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  • Kai Chen on America's China PolicyDateFri Oct 21, 2022 6:46 am
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  • Kai Chen's words for today:   5/5/22

    Today's conflict in the world can be defined as conflict over the definition of legitimacy of a government:  Government by the power of guns and threat of violence vs. Government by the consent of the governed.  Which kind of government is legitimate?  You choose and your choice will tell who and what you are as a human being.  

  • Putin should not remain in power. Biden is right on. This message is meant for the potential opposition inside Russia, for the dissidents and the Russian people in general - Putin is a murdering tyrant and a constant menace for the world peace and security. He should be removed in any fashion from the current power position, dead or alive. Let's make no mistake about this position from the entire free world.

  • Mitt Romney puts it perfectly with regard to dealing with Putin's threat:

    Stop worrying about what Putin might do if we take measures. Start making Putin worry about what we might do if he escalates.

  • Mitt Romney puts it perfectly with regard to dealing with Putin's threat:

    Stop worrying about what Putin might do if we take measures. Start making Putin worry about what we might do if he escalates.

  • Indeed, what a dictator fears the most is his own people. Putin's days are numbered.

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/vladimir-p...-on-the-way-out

  • Since the Cold War: The bear has been hibernating. The dragon has been constantly fed. Evil has been either appeased or co-oped. The world has been slumbering and hallucinating. The danger is accumulating. The peril is now to all of us. We should never be intimidated. We should always be prepared. The time is now to make hard choices and decisions.

  • Putin, Xi and Kim are all emperors without any clothes now. They don't care about what and how they look. The question is to all of us: What do we do about it?! Keep providing them with clothes like letting them host Olympics?

    https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/04/opinions/...ndon/index.html

  • Kai Chen on appealing to the conscience of the Russian people to win the war against Putin: 3/3/22

    This is Putin's war, never the Russians' war. Free world must understand that to win this war. We must appeal to the conscience of the Russian people. They are the biggest enemy of Putin, once they learn about the truth. Reagan understood this crucial point and won the Cold War against the USSR. We must emulate him and do the same against Putin - Calling for the conscientious Russians to rise up and throw the bum out.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...-depressed.html

  • Kai Chen on the counter attack of the Free World against despotism: 2/28/22

    This is Putin's war, never Russians' war. This war may prove to be Putin's undoing. His days are numbered. Next is Xi in China. After the continued retreat of freedom in the world in the face of advancement of despotism and tyranny since the Cold War, the counter attack by the Free World has finally started, in a big way with a Bang. Thanks for the brave Ukrainians. Thanks for this war (though started by Putin) against Putin and all the tyrants in the world.

    May God bless all the freedom loving people in the world.

    https://thehill.com/policy/international...-against-russia

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    Kai Chen on the Ukraine Crisis and the War: 2/27/22

    Since the Cold War, the world seems to fall into a moral slumber. "The End of History" finally dawned on us. We don't have to worry about Good vs. Evil anymore. We can just relax and make money by making deals with anyone, even Putin, Xi and Kim, by enticing them the dictators into our capitalistic world. We feed the bear. We feed the dragon. We feed the killers and murderers. Thus a moral nihilist/a conman, with a book about nothingness - "Art of the Deal", was prompted into our leadership position. Truth or Lies does not matter anymore. Inside/outside, strong/weak, enemy/friend, winning/losing..., have become the ethos of the day. The world has been turned upside down. Lincoln, Kennedy and Reagan are turning in their graves.

    Somehow all of a sudden, fortunately and mysteriously maybe, the current Russia - Ukraine war has shocked us into reality, time again, by revealing that eternal truth: Evil exists. Truth matters. Right matters. Justice matters. Freedom matters. Being great means one has to be good first.... Thank God we finally wake up by the explosions and bloodshed of war. The liars and con-artists are finally exposed as what/who they are.

    Dictators always overestimate their own power and underestimate the will of free people, while democracies often underestimate their own strength by freedom and overestimate the prowess of the dictatorships. That's just a fact by the natures of their respective political settings.

    Dictators (or dictators-want-to-be) will never admit their own failure. They will create lies through propaganda and misinformation, no matter how preposterous they sound and seem. Putin, Xi, Kim and our Donald have repeatedly demonstrated this truth. Hitler would kill himself first, rather than admitting his own stupidity, small-mindedness and failure. So we must face this harsh truth: Evil can never be co-oped and appeased. Evil must be defeated. The poisonous moral nihilism, as lately permeated around the world and among us in the US, must be cast aside. The true color of this great country, intended from the very beginning at her birth by the Almighty, must be re-polished to shine above the "Shining City on the Hill".

    The time is now. With this war, the blood of the brave freedom fighters in Ukraine will serve to cleanse our moral confusion and re-invigorate our spirit to struggle for a better tomorrow. Putin and the likes (including the Bigly Donald), around the world will come to a rude awakening: Good exists as well. And Good will always defeat Evil, for Good has only one enemy - Evil, while Evil has two enemies - Good and Evil itself. May God bless the freedom-loving people around the world. May God bless my beloved America.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...g-glow-sky.html

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    Kai Chen on winning the new Cold War against Putin, Xi and Kim (普习金)(PXK):

    Whom/what does a dictator fear the most? The answer is always: Their own people with a wakening conscience. Ronald Reagan, with his moral clarity, knew this instinctively. Every time he went to meet the leader of the USSR in Russia, he demanded to meet the Russian dissidents first as a precondition. What a moral wisdom! I feel eternally thankful for Reagan's moral approach against the Evil Empire. We won the first Cold War because of it, indeed.

    When the Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo died in a Chinese prison, Trump the moral nihilist did nothing at all. You wonder why the world now is in such a danger with all the dictators daring to challenge freedom, democracy and America: Moral confusion/moral nihilism is the reason/our own biggest enemy. We don't mention Good vs. Evil anymore, as if all is about power, money and the muzzle of the gun. As PXK (普习金)now challenge the world order established by America after WWII, we must understand that to win the new Cold War today, we must rely on the conscience of the people under those dictatorships. We must rely on the hands of the Almighty, not just human intrigue and cleverness, to defeat the new Axis of Evil (普习金).

    May God bless the free people in the world. May God bless my beloved America.

    https://www.mediaite.com/news/watch-russ...lice-crackdown/

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    Kai Chen on Eileen Gu's choice: 2/9/2022

    https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/08/opinions/...hell/index.html

    "I am Chinese when I am in China. I am American when I am in America." Eileen Gu claims. What a typical Chinese Confucian "middle of the road" mentality.

    Monkey King complex - a person can be anywhere/everywhere at any given moment, is a common trait in the Chinese Confucian culture. Human-Devil syndrome is the result of such a cultural pathology/sickness. This is why evil thrives in China and the Chinese Confucian Communism has become the main threat to freedom and democracy in the world today.

    I have written on this subject in Chinese years ago with the title "On the Chinese Human-Devil Complex". I now share it with everyone who can read Chinese and hope you can gain some insight from Gu's mentality of amorality/immorality.

    人鬼谈--从中国人两面中庸看中国的恶性朝代循环

    作者:陈凯
    2006-06-14 03:44:10

    我常常听到中国人议论美国人(西方人)。 这些议论大都出不了几种范畴模式: 如美国文化跟中国文化不一样;或美国人简单,天真,傻,人情淡漠;或美国人没有文化传统,太自由,不规矩、、等等。 大部分的议论多是描述性的,时常暗示贬义的,有时中性无义的,有时讥讽的,有时嘲笑的、、。 很少有人对中美的政治文化进行有道德取向的,有逻辑推理的分析。更少有人褒扬美国人(西方人)的价值,道德取向。 似乎中国人就应该与美国人不一样 – 言外之意当然是中国文化的高深,中华文明的悠久,中国人原本应有的优越与高人一等、、。

    甚至大部分所谓的中国精英们也在对中西文化分析中取折中,中庸之道。他们拼命地在东方专制的精神毒品中挖取伪价值,伪营养,将鸦片白面标签为传统养身秘方推销给那些没有价值取向的灵智弱残的人。 同时又拼命地在美国(西方)的线性的,方向性的进步历史中挖取那些早已被西方的绝对价值取向摈弃的负向行为理念和历史丑闻。似乎将美国(西方)早已从自身肌体排泄摈除的垃圾废物挖出来会使中国人的虚荣脸面得到某种补偿与满足。 甚至一些西方的左派们也用所谓“完美社会说”抨击西方的方向性进步文化,并试图从东方,中国的精神毒素中汲取所谓“智慧营养”。“文化等同论”与“道德相对论”就是这些西方左棍们吸食中国精神鸦片白面所产生出的畸形怪物。

    “你看,美国也有过奴隶制,教会也迫害过哥白尼,伽利略,西方也有过中世纪的黑暗、、。 所以我们不能搞全盘西化,我们不能抛弃中国传统中的好东西、、。“

    中国的国粹者们也借西方左棍们的昏头舞唱着,跳着。一时大宣“二十一世纪是中国世纪”的狂言病语。 一些原主张“全盘西化”的人们也对自己的主张产生了一些踌躇,迷茫与犹豫。

    那什么是“西化”呢? 西化就是“人化”,就是“进步化”,就是“价值方向化”。 衡量一个人的品行质量的标准并不在于他的一生经过了什么,而在于他在他一生的经历中学到了什么,得到了什么,有什么价值方向的取向。 衡量一个文化的优劣好坏的标准也是这样。 美国基于其宪法的价值绝没有将奴隶制,种族主义当作价值去褒扬追求。 相反的是,美国的内战是去消灭奴隶制的;美国的人权运动是去排除种族主义的残余的;美国的教科书,节假日纪念是林肯,马丁路德、金的。 哥白尼,伽利略是西方宣扬追求的偶像;那些中世纪的红衣主教们并不在人们的价值语言里。 我提倡“全盘西化”就是提倡建立导致“人化”,“进步化”,“价值方向化”的一套文化价值体系和政治架构。 这有如我想要的并不是一个赌瘾成性的,病态的,垂死的人的恶性循环的机能,机制与心态,而是一个健康的人的新陈代谢,良性循环的机能,机制与心态。这种良性机能,机制与心态可以排除糟粕,抵抗疾病,汲取营养,成长进化。

