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by SusanChen@Perth, posted in 修煉篇

Judge outlines path to dismissal in firearms case against Williamstown man

PITTSFIELD — A judge has outlined a proposed resolution in a firearms case against Chao Yu, a Williamstown man and outspoken critic of the Falun Gong–affiliated dance company Shen Yun, indicating the charges could be dismissed without a conviction if a plea moves forward, according to court filings.

Judge Jeremy Bucci last week indicted he would impose a six-month continuance without a finding of guilt on four counts against Yu, filings show. Prosecutors indicated they would dismiss the remaining charges.

The judge’s suggestion came after Yu’s lawyer filed a detailed sentencing memorandum in which she described her client as a former political prisoner in China whose life has been shaped by religious persecution, exile and whistleblowing against powerful institutions.

In the filing, defense lawyer Megan Siddall said Yu was a longtime practitioner of Falun Gong who spent nearly a decade imprisoned in China for helping Western journalists communicate with adherents of the banned spiritual movement.

She wrote that Yu was subjected to beatings, sleep deprivation and the denial of basic hygiene and medical care while incarcerated. He eventually secured asylum in the United States and became a U.S. citizen.

Yu later turned his attention to Shen Yun Performing Arts, a global dance company affiliated with Falun Gong, after she stated that performers confided in him about abuse and mistreatment, the memo says.

Siddall wrote that Yu was “disgusted to learn that his beloved Falun Gong was itself engaging in the kind of conduct he had previously condemned,” and he reported those concerns to the National Human Trafficking Hotline and publicly criticized Shen Yun through YouTube videos and interviews with journalists. She said his actions triggered retaliation.

Siddall write that Shen Yun or Falun Gong affiliates falsely portrayed Yu as dangerous to federal authorities, which led to an FBI bulletin and, ultimately, law enforcement scrutiny of his firearms possession. Yu has denied making threats toward the organizations, and has said statements cited by authorities were mistranslated from Chinese.

Siddall argued that Yu cooperated fully with police, voluntarily disclosed the presence of firearms and ammunition in his home, which she wrote that and acknowledged that he failed to comply with Massachusetts licensing requirements after moving from Minnesota, where the weapons were legally purchased. The memo emphasized that Yu has no criminal history and does not pose a danger to the public.

Siddall wrote that Yu obtained the firearms for self-protection, citing his history of imprisonment in China and his fear of retaliation after publicly criticizing Shen Yun and Falun Gong leadership.

Attached to the filing were multiple letters of support submitted on Yu’s behalf, including one from his adult son, an Army Reserve sergeant preparing to attend officer candidate school. In his letter, his son Yu “risked his own life and freedom” to protect others.

Another letter came from a couple who said they befriended Yu shortly after he arrived in the United States in 2013 while seeking asylum. They described helping Yu navigate American life, improve his English and settle his family, portraying him as thoughtful, hardworking and ethical. 

A third letter was submitted by Ian Johnson, a journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of China’s persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. Johnson wrote that Yu played a critical role in his reporting, at great risk to his own personal safety. 

Siddall urged the court to resolve the case with a continuance without a finding of guilt and a brief period of administrative probation, after which point the charges would be dismissed. She argued that further punishment would neither serve public safety nor deter future misconduct.

A plea change hearing has been set for Dec. 22. He has pleaded not guilty to two counts each of possessing a large-capacity firearm, possessing a large-capacity feeding device and possessing ammunition without an FID card.

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Attorney will challenge police search in case of Williamstown man facing weapons charges

PITTSFIELD — Weapons and other evidence found at the home of a Williamstown man should be excluded from the case because of the way the police search was handled, according to a defense attorney. 

That development came during a pretrial hearing Wednesday in the case of Chao Yu, who caught the attention of the FBI after a video he made about Shen Yun, a dance group associated with the Falun Gong religious movement. Shen Yun is under fire for allegedly exploiting its young performers.

Richard Chambers, Yu’s attorney, said that he intends to file a motion to suppress that evidence based on his review of pretrial discovery in the case, indicating he will challenge the warrant authorities used to search his client’s home in September 2023.

 Williamstown man and Shen Yun critic files motion to dismiss gun case

During that search, officers reported finding an AR-15 rifle, a 9 mm pistol, 645 rounds of ammunition and high-capacity magazines, according to court documents. Yu was arrested and has pleaded not guilty to unlawful possession of firearms.

Prosecutors allege that a 60-day grace period for obtaining a gun license after moving to the state had passed, making the weapons illegally possessed.

