Source: www.ChinaAid.org
Date: January 14, 2021
 Police officer motioning to stop. (Deposit Photos) |
(ChinaAid Association—Jan. 14, 2021) Last year, prior to her arrest, Lawyer and journalist Zhan Zhan, recently sentenced to serve four years in prison, shared her thoughts about loyalty.
Obey the Party’s Command.
Slogans posted in each of China’s police stations begin with these four Chinese words—Obey the Party’s Command,” Zhang Zhan wrote. “For me, this requires a vow showing loyalty. Although “loyalty,” stands for a positive word in the Chinese context, for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), loyalty does not mean justice nor a kind of faith.
.. . I overheard two police officers’ conversation about law... and could not help asking them what they think about the conflict between obeying the Party’s command and enforcing law pursuant to laws. They didn’t answer my question directly. That evening I saw some posts circulating on WeChat that all Departments of Public Security should obey the Party’s command, the wording showed the tone of loyalty and sounded like that it would be a tough war.
However, who is the war waged against? I think it is:
a) people,
b) people who are suppressed and can not continue to seek hope on the land, and who are conscientious and search for the truth.
It can be all people who oppose and question the effect, approach, feasibility, and justice of the Party’s rule.
This is probably the meaning of loyalty. When I went to Changqing Police Station, the TV there constantly showed the CCTV shows. These shows are fabricated news to meet their goal and serve as the foundation of police loyalty.
The cost of loyalty should not be abandoning humanity, judgements of right and wrong, conscience, and reverence. With regard to being loyal to a faith, it must mean hell, judgement, and God. What are atheists loyal to, though? What kind of loyalty is it?
It doesn’t show fear to laws because what is a Constitution without national constitution? It is not the yearning for civilization, either, and the abuse and promotion of violence is to trample and maltreat people. It is not love and responsibility because it is just greed that can never be satisfied and infinite expansion of animality. This kind of loyalty is anti-humanity, let alone beauty and kindness. Isn’t it to let humans fall into the hell in the confrontation between profits and fear?
I don’t believe that anyone who has hope for the world and humanity will opt for this. I still hold the belief that being loyal to one’s conscience is the kindness that can never be erased in the world and the foundation that everyone counts on.
The Party, however, should never be the object that people should be loyal to unless it is subject to the rule of law. ...
Undoubtedly, this unconditional “loyalty” has nothing to do with nobility. Rather, it is manipulation of humans and leads a person’s soul astray to a fire pit.
Meanwhile, if a person is voluntary to be “loyal” to the Party, it is no difference from holding a candle to the devil, and where they will end is foreseeable. The hypocritical interdependence is disgusting. I believe that the relationship is very fragile and can not be put through the mill. The more “loyalty’ is stressed, the more conflicts there will be between their profits in the end, and it will result in the rapid collapse. Similar things happened in history, unfortunately, people disregard the lessons that speak to them.
Commentary 6—"On How the Chinese Communist Party Destroyed Traditional Culture," relates to Lawyer Zhan's observations regarding loyalty:
Traditional culture stresses loyalty. Nevertheless, “the people are of supreme importance; the nation comes next; last comes the ruler.” The loyalty preferred by the CCP is blind devotion — so completely blind that people are required to believe in the CCP unconditionally and obey it unquestioningly.
Founder and president of ChinaAid, Bob Fu, recently stressed that Christians are to pledge their ultimate loyalty to God, not to a political party nor any other human entity.
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... “Did we not strictly command you not to teach in this name [Jesus]? ...
But Peter and the other apostles answered and said:
“We ought to obey God rather than men.
~ Acts 5:28a–29
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