    那什么是“中化”呢? “中化”就是“非人反人化”,就是“鬼化”,“奴化”,就是“价值浑浊化”,就是“恶性循环化”,“赌瘾成性化“,“停滞不前化”。 一般中国人病态地,糊涂地认为:一个人的经历,环境为其优劣好坏下定义。 一个人的外表与血肉就是其存在的证明。 所以在中国有“血肉筑长城”的国歌。 “灵魂“与“价值取向”从不在中国人的语言里。 中国古代所有文学历史记载都是关于“争权夺势”,“朝代循环”,“血肉生死”的,从未有“捍卫真理”,“追求精神价值”,“崇尚人的尊严与完整”的 “人“的褒扬与记载。

    “中”字本身的两种含义都是“虚无价值”和“反价值”的: “中央”意味着等级制。基于这一层意思人与人,国与国之间都是不平等的。 “君臣父子”,“进贡敬皇”就是基于这个“中”的。 “中庸”是另一个含义:不辨真伪,不识好坏,不置可否,各打五十大板是这个“中”的引申,也是中国人对”正义“的歪解。 ”见人说人话,见鬼说鬼话“是中国人普遍的行为规范,也是中国人自欺的,精明诡诈而毫无智慧的反价值哲学的写照。 ”孙猴子七十二变“与”变色龙“是中国人对智慧的定义和对道德鉴别,道德责任的永远推卸的借口伎俩。

    在中国“人本善“的哲学前提里,”鬼“的存在是被否认的。 “鬼”是被人恐惧的外来物,而不是人的灵魂的内在产生。 人们不光不知鬼,不觉鬼,人们反而学鬼,崇鬼,与鬼认同。 今天在中国”崇毛“,”神毛“的现象就是中国人由怕鬼而学鬼,崇鬼的灵魂的暴露。 中国人今天的自恨,自怨,自贬 (常反映在对他人的他恨,他怨,他贬上)就是中国人“人鬼心态”的外在表露。人们只是直觉感到毛就是他们灵魂中“鬼”的象征,但他们选择的不是用”人“限鬼,斗鬼,灭鬼,而是否认鬼的存在,与鬼谋和,与鬼谋存,供鬼求权(全),贡鬼求平免乱。 如果说西方基督文化价值中的”忏悔“ 是人在灵魂中限鬼,斗鬼,灭鬼的工具途径,中国人亦不知”灵魂“是何物,更不要提将“忏悔”作为工具和武器。 基督精神中的”承认鬼(devil)和 原弊(sin)的存在“并与鬼和人的原弊斗争而走向人性与希望的教义是中国文化中从始就无的绝对道德概念。

    “人鬼不分”,“人鬼共存”,“人弱鬼强”,“人灭鬼兴”在中国人灵魂中的腐败的积累使中国文化,中国人逐渐“鬼化”。 “吃人”成了“中国鬼”存活的必然途径。 人性在中国已在“鬼性”的强大打击下不断的削弱到了残喘的地步。 中国的阴阳符在近代与马克思的辩证法苟同结合更促进了中国人的“鬼化”。 人的道德,人的价值进一步被贬黜到了骇人听闻的地步。 在现代的中国人就是鬼,鬼就是人,是就是非,非就是是,白就是黑,黑就是白,真就是假,假就是真。 这阴阳符在辩证法的动力下高速旋转,将中国的恶性朝代循环推向了新的维度境界。 大多中国人不知这人鬼不分的危害,不以为耻反以为荣地将其作为中国文化与中国人的定义而引为骄傲。

    两千多年以前,正在亚洲大地战火连绵,血雨腥风地争霸权,争统一的疯狂时代,在西方发生了两个重大事件:

    在希腊多音节字母文字的产生给人类带来了理性思维的工具,促使了人们在逻辑推理的抽象思维空间中加速了前进的步伐,给人们在自然与社会科学,教育,法律等领域里带来了长足的,持续的进步。

    一个赤足简衣,举止温和的木匠在中东与西方掀起了一场改变人类命运里程的默默的革命:他用自己的生命造就了人的自知,自省,自我完美。 他在人类灵魂的磁场中建立了一个指北针,告知了人们他们所要遵循的绝对道德价值。 人类从此在杀人吃人的恶性漩涡中自拔了出来,走上了通往自由的希望之路。 基督后的2006年的人类里程是一个从恶性循环走向线性方向,从绝望走向希望,从黑暗走向光明,从血肉走向灵魂,从死亡走向生命,从虚无走向意义,从奴役走向自由的里程。 这是一个以人拒鬼的里程。

    在基督的道德价值中,人不论在任何场合,任何环境,任何时间都用绝对的道德价值说着“人”话。 他深知“鬼”的存在和他自身“原弊”的存在。 但他绝不向鬼与原弊认同。 他用虔诚的忏悔与鬼与原弊分道扬镳。 他用人的语言选择了人的道路,人的方向。 这世界从此从鬼性的泥潭中跳了出来,走向了人性的,无尽希望的海洋。

    然而,直到今天,十三亿中国大陆的人们仍旧被“人鬼不分”的鬼性所缠绕而迷茫。他们的灵魂仍旧被他们的血肉所捆绑;他们的理性仍旧被他们的单音节象形文字所束缚;他们仍旧被精神与感知的混乱所淹没。 默默地绝望是他们唯一的真实存在。 我不得不向他们发问:

    如果你们能在数学中接受阿拉伯数字,在音乐中接受五线谱,为什么不能在科学,教育与法律中接受以英文为主的多音节字母文字? 如果你们能允许毛共将马克思的辩证法用枪杆子强加给你们,为什么不能主动地用你们尚存的人性去接受基督的“人”的洗礼,使你们从此加入人类的“人”的行列,加入“爱”与“理性”的行列,加入“生命”,“希望”,“自由”的行列,加入那用绝对道德价值作为指北针的“兴人驱鬼”的欢乐的自由大军的行军行列中去?!

    只有当你们彻底抛弃了你们的“人鬼情结”之后,你们才有可能在永恒价值的立足点上, 成为“不可动摇”的有着坚定信念的“推动历史前进”的有意义的人们 --- THE UNMOVABLE MOVERS.

  • Kai Chen on Peng Shuai's DisappearanceDateFri Nov 19, 2021 3:34 am
    Topic by fountainheadkc. Forum: 陈凯෹...

    Kai Chen on Peng Shuai's disappearance: 11/19/21

    As a former Chinese professional athlete, I wholeheartedly support Peng Shuai's position with her honesty and truth-telling. I have witnessed a lot of abuses toward the Chinese women athletes by those in power with leadership position in the communist regime. I applaud and commend Peng Shuai's brave action and demand the accountability from those responsible for the abuse in the Chinese high leadership positions.

    Injustice to one is injustice to all. We as free beings have a moral responsibility to voice our support for those who struggle for their freedom and dignity. The Chinese communist regime must answer for Peng Shuai's silence and disappearance.

    https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/19/china/pen...-hnk/index.html

  • Topic by fountainheadkc. Forum: 陈凯෹...

    陈凯:什么是真实的伟大 Kai Chen on what greatness means: 8/23/21

    Greatness is never about being perfect, but about whether one's life has a meaningful end and whether he/she strives to move toward hope and future. America is great, not because America is perfect. America is great because America always strives toward future with a moral direction embedded in the nation's founding, and with a sense of eternal optimism and hope.

    Miracles do happen in life but whether one embraces a life of meaning and purpose determines whether greatness is possible in his/her life. Escape from life dooms one into eternal hopelessness and makes silent despair possible. Indeed, happiness is a choice. Indeed, miracles have happened in my life and are continuing to happen. I have nothing but gratefulness toward America and hope toward future. May God continues to bless you - my beloved America.

    https://www.amazon.com/One-Billion-Journ...m/dp/1425985025

  • “自由鐘”系列 "Liberty Bell" Series LaunchedDateWed Nov 08, 2017 11:25 am



    Kai Chen on Trump's Asian Trip:

    Trump is falling into the Chinese trap. There is no other way to describe it.
    Over the last 30 years, NK was the bait dangling in front of America and the West. Yet all the American Presidents since Reagan fell into the trap. Trump is no exception. Same MO.

    Only Reagan realized the criminal and illegitimate nature of a communist regime and denounce it as such - an Evil Empire. With this moral clarity, down goes the USSR, because God's values/principles entered the picture, not just human schemes. Now we don't have anyone who can hold God's values/principles with moral clarity and conscience. So goes the American moral leadership in the world. So comes the Chinese Confucian Communism. So again the world is in the grip of totalitarianism and despotism. So the NK crisis.

    What the evil is most afraid of is the exposing of its true nature - man eating. Yet time again, an American president goes to an evil regime to pay homage to the murderers of Tiananmen and Liu Xiaobo (the Nobel Peace Prize winner). When is America going to wake up and realize all the Chinese evil regime wants from America is to use NK to legitimize itself and erase all the criminal record in its past - 80 million killed by Mao and more killed after Mao with all the atrocities - "one child", Tiananmen Massacre, persecution of FLG and dissidents, persecution of Christians and minorities.... Indeed, China desperately needs America's recognition of its own criminal regime's legitimacy. Trump is giving it to an evil regime. God's endowed conscience among the Chinese people and the world is weeping.

    When will an American president announce with conscience and God's moral compass as his guide: Enough is enough, China's Confucian Communism is evil and must be defeated?