But in a previous motion to dismiss filed in November, Chambers argued that Yu purchased the firearms legally while living in Minnesota, and his firearms license was pending in Massachusetts when the case began. He said prosecutors failed to demonstrate when the guns actually entered the state, and thus could not show that grace period had closed.

Judge John Agostini denied the motion the following week, setting the stage for ongoing pretrial litigation.

During Wednesday’s hearing, Chambers told Agostini of his intent to file the motion to suppress evidence based on how the police search was conducted.

He said he could compile that argument and submit a pleading to the court within two weeks, after which a hearing will be scheduled, possibly including testimony from police officers who were involved.

Yu, who appeared remotely at the hearing via videoconference, asked to make a statement to the court. Chambers advised against it, and the two met privately in a separate videoconference before returning to the public session.

Chambers told the court Yu is concerned about an ongoing investigation that is retaliation to his role as a whistleblower.

“He just wanted the court to understand that there was more to this case than just simply him being charged for the firearms,” Chambers said, adding that he will incorporate those concerns into the forthcoming motion to suppress.

Agostini said he understood “there was some undercurrent” to the case and “this is not as narrow an issue as some people may think.” Chambers also relayed Yu’s concerns about the public nature of the court hearing, and Agostini said Chambers is free to seek protective orders for future court filings if he believes it necessary.

Yu is among the vocal critics of Shen Yun Performing Arts, which is operated by the Falun Gong faith. While condemning the practices of Shen Yun, Yu also stated last year that he is a Falun Gong practitioner, which is banned in his native China, leading him to seek asylum in the United States.

Shen Yun is at the center of a lawsuit accusing it of forced labor and human trafficking, according to The New York Times, which has also reported on exploitation of young dancers by Shen Yun and its murky links to the publication The Epoch Times.

Yu says he was excommunicated from Falun Gong after gathering testimony about its “horrific practices” and sharing it with the world.

Law enforcement characterized the video as threatening, while Yu said that conclusion was based on a mistranslation of his actual message, which was delivered in Chinese.

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Williamstown man and Shen Yun critic files motion to dismiss gun case

PITTSFIELD — A lawyer for a Williamstown man and outspoken critic of the Shen Yun dance troupe filed a motion to dismiss his client’s illegal firearms possession case.

Chao Yu stands accused of possessing an AR15 rifle, a 9 mm pistol, 645 rounds of ammunition and high-capacity magazines in his home without a valid Massachusetts gun license. But defense lawyer Richard Chambers Jr. said the firearms were legally purchased in Minnesota, where Yu used to live. 

That’s significant because Yu had a 60-day window to obtain his gun license from the time when the weapons entered the state, Chambers argued at a Monday hearing in front of Judge John Agostini in Berkshire Superior Court. Without evidence about when the firearms entered the state, prosecutors were unable to prove that Yu blew the deadline. 

Yu’s firearms license application was still pending at the time police seized his weapons.  

“There was no evidence before the grand jury as to when the … firearms were brought by the defendant into the commonwealth,” Chambers said. 

“There was not probable cause to indict,” he added. 

Assistant District Attorney Jocelyn McGrath countered that Chambers’ reading of the gun statute was incorrect, saying that the 60-day window began when the gun owner enters the state, not the guns themselves.

By that metric, she said Yu’s “grace period” for obtaining his gun license had elapsed, since Yu moved to the state in 2022. 

Agostini listened to the arguments and said he would issue a decision on Yu’s motion to dismiss at a later date. If he denies the motion to dismiss, the case will likely proceed on track toward a trial or possible plea. 

Yu is free on his own recognizance as the case remains pending in Berkshire Superior Court. He has pleaded not guilty to two counts each of possessing a large-capacity firearm, possessing a large-capacity feeding device and possessing ammunition without an FID card.

The investigation into his firearms began after the FBI last year accused him of making “threats” in a YouTube video toward the Falun Gong compound in Cuddebackville, N.Y.

Yu denied the allegation, and said it was based on a misinterpretation of what he was saying in Chinese. 

Yu has spoken out against Falun Gong and the dance troupe it’s tied to, Shen Yun, which he said mistreats its juvenile dancers. His claims were echoed in a new lawsuit a former Shen Yun dancer filed against the organization, who accuses it of forced labor, human trafficking and exploitation of its young performers. 

Yu said he was a practitioner of Falun Gong, a spiritual movement banned in China, and fled to the U.S. He speaks out against Shen Yun on his YouTube channel.  

