Overseas Chinese Democracy Coalition News and Article Release Issue Number: A829-O235

中国民主运动海外联席会议新闻与文章发布号：A829-O235

Release Date: July 16, 2014

发布日：2014年7月16日

Topic: Love Our People, but Not the Communist Parties -- Wei Jingsheng's Speech at the US Congress on Vietnam Freedom and Democracy Day

标题：热爱我们的人民，而不是共产党 -- 魏京生在美国国会举办的越南自由民主日大会上的讲话

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Love Our People, but Not the Communist Parties

-- Wei Jingsheng's Speech at the US Congress on Vietnam Freedom and Democracy Day

(On July 16, 2014, Wei Jingsheng was invited to speak at the plenary session at the Cannon House Office Building in the US Congress, as part of activities of Vietnam Freedom and Democracy Day. The event was organized by Coalition for a Free and Democratic Vietnam. The session focused on the current state of Asia, especially the relationship of Vietnam, China and the neighboring nations. Former Congressman Joseph Cao facilitated the panel. Four other panelists participated including former US Ambassador Grover Joseph Rees, newly released Vietnamese political prisoner Dr. Cu Huy Ha Vu, and professor Xai Yeliang of the Cato Institute. Several US congressmen attended and also spoke at the event, which was attended by about 200 Vietnamese-Americans and others. This was the first international public event that Wei Jingsheng attended since his hospitalization. The following is the speech he delivered during the penal session.)

Wei Jingsheng:

First of all, I want to thank Congressman Joseph Cao, Ambassador Grover Joseph Rees and conference organizers for inviting me to come and speak.

In 1979 during the Sino-Vietnamese War, my friends and I published anti-war articles. This activity was also one of charges against me to put me in prison. Why did we run the risk of imprisonment to speak out against the Sino-Vietnamese war? Because we thought that war was a cover-up to divert the Chinese people's attention, in order to consolidate the rule of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and to strengthen the personal dictatorship of then CCP leader Deng Xiaoping. It was a movement fanned up by the Chinese Communist Party to stupefy the Chinese people under the guise of so-called patriotism and nationalism for China.

Today, both the Communist Parties of China and Vietnam are experiencing domestic crisis. Both want to fool the people by means of patriotic fervor, in an effort to extend their rule and refuse democratic reform. Our goal is to make our countries get on the path of democracy and freedom. Their purpose is just the opposite of our objective. Do we need to support their patriotism? No one in our Chinese democracy movement in China supports the war clamor. Neither do we care about the faked patriotism by the Chinese Communist Party of China -- because it is really just a doctrine of loving the Communist Party.

I see many of my Vietnamese friends were fooled the Vietnamese Communist authorities and fell into a patriotic frenzy of anti-aggression. I want to remind my friends, we love our countries that belong to the people with the rights of democracy and freedom, but not nations of one-party dictatorship by the Communist Party. The Communist nations only belong to a handful of rulers, rather than the Vietnamese and Chinese peoples. Why do we want to love the Communist nations?

Why do we have to go along with their patriotism? Why should we mobilize people to defend their one-party dictatorship? It seems they do not want to really fight right now anyway. They just want to stage some patriotic shows in an effort to attract people's support, and thus cover up internal political crisis. This cover-up is

irrelevant to the patriotism issue. Assuming they really fight against each other, then they will collapse even faster. Then we would have a chance to establish a system of democracy and freedom, and have a chance to save our people. From this perspective, we should not support their false patriotism either.

When there is confrontation between the authoritarian fascist regimes, it is really a case of what is described by the Chinese people's words as: "When two bad dogs are biting each other, they should only got their mouthful of dog hairs (that is not our business)." We have no need to discuss which bad dog we should help. Our responsibility is to get rid of both bad dogs, and to strive for a new society of peace, democracy, and freedom for all the people.