  • Free People
    自由的人 (陈凯夫妇)


    Couple Leaves China after Hurdles of Olympic Proportions

    By Martha Michael (Canyon Country Magazine)

    Canyon Country has a lot of colorful characters, but it isn’t often we meet residents on a government blacklist.

    Kai and Fiona Chen can never return to their home country – the People’s Republic of China.

    Fiona is from Shandong Province on the east coast of China, while Kai is from Beijing. Their stories are different, but their union has resulted in a doubly powerful voice against the hidden agenda of government in China.

    Fiona left China on Christmas Eve in 2003 and moved to Canada with her firstborn son, Lawrence. Because her father criticized the Communist Party, Fiona’s family members in China were being persecuted.

    The magazine editor found a job working as a TV reporter in Vancouver, where she used her skills to spread a message to the rest of the world that the image of China coming through propaganda was untruthful. She worked to “expose the evil deeds of Chinese authorities,” who she had seen quashing dissidents and “committing crimes against their own citizens and people in the free world.”

    “I shed tears over Tiananmen,” Fiona said. “Since 1949 more than 80 million people have been killed by the communist regime. I was shocked by that.”

    Fiona’s father was a writer and publicist who had to use a fictional name because of his statements against the government.

    “In China there’s a one child policy,” said the mother of three – Lawrence, 16, David, 10, and Celina, 6. “I didn’t want my kids to live in (Communist Chinese) society.”

    Fiona didn’t know anyone when she moved to Vancouver. Her parents immigrated to Canada two years after she did, where they still live today.

    “When I landed (in Canada) it felt totally different, how people naturally trust each other. There’s a genuine smile on their face. They share their stories—not just to please people.”
    Fiona met Kai in 2007 before the Beijing Olympic Games. She produced a four-episode documentary (“My Way”) about Kai, a former Chinese professional basketball player, who she married in 2014.

    “In one month there were more than 300,000 viewers,” Fiona said. “People were so moved by Kai’s story.”

    She said the Chinese government soon blocked the YouTube upload of her documentary. “It was one professional athlete to stand up,” she said.

    And when Kai Chen stands up, his 6-foot, 7-inch frame is noticed.

    “Once the door opened in China, I was gone,” said Kai, a former professional basketball player for China’s National Team. He left China in 1981.

    Born in Beijing, Kai’s family was caught up in the turmoil of 20th century China. They were involved with the Kuomintang, or KMT, the ruling party in China until 1949, when it moved to Taiwan after being defeated by the Communist Party. Kai’s father and his 9 siblings were separated by the Taiwan Strait. His grandfather stayed in Beijing with Kai’s parents, while his grandmother went to Taiwan with his uncle and other members of his family. His grandparents would never see each other again.

    Because of his family’s ties to Taiwan, Kai and his family were exiled from Beijing to Tonghua in Manchuria. During the Cultural Revolution, young people were sent to the countryside. At age 16, Kai was forced to work at a grain depot, sometimes carrying up to 200 pounds on his shoulders. An avid basketball player, Kai found his passion through expressing himself on the court; later, it’s where he would find his freedom.

    “The Communist Government wanted to use sports to break China’s isolation around the world,” Kai said.

    Kai was chosen at the age of 16 to join a National Athletics program grooming talents for the Chinese National Teams in 1970.

    “Before I knew there was a country called America, America had already saved me,” Kai said. “Because America invented basketball.”

    He first tried to free himself from the national authorities, who were going to send him back to the grain depot in Liuhe after Kai’s Taiwan relatives were revealed. Kai found he could get on a professional team in Guangzhou Military District, so he escaped from Beijing, pretending to go shopping, carrying just a yellow satchel to deter suspicion. With Mao’s inscription, “Serve the People”. “Why?” he asked. “I would be keenly aware of the immorality and corruption in this society. I would be reminded of the falsehood and lies spread by the authorities.”

    Kai was caught and sent back to the grain depot. But he escaped again to a provincial basketball team, and finally joined the Chinese Army for the political benefit to his family. China was in conflict with the Soviet Union at the time. Due to the intense physical labor, repairing dams and military training, Kai developed bleeding ulcers and was on the verge of death. While hospitalized for a month, he made up his mind he would find happiness. He had never in his life known anyone in China that was happy, he said.

    “The biggest revenge for me against this society was to find freedom and happiness for myself,” Kai said to himself.
    Both Kai and Fiona are on the “blacklist” in China.

    Her writing and internet posting through her own company, Liberty Bell Studios, is aimed at introducing American values to those behind the Communist curtain. She forms online groups in order to penetrate fire walls created by the Chinese government to impede citizens of China from gaining access to that information. Kai and Fiona help others find software to break through those firewalls.

    The couple described a group called “50 Cents,” which is a propaganda team of thousands hired by the Communist government. It is made up of young “opinion leaders” who earn 50 cents when they complete an internet post promoting Chinese Communism and government agendas.

    “The (Chinese government) learned from the collapse of the Soviet Union,” Kai said. “They’re better than the Soviet Union at controlling your thoughts. It’s been pretty effective so far.”
    They’re fanning nationalism and sentiment that is anti-U.S. and anti-Japan, according to the Chens.

    Kai has spent decades protesting pro-Communism efforts and promoting the values espoused by America. A naturalized citizen of the United States, Kai fought Confucius Institutes that cropped up at the beginning of this century. It is a program teaching the language and culture of China that critics say advances the Chinese government’s agenda to falsely influence perceptions of China.

    “I went to Congress and testified,” Kai said. “They terminated their contract because it violated U.S. educational policies, against American employment policies, when they hired teachers.”

    They are established worldwide. There are hundreds in the United States at all levels of education.

    “These are brainwashing … propaganda about reality,” he said. “They do a lot to damage the U.S., weaken this country’s moral underpinnings.”

    In 2009 Kai protested a restaurant in Hollywood called Mao’s Kitchen for their portrait of the former Chinese leader and for “singing Mao’s praises,” Kai said. “I can’t do much, but I can protest,” he said.

    When Kai found that the Nixon Library had a statue of Mao Tse-Tung in its “world leaders’ section, near Winston Churchill, he organized a protest.

    “Mao is worse than Stalin and worse than Hitler, in terms of killing,” Kai said. “How are you educating young kids? When he’s with benign people like Winston Churchill? It’s confusing people.”

    The Chens have strong political opinions, and share them when invited to speak at groups or meetings.

    “Historians agree Mao committed atrocities against the Chinese people,” Kai said. “Reagan had great moral clarity, calling the Soviet Union an ‘evil empire.’ We needed an American president to enunciate moral principles.”

    Among their goals, the Chens hope to affect U.S. policy toward their homeland. They hope to promote “political and moral wisdom in dealing with China.”

    “We are not a country built on money; we are a country built on principles.”

    “We feel obligated to give back,” Kai said. “(The U.S. is) the greatest country in the world. Don’t take it for granted.”

    Fiona recently became a member of Zonta International of SCV. She was sponsored by longtime member Ronnie Erickson. “They are a group concerned about women’s lives. I fit in this category,” Fiona said. “A life with lots of layers.”

    It was a big shift from Canada to living in the U.S. She said the education her children are receiving in the U.S. is more focused on reading and math. She was particularly pleased that her son, David, was chosen to have written two books through the Sulphur Springs School District Young Authors program.

    The Chens said their kids are “making tremendous progress.” Ten-year-old David enjoys activities such as a magic class offered in Newhall, and six-year-old Celina takes piano lessons and plays soccer. Lawrence, 16, is a student at Canyon High School.

    Kai is a four-year resident of Canyon Country and has two grown children, who both played college basketball – one at Yale and one at Brandeis University. Fiona moved here with her children in 2014.

    “People are very friendly and they are trustworthy,” Kai said of the Santa Clarita Valley. “It’s very quiet. There’s a wonderful sense of community.”

  • 陈凯/个人履历 Kai Chen's Curriculum Vitae DateSun Aug 21, 2016 5:53 am

    Free People
    自由的人 (陈凯夫妇)


    Couple Leaves China after Hurdles of Olympic Proportions

    By Martha Michael (Canyon Country Magazine)

    Canyon Country has a lot of colorful characters, but it isn’t often we meet residents on a government blacklist.

    Kai and Fiona Chen can never return to their home country – the People’s Republic of China.

    Fiona is from Shandong Province on the east coast of China, while Kai is from Beijing. Their stories are different, but their union has resulted in a doubly powerful voice against the hidden agenda of government in China.

    Fiona left China on Christmas Eve in 2003 and moved to Canada with her firstborn son, Lawrence. Because her father criticized the Communist Party, Fiona’s family members in China were being persecuted.

    The magazine editor found a job working as a TV reporter in Vancouver, where she used her skills to spread a message to the rest of the world that the image of China coming through propaganda was untruthful. She worked to “expose the evil deeds of Chinese authorities,” who she had seen quashing dissidents and “committing crimes against their own citizens and people in the free world.”

    “I shed tears over Tiananmen,” Fiona said. “Since 1949 more than 80 million people have been killed by the communist regime. I was shocked by that.”

    Fiona’s father was a writer and publicist who had to use a fictional name because of his statements against the government.

    “In China there’s a one child policy,” said the mother of three – Lawrence, 16, David, 10, and Celina, 6. “I didn’t want my kids to live in (Communist Chinese) society.”

    Fiona didn’t know anyone when she moved to Vancouver. Her parents immigrated to Canada two years after she did, where they still live today.

    “When I landed (in Canada) it felt totally different, how people naturally trust each other. There’s a genuine smile on their face. They share their stories—not just to please people.”
    Fiona met Kai in 2007 before the Beijing Olympic Games. She produced a four-episode documentary (“My Way”) about Kai, a former Chinese professional basketball player, who she married in 2014.

    “In one month there were more than 300,000 viewers,” Fiona said. “People were so moved by Kai’s story.”

    She said the Chinese government soon blocked the YouTube upload of her documentary. “It was one professional athlete to stand up,” she said.

