Ms. Broom is retired, but currently works as a court advocate for foster children. She shared her thoughts on Falun Gong founder Mr. Li Hongzhi’s article “How Humankind Came To Be.”

“For nations to survive, the only way you can survive is if you have institutions to hold it together, such as political, military, economy, and especially religion. This institution provides people with meaning and hope,” she said. “And it must be part of a nation to allow it to stand, you can’t pull any of these institutions away without the nation becoming fragmented and disappearing eventually. And history shows that and continues to show that.”

“What I get from him is a message of hope. And the message that the people need, that desperately need to have hope and something to believe in that’s greater than themselves, that’s a higher power, that’s motivating, that gives them the strength to go on. That’s what I see,” she said.