(Clearwisdom.net) I just learned that my father Cui Hongde of Mengyin County, Shandong Province was arrested again. He had just been released from incarceration less than a month ago, and I was worrying about his health after his release. Suddenly, he was arrested again. I am truly very anxious about his health condition.
I still am in shock and find it incredulous, the way my father was arrested this time. My father received a phone call from the county 610 Office, asking him to pick up a personal access system and a computer that were confiscated the last time he was arrested. My father went there and was arrested. My mother went to the 610 Office to ask for a reason. The answer was, "If we don't make up such an excuse, would he come?"
The county 610 Office is a governmental entity. Their practices don't adhere to the rule of law, and they circumvent morality. We have seen it and been exposed to it over and over again. They use absurd and untenable practices against a group of kind people.
I can't think of a single law my father could have broken. He is kind to other people. He does not pursue money or power. He worked hard and tolerated humiliation. Is this a crime? I can't imagine anything that my father did wrong.
When those 610 Office employees detained my father, did they think about the implication to his family? I can't take care of my parents. I am thousands of miles away. What I can do is guess my mother's feelings from a telephone conversation, generally being fragmented information. I try to make assumptions and guess what will happen.
Seven years ago, my father was arrested and detained for the first time. I saw the mess the police made after they ransacked my parents' house. That was the first time I felt that my family was falling apart, and the first time I felt unspeakable loneliness and helplessness. It was the first time I became tight-lipped. That year, my tears dried up. Within a few months, I lost more than twenty pounds.
Things are different now compared with seven years ago. I am stronger and can tell my mother, "Keep your strength. We can't fall apart." Who will know that my tears dropped like rain when I used a calm tone with my mother? Who can see that I almost choked up in tears after I hung up?
Note: On March 17, 2009, the Chinese Communist Party 610 Office arrested Falun Dafa practitioners on a large scale at Mengyin County Capital, Taoxu Town, Mengyin Town, Duozhuang Town and other towns in Shandong Province. From November 20, 2008 to March 31, 2009, at least 73 practitioners were detained and these are only incomplete statistics.