    And when Kai Chen stands up, his 6-foot, 7-inch frame is noticed.

    “Once the door opened in China, I was gone,” said Kai, a former professional basketball player for China’s National Team. He left China in 1981.

    Born in Beijing, Kai’s family was caught up in the turmoil of 20th century China. They were involved with the Kuomintang, or KMT, the ruling party in China until 1949, when it moved to Taiwan after being defeated by the Communist Party. Kai’s father and his 9 siblings were separated by the Taiwan Strait. His grandfather stayed in Beijing with Kai’s parents, while his grandmother went to Taiwan with his uncle and other members of his family. His grandparents would never see each other again.

    Because of his family’s ties to Taiwan, Kai and his family were exiled from Beijing to Tonghua in Manchuria. During the Cultural Revolution, young people were sent to the countryside. At age 16, Kai was forced to work at a grain depot, sometimes carrying up to 200 pounds on his shoulders. An avid basketball player, Kai found his passion through expressing himself on the court; later, it’s where he would find his freedom.

    “The Communist Government wanted to use sports to break China’s isolation around the world,” Kai said.

    Kai was chosen at the age of 16 to join a National Athletics program grooming talents for the Chinese National Teams in 1970.

    “Before I knew there was a country called America, America had already saved me,” Kai said. “Because America invented basketball.”

    He first tried to free himself from the national authorities, who were going to send him back to the grain depot in Liuhe after Kai’s Taiwan relatives were revealed. Kai found he could get on a professional team in Guangzhou Military District, so he escaped from Beijing, pretending to go shopping, carrying just a yellow satchel to deter suspicion. With Mao’s inscription, “Serve the People”. “Why?” he asked. “I would be keenly aware of the immorality and corruption in this society. I would be reminded of the falsehood and lies spread by the authorities.”

    Kai was caught and sent back to the grain depot. But he escaped again to a provincial basketball team, and finally joined the Chinese Army for the political benefit to his family. China was in conflict with the Soviet Union at the time. Due to the intense physical labor, repairing dams and military training, Kai developed bleeding ulcers and was on the verge of death. While hospitalized for a month, he made up his mind he would find happiness. He had never in his life known anyone in China that was happy, he said.

    “The biggest revenge for me against this society was to find freedom and happiness for myself,” Kai said to himself.
    Both Kai and Fiona are on the “blacklist” in China.

    Her writing and internet posting through her own company, Liberty Bell Studios, is aimed at introducing American values to those behind the Communist curtain. She forms online groups in order to penetrate fire walls created by the Chinese government to impede citizens of China from gaining access to that information. Kai and Fiona help others find software to break through those firewalls.

    The couple described a group called “50 Cents,” which is a propaganda team of thousands hired by the Communist government. It is made up of young “opinion leaders” who earn 50 cents when they complete an internet post promoting Chinese Communism and government agendas.

    “The (Chinese government) learned from the collapse of the Soviet Union,” Kai said. “They’re better than the Soviet Union at controlling your thoughts. It’s been pretty effective so far.”
    They’re fanning nationalism and sentiment that is anti-U.S. and anti-Japan, according to the Chens.

    Kai has spent decades protesting pro-Communism efforts and promoting the values espoused by America. A naturalized citizen of the United States, Kai fought Confucius Institutes that cropped up at the beginning of this century. It is a program teaching the language and culture of China that critics say advances the Chinese government’s agenda to falsely influence perceptions of China.

    “I went to Congress and testified,” Kai said. “They terminated their contract because it violated U.S. educational policies, against American employment policies, when they hired teachers.”

    They are established worldwide. There are hundreds in the United States at all levels of education.

    “These are brainwashing … propaganda about reality,” he said. “They do a lot to damage the U.S., weaken this country’s moral underpinnings.”

    In 2009 Kai protested a restaurant in Hollywood called Mao’s Kitchen for their portrait of the former Chinese leader and for “singing Mao’s praises,” Kai said. “I can’t do much, but I can protest,” he said.

    When Kai found that the Nixon Library had a statue of Mao Tse-Tung in its “world leaders’ section, near Winston Churchill, he organized a protest.

    “Mao is worse than Stalin and worse than Hitler, in terms of killing,” Kai said. “How are you educating young kids? When he’s with benign people like Winston Churchill? It’s confusing people.”

    The Chens have strong political opinions, and share them when invited to speak at groups or meetings.

    “Historians agree Mao committed atrocities against the Chinese people,” Kai said. “Reagan had great moral clarity, calling the Soviet Union an ‘evil empire.’ We needed an American president to enunciate moral principles.”

    Among their goals, the Chens hope to affect U.S. policy toward their homeland. They hope to promote “political and moral wisdom in dealing with China.”

    “We are not a country built on money; we are a country built on principles.”

    “We feel obligated to give back,” Kai said. “(The U.S. is) the greatest country in the world. Don’t take it for granted.”

    Fiona recently became a member of Zonta International of SCV. She was sponsored by longtime member Ronnie Erickson. “They are a group concerned about women’s lives. I fit in this category,” Fiona said. “A life with lots of layers.”

    It was a big shift from Canada to living in the U.S. She said the education her children are receiving in the U.S. is more focused on reading and math. She was particularly pleased that her son, David, was chosen to have written two books through the Sulphur Springs School District Young Authors program.

    The Chens said their kids are “making tremendous progress.” Ten-year-old David enjoys activities such as a magic class offered in Newhall, and six-year-old Celina takes piano lessons and plays soccer. Lawrence, 16, is a student at Canyon High School.

    Kai is a four-year resident of Canyon Country and has two grown children, who both played college basketball – one at Yale and one at Brandeis University. Fiona moved here with her children in 2014.

    “People are very friendly and they are trustworthy,” Kai said of the Santa Clarita Valley. “It’s very quiet. There’s a wonderful sense of community.”

  • Free People 自由的人 (陈凯夫妇) DateSun Aug 21, 2016 5:19 am
    Topic by fountainheadkc. Forum: 陈凯෹...

    Free People
    自由的人 (陈凯夫妇)


    Couple Leaves China after Hurdles of Olympic Proportions

    By Martha Michael (Canyon Country Magazine)

    Canyon Country has a lot of colorful characters, but it isn’t often we meet residents on a government blacklist.

    Kai and Fiona Chen can never return to their home country – the People’s Republic of China.

    Fiona is from Shandong Province on the east coast of China, while Kai is from Beijing. Their stories are different, but their union has resulted in a doubly powerful voice against the hidden agenda of government in China.

    Fiona left China on Christmas Eve in 2003 and moved to Canada with her firstborn son, Lawrence. Because her father criticized the Communist Party, Fiona’s family members in China were being persecuted.

    The magazine editor found a job working as a TV reporter in Vancouver, where she used her skills to spread a message to the rest of the world that the image of China coming through propaganda was untruthful. She worked to “expose the evil deeds of Chinese authorities,” who she had seen quashing dissidents and “committing crimes against their own citizens and people in the free world.”

    “I shed tears over Tiananmen,” Fiona said. “Since 1949 more than 80 million people have been killed by the communist regime. I was shocked by that.”

    Fiona’s father was a writer and publicist who had to use a fictional name because of his statements against the government.

    “In China there’s a one child policy,” said the mother of three – Lawrence, 16, David, 10, and Celina, 6. “I didn’t want my kids to live in (Communist Chinese) society.”

    Fiona didn’t know anyone when she moved to Vancouver. Her parents immigrated to Canada two years after she did, where they still live today.

    “When I landed (in Canada) it felt totally different, how people naturally trust each other. There’s a genuine smile on their face. They share their stories—not just to please people.”
    Fiona met Kai in 2007 before the Beijing Olympic Games. She produced a four-episode documentary (“My Way”) about Kai, a former Chinese professional basketball player, who she married in 2014.

    “In one month there were more than 300,000 viewers,” Fiona said. “People were so moved by Kai’s story.”

    She said the Chinese government soon blocked the YouTube upload of her documentary. “It was one professional athlete to stand up,” she said.

    And when Kai Chen stands up, his 6-foot, 7-inch frame is noticed.

    “Once the door opened in China, I was gone,” said Kai, a former professional basketball player for China’s National Team. He left China in 1981.

    Born in Beijing, Kai’s family was caught up in the turmoil of 20th century China. They were involved with the Kuomintang, or KMT, the ruling party in China until 1949, when it moved to Taiwan after being defeated by the Communist Party. Kai’s father and his 9 siblings were separated by the Taiwan Strait. His grandfather stayed in Beijing with Kai’s parents, while his grandmother went to Taiwan with his uncle and other members of his family. His grandparents would never see each other again.

    Because of his family’s ties to Taiwan, Kai and his family were exiled from Beijing to Tonghua in Manchuria. During the Cultural Revolution, young people were sent to the countryside. At age 16, Kai was forced to work at a grain depot, sometimes carrying up to 200 pounds on his shoulders. An avid basketball player, Kai found his passion through expressing himself on the court; later, it’s where he would find his freedom.

    “The Communist Government wanted to use sports to break China’s isolation around the world,” Kai said.

    Kai was chosen at the age of 16 to join a National Athletics program grooming talents for the Chinese National Teams in 1970.

    “Before I knew there was a country called America, America had already saved me,” Kai said. “Because America invented basketball.”

    He first tried to free himself from the national authorities, who were going to send him back to the grain depot in Liuhe after Kai’s Taiwan relatives were revealed. Kai found he could get on a professional team in Guangzhou Military District, so he escaped from Beijing, pretending to go shopping, carrying just a yellow satchel to deter suspicion. With Mao’s inscription, “Serve the People”. “Why?” he asked. “I would be keenly aware of the immorality and corruption in this society. I would be reminded of the falsehood and lies spread by the authorities.”

