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给“占中案”九位志士的信

朱耀明牧师、陈健民教授、戴耀廷教授、李永达先生、陈淑庄女士、邵家臻先生、黄浩铭先生、张秀贤先生、钟耀华先生:

你们今天将要站在法院的被告席,听取法官就占中案颁下裁决。不想也不愿猜测裁决结果,但不管法官作出的是有罪还是无罪的判决,在市民心中你们绝不是什么罪犯、罪人,而是为了建设更美好香港而鞠躬尽瘁的志士,根本不应该站在被告席或犯人栏。

在这里送上几段前辈抗争者的话,希望让你们面对横逆时能感到宽心,知道民主人权的路有他们与我们同行。

第一段话来自扭转种族隔离政策,令南非切实走向民主共融的已故总统曼德拉。他是这样说的:

“During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination,and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be,it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”(我终生为非洲人民奋斗,既反对白人专权,也反对黑人专政。我梦想建立一个民主自由的社会让所有人融洽相处,平等参与。我为此而活而努力,若有必要我愿为此而死。)

第二段话来自印度圣雄甘地。他是非暴力公民抗命运动的先行者。1922年首次被英国殖民政府以煽动叛乱罪拘捕及起诉,甘地在庭上自辩时说了这番话:

“In my humble opinion,non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. But in the past,non-cooperation has been deliberately expressed in violence to the evil doer. I am endeavoring to show to my countrymen that violent non-cooperation only multiplies evil and that as evil can only be sustained by violence,withdrawal of support of evil requires complete abstention from violence.”(愚见认为,对邪恶采取不合作态度就像全力拥抱美善一样重要……我想以行动向国人表明,暴力抗争只会令邪恶滋长,而邪恶本身也得藉暴力维持。惟有全面扬弃暴力才能令邪恶无处容身。)

另一段想送给九位志士的话来自前捷克总统哈维尔。上世纪70年代共产主义政权控制东欧,他不畏牢狱与打压,勇于发声挑战专制政权的荒诞愚昧,致力在文化、知识上反抗当权者的愚民政策。1978年他写下了〈The System〉的文章,提醒民众不要盲从当权者的指示,以免成为延续专制政权的帮凶。他是这样说的:

“This is why life in the system is so thoroughly permeated with hypocrisy and lies……depriving people of information is called making it available;the use of power to manipulate is called the public control of power,and the arbitrary abuse of power is called observing the legal code……the lack of free expression becomes the highest form of freedom,farcical elections become the highest form of democracy;banning independent thought becomes the most scientific of world views……”(专权体制充斥虚伪与谎言……封锁资讯被说成资讯公开,以权力操控社会被说成为还政于民,滥用权力是依法治国……没有表达自由就是最高的自由,闹剧式的伪选举是民主的最高体现;禁制独立思考可达到最科学的发展观……)哈维尔的忠告已是40年前的事,可在今天的中国类似的情况正在重演,香港也在走上类似的末路。

不公义的法律不是法律

最后一段话来自美国黑人民权领袖马丁路德金。1963年他被关在阿拉巴马州伯明罕市,写下了那封著名的〈Letter from Birmingham Jail〉。信件中说:

“There are two types of laws:just and unjust. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. Conversely,one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that 'an unjust law is no law at all.'”(这个世上有公义与不公义两种法律。对于前者,我将带头遵守;可对于不公义的法律,我们有道德责任拒绝遵从。就如圣奥古斯丁所言,“不公义的法律根本不是法律”,我完全同意这个说法。)

还有很多话想说,还有很多话要说,但再多的话都不能减轻你们身上的重担,让你们的民主苦路走得轻松一点。重要的是,你们走这条路绝不孤单,前面有一个又一个巨人走过,后续还有一代一代的人等着接棒。

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