半島新聞 2009 10. 10.

Obama: I do not deserve Nobel prize

The Nobel committee said Obama had reached out to the world in a bid to end nuclear arms stocks [EPA]

Barack Obama, the US president, has said he is "surprised and deeply humbled" after being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009, less than a year after taking office.

Speaking in Washington, Obama said he did "not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who have been honoured by this prize".

The Nobel Committee in Oslo, the Norwegian capital, said that the award recognised Obama's attempts to foster international peace and create a world without nuclear weapons.

Obama will give his $1.4m reward for winning the Nobel Peace Prize to charity, the AFP news agency reported a US official as saying.

No decision has yet been taken on exactly which organisations will benefit, the official said.

'Mutual respect'

South Africa's Archbishop Desmond Tutu, awarded the prize himself in 1984, hailed the award as "a magnificent endorsement for the first African-American president in history".

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But world reaction to the decision has been mixed, with the Taliban in Afghanistan saying it was absurd to give the prize to Obama when he had ordered 21,000 extra troops to Afghanistan this year.

In his speech from the White House, Obama said: "Let me be clear, I do not view it as a recognition of my own accomplishments, but rather as an affirmation of American leadership on behalf of aspirations held by people in all nations.

"We cannot tolerate a world in which nuclear weapons spread to more nations and in which the terror of a nuclear holocaust endangers more people.

"We must pursue a new beginning among people of different faiths and races and religions, one based upon mutual interest and mutual respect."

The president said he would accept the award as a "call to action" for all nations to confront the common challenges of the 21st century.

"And we must all do our part to resolve those conflicts that have caused so much pain and hardship over so many years," he said.

Taliban criticism

The Taliban condemned the decision saying that Obama has "not taken a single step towards peace in Afghanistan".

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However, Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, congratulated Obama, calling the announcement "appropriate".

An aide to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, said the award should prompt Obama to begin to end injustice in the world.

"We hope that this gives him the incentive to walk in the path of bringing justice to the world order," Ali Akbar Javanfekr, Ahmadinejad's media aide, said.

"We are not upset and we hope that by receiving this prize he will start taking practical steps to remove injustice in the world.

Yukio Hatoyama, the Japanese president, and Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, both said the prize should encourage everyone to help Obama rid the world of nuclear weapons.

"I think the peace prize was given with such a hope," Hatoyama told reporters on a visit to Beijing.

Merkel said Obama had shifted the tone towards dialogue in a very short time.

"There is still much left to do, but a window of possibility has been opened," she said in Leipzig.

'Extraordinary efforts'

Obama, 48, wins the award while still being the commander-in-chief of US-led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Nobel nominees
US President Obama was one of more than 200 individuals nominated for the 2009 Nobel peace prize. The decision to award Obama the prize was a surprise to those who thought that one of these four candidates would win:

Morgan Tsvangirai - the prime minister in Zimbabwe's power-sharing government. As opposition leader, he was imprisoned and severely beaten. But he struck a power-sharing deal with his rival, President Robert Mugabe

Piedad Cordoba - a politician and
hostage negotiator in Colombia, she mediated between the government and the rebel group FARC, and was herself
kidnapped in 1998

Hu Jia - currently in jail in China, on charges of subverting state power. After months of house arrest, he was sentenced just before the Beijing Olympic Games for his constant criticism of human rights abuses

Sima Samar - an advocate of women's rights in male-dominated Afghanistan, she was a senior minister in President Hamid Karzai's first government and is now head of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission

"Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future," Thorbjoern Jagland, the head of the Nobel committee, said.

"His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's population.

"Obama has, as president, created a new climate in international politics.

"Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the United Nations and other international institutions can play."

The only US presidents to have won the award while in office are Theodore Roosevelt in 1906 and Woodrow Wilson in 1919.

Roosevelt was awarded the prize for his contribution to the negotiations that led to the Treaty of Portsmouth which ended the Russo-Japanese War in 1905.