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The FBI investigated a Williamstown man for threats against a religious compound. He denies the claims, and now faces gun charges

PITTSFIELD — As one of millions of practitioners of the banned Falun Gong religion in his native China, Chao Yu says he was once in the Communist party’s crosshairs.

He was one of an unknown number of Falun Gong adherents who were imprisoned during the Chinese government’s crackdown on the religion, he said. 

On Monday, Yu stood outside Berkshire Superior Court next to his lawyer, Richard Chambers Jr.

Yu, 51, sought asylum in United States and received his citizenship about two years ago, according to Chambers. Yu now lives in Williamstown

Now, Yu said he’s fighting on two fronts. One is against what he says is wrongdoing by Falun Gong leaders of the spiritual movement that, in many ways, defined much of his life. His other battle is a legal one — against felony gun possession charges in Berkshire Superior Court. The two battles are linked, Yu said after his arraignment Monday. 

It started, Yu said, when he began to speak out against the leadership of Falun Gong. Specifically, he claimed Falun Gong mistreats its juvenile dancers in Shen Yun, the performing arts troupe Falun Gong operates.

“After I came to the United States, in the recent 10 years, I gradually found the dark side of Falun Gong,” said Yu. 

Shen Yun achieved notoriety in the United States with its ubiquitous promotions. Falun Gong, a spiritual movement founded by Li Hongzhi in China in 1992, was banned by the Chinese government, which labeled the group a cult. Falun Gong is also anti-Communist.

Shen Yun’s global headquarters, known as Dragon Springs, is located in Deerpark, N.Y., about 100 miles west of Berkshire County.

Adherents see meditation and other forms of spiritual practice as means to seek enlightenment and representative of traditional Chinese values lost in the Communist revolution. They see the movement’s founding leader, Li Hongzhi, as a “God-like figure who can levitate, walk through walls and see into the future,” according to ABC News reporter Brandy Zadrozny‘s piece about The Epoch Times, the conservative news organization run by Falong Gong.

Yu still identifies as a practitioner of Falun Gong, but says some adherents are being spiritually abused. He spreads his message to more than 30,000 subscribers on YouTube. 

“What they are doing goes directly against what what I have fought for. I spent nine years, eight months and 23 days in jail, in custody, in China, to defend the core value of truthfulness, compassion, forbearance,” Yu said, referencing the principles of Falun Gong. 

His videos caught the attention of federal authorities, which resulted in a Sept. 7 bulletin that Yu “made threats” toward the Falun Gong compound in New York, according to a police report by Williamstown Police Sgt. Shaun William.

“In one of his most recent videos Yu Chao claimed he wanted to be on a ‘suicide squad’ and had videos from 2020 demonstrating loading his guns,” the FBI officer safety bulletin said. 

In an interview with The Eagle, Yu denied threatening Falun Gong, and blamed Shen Yun for reporting him to the FBI.

Yu said the claim that he had “stated he wanted to be part of a ‘suicide squad,'” was incorrect and based on the mistranslation of Chinese. Rather, he said he was describing his willingness to keep speaking out despite feeling the threat of retaliation.

“What I mean definitely cannot be translated into ‘suicide squad’ in such kind of context,” Yu said. 

Yu said he bought the firearms legally when he was living in Minnesota, where he said the video in question were also filmed. 

“In Minnesota, you don’t need a license to carry like you do in Massachusetts. He moved to Massachusetts, he had those legally purchase firearms from Minnesota,” said Chambers, Yu’s lawyer.

Yu applied for his Massachusetts firearms license on Aug. 28, but his application hadn’t been accepted yet, according to the police report.

The officer said Yu had Massachusetts residency since 2022 and had “ample time to properly transfer his firearms and get an LTC.”

Yu told the FBI agents he feared for his life.

Police filed charges against Yu in Northern Berkshire District Court in September for the illegal possession of an AR-15 rifle, a 9 mm pistol, 645 rounds of ammunition and high-capacity magazines in his home. He was ordered to surrender his passport.

Chambers said Yu rejected a plea offer from prosecutors that would have carried an 18 month jail sentence. So prosecutors presented the case to a Berkshire County grand jury, which indicted him on two counts each of possessing a large-capacity firearm, possessing a large-capacity feeding device and possessing ammunition without an FID card.

He was arraigned Monday and pleaded not guilty. Assistant District Attorney Stephanie Ilberg-Lamm said during the hearing that Yu has complied with orders while on pretrial release and cooperated with investigators. 

Yu said his quest to shed light on Falun Gong isn’t over. 

