A letter to American people
English version:
http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_9ab1948001012ygq.html
致偉大的美國人民:
“抗議者”成為2011年時代周刊年度人物, 而不是民主黨或共和黨的領袖, 這說明了什么? 說明了美國財團可以操縱美國聯邦儲蓄局, 影響美國政府與政黨, 但無法在美國媒體上一手遮天, 誤導全美國人民.
在一個普通百姓持槍自由是憲法所規定的合法權利的國家, 發生占領華爾街運動的大規模抗議, 卻沒有并發大規模的警民暴力沖突與槍戰, 這說明了美國財團在過度貪婪地侵犯了美國人民的生存權與發展權的時候, 美國人民及時覺悟起來, 正在以行動捍衛憲法賦予人民的合法的權利, 更進一步說明了美國軍人與警察具有高度的覺悟水平, 反對被美國財團利用而淪落為暴力維穩工具, 以至于踐踏憲法尊嚴并且侮辱國家形象.
兩百多年前起草了著名的美國獨立宣言的杰弗遜給自由概念賦予了一個經典定義 , 即“ 正當的自由為，在其他人據相同權利劃定之范圍內，依我等之意愿暢行無礙。在此 , 我并未加述'合法范圍內'，因律法通常不過是專制獨裁者之意圖，而律法的確就是這樣侵犯個人權利 ” , 今天操縱美國聯邦儲蓄局與華爾街金融運作的財團, 任由金融衍生品過度泛濫, 又借戰爭之名推高石油價格, 掠奪了美國人民乃至全世界人民的財富. 正是這種美其名曰金融創新而實際帶有掠奪性質的過度泛濫的金融游戲規則 -- 部分可能已被財團列入金融法規, 已過度侵犯了美國人民乃至全世界人民的生存權與發展權. 這些邪惡的金融游戲規則, 被一些頭腦發熱的精英人士堂而皇之地冠名為”新自由主義”, 已嚴重背離了杰弗遜式的永恒經典的自由傳統理念.
這些過度泛濫的金融游戲規則, 包含供金融財團投機炒作的眾多衍生品. 誘發08年金融危機的帶有杠杠性質將金融風險級別放大的所謂次級貸款抵押證券, 只是其中的一種. 但單憑一個次級貸款抵押證券的危機就足以讓成千上萬人無家可歸的同時, 卻讓一小部分深諳游戲規則的金融大鱷迅速地暴發橫財. 這就是問題的核心.
因此, 下一屆執政黨, 無論是民主黨還是共和黨, 無論是奧巴馬, 希拉里或其他人, 真正要推進改革, 就必須以實際行動制止金融財團濫發貨幣, 濫發貸款, 濫用一系列游戲規則過度侵犯人民權利; 以實際行動作表率, 恢復人民對杰弗遜的公正透明的自由理念的積極信仰. 只有做到這一步, 過度泛濫的金融工具所帶來的對信息技術的文明進程的扭曲才能得到良性的調整與糾正.
同時, 要看清形勢. 在未來的前進途中, 可能還會有各種各樣的新名詞, 新主義出現. 無論是新的次級貸款抵押證券的創新, 還是新自由主義, 新共產主義, 新人權主義, 只有在實際行動中能夠踐行杰弗遜的自由公正理念的作法, 才符合時代改革的要求. 更要保持信心, 因為在世界很多國家掀起運動浪潮的時候, 一些國家不可避免地陷入了利益集團與人民激烈沖突的大面積動蕩中, 而持槍自由的美國能夠避免大規模的槍戰, 因為美國軍人與美國警察深知憲法決不可被踐踏, 這本身也預示著即使在世界動蕩的格局中, 美國人民的覺悟水平仍然最高, 將進一步引領世界潮流, 推動時代進步.
愿上帝保佑美國人民與世界所有的人民!
楊生/凌生
2012/1/10
-- Occupy-the-Wall-Street is itself progress of civilization
Date: 2012/1/10
To the great people of America,
TIME magazine's 2011 Person of the Year was The Protester instead of either the leader of Democratic party or the Republican party. What does this show? It discloses the fact that the U.S. consortium may be able to manipulate the U.S. Federal Reserve Board, influence the U.S. government and political parties, but can not hoodwink all the media in the United States, misleading the whole American people.
In a country where the liberty for ordinary people to hold guns is part of constitutional rights of freedom, the large-scale protest movement of Occupy-the-Wall-Street occurred, but was not accompanied with large-scale violence of gunshots between police and people. This not only shows the high level of American’s political consciousness, which helps American people awaken up timely of the danger while the excessive greed of the U.S. consortium, through a series of over-manipulation on financial game, have gone too far in violation of the American people’s right of subsistence and development that is of similar importance as right of freedom endowed by the U.S. constitution; it also further illustrates the high degree of political consciousness owned by the U.S. soldiers and police who refuse to be manipulated by the U.S. consortium as a tool of law to contain the protester’s movement, as that kind of indulgence in violence can do nothing but trample the Constitution and insult the dignity of the whole nation.
Two hundred years ago, Thomas Jefferson, a man famous for drafting the Declaration of Independence for the United States, also makes a breakthrough in the concept of freedom, giving it a classic definition, that is "rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’, because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual".
