Last year, a guy I know told me that the Chinese government had been caught red-handed executing political prisoners and selling their organs to desperate buyers all over the world. He told me this had been going on for a long time and that the world wasn’t paying attention.
Actually, that’s not entirely true. Jan Jekielek isn’t just a guy I know. Jan is the senior editor of The Epoch Times a well-respected writer, and the host of a show called American Thought Leaders, which I’ve been honored to appear on several times. So, when he told me with a straight face that the Chinese government was up to its communist armpits in a 9-billion-dollar organ harvesting scheme, I couldn’t dismiss him as a crackpot. And when he told me that dozens of hospitals had been built adjacent to dozens of prisons for the express purpose of expediting the transplant procedure and that most of the prisoners being executed and violated were members of the Falun Gong, a peaceful group of dissidents whose only crime was a failure to fall in line with the Communist Party, I couldn’t dismiss him as a tinfoil hat conspiracy theorist.
Instead, I researched his claims as best I could, talked to a few contacts in the state department, and concluded that Jan might very well be on to something. I then invited him on the podcast to discuss the matter in detail in a conversation that went viral. Shortly thereafter, Jan got a book deal, and that book, Killed to Order, just came out this week.
Well, I’ve read it, and it’s fantastic.
Fantastic and horrifying.
Horrifying, and I’m sorry to say, true.
Here’s what I wrote when Jan asked me for a blurb.
“A lot of what you’re about to read I heard directly from Jan, when he first appeared on my podcast to talk about the multi-billion-dollar human organ trade in China. I had no idea that our conversation would go viral, ruffle so many feathers, or lead to this extraordinary book. Spoiler alert: as you read, you will likely experience the same mix of incredulity, horror, and disbelief that I did when Jan explained to me precisely how and why this atrocity has continued to unfold since 2000. But with every chapter—every page, really—your skepticism will be challenged with some very uncomfortable facts, and you will be confronted with a simple choice: to accept the claims herein as true or not. Frankly, I wish the evidence were flimsy or circumstantial or refutable. I’d prefer to live in a world where human beings are not wrongly imprisoned and routinely harvested for their parts. But I’m afraid that’s not the case. The evidence in this book is compelling and credible, and the evidence demands a verdict, no matter how uncomfortable or upsetting the truth might turn out to be. Such are the hazards of pulling one’s head from the sand and having a look around at a world in desperate need of improvement.”
Obviously, I recommend his book, which you can order here. https://bit.ly/4bDsyJo
Obviously, I invited him back on the podcast, which you can listen to here. https://bit.ly/TWIHI475JanJekielek
Obviously, I think the subject matter is important and worth your time.
I hope you’ll share it.
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