“I just cannot be silent,” he said. “I just cannot be silent.”

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“Master’s Wife” Li Rui: The Hidden Tough Woman of “Falun Gong”

by SusanChen@Perth, posted in 修煉篇

ByVenuesToday Staff Oct 17, 2024

Due to copyright issues and public humiliation by “Falun Gong”, Yu Chao, a disciple who graduated from a prestigious school, was once famous overseas and had been “guided” by Li Hongzhi, has recently been constantly exposing information through overseas social media platforms, causing “Falun Gong””royal” figures such as Li Hongzhi’s wife Li Rui, who had previously received little attention, to gradually surface and become a major attraction for the outside world to observe the bizarre inside world of “Falun Gong”.

Ordinary housewife

Li Hongzhi’s wife has the same surname as him, and her name is Li Rui. In 1978, the propaganda team of the forest police detachment where Li Hongzhi worked was disbanded, and he stayed in the military guesthouse as a receptionist. Later, through an introduction, he met Li Rui, who was working as a cashier at Chaoyang Bathhouse at the time. Li Hongzhi’s parents were divorced, his mother was often ill, and he had many brothers and sisters. At that time, Li Hongzhi’s family conditions were very poor. Fortunately, Li Hongzhi looked handsome, and Li Rui did not despise Li Hongzhi’s family conditions, and the two got married. After marriage, Li Rui’s family showed favor to Li Hongzhi, so Li Hongzhi was transferred to the Jilin Street Grain Management Office of the Jilin Province Changchun Grain and Oil Supply Company in April 1982 as an officer of the labor union (working instead of working) through the relationship of Li Rui’s father. In June of the same year, his daughter Li Meige was born.

In April 1983, Li Hongzhi was seconded to the Security Department of the Changchun Grain and Oil Supply Company as an officer (working instead of working), and in March 1984, he was approved by the Changchun Personnel Bureau to transfer to a cadre. When working at the Grain and Oil Company, Li Hongzhi was recognized as a good husband and a good father. He picked up and dropped off the children almost every day, and he was the one who attended the parent-teacher conferences. Sometimes the kindergarten was closed due to something, so he brought the children to the company, and he took good care of the children. It should be said that Li Rui’s work was not hard. Li Hongzhi was so “voluntary” to take care of the children. It can’t be said that Li Hongzhi was more or less “henpecked” in the world of the couple. At this time, Li Rui, as a wife, except for being a little stronger in front of Li Hongzhi, lived an ordinary and unpretentious life. Overall, she was a reasonable daughter-in-law of the Li family.

However, as Li Hongzhi followed the “qigong craze” and set up his own “Falun Gong” and embarked on the path of a cult of deception and fraud, Li Rui’s life path also took a 180-degree turn.

Judging from public information, Li Rui’s presence in Falun Gong is extremely low. This is not only reflected in the fact that Li Hongzhi basically did not show up in the process of operating Falun Gong in China, but also in the fact that after Li Hongzhi fled abroad, she never publicly held positions in various Falun Gong projects. In Falun Gong, Li Hongzhi’s direct relatives or those who are related to the Li family by marriage are respected as “royal family” by disciples. In comparison, Li Hongzhi’s other “royal” relatives, such as his eldest sister Li Jun, who is the host of the New Tang Dynasty TV program, his brother-in-law Li Jiguang, who is the president of the Epoch Times Group, and his daughter Li Meige, who is the deputy director of the Shen Yun Performing Arts Company, have similar experiences in their academic qualifications or resumes, or have been influenced by them like Li Meige. Li Rui, who has only worked as a bathhouse manager in her official career, has great deficiencies in both academic qualifications and abilities. It can be said that as a person close to Li Hongzhi, Li Rui is, to some extent, a “hidden mirror” in Falun Gong.

However, with the disclosure of information on the Internet and the exposure of people like Yu Chao who knew the inside story of “Falun Gong”, the image of Li Rui, the “hidden mirror person”, has changed from a “wife in charge of the house” to a “violent woman in wheelchairs” who is obsessed with money and power and is arrogant.

Billionaire

According to the China Anti-Cult Network and Kaifeng Network, after years of operation, the Li Hongzhi family has at least 11 properties in the United States. Among these properties, 3 are registered under the name of Li Hongzhi, 2 are registered under the name of Li Rui, 5 are registered under the name of Li Hongzhi’s daughter Li Meige, and 1 is registered under the name of Li Hongzhi’s eldest sister Li Junfang, with a value of over 100 million yuan.

