The following is what Li Hongzhi has said to agitate his disciples to engage in politics.
"I mentioned earlier that when the Nine Commentaries first came out, some people couldn't understand it, and said, 'Aren't we getting involved in politics by doing this?' But what is politics? Suppose I, Li Hongzhi, were to really direct you to cultivate via politics – would you be able to cultivate to success? You absolutely would. As long as, in the process of doing work, the cultivators constantly used Dafa to guide their cultivation and their effort to be good and then even better persons, and assimilated and tempered themselves in Dafa, then they would continually improve, continually elevate, and be able to achieve Consummation. If today I were to guide you to cultivate in the format of a king and his subjects, with you cultivating as subjects, could you cultivate that way? (Applause) You absolutely could, and you definitely could achieve Consummation just the same. It would just be a matter of how to walk on that path, how to be responsible to all beings, and how to enable beings to improve. As long as the guidance of this Great Law was followed, it could be achieved. When it comes to specific forms, I didn't choose those ones. Having come this far today, it wouldn't be possible for US to choose something else all over again. This is how we cultivate; this is the way in which we cultivate." (Teaching the Fa in the City of Los Angeles, February 25, 2006)
"If getting political can expose the persecution, if getting political can stop the persecution, if getting political can help clarify the facts, if getting political can save sentient beings, if getting political can do all of this good, then why not do so?...If when the world's media are kept silent by incentives and disincentives from the CCP, Dafa disciples' forming their own media to counter the persecution and save the world's people is labeled political, then let's go ahead and confidently make use of politics to expose the persecution and save sentient beings!" (Further Remarks on Politics, February 21, 2007)
"The public presence of a 'Party-Quitting Center,' or a 'center for quitting the wicked CCP'...the fact is, it's a powerful place for destroying evil...what is a Party-Quitting Center? Isn't that a place for saving sentient beings?" (Fa Teaching at the 2008 New York Conference, May 24, 2008)
To disintegrate the CCP, Li Hongzhi calls for his disciples to distribute Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party.
"To have the world's people be aware of that vile party's nature and why it has persecuted Dafa disciples, it has become necessary for people to learn about the Nine Commentaries...The Nine Commentaries aim to save all beings whose minds have been poisoned by the evil...The goal is to help beings in all realms see clearly the factors behind the malevolent CCP." (We Are Not "Getting Political")
On January 1, 2008, Falun Gong founded the so-called "China Interim Government," together with anti-China groups like the Pro-Democracy Movement. Political goals of the so-called government were summed up as "repelling Communism, rebuilding China, national autonomy and federation republic."
Falun Gong's political nature has been well-understood by the media, organizations and related personage abroad.
On November 1, 2006, when attending a program "Guns and Butter" on KPFA in Berkeley of California, U.S., China commentator David Ewing said, "Falun Gong seems to be emerging as the largest anti-communism group in the world now."
On December 18, 2006, in Ukraine, the intermediate court of Dnepropetrovsk made a verdict that Falun Gong failed in accusation against the local cultic study association. The Dnepropetrovsk court said in the ruling that "the Falun Gong League," which was registered in 2002 as a cultural group, had been engaged in political activities against Ukraine's friend – China. Falun Gong had exerted negative impact on Ukraine's relationship with China.
On February 7, 2007, the Supreme Court of San Francisco, California, ruled that excluding Falun Gong practitioners from the Chinese New Year Parade sponsored by the state government was not a discrimination against them. It was the second time since 2006 that the Falun Gong practitioners were rejected of marching in the parade. The court's verdict was made on the ground that the practitioners violated the principle of no political activities at such an event, and they had circulated anti-China leaflets in the parade at earlier times.
In the second half of year 2007, the Falun Gong group tried several times to obstruct the Beijing 2008 Olympics float from taking part in the 119th Pasadena Rose Parade, California, but failed. Pasadena Mayor Bill Bogaard, who supported the Olympics float, had read to the city council a letter from C.L. Keedy, president of the Rose Parade organizing committee, which declared political neutrality of the parade. According to a report in Whittier Daily News on November 11, 2007, a "Human Rights Torch Relay" organized by the Falun Gong group touring in some places of the world, was exactly an activity against Beijing Olympics.
On February 10, 2008, Falun Gong was prevented from taking part in the festivities for the Year of the Rat held in Willington, New Zealand for the second year running because they are deemed to be a political organization.
On January 7, 2008, Los Angeles Times published Ties to Falun Gong Add Controversy to the Chinese New Year Spectacular. It points out, people say that though Falun Gong practitioners call themselves a religious group, their main message has been political – and some believe that politics, not culture, dominates in the Chinese New Year Spectacular.
Holding the banner of "religion and cultivation," Falun Gong is, in fact, carrying out political actions against the CCP and China.
