醒醒吧，是起床的時候了

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醒醒吧，是起床的時候了

Newsletter from THASC (6/10/2009)

The following message is sent in by President Peng of THASC.
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Dear all,
Taiwan Hakka Association of Southern California is sponsoring an annual picnic event
on Saturday, June 20 from 10:30 am to 3:00 pm at Pathfinder Community
Regional Park in Rowland Heights.

Please join us, meet our Hakka folks and share our Hakka food together.

Attached is a newsletter with direction to the park.

Ching Peng
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Please find the details information on the following link:

http://d.yimg.com/kq/groups/8634126/1290238306/name/2009

「硬殼」vs. 「硬頸」

「硬殼」的吳伯雄

羅榮光 (6/2/2009)

出身於苗栗的客家庄，我深知客家人具有「硬頸」的精神，但也有不少客家人卻是「硬殼」而已。「硬頸」精神是正面的，顯示「威武不能屈，富貴不能淫」正義凜然的氣慨，為彰顯正義堅定不移，永不屈服於任何壓力與威脅;而「硬殼」卻是負面的，表示一個人頭殼內的思想心態極其封建頑固，冥頑不靈，小時候，家人有時會罵我們:「不要那樣硬殼，不改變!...」
日前「中國」國民黨主席吳伯雄在中國南京大學接受榮譽「法學」博士學位時講了一段話:「我們兩岸人民有同一個血緣，都是炎黃子孫，同屬中華民族……台灣有股逆流叫「去中國化」，去了半天不可能成功，因為生活不是意識形態所能改變的…..」云云。聽了與我同年齡的吳伯雄這一段滿腦子充斥中國民族主義封建僵化意識型態的談話，顯然他完全不明白21世紀民主多元思想與言論主張的可貴性;他更缺乏現代人民自決的國際觀，一心一意祇想配合中國共產政權把台灣加速關進中國的「關中」統戰政策，在中國南京向台灣人民統戰喊話而已，吳伯雄真是有夠「硬殼」!
吳伯雄會那樣「硬殼」，應該是從小到大完全接受敗亡來台蔣家政權的黨國思想教育及中國大一統意識型態的洗腦灌輸，失去了思考力與判斷力。我在年輕時候到三十多歲也有一點「硬殼」，後來到美國留學，看見美國的民主自由、多元思想與言論，才漸漸改變過來，不再「硬殼」，這是我生命的重生-人生有了新而正確的現代思想，真是慶幸。
近一年多，馬英九政府上任以來，「中國」國民黨與「中國」共產黨已加速「存異求同」，因為它們兩黨都同屬「中國黨」，因此，吳伯雄也才那麼害怕台灣國內「去中國化」，因為「去中國化」的結果，外來的「中國」國民黨早晚也會在台灣國內消失掉。國民黨以「忠黨愛國」訓示黨員，吳伯雄只效忠於自己的國民黨，卻不知多多愛護台灣這個國家與人民，以「忠黨」為優先，愛國是次要，可說是大多數國民黨籍政客的基本心態與表現。
期盼同是客家人的吳伯雄能夠早日去除「硬殼」個性，而恢復客家人應有的「硬頸」精神吧!!

(作者為台灣聯合國協進會理事長)

What's wrong with these people?

We are proud of a brave Taiwanese! Salute!

A message from Hapa-Na's President to Ms. Hainin Huang on 5/19/2009
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Dear Hainin,
Under link is the message we tried to send it to you before we got your e-mail address. We just want you to know that we appreciated what you did and we are very proud of you. A wise person always defends the principle and rightness,and no compromise. Hope every thing is well with you, and have a successful education and future. If any thing we can help, please contact us. Thank you.
Chanchi Lee, MDPresident, HAPA-NA

(Please relay the message to Miss. Hai-nin Huang.
Dear Miss. Lin,
My name is Chanchi Lee, I am a medical doctor ( Urologist ) practice in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Current president of Taiwan Hakka Association of Public affairs in North America ( HAPA-NA ).
My members and I were so thrilled and happy to see you guys had a brave and justifiable activity in Geneva. Miss. Huang did the right thing, we would like to extend our appreciation and congratulation. She has every right to question the Taiwan official or representative about the Taiwan sovereignty, which we all concerned. This is what a democratic society should be. Unfortunately, the arrogant, ignorant, KMT bred Health Minister did not think so and behaved otherwise. Please relay the message to Hai-nin, she has our full support and encouragement. And we are very proud of her. You guys are hero and heroine to Taiwanese and model for young generations. You brought a ray of HOPE for Taiwan. Please let me know if anything we can do or help.
Respectfully,
Chanchi Lee, MD HAPA-NA
P.S. For more information about HAPA-NA please check http://www.hapa-na.blogspot.com/.