People really believe in it. They're committed to it in the same way as when I was in civil rights movement and police beat and killed civil rights leaders. Nowadays, there's more outrage and willingness to remain engaged in China against the government. A lot of people don't support the government, and a lot of people in the party don't support Jiang Zemin, who's been using the crackdown to mobilize his support. This is the longest sustained resistance in the 50-year history of the People's Republic of China.
People really believe they're being wronged, that they're being mistreated.
Fifty thousand have been detained. Thousand have been put in mental hospitals, and many others in labor camps. All of this is happening at a time when our trade with China is becoming more important. And the media is probably looking the other way because there are a lot of people in corporations who would like this whole thing to go away. There's been a lot of rhetoric but not much government action on Falun Gong.