The Roger Stone Show: Levi Browde on the CCP's Recent Attacks Against Shen Yun

Joining me now is Levi Browd. Levi is the executive director with the New York-based Falun Dafa Information Center, an organization dedicated to ending the human rights abuses against people who practice Falun Gong in China. He's also involved in the Chinese entertainment extravaganza Shen Yun, which opens in Lincoln Center tomorrow, I believe it is. Levi, welcome to the Stone Zone. Thank you so much for having me. So, look, many Hollywood stars and celebrities are welcomed in China. In fact, they roll out the red carpet for them, but Shen Yun is banned in China and constantly attacked by the Chinese Communist Party here in the U.S. soil. Why is that? Two main reasons. For decades, the Chinese regime has been trying to destroy authentic Chinese culture because they wanted to instill Marxism on people. And so Shen Yun recognized that, revived real Chinese culture, and put it on stage to share with the world. And that demonstrates that the Chinese regime is not the authentic or legitimate shepherd of the Chinese people, its culture, or the nation. And the second reason is that it was founded by people who practice Falun Gong, which is a spiritual Buddhist-based practice that the Chinese regime has been demonizing and trying to, in their words, eradicate for 25 years. And here they are putting on this great show and showing the tyranny of the CCP for millions of people to watch. And that's not a message Beijing wants anybody to see. I'm very familiar with Falun Gong. My wife is a Buddhist practitioner of it. The New York Times recently published a series of scathing attack articles against Shen Yun. What is your response to these allegations? What would you like to say to correct the record for these attacks on this Chinese entertainment extravaganza which, frankly, I've seen and I highly recommend to my audience? Well, a couple things. One, the picture they paint is a complete distortion of reality and represents in no way the culture of the company, its mission, and what the people are like. My two sons, actually, who used to play baseball now dance with Shen Yun, and it's completely opposite of their experience and our experience. I think that's one thing. The second thing is it's interesting that if you look over the last 25 years, the New York Times has never spent nearly this much time and resources dedicated to the Falun Gong topic, the torture and murder and detainment of millions of people across China, and suddenly they spend all this time and resources on Shen Yun. That's very curious. It's especially curious because this is happening right at the same time that the Chinese regime, this is over the last year and a half or so, has escalated a brand new campaign to try and eliminate Falun Gong globally, and a key part of that is the sabotage and take down the Shen Yun company. So right as Beijing's trying to do that, at the same time, that's when the New York Times got interested in the story and that's when they started publishing these hit pieces. So if our listeners go to the Shen Yun show at Lincoln Center or any place across the country, because you do perform, the performance group does appear across the country, what will they see? They'll see what China really looked like before the rise of communism, which is a very beautiful and profound and spiritual culture. It's incredibly uplifting, it's incredibly inspiring, and there's even a couple pieces, normally it goes through different dynasties throughout Chinese history, but there's a couple pieces of modern China, and they'll see the heroism of people who practice Falun Gong and others standing up to that tyranny. So overall, a very beautiful show and a very inspiring show. All right, that is Shen Yun opening at Lincoln Center. I wanna thank Levi Brown for joining us today and correcting some of the disinformation coming from the New York Times.