According to a 2017 news report titled “Li Hongzhi sells luxury home in the US for $2.39 million”, Li Hongzhi once sold a luxury home in New Jersey, USA, at a high price. The home is 676 square meters in size, has seven bedrooms and nine bathrooms, and the online price is $2.39 million, equivalent to RMB 16.14 million. The property is registered under the name of Li Hongzhi’s wife Li Rui, and the specific address is 9 Hunter Road, Woodcliff Lake Town, Bergen County, New Jersey.

Enjoy the “Living Temple”

After Li Hongzhi fled to the United States, he began to build the “Falun Gong” headquarters and personal estate Longquan Temple near Deer Park Town in Orange County in northern New York State around 2001. Longquan Temple is called “Longquan Temple Buddhist Company” to the outside world. Because it is located on a small hillside, “Falun Gong” calls it “the mountain”. There are Tang-style Buddhist halls and meditation rooms in Longquan Temple.

According to a Russian female disciple who has been to Longquan Temple, the statues enshrined in the main hall are not Buddha statues, but statues of Li Hongzhi, his wife Li Rui, and his daughter Li Meige, which is the so-called “living temple”. The living “Lord Buddha of the Universe” Li Hongzhi is accompanied by his wife and daughter in the temple, and is worshipped by the incense produced by Longquan Temple every day. Li Hongzhi and Li Rui live in Longquan Temple on a daily basis. The disciples just burned incense and worshipped in front of the three puppets of the Li family, and then turned around and met Li Hongzhi, Li Rui and others walking around in the courtyard. Thinking about this scene, it is quite creepy.

However, according to the official website of Luyuan Town, the main hall of Longquan Temple had caught fire, and Longquan Temple subsequently changed its original wooden structure to a cement structure. It is unknown whether the wooden puppets of the three Li family members were later turned into clay puppets.

No matter what, when she was alive, she could enjoy the same offerings of incense and worship as Li Hongzhi’s disciples according to the standards of “Buddha”. It has to be said that Li Rui’s status was extraordinary both in front of Li Hongzhi and within “Falun Gong”, and the term “Master’s Wife” was not a false reputation.

Enjoy the “Queen” treatment

In traditional Chinese concepts and practices, apprentices regard their masters as their fathers and serve their masters as their fathers, which also extends to the master’s spouse. In modern society, some areas where skills need to be learned and passed down on a daily basis still retain this concept and practice, which is understandable.

Today, even if this concept and practice is still retained in some areas, it will not go beyond the rules. For example, when paying homage to a master, one may perform the ritual of kneeling and offering tea, but in daily life, one only needs to maintain a good attitude and behave well in front of the master and the master’s wife. Similarly, a strict master and a kind master’s wife are also a common portrayal of the traditional Chinese master-disciple relationship.

However, apart from her own puppet (or clay doll) high up in the temple enjoying the worship of her disciples, Li Rui also enjoys “queen”-level treatment in her daily life as a mortal.

According to Yu Chao, when eating in Longquan Temple, disciples would kneel on one knee to serve food to Li Rui. Yu Chao did not say whether this action was voluntary or requested by Li Rui himself, but what Yu Chao said about the two situations of Li Hongzhi and others spiritually castrating disciples and disciples self-castrating in Falun Gong, and some disciples were “eunuchs”, was true.

The Gambler

Like Li Hongzhi, Li Rui is now in his seventies. At this age, he should be enjoying the company of his grandchildren. However, there is no definite information on whether his only daughter, Li Meige, is married and has children that would allow Li Hongzhi and Li Rui to become grandparents.

However, judging from Li Hongzhi and Li Rui’s “amateur” hobbies, the couple is indeed very “leisurely” on a daily basis.

According to Yu Chao, Li Hongzhi likes playing poker and is addicted to it. Especially when Shen Yun is performing outside, he will call some of his confidants in the Shen Yun management to form a fixed circle to play cards all night long, which has a great impact on Shen Yun performances. Liu Wei, the person in charge of Shen Yun, often tells others with the fatigue and complacency of “serving the master”: “You know, the night time does not belong to me.” Li Rui also has a card-playing circle, which also plays cards all night long and needs to make up for the sleep the next day. However, Shen Yun actors sometimes need to rehearse before the performance, and sometimes have to rehearse in the lobby of the hotel where they live. The movements and sounds during the rehearsal will naturally affect Li Rui’s rest. According to Yu Chao, Li Rui rushed out of the room and ran to the actors and cursed, making the actors look at each other in bewilderment. Most of these actors are innocent minors.