    Kai was caught and sent back to the grain depot. But he escaped again to a provincial basketball team, and finally joined the Chinese Army for the political benefit to his family. China was in conflict with the Soviet Union at the time. Due to the intense physical labor, repairing dams and military training, Kai developed bleeding ulcers and was on the verge of death. While hospitalized for a month, he made up his mind he would find happiness. He had never in his life known anyone in China that was happy, he said.

    “The biggest revenge for me against this society was to find freedom and happiness for myself,” Kai said to himself.
    Both Kai and Fiona are on the “blacklist” in China.

    Her writing and internet posting through her own company, Liberty Bell Studios, is aimed at introducing American values to those behind the Communist curtain. She forms online groups in order to penetrate fire walls created by the Chinese government to impede citizens of China from gaining access to that information. Kai and Fiona help others find software to break through those firewalls.

    The couple described a group called “50 Cents,” which is a propaganda team of thousands hired by the Communist government. It is made up of young “opinion leaders” who earn 50 cents when they complete an internet post promoting Chinese Communism and government agendas.

    “The (Chinese government) learned from the collapse of the Soviet Union,” Kai said. “They’re better than the Soviet Union at controlling your thoughts. It’s been pretty effective so far.”
    They’re fanning nationalism and sentiment that is anti-U.S. and anti-Japan, according to the Chens.

    Kai has spent decades protesting pro-Communism efforts and promoting the values espoused by America. A naturalized citizen of the United States, Kai fought Confucius Institutes that cropped up at the beginning of this century. It is a program teaching the language and culture of China that critics say advances the Chinese government’s agenda to falsely influence perceptions of China.

    “I went to Congress and testified,” Kai said. “They terminated their contract because it violated U.S. educational policies, against American employment policies, when they hired teachers.”

    They are established worldwide. There are hundreds in the United States at all levels of education.

    “These are brainwashing … propaganda about reality,” he said. “They do a lot to damage the U.S., weaken this country’s moral underpinnings.”

    In 2009 Kai protested a restaurant in Hollywood called Mao’s Kitchen for their portrait of the former Chinese leader and for “singing Mao’s praises,” Kai said. “I can’t do much, but I can protest,” he said.

    When Kai found that the Nixon Library had a statue of Mao Tse-Tung in its “world leaders’ section, near Winston Churchill, he organized a protest.

    “Mao is worse than Stalin and worse than Hitler, in terms of killing,” Kai said. “How are you educating young kids? When he’s with benign people like Winston Churchill? It’s confusing people.”

    The Chens have strong political opinions, and share them when invited to speak at groups or meetings.

    “Historians agree Mao committed atrocities against the Chinese people,” Kai said. “Reagan had great moral clarity, calling the Soviet Union an ‘evil empire.’ We needed an American president to enunciate moral principles.”

    Among their goals, the Chens hope to affect U.S. policy toward their homeland. They hope to promote “political and moral wisdom in dealing with China.”

    “We are not a country built on money; we are a country built on principles.”

    “We feel obligated to give back,” Kai said. “(The U.S. is) the greatest country in the world. Don’t take it for granted.”

    Fiona recently became a member of Zonta International of SCV. She was sponsored by longtime member Ronnie Erickson. “They are a group concerned about women’s lives. I fit in this category,” Fiona said. “A life with lots of layers.”

    It was a big shift from Canada to living in the U.S. She said the education her children are receiving in the U.S. is more focused on reading and math. She was particularly pleased that her son, David, was chosen to have written two books through the Sulphur Springs School District Young Authors program.

    The Chens said their kids are “making tremendous progress.” Ten-year-old David enjoys activities such as a magic class offered in Newhall, and six-year-old Celina takes piano lessons and plays soccer. Lawrence, 16, is a student at Canyon High School.

    Kai is a four-year resident of Canyon Country and has two grown children, who both played college basketball – one at Yale and one at Brandeis University. Fiona moved here with her children in 2014.

    “People are very friendly and they are trustworthy,” Kai said of the Santa Clarita Valley. “It’s very quiet. There’s a wonderful sense of community.”

  • Topic by fountainheadkc. Forum: 陈凯෹...

    曾遭抗议 洛杉矶“毛厨房”因租赁纠纷关闭
    Mao's Kitchen Closed


    2008年,前中国国家男子篮球队队员陈凯在“毛厨房”前抗议。(RFA)

    【大纪元2016年07月09日讯】近日,位于洛杉矶Melrose购物街的“毛厨房”(Mao’s Kitchen)悄悄关闭。这家中餐馆因以中共前党魁毛泽东命名,多年来不止一次遭到反共人权人士的抗议,抗议毛的形象和符号所代表的专制和独裁在腐蚀美国民主自由价值观。如今,该店由于租赁纠纷而在几周前被迫搬走。

    据其网站声明,该餐馆于6月16日关闭,除非能续约或找到新地点才会重新开张。

    这家以“毛”命名的中餐馆,里面都是以毛时代的语录和标语做装修,还播放样板戏。店老板李雁忠1992年自中国北京移民来美国。他于2006年在Melrose大道开了这间“毛厨房”。

    前中国国家男子篮球队队员陈凯在2008年抗议该餐馆时表示“毛厨房”就相当于希特勒的烧烤和斯大林的宴会。以毛命名餐厅这是一种崇魔心态。

    他说:“它(中共)现在最阴险的是存在你的头脑里面、是在你的良知里面、是在你的灵魂里面消灭你这种(自由的)火花。消灭你能够鉴别真假、鉴别是非、鉴别对错、鉴别好坏这样一种能力。”◇

    责任编辑:方平

  • Topic by fountainheadkc. Forum: 陈凯෹...

    郭永丰:我终于找到中共专政的合法性所在了
    Why China Remains Despotic

    www.kaichenblog.blogspot.com

    陈凯一语:
    Kai Chen's Words:

    美国的立国者们清楚地懂得: 美国的宪法与立国原则只是写给那些有基督信仰的、有个体道德操守的自由人的。 美国的联邦宪政绝不是那些毫无基督精神与个体美德的“宦奴娼”的。 我希望每一个自称“中国人”的人懂得这一个真实。 只有对真实的追求才能使你自由。

    America's founders understood clearly: American Constitution and her founding principles are written and established only for those with faith in God/Goodness, for those with Christian values and individual virtues. America's system and freedom can never be applied/achieved by those virtue-less, faithless "eunuslawhores". I only hope those so called "Chinese" understand this point/truth. Only truth shall set you free.

    -------------------------------------------------

    (博讯北京时间2016年1月03日 来稿)

    按照中共早期对中国人民的承诺,中共在掌握中国这个江山之后,就应该逐步还权还政于民,但中共根本没有这样做,而是倒行逆施,虽然煽动愚民和暴民打倒了国民党蒋介石的专制政权,却复制了一个共产党毛泽东专制的政权,直到毛泽东的死亡,经过内部的血雨腥风的残酷斗争,才建立了今天的所谓集体领导的中共红色权贵家天下的专制政权,严格说这依旧还是非法的,因为仍旧没有兑现当初他们向中国人民的承诺。他们所制定的宪法依旧完全架空,核心内容关键条文根本没有落实。比如公民对所有官权的强力监督权,公民自由集会、结社、出版、言论、信仰等的权利被彻底剥夺干净,完全开放式的多党竞争执政政体的建立,等等。

    按照国际惯例,尤其联合国宪章和人权公约,中共国虽然也是联合国的常务理事国之一,但其本国政府却严重违背联合国宪章及其人权公约的有关条款,严重侵犯本国公民权利,比如大肆抓捕打压公民对于法定权利的合法争取,让众多公民和律师罹患牢狱之灾。

    如此说来,中共红色权贵一代接一代地对中国十四亿人民的轮番统治与压榨,就根本没有任何合法性可言。这只能充分说明,中共政权其实就是强盗政权,是这个世界上最大的黑社会组织的统治。这是因为,其所采用全部手段,就是用国家暴力机器强权蒙蔽人民,愚昧欺骗人民,利益收买人民,暴力威慑人民。这固然是没有丝毫合法性可言的。人民在大面积觉醒之后,就应该勇于参与对抗如此完全强盗化的流氓政权,这应是符合天道人心的。

    只是中国绝大多数人被蒙蔽愚昧,确实都是愚昧无知的,极少数觉醒的,被收买打压,也彻底分化瓦解了,果真还豁然展现在世人面前的,其实就是为数极少的几个人极为孤独孤单地叫阵而已,这是没有任何实质意义的。而且这种叫阵即便呼喊一万年,都没有丝毫成效的。

    这是因为大众都在沉睡中,而我行我素,甚至非常习惯中共的这种谎言与暴力的统治,非常心安理得,极为舒泰安然的。所以很多人,一旦看到这种叫阵,就狠狠地说,任何反党反政府反社会的行为,都是人渣行为,这是无神论与拜偶像者的统一观点,也是绝大多数脑残基督徒的观点。因为在这个国家,人人都是谈政治色变,好民不与官斗的。

    只有当自己利益明显被侵犯时才会疯狂地,甚至还是歇斯底里地叫嚣,极少数人才会逐步清醒,比如被拆迁户,下岗职工,被冤假错案的一些人等等,即便是这类人中,绝大多数也是不关心政治的,只是关心自己的切身利益。谁如果给他们讲政治,他们也都会很反感。如此说来,反抗中共强盗政权,在中国土壤上,几乎没有丝毫的动力,这才是它存在的最大合法性所在。

    原来是无神论者时,作为喝狼奶长大的笔者,实际也是这样逐步清醒演变过来的。我也是被明显侵权后才迅速觉醒,走向这个暴政的对立面的。这也是我作为无神论者的浅显认识和观点。我当时再找不到中共合法性统治的任何凭据了。