Wilson received the award for his part in founding the League of Nations.

Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, provided in his will for the establishment of the Nobel prizes in 1895.

The possible detrimental use of dynamite is believed to have influenced Nobel in leaving a better legacy after his death.

The Nobel Committee said that Obama had made "extraordinary efforts in international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples".

講這些跟學長當然無關了,我也不知道為什麼會講到這邊來,或許有些事情表面上好像不相干,但其實概念上環環相扣.

有時跟一些女性同事走在一起,一走出室外,我都根本沒去注意到太陽的存在,同事們卻幾乎個個都馬上會拿出雨傘,我說,"沒下雨啊,幹嘛撐傘?",她們説: "先生,這個叫做陽傘,不是雨傘."

我敢說,她們從來都不曾有一秒鐘的時間忘記跟太陽保持勢不兩立的戰鬥狀態. 有時甚至是陰天,根本沒有陽光,她們照樣繼續保持戰鬥位置,照樣撐傘. 她們說: "先生,你不知道沒有陽光的紫外線也會曬黑嗎?"

與太陽勢不兩立的戰鬥,恐怕活多久就會戰鬥多久,絲毫不放鬆. 我常因此心裏有個很深的惆悵: 如果這樣一種與邪惡毫不妥協宛如唐吉訶德般的浪漫騎士精神,能夠撥出千萬分之一用在是非問題上或利他事務上,這個世界早已煥然一新,哪來什麼美帝? 哪來暴民暴政整天檢查他人黨國思想是否純正? 我們根本不再需要天堂,因為天堂早已在人間實現.

大家不妨捫心自問,先不要說行動,光是 "想到" 就好,一年之中,你有幾秒鐘的時間 "想到" 他人的痛苦? "想到" 那些邪惡醜陋的人事物對眾人對萬物所造成的禍患與傷害?

有時去巴勒網後台,看到一些我很討厭的混蛋,十幾年來或甚至更久,就像水蛭一樣,緊緊跟著我,我總覺得一種難以言喻的厭惡感及不可思議.

我真不知道這些混蛋(幾乎全是愛台灣那一型的黨國生物),像水蛭一般吸附汲取著這些跟他們一點都不相稱的文字幹嘛? 很難理解怎麼會有這麼一種空洞蒼白的生存方式.

不管是懷著惡意也好,懷著好奇之心也罷,這樣一種吸附,實在很沒有意義. 好奇那麼多年也該夠了吧?

至於惡意,探敵虛實,這倒是可以了解. 問題是,不管你的敵人是誰,要打擊他,就應該好好用功,好好努力.

比方說,伊拉克淪陷真相二十多頁,我雖只花了五個晚上寫成,但從1992年我就開始閱讀伊拉克及海珊和美國雙方勾結狼狽為奸搞生化武器以毒氣殺害庫德族人或伊朗人等各種英文文獻及人權報告,至今已超過 16 年.

總之,有敵人很好,但不管文戲或武戲,你應該切切實實拿出一點說理論析或抗爭的真本事來,而不是永遠只是像個蛆一樣,儘只會幹些抹黑醜化冒名造謠等等歪歪曲曲陰陰暗暗很沒出息的事; 許多時候讓人感覺真是蠢到爆,蠢到好像連最簡單的句子與表達都看不懂似的.

既然知道怎麼上網,當然不可能蠢到這種地步. 那不是真的蠢,那只是窩囊沒出息. 也就是說,他不是真的蠢到聽不懂半點人話,更不是想要跟你討論什麼想法或觀念,他只是想要傷害你這個人,彷彿只要讓你消音或把你給鬥臭了,他所屬的一方旗幟(過去是藍旗,這十幾年來換成綠色旗了),便彷彿就能大獲全勝似的.

這十足就是台式選舉的翻版,簡單說,他不是真的要跟你講道理,他只是要把你用各種歪歪曲曲陰陰暗暗的方式給鬥臭,或鬥得你不堪其擾,