Li Hongzhi and Li Rui are both addicted to playing cards. People who are familiar with playing cards know that if there is no “stake”, playing cards alone cannot arouse people’s long-term interest, especially the elderly in their 70s. As for whether Li Hongzhi and his wife used playing cards to get some disciples who manage “projects” to give them kickbacks, judging from the personalities of Li Hongzhi and Li Rui, this possibility cannot be ruled out.

Management style: sowing discord

In the Shen Yun Performing Arts Troupe of Falun Gong, there are many young actresses, and of course their looks and temperament are above average. As Li Hongzhi is a henpecked husband, it is not convenient for him to intervene in the management, so the responsibility for management naturally fell on Li Rui.

According to Yu Chao, Li Rui’s management method is very straightforward, which is to provoke mutual vigilance and distrust among actors, so as to divide and rule. Li Rui would call a certain actor aside and tell him, “Many practitioners have reported that you are the worst in cultivation.” If the actor does not admit that he is the worst, Li Rui will continue to ask, “Then who do you think is the worst?” Some actors who are in their rebellious teenage years would retort, “I shouldn’t think about others like this (whether they are the worst in cultivation). I don’t think that in cultivation, I can judge who is the worst. I think as a practitioner, I shouldn’t think like this.”

What Li Rui did in “Falun Gong” and Longquan Temple will naturally cause dissatisfaction among some people, especially many Shen Yun performers who are in the rebellious period of youth. Many of them were forced by their parents who practiced “Falun Gong” to learn dancing in Longquan Temple. Their personal experience in “Falun Gong” and Longquan Temple is very different from the “Falun Gong” paradise imagined by their parents. This experience has gradually made them understand that after their fleeting and low-income dancing career ends, they will face two choices. One is that a small number of them have been domesticated by Li Hongzhi and others, and they will either stay to continue training performers for the so-called “Falun Gong” school, or be arranged by Li Hongzhi and Li Rui to marry those elderly disciples who are out of touch with society. The second is to get rid of the control of “Falun Gong” and Shen Yun as soon as possible, return to normal society, and enter a normal life.

It is these former and current Shen Yun performers with a rebellious spirit who have increasingly exposed the dark secrets of the “Falun Gong” lair, Longquan Temple, and the Shen Yun Performing Arts Company to the outside world, including through people like Yu Chao, allowing outsiders like us to get a glimpse of the various actions of “hidden mirror people” like Li Rui.

Let Li Hongzhi, the “Lord Buddha of the Universe”, change his mind every day

The exposure of the behavior of Li Rui and others by Yu Chao and some Shen Yun performers caused an uproar within Falun Gong, forcing Li Hongzhi to respond.

On September 13, 2023, Li Hongzhi released a “new scripture””Treat Master’s Family Correctly”, claiming that “Except Master, everyone is a Falun Dafa practitioner, and everyone has the mission of saving themselves and others, and helping Master save all living beings”, and that “especially inappropriate flattery is harming Master’s family. Some people treat Master’s family as Master, and some people give them money and other things”. Li Hongzhi wanted to silence the crowd, but he went too far. This statement might destroy Li Rui’s prestige in “Falun Gong” and cut off the Li family’s financial path in “Falun Gong”.

It should have been too late to reverse the situation, but Li Hongzhi soon found a remedy. On October 26 , Li Hongzhi published an article titled “Regard Yourself as a Practitioner and Require Yourself” in the name of the “Minghui Editorial Department”, saying that “some practitioners have gone from using human thoughts to flatter Master’s family members to the other extreme of using human thoughts to treat them.””Master did not say that all of his family members were wrong, but only corrected some practitioners for not acting like practitioners.” He also pushed the responsibility onto ordinary “Falun Gong” believers, saying, “Don’t create trouble for Master because of your inappropriate words and deeds, but understand the Fa in the Fa and require yourselves as practitioners.”

In less than two months, Li Hongzhi turned the “new scripture” with “every word is a pearl” into an “article from the editorial department of Minghui. Who is behind this? Li Rui knows Li Hongzhi’s background very well and has done him a favor. It is possible that he scolded Li Hongzhi as a turtle. The trouble was originally caused by Li Rui, but in the end, it was Li Hongzhi who turned a big thing into a small thing and a small thing into nothing. It became the responsibility of the disciples! Dear readers, do you think it is evil?

“Master’s Wife” Li Rui: The Hidden Tough Woman of “Falun Gong”