    如今作为基督徒,而且非常虔诚,就从神学方面谈谈中共的合法性所在了。首先我询问上帝,为何不拣选在地上掌握权柄的人做自己的门徒?比如耶稣被罪人钉死然后复活,复活之后只是拣选非常积弱的平民做其门徒,结果一个个地都被杀害了。如果直接拣选凯撒,不是就没这回事了吗?为此我还极端愚昧无知的为今日的中共掌权者祈祷,祈求神拣选习近平等人,才慢慢有所清醒过来。尤其当读了以下经文,才完全豁然开朗了。

    使徒行传12:那时,希律王下手苦害教会中几个人。用刀杀了约翰的哥哥雅各。他见犹太人喜欢这事,又去捉拿彼得。那时正是除酵的日子。

    希律拿了彼得,收在监里,交付四班兵丁看守,每班四个人,意思要在逾越节后把他提出来,当着百姓办他。于是彼得被囚在监里;教会却为他切切的祷告神。希律将要提他出来的前一夜,彼得被两条铁链锁着,睡在两个兵丁当中;看守的人也在门外看守。

    忽然,有主的一个使者站在旁边,屋里有光照耀,天使拍彼得的肋旁,拍醒了他,说:「快快起来!」那铁链就从他手上脱落下来。天使对他说:“束上带子,穿上鞋。”他就那样做。天使又说:“披上外衣,跟着我来”。彼得就出来跟着他,不知道天使所做是真的,只当见了异象。过了第一层第二层监牢,就来到临街的铁门,那门自己开了。他们出来,走过一条街,天使便离开他去了。

    彼得醒悟过来,说:“我现在真知道主差遣他的使者,救我脱离希律的手和犹太百姓一切所盼望的。”想了一想,就往那称呼马可的约翰、他母亲马利亚家去,在那里有好些人聚集祷告。

    彼得敲外门,有一个使女,名叫罗大,出来探听。听见是彼得的声音,就欢喜的顾不得开门,跑进去告诉众人说:“彼得站在门外”。他们说:“你是疯了!”使女极力的说:“真是他!”他们说:“必是他的天使!”。彼得不住的敲门。他们开了门,看见他,就甚惊奇。

    彼得摆手,不要他们作声,就告诉他们主怎样领他出监;又说:“你们把这事告诉雅各和众弟兄。”于是出去,往别处去了。到了天亮,兵丁扰乱得很,不知道彼得往那里去了。

    希律找他,找不着,就审问看守的人,吩咐把他们拉去杀了。后来希律离开犹太,下该撒利亚去,住在那里。

    希律恼怒推罗、西顿的人。他们那一带地方是从王的地土得粮,因此就托了王的内侍臣伯拉斯都的情,一心来求和。希律在所定的日子,穿上朝服,坐在位上,对他们讲论一番。百姓喊着说:“这是神的声音,不是人的声音。”希律不归荣耀给神,所以主的使者立刻罚他,他被虫所咬,气就绝了。神的道日见兴旺,越发广传。

    神造人,给人绝对的自由意志,神绝不会干预任何人的自由意志。人有选择做坏人好人或者坏事好事的绝对权力,当然,按照神的道,谨守遵行,必定蒙福,顽梗悖逆,肯定遭诅咒陷患难。在此神拣选希律王说了神的话,但他不信神,即便说了或者做了神所喜悦的事情,他肯定不会归荣耀给神,而是一定认为是自己非常了不起,只会荣耀自己。所以,任何顽梗悖逆的人,神可以使用其做点好事,说点好话,但未必能完全拣选得了,确实一丝不苟按照神的旨意运行的。比如只是为了荣耀神的名,始终认为自己只是神的器皿。

    希律王做不到,古罗马的历届凯撒大帝都不可能做得到,在君王时代的以色列国,历朝历代的君王,有的能,或做到一点点,但有的还是完全做不到,也便只有不断被掳做亡国奴的份。

    神只能按照自己的判断,拣选一些人掌权执政,比如对摩西的拣选,这是因为摩西是当时以色列人中最谦和的。神之所以拣选扫罗和大卫做以色列人的王,按照神的大计划,唯有他们两人才是最合适的。

    神掌管万有万物,天地万物由祂立定,人类皆由祂缔造。祂是最清楚人心的善变与趋利的。所以,今日的中共之所以执政,且拣选习近平上台,也是有着神的大计划用意的。当然,未必这个政权就是神最喜悦的。

    尤其当人类犯罪之后,神把人类赶出伊甸园,要苦待罪人,必须只有汗流浃背,劳苦一生,且地上长满荆棘和蒺藜。在这种苦待之下,只是希望人类能悔改,但人类不但不思悔改,越发背离神远行了。所以就发怒灭绝多次,比如蛾摩拉与所多玛的被灭绝,大洪水的发生,但挪亚的后代还是犯罪,只好从万人中拣选亚伯拉罕及其以色列民族,严格说还是彻底失败的。最后只好派自己的独生子耶稣来被罪人钉死,为整个人类的罪做赎罪的神羔羊。

    即便这样,信的人也很有限,顽梗悖逆的人类仍旧遭遇上帝直接的管教。比如当以色列国从君王时代结束后就进入了完全被掳的亡国奴时代,并且大批量的人被分散在列国,因为以色列的君王和人民都背叛了上帝。上帝只好兴起古巴比伦大肆杀戮辖制以色列民,当古巴比伦帝国作恶太盛以致以色列民忍受不了向上帝呼求时,上帝便兴起古罗马的人彻底灭绝了古巴比伦帝国。当耶稣来后基督徒大肆遭遇古罗马帝国的迫害时,上帝便只有发瘟疫彻底把该帝国灭绝了。于是便又兴起有点信仰的阿拉伯帝国,由于阿拉伯帝国的作恶太盛,上帝干脆兴起在中国北方游牧且长得极为彪悍的蒙古人,直到后来拿破仑帝国纳粹希特勒的兴起,尤其希特勒的纳粹队伍专门扑杀犹太人,以及苏联中国等沦为共产主义国家等等。这一系列邪恶政权的兴起无一不是上帝亲手的作为,但谁又会全部明白上帝的苦口婆心与真实用意呢?以笔者之见只有那些非常虔诚且始终如一谨守遵行上帝道的人才知晓。

    中国之所以出现所谓的红太阳伟大领袖毛泽东,严格说还是中国人民自己的选择。如果中国大众不是全部愚昧无知完全背离神,共产主义即便到了中国也绝不会扎下深根来,这就正如共产主义在欧洲大陆产生却没有丝毫生存与发展的空间。

    一百年前中国人只是看到民主社会表面的制度躯壳好处,却没有看到这就是上帝对大面积清教徒兴起的欧美各国的恩典,便千方百计想法设法只是引进这种制度躯壳结果事与愿违,当袁世凯死后本来匪性很浓的中国便进入军阀割据与混战的时期,孙中山也禁不住叹息简直比清朝末年更邪恶极致败坏到无底洞。严格说无数先烈流血流汗付出巨大代价换来的今日社会,虽然不尽理想但一定远比清朝末年强多了,这一定还是要求进步与发展的无数先烈和正义者拼命争取的结果,无论何时何地我们都要对这样一批人表示由衷的感谢和赞扬,尤其对于兴起这样一批人的上帝存有永恒的感恩之情。

    感谢上帝让我自小就没有学会跟风追逐任何名人,直到今天我依旧对于人云亦云追名逐利的人嗤之以鼻。在无神论与拜偶像者充斥的中国多出产这类愚民,随波逐流趋名追星尤其被任何魔王指挥疯狂劲舞,文革就是毛魔王煽动愚民疯狂癫舞的人妖颠倒的魔兽社会,直到今天这种遗毒仍旧甚嚣尘上极为猖獗。

    虽然很多人都在反共匪专制,却从来不从自己的匪性开始彻底根除,凡是匪性很强的人都最容易对他人过敏,稍感不适便穷追猛打竭尽之能事猛烈攻击,其争强好斗性可谓天下第一无人能敌,义和团文革等上纲上线煽动暴民运动手法绝不可少,尤其权力越大掌握资源越多的人其危害性最大,所以有人说宁愿意用一个人品较好的庸人,绝不用人品极差但知识和能力都超强的人才,因为这类人除了干坏事还是干坏事,即便干丁点好事也是为了干最大坏事做准备,成就属于社会性的任何大好事一定都是成事不足败事有余的,其真正的才能就是颠倒黑白破坏社会正常秩序,只是为了自己的邪情私欲与私心杂念猖獗横行。

    按照人的标准人们无法识别谁才是真正的好人,人们便以自己为正确标准评判任何他人,凡是对自己有益或者比较要好的人就一定是好人,凡是与自己没丝毫关系的人都是普通大众,凡是曾经现在或将来对自己有害的人都是敌人,耶和华说人所行的在自己眼中都看为正,唯有自己正确时任何相反不用的意见都是与自己过不去,封建王朝社会便将任何只要诋毁悖逆王的任何人赶尽杀绝,其实对于人类来说此时对自己好的人未必一直都好,此时坏的人未必永远都是势不两立绝不相容的,随着年岁增加阅历丰富见识增长所谓好人与坏人不断变化的,以此说来按照自己的评判标准看待人确实是严重错误的,唯有拿自有永有的造物主的标准判断衡量人才是最为准确的。

    任何人都需要成长且不断教化的,从只字不识到学贯中西学富五车,如此说来好人与坏人其实也是教育的产物,近朱者赤近墨者黑乃是千古不变的真理,如果被撒旦邪灵操控就一定是邪恶的,如果一直在上帝道的荫蔽下就一定是永恒正确的,虽然好人对于坏人来说就是坏人,无论何时何地特别邪恶的坏人都只是极少数,特别的好人也只是极少数,不好不坏的才占有绝大多数,因为人都是罪人连一个义人也没有,所以耶稣来到人间作为赎罪的神羔羊被罪人钉死,凡是信祂名的人便白白被赎罪得恩典而称义。