Thank you,

--Wei Jingsheng

Related photo:

1. the plenary session in the US Congress on Vietnam Freedom and Democracy Day:

http://www.weijingsheng.org/pic/newsletters/newsletters2014/newsletters2014-6/VietnamFDday140716conference-c-6.jpg

1. Wei Jingsheng was invited to speak at the plenary session in the US Congress：

http://www.weijingsheng.org/pic/newsletters/newsletters2014/newsletters2014-6/VietnamFDday140716panelists-c-6.jpg

2. The panelists (from right to left: Dr. Cu Huy Ha Vu, Ambassador Grover Joseph Rees, Wei Jingsheng, and professor Xia Yeliang):

http://www.weijingsheng.org/pic/newsletters/newsletters2014/newsletters2014-6/VietnamDay140716panelists-c-6.jpg

3. Some of panelists and organizers after the conference：

http://www.weijingsheng.org/pic/newsletters/newsletters2014/newsletters2014-6/VietnamFDday140716group-c-6.jpg

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中文版

Overseas Chinese Democracy Coalition News and Article Release Issue Number: A829-O235

中国民主运动海外联席会议新闻与文章发布号：A829-O235

Release Date: July 16, 2014

发布日：2014年7月16日

Topic: Love Our People, but Not the Communist Parties -- Wei Jingsheng's Speech at the US Congress on Vietnam Freedom and Democracy Day

标题：热爱我们的人民，而不是共产党 -- 魏京生在美国国会举办的越南自由民主日大会上的讲话

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热爱我们的人民，而不是共产党

-- 魏京生在美国国会举办的越南自由民主日大会上的讲话

（2014年7月16日，魏京生应邀在美国国会的Cannon众议院大楼的大会上演讲。这次会议是由争取自由民主的越南联合组织的，是越南自由民主日的一部分。该会议力图着重讨论越南和中国与周边国家的现状及关系。讨论由前美国国会议员高光映律师主持。讨论小组的专家和领袖还包括：前美国大使约瑟夫·瑞斯，新释放的越南政治犯瞿辉何武博士，及美国卡托研究所的夏业良教授。数位美国国会议员也出席了活动并在有200来名越裔美国人及其他人参加的会议上讲话。这是魏京生出院以来参加的首次公开的国际活动。以下是魏京生的讲话内容。）

魏京生：

首先感谢高光映议员，瑞斯大使和会议组织者们邀请我给大家讲话。

1979年中越战争时期，我和我的朋友们发表了反对战争的文章。这也是我被捕入狱的罪名之一。为什么我们冒着入狱的危险反对战争呢？因为我们认为这场战争是为了巩固中国共产党的统治，为了加强邓小平的个人独裁，而采取的转移国内人民视线的障眼法。那是中共假借爱国主义和民族主义煽起的愚民运动。

如今中越两国的共产党都遇到了国内危机。他们都想借助于爱国主义运动来愚弄人民，延缓他们的统治，拒绝民主改革。而我们的目标是让我们的国家走上民主自由的道路。他们的目的和我们的目标完全相反。我们还需要去支持他们的爱国主义吗？我们中国的民主运动，没有人支持这场战争的叫嚣，也没有人理睬中国共产党的假爱国主义、真爱党主义。

我看到很多越南朋友被越共当局所迷惑，陷入了所谓反侵略的爱国主义热潮之中。我想提醒朋友们，我们爱的是属于人民的国家，有民主自由权利的国家，而不是一党独裁的共产党的国家。共产党的国家仅仅只属于一小撮统治者,它不是越南人民和中国人民的国家。我们为什么要去爱共产党的国家呢？

我们为什么要附和他们的爱国主义，为什么要动员民众保卫他们的一党独裁呢？看上去他们现在并不想真的打起来，只不过是做做爱国秀，吸引人民的支持，解决内部的政治危机。这和爱国不爱国没有关系。假设他们真的打起来，他们就垮台得更快。我们才有机会建立民主自由的制度，才有机会拯救我们的人民。从这个角度看，我们也不该支持他们的假爱国主义。

两个独裁法西斯政权之间的对抗，用中国老百姓的话来形容，就是狗咬狗、两嘴毛。我们没必要讨论该帮助哪一只狗。我们的责任是把这两只狗都赶走，给老百姓争取和平民主自由的新社会。

谢谢大家。

魏京生 2014年7月16日