梅心怡：马英九拒绝达赖喇嘛访台是好消息！

梅心怡(Lynn Miles)写给OCOT群组和野草莓运动的信：

马英九拒绝达赖喇嘛访台是天大的好消息！

为什么呢？ 因为连同国际上支持野草莓者，我们即将看到的是愈来愈多国际上对于台湾究竟发生什么事的关注，感谢马英九拒绝达赖喇嘛访台。

十一月十五日在自由广场我说过；这个广场不仅属于台湾，也属于全世界的。 我也指出如果去看世界上各个所谓的民主国家，会发现政府并未为人民发声，就像今日的台湾一样。

证据就在眼前。 想一想。 世界上除中国以外几乎所有国家都将台湾视为一个国家。 去到世界上任何一个地方，如果有人问你是哪国人，你会回答「台湾」，这才是最重要的事。 就是这么简单。 所以，一方面你所拥有的是世界上其他国家人民对台湾的认识，另一方面所面对的是他们国家的政府并未认知他们人民所认知的台湾。 这样我们怎能称呼这些国家「民主」呢？ 他们已经被强大金钱权力所腐朽。

这就是为何Ginru Lee在休士顿的行动是这么重要。 她并没有去找她的国会议员帮忙，国会议员无论如何都不会仔细聆听她的诉求，除非他认为她可以帮他在下一次竞选时召集筹办募款餐会。 相反的，她走向当地的国际特赦组织。

众人们！ 这就是我们要做的──把行动带向人民。 人民对人民的结合，一旦可以运作，就可以结束这个累人的、经年的对腐朽政治人物的追逐，甚至在我们还无法通过他的秘书哪一关时，他就已经赚饱荷包。

野草莓给我们一个大好机会从事人民对人民的草根工作。 学生组织应该列入我们的优先工作，还有人权相关非营利组织等等。

还有达赖喇嘛！
有人不知道达赖喇嘛在全世界各地所获得的好感吗？
我们怎么可以不利用这个事件，去告诉全世界马英九是如何差一点就要把台湾交给中国了，向中国倾斜?
在世界上每个城市都可以找到达赖喇嘛的支持者，所以让我们出发去和他们联系。

所以，我们向达赖喇嘛道歉，他的台湾行程可能稍微延后，但一定可以欢迎他下一次的到访。 让我们为这件事以及我们这个不敢自称自己为「总统」、愚蠢到和北京一样犯错的总统感到高兴。 这个总统一天比一天更不像个总统。

Shundahai. Lynn

(注)Shundahai :是北美原住民族Western Shoshone的语言，意思是：天地万物和谐融洽。

【相关事件】 台湾总统拒绝达赖喇嘛来访

英文原稿：

Dear Ocotots and Ocotettes,

Ma’s banning of the Dalai Lama is wonderful news!

Why? Because, together with the building support for the Wild Strawberries internationally, now what we are going to see is growing international attention to what is really going on in Taiwan thanks to this rebuff of the Dailai Lama.

On November 15 at Liberty Square I said that the Square belongs not only to Taiwan, but to the world. I also pointed out that if you consider the different “democracies” of the world, you will notice that, just as in Taiwan today, the governments do not speak for the people.

The evidence for this is right before our eyes. Consider this. Virtually all of the world’s peoples outside of China recognize Taiwan as a country. Go anywhere in the world and if someone asks you what country you are from, and you say “ Taiwan,” that is the end of the matter. Pure and simple. So what you have is the people of the world recognizing Taiwan, on the one hand, while their governments do not recognize Taiwan on the other. How then can we call them democracies? They have all been corrupted by the big-money power!

That is why Ginru Lee’s action in Houston takes on so much iomportance. She did not go to her congressman, who in any case is not inclined to listen to her unless he thinks that maybe she can put together a fund-raising dinner come next election campaign. Instead she went to her local Amnesty International firend.

People! This is what we must all be doing — taking the movement to the people. People-to-people connections, once consumated, can put an end to this tired, year-in-and-year out chasing after corrupt politicians who are already in someone else’s pocket long before we even get past their secretaries.

Wild Strawberries offers us an excellent opportuunity to do this people-to-people grassroots work. Student organizations should be at the top of our list, and human rights NGOs, and so on.

And the Dalai Lama! Does anyone on this list need telling that he has an enormous repository of goodwill worldwide? Can we not use this to show the world just how close Ma Ying-jeou has come to turning over Taiwan to the PRC? Dalai Lama supporters can be found in every city of the world, so let’s get out and connect up with them.

So, with apologizes to the Dalai Lama for the slight delay that this may mean for his next visit to Taiwan, let’s rejoice in this latest and most stupid of Beijing-like blunders on the part of our “president” who is afraid to call himself “president.” Indeed, he is looking less and less presidential every day!

Shundahai. Lynn

* Shundahai : It is a Western Shoshone word meaning “Peace and Harmony with All Creation.”