    严格说对于罪人来说没有好人与坏人的区别,因为根都是坏的,只是因为条件和机会不同坏的程度不同而已,有贼心没贼胆的,有贼心贼胆却没有贼条件与贼机会的,有贼心贼胆也有贼条件和贼机会的,当今官场所有官权的腐败全部都是这样的,这便使官场成为名副其实的超级大贼窝,虽然有的官员贪污很多搞得女人很多杀的人也很多,这种恶果只能说明作为有贼心的人处境和待遇不同罢了。无论谁坐在毛泽东位上都会那样作恶多端肆无忌惮,甚至一些人可能要远比毛泽东更为穷凶极恶,也许一些人没有毛泽东那么特别的恶,只要号称无神论者由于其才能和知识的不同,其作恶手段一定都是一贯的千篇一律的。作为同样是王的大卫王所罗门王就恶不到哪里去,因为大卫王只是奸淫人妇把其夫也杀掉了,上帝对他的报应就是自己的亲生儿子强奸自己的亲生女儿,且子子相互杀戮甚至为了早日当皇帝自己最痛爱的儿子诛杀自己。

    如今上帝要兴起中国,必须拣选一大批完全合乎祂心意的正直良善的才俊来牵头引领,绝不是根本都不认识祂和祂道的任何人,为此上帝拣选并使用笔者在此不断大声疾呼,究竟都是哪些人要做上帝所拣选的高贵器皿和精兵,你们都做好准备了吗?你们都已经充分认识耶稣基督的真理和爱了吗?如果还没有那就请抓紧时间尽快认识神吧,以便在大面积兴起的中华大地上不但不拉任何人的后腿,甚至还是特别优秀才力极为发达强劲的聪明睿智的领路人。在如此东风劲吹之下,其实眼下被无神论的西方媒体和无神论者所鼓吹的,只是宪政民主的躯壳,这实在算不得什么,纯粹就是误人子弟,甚至一文不值还是倒行逆施的,因为一百年前的中国早就这样走了,实践检验根本走不到真民主社会里去,神要在中华大地掌握绝对的王权需要的是虔诚的基督徒,任何非基督徒都很刚愎自我也不会轻易在神面前全面认罪彻底悔改,在人面前更不容易有错就改还能大方道歉认错的。

    其实笔者本人原来也一文不值纯粹就是狗屁,如今被上帝拣选使用才成为神的卑微器皿,我的价值因上帝的拣选使用而变得无比金贵,没有上帝拣选我其实啥也不是,果真在体制内当官也是名副其实的大窃贼,直到作为上帝仆人的今天,我才看到上帝造的任何人都极为金贵,哪些鳏寡孤独老弱病残行乞羸弱者,尤其做最苦最累最脏活儿且收入极低微的人们,他们才是上帝最喜爱并要着重怜悯的人群,才是值得这个弯曲悖逆时代的正直良善人重点关怀的对象,中国人的良心正在蓬勃四起全面复苏发展,对任何强权的肆虐与暴行开始说不的时候到了,人们勇敢站出来说真话且据理力争讲事实摆道理,大义凛然浩然正气不畏任何强权和暴行,光明磊落坦坦荡荡勇敢为任何冤假错案鼓与呼,这其实才是上帝所喜悦的。

    但所有凡是从事社会公义的人们必须认识主耶稣,做圣洁清纯高尚的属于神的完全的精兵和门徒,否则也是特别忌邪的神所厌恶的,根本做不了站在越来越多人群前面的领袖人物,只能跟在后面做个小兵喽啰或者跟屁虫,这对于远大抱负和理想的人可能就是侮辱觉得自己太吃亏了,所以这些人必须只有努力才能做上帝最喜悦的杰出人才,只要全面经得起神检验就一定也经得起人检验,经不起神检验的人无论如何诡诈行骗还是会被大众轻易识破的,最终只能落个身败名裂万念俱灭自取灭亡和毁灭。

    如此说来,中共执政的合法性主要有两点,第一绝大多数民众的愚昧无知,第二所有民主维权人士如同共匪官权的无神论与拜偶像者的非常浓厚强烈的匪性情结难以彻底根除,因而便组建不了任何纯洁良善的浩荡正义之师的队伍出来,切实有能力和实力撼动得了中共专制基础的。

    对于中共专政,任何邪恶的办法都是绝不可能胜过的,因为它已经邪恶至极,达到人类的最顶峰,乃是登峰造极的。如果你仍旧学习共匪,以暴制暴以牙还压,就完全共匪的套路来打倒共匪,你就太天真幼稚愚蠢滑稽自不量力可笑到极点了。果真要胜过共匪的专制,唯有抢救所有失丧的扭曲了的完全变态的人心,只有当人心用耶稣基督的真理和爱切实武装起来,全面矫正好,这个国家才是最有希望的,完全可以轻易得救的。

    严格说,宪政民主制度是上帝对那些完全彻底顺服自己旨意的人们的恩典与奖赏,这种宝贝只有大面积的人信靠主耶稣时才能够容易得到,虽然有匪性很强的一些国家也实行这种制度的,那是因为在民主大国的挟持下做成的。比如印度的民主就是大英帝国殖民的结果,日本的民主就是美国长期驻军的结果,伊拉克阿富汗的民主大家都最清楚不过了。这种实例无需我一而再再而三地继续一一详尽列举下去了。

    交流信箱:1c

    2016年1月2日 [博讯来稿] (博讯 boxun.com)

  • Topic by fountainheadkc. Forum: 陈凯෹...

    韩尚笑:崇古与中共(启蒙系列)

    (博讯北京时间2015年10月30日 来稿)


    中国之所以是今天的中国,与崇古有很大的关系。毛泽东是这方面的代表,他不仅崇古,更复旧。狡诈的是,他的崇古,以破旧立新的形式,即所谓的 “破字当头,立在其中。”

    其实,“破” 他做到了,把中国、中国的文化和传统,破坏得很彻底,却没 “立”成。“立” 是要建立毛氏皇权。“新”的实质仍是旧,是更旧,只是以毛氏的新形式而已。

    毛的破,是要破除表面上阻碍他复旧的一切形式和框框。复旧,也并不是要复中国的仁义礼智信的旧传统,而是他称王称霸的旧梦。旧的发黄,黄的变霉。可以说,他是世界上极为少有的,没有半点儿西方思想的独裁者。他的这种旧,旧的是那么的彻底,彻底的完全没救。这是他一切罪恶的原始动机,越来越一发而不可收。

    遗憾的是,迄今为止,人们只看到了毛破坏中国的传统和文化,却未能找出他所有破坏的“能源"和“能量“,竟是百分之百地来自中国的古代遗多而非现代文明。换句话说,是中国的古代传统文化造就了毛的畸型怪胎,而这一怪胎又最大化了中国古代文化中最糟粕最阴暗的部分。

    在这方面,我感觉到了专家学者们为了保护自己文化传统的良苦用心,尽量把毛的邪恶与传统文化的“胎教”进行切割。其实,这无助于问题的解决。因为,这是方法论关健的切入点,也是求同思维与求异思维的根本区别。

    可悲的是,毛身边所有的人,包括不少的专家学者,个个觉得雄霸一方,人中豪杰,却都失之毫厘。所以,只能像走马灯一般,你方唱罢我登场。可刚一登场,姿势还未摆好,就被毛一脚踹下而蹬腿。如此往复,不停地死。死了也没搞明白。幸运的,弄个平反,再搞个回忆录。中国,才真的竟无一人是男儿,均未昭雪,包括习近平!

    一般说,崇古复旧是要有点儿鬼才的。比如毛泽东,両笔字,几首诗,几段词,没啥儿大才,倒有点儿甩头,可以唬一阵子。也常常能懵到点子上。无论是才高八斗,还是情深似海,都会懵一阵子。才不足斗量的人就不是懵一阵子,而是懵一辈子,甚至拖累了几辈子。

    反观习近平,大家都知道,他想效仿毛泽东,好好享用一回霸王餐。很想让别人信服他,知道他读的多,懂的多,却又拿不出东西来。弄个学习小组吧,没多少人上后面跟,因为学习小组自己还跟不上,还常出错,也常遭删贴。想想看,不累吗?有人说,一个傻子提出的问题,一万个聪明人也解答不了。别说,在中国,真的挺邪?

    你说是工农兵学员吧?连高考都未参加过,有点儿拿不出手。说是博士学位吧?又有点儿哪壶不开提哪壶?今天拿下的贪官,有几个不是博士?看看担任孔子和平奖协会主席的博士,难道还不明白?中国的博士,山寨的多,没读(毒)的少!

    所以,只能哂书,不是古今中外,中间少两个字,只有两边的古和外。明眼人一看,就知是老外。因为,背上几句古话,什么论,什么语,不是每个人一下子就能听懂的,对不?写下来能懂的多吗?大家都挺忙的,有多少人有闲心像毛泽东那样,整天像蛆一样在古书里爬?

    外国名著,不像古典,一说大家容易傻,尤其是西方文学。一不留神就容易哂露了马脚,成了傻大家:时代的约束和语言能力的束缚,此其一。其二,很少有饱读西方英美文学的人,对中国古典感兴趣。反之亦然,对中国古典文学有浓厚兴趣的人,很难对西方有激情。耳濡与目染,熊掌和鱼肉。习近平的中西方的文学修养,是罕见的嗜好,还是时下的通吃?

    中共是个矛盾体。它本来是欧洲幽灵的附体,却大摇大摆地盗用中国的名义。面对外侮,它君子动口不动手,原地踏步出了义勇军进行曲。它把苏俄的红色荒谬,高分贝地喊出了黄河大合唱。它把“老祖宗留下的”天安城楼,血染后再抛给共产主义。

    崇古,本身没有问题。有问题的是,凡事一和中共沾边儿,就丧失了原味。 [博讯来稿] (博讯 boxun.com)

  • From jef0202@gmail.com:

    You are so right, Kai. America is synonymous with Liberty, not power nor wealth. Power and wealth are a consequence of America's rights and values.