Today, the large consortium of financial tycoons over-manipulate the the U.S. Federal Reserve Board and the financial system at Wall Street, let the excessive proliferation of financial derivatives go unrestrained, and push up the oil price to high level by waging war in the name of creating democracy for the world, thus rob the wealth away from both the ordinary people in America and the whole world. And the ridiculous paradox is that many of these financial games have been honored as financial innovations of service industry for too long, even with some rules being set as regulations of law, while the main intention (which may be implicit, so it’d better be said as “the main result”) of those game rules is to rob wealth away from ordinary people, and endanger their rights of subsistence and development. Such kind of evil practice, some of which may be fine labeled as part of “Neoliberalism” by the highly-skilled and sophisticated group of elite, has seriously betrayed Jefferson’s principle of freedom, since Jefferson’s concept of freedom should be an eternally-honored definition suitable for all mankind.
The excessive proliferation of those financial games includes many types of financial derivatives that can only intensify the intensity of market speculation by conjuring up large-scale range of fluctuation, through which those so-called elite of consortium rob away wealth from ordinary people, with the process legitimized by making relevant game rules legitimate. The subprime mortgage securities, with the over-leveraged nature of enlarging risks for innocent people, is just one of the derivatives that caused the crisis of 2008. But the fact that a crisis in subprime mortgage securities, is enough to make hundreds of thousands of people become homeless, and at the same time, allow a small portion of the so-called group of elite to accumulate up drillions of wealth in a short time, as they are the predators in the jungle of financial market who are much more familiar with the game rules, as some of them set the game rules. Besides, if the whole market fails with some of corporations named as “too large to go bankrupt”, only larger amount of tax-payers’ revenue is to be used to keep their system running. This is the core of all the problems.
Therefore, for the next ruling party, whether it is to be Democrat or Republican, whether it is Obama, Clinton or anyone else. Any one who really wants to promote reform, should take concrete actions to contain the excessive amount of currency, stop excessive stimulation that only intensifies speculation, and stop the abuse of a series of game rules that can only enlarge the gap between rich and poor, which may further intensify the conflicts in society.
Practical action should be taken to restore people's belief in Jefferson's principle of freedom which is clear and fair, and suitable for all people. Only with these efforts done, the over-manipulation of various financial instruments that has caused too heavy distortion on the process of civilization through the means of various advanced information technology innovations, can get sound corrections and justifications.
Meanwhile, keep clear mind on the change of situations. On the road ahead, there may emerge various new terms, doctrines and innovations. Whether it’d be a new type of financial instrument similar to subprime mortgage securities, or new term to convey Neolibralism, communism, or humanitarianism, only those practices that can carry out Jefferson's principle of freedom and justice can meet the requirements of time, and can stand up the test of time.
Keep the confidence in moving ahead as well. Because at a time of turbulent world with many countries involved in movements by masses, some countries inevitably fall into large-scale violent conflicts between the soldiers and the people, while the United States, with the liberty of holding guns as part of the constitutional freedom, can avoid the serious conflicts in civil war level. This fact itself shows that the level of political consciousness of American people is the highest in the turbulent world, and so should be able to lead the world trend, and facilitate the progress of the times.
May God bless the American people and all peoples of the world!
Allan Yang/David Ling
(Translated by David Ling)
Remarks to be read by people who do censorship in Chinese websites:
This letter has no intention to incite the Chinese people to do anything, but just wants to remind people at the current turbulent time that we should not forget the fine traditions conveyed by Jeffersonian idea of freedom. And in composing such kind of letter, we still don’t dare to forget making clarification in this aspect, such fact itself shows the fact that the significance of Jefferson’s principle on freedom is not only important for American people, but for peoples of all the world.
備注:
1) 此信只是想提醒人們在動蕩的時代不要忘記了杰弗遜式的傳統經典之自由理念, 將有利于文明進程的積極調整.
2) 此信也更不想提倡崇洋媚外的惡習, 因為數千年前的中國之孔子就說過: 己所不欲，勿施于人. 孔子的理念與杰弗遜式的自由理念, 本身是相通的, 只是杰弗遜的理念更透徹地闡明了自由, 法律與民主文明的矛盾統一規律. 對于大多數不怎么讀古文的國人而言, 杰弗遜的理念比孔子的古話更好理解.
3) 細細回顧歷史, 就容易明白: 袁世凱之敗, 不只是在于稱帝的意圖邪惡, 更在于賣國求榮以圖帝制的卑鄙惡劣; 蔣介石之敗, 不在于孫中山的三民主義之理念不好, 而在于”攘外必先安內”的無恥惡劣. 毛澤東雖然有晚年陷于文革泥潭的失誤, 但仍能深得人民的尊敬, 因為他畢生都以國家尊嚴為重. 而蔣經國必將世世代代為海峽兩岸的中華人民所景仰, 因為蔣經國不僅具有古中國文明高尚的仁政思想, 更兼有民胞物與的寬廣胸懷, 廉潔自律的高度覺悟與執政為民的務實作風.
4) 假如一百年前的蔡鍔將軍重現于當今世界, 即使沒有100%地認同杰弗遜式的傳統經典之自由理念, 也不致于采取頑固的反對或打壓的態度.
5) 因此, 有覺悟的人們都應明白: 無論是煽動人民, 還是煽動警察, 誤導軍人踐踏憲法而侮辱國家尊嚴的做法, 最終都將被人民唾棄!
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作者: 博雅信達團隊
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