at a time of growing social unrest – another, compelling reason that the Chinese Communist Party will never abandon coercive population control.
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