    America today is like a good family with a fine, exceptional really, home. But their heater is not working, the ducts are clogged, the house gets cold, the heater makes funny noises and upsets the family. They know repairmen but in spite of their assurances, they don't seem able to fix the heater. Then the family hears about this fabulous heater repairman. He has a reputation for fixing heaters expertly. So they hire him to come fix their problem. He arrives, talks a really long time of his heater's fixed, his successes, promises to fix theirs pronto. Then he goes to work, with a lot of noise, a lot of loud talking, and a number of trips to his truck. It's not pretty but he does appear to get the heater working and with a lot of fanfare and activity, gets the ducts cleared out. But he's tracked mud into the house, knocked over some precious items, scared the children with his bombast, and totally upset their homelife in short order, and done some serious damage. And to get at some of the ductwork he's broken some of the structure supporting the roof. While in the kitchen,he leans on the open refrigerator door and bends it. Spoiled food is later discovered. You get the idea... The heater system gets fixed, after a fashion, just as he bragged about so much, but the rest of his time in their wonderful house is a DISASTER. The family's sorry they ever heard of the guy! That heater repairman had no respect for their home, for their family life, just narrowly thought of himself as the heater expert, the hero. That's not enough.

  • Topic by fountainheadkc. Forum: 陈凯෹...

    陈凯-论川普的价值虚无
    Kai Chen on Trump's Rise


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk6NLeiYT4g

    Kai Chen on Trump's Rise: 8/21/15

    "Power without moral compass is the most dangerous and destructive force that dooms mankind. Maybe "Lord of the Ring" can inspire you with my point." --- Kai Chen


    ----------------------------------------------------

    Trump's rise does not inspire me. It alarms me.

    As Rubio maintains: "America is great and has been great. " America's greatness is not defined by her power alone. America is great because it is good with a principled foundation - Human liberty and freedom. America is great not because of the stats or strength. America is great because of her values and meaningful existence.

    It is not what Trump said that bothers me. It is what he always and consistently does not say: Despite his hugging the flag and wanting to 'make America great again", he fails thoroughly to understand and articulate what America stands for and what being an American means. Liberty/freedom has been lacking entirely in his speech. Trump wants power and power alone. He thinks only power defines America, not values. He believes "might makes right", not other way around.

    Alarmingly, many Americans identify themselves with Trump's view of world and America. This is where dictatorship arises and endangers everyone's life and liberty. At the best, Trump is a nationalist, not a Conservative for liberty and freedom in society. At worst, Trump is trying to make enemies (he mixed China with Japan, not differentiate despotism and democracy) domestically and internationally. In Trump's world, like in most liberals' view, there is no right and wrong, truth and falsehood, good and evil. There is only power by strength/guns. Mao maintains the same world view. That is why I left China to look for a place with true values. I came to America. I fully understand in a gun/power dominated society, what a human being can become - zombies via a process of zombification by the government.

    Indeed, America has never been perfect. Yet America has always been great, for America is the only country in the world guided not by tradition, language, religion, territory, etc.... America is guided by the eternal values/principles of mankind, manifested in the "Declaration of Independence" and "American Constitution with the Bill of Rights". America has always been under the guidance of divine moral compass, striving toward light and hope.

    This is why I identify myself as an America since I was born. Only I was born in the wrong place. Trump can never represent me or America. I'd rather have Cruz, Carson, Rubio, Fiorina..., for they understand what America stands for and what being an American is all about.

  • 自由精神啟蒙系列之一

    自由的曙光

    Dawn of Liberty


    自1886年10月28日,每天清晨,紐約港口的自由女神像都會迎來埃利斯島的第一縷霞光。她頭戴冠冕,身著古羅馬長袍,左手緊抱《美國獨立宣言》,右手高擎長達12米的火炬。在花崗巖構築的神像基座上,鐫刻著美國女詩人埃瑪·娜莎羅其的一首的詩:

    將那些疲乏的,貧困的擠在一起渴望自由呼吸的人們
    將那些熙熙攘攘的岸上被遺棄的不幸的人們
    將那些無家可歸飽經風霜的人們
    一齊送給我
    我站在金門口
    高舉自由的火把

    自1892到1954年,自由女神像見證了1,200萬人通過紐約埃利斯島進入了美國。

    縱觀人類歷史,美國,一個才成立不到250年的國家,擁有世界最先進的科學技術,最雄厚的經濟實體,最強大的軍事力量,吸引著世界最具創造力的人才。直到今天,仍有從專制國家的人們不惜付出生命的代價,來到美國,追求自由。作為世界自由的燈塔,她的自由的源頭是什麼?是什麼力量塑造了她?讓我們追尋五月花號清教徒拓荒者的腳步,來破譯美國自由和偉大的DNA.

    1620年9月,一艘名叫“五月花號”的木帆船,載著一百零一名英國移民從英國出發,橫渡大西洋,駛往北美洲今天的普利茅斯馬薩諸塞灣。這批移民以受迫害的英國清教徒為主。他們放棄歐洲富裕的生活,來到荒涼的北美,目的就是要實現清教徒的理想:建設一個理想國,一個沒有宗教迫害,一個沒有君主專制、沒有腐敗的民治共同體,把上帝的福音傳到每一個角落。在船靠岸之前,這批清教徒們以他們先前在英國教堂裏采用的社會契約為樣本,在粗糙羊皮紙上起草了《五月花號公約》。

    陳凱:就在這三四句話裏面,兩次提到上帝。我們在信仰上帝的基點上建立一個共同的政治體,這個政治體我們將來可以慢慢形成政府,可以真正地形成一個政治上可以自理的社會。

    這份著名的文件同時被稱為是「美國精神的出生證明」。

    人類歷史上,無數的權力更替,都是通過暴力與權術完成,而這只能標示人類墮落的深度。而契約建立了約束、制衡和保護,人與人之間除過基於暴力的殺戮、征服和奴役之外,又多了一個選擇,這就是基於契約的合作。

    陳凱:人們用《五月花號公約》建立一個人和人之間的基本關系的協約,這個協約是建築在我們對上帝的承諾。當我們說了話之後,不是槍桿子來指著我,或者多數的人來壓迫我,讓我實行我所說的話,而是我對上帝的信念,讓自動地對我所承諾的事情,對我所說的話,負責任。這個就是一個契約社會和一個法制社會最基點的東西。

    在王權與神權並行統治的時代,《五月花號公約》所體現出的依法管理、民眾自治理念,不僅樹立了“美國精神”,也標榜了文明尺度和國家道德,成了世界的“光與鹽”。

    1775年4月19日,萊克星敦打響了美國獨立戰爭第一槍。整個戰爭歷時7年11個月,擁有最先進武器,最強大軍事力量的日不落大英帝國,最終被由農夫,工匠,小商業者組成的誌願兵所擊敗。

    1776年7月4日,第二次大陸會議在費城通過了《獨立宣言》,正式宣布美國13個殖民地脫離英國獨立。

    《獨立宣言》:
    在人類事務的發展過程中,當一群人們必須解除其和另一群人們之間的政治聯繫,並依照自然法則和上帝的意旨在世界政治試題中獲得獨立和平等的地位時,出於對人類輿論的尊重,這一群人們應當把導致他們獨立的原因予以宣布。

    我們認為以下這些真實是自我驗證的:所有人因被神(上帝)所創而平等。上帝賦予他們若幹不可剝奪的權利,其中包括生命、自由和追求幸福的權利。為了保障這些權利,人們才在他們之間建立政府。 這個政府的合法權力,是由被施法者們的同意而産生的。 當任何形式的政府,對這些目標(保障人的天賦權利)產生破壞作用時,人們便應用神賦予的權利予以改變或廢除,建立新的政府。 新政府的建立與組織必須基於所提的原則,以使所管理的人們得到最大程度的安全和幸福。 為了慎重起見,成立許久的政府是不應當由於微小與暫時的原因而草率更換。 歷史曾一再向我們驗證,人寧可遭受苦難也不願為了原則更換已經習慣了的政府。 但當政府用極端的專制暴政無視人的尊嚴強取豪奪,人們就不但有權利也有義務推翻這樣的政府而為他們未來的安全建立新的保障。

    記載了五十六名簽署獨立宣言的人當中,有五十二名是基督徒。即便那些不上教會的建國之父也持有基督信仰的世界觀。當十三個殖民地聯合聲明脫離英國的時候,美國的國父們小心翼翼地擘畫著一套基督教政治哲學:一套根植於聖經式的理解,即神乃造物者、神賦予人類權利與義務,以及受到監管的政府的真正含義。

    陳凱:其他社會裏面,所有社會的建立,有的是因為地域,有的是因為宗教,有的是因為語言,有的是因為膚色,有的是因為文化。在美國,是第一個相信,人可以不要國王,不要皇帝,不要宗教領袖們,就可以自己管理自己事務的這樣一個世界上獨一無二的,而且世界上首先建立的這樣一個社會。

    陳凱:美國的《獨立宣言》可以一直沿襲到希臘社會的整個對人類哲學討論, 人究竟是什麼,人是否追求幸福,人是否追求自由, 選舉的必要性,洛克,他是英國社會,還包括很多歐洲的哲學家們,提到的通過合同而建立的政府,人性本身是戰爭還是和平,都是非常深遠的一些討論, 焦距在美國的《獨立宣言》裏面。

    陳凱:這個獨立不止是美國獨立於英國,不止是自由獨立於專制,同時也是每個個體獨立於政府。一個社會如果不是建築在個體獨立上而去談國家的獨立,這個社會肯定是專制社會。

    陳凱:一個聯邦憲政的社會,他們不相信,我們必須通過強權去建立一個社會,他相信我們必須依賴這樣永恒的價值,依賴每個人心中的良知,去建立一個正向的有創造力的有希望的社會。

    自由鐘獨立制作
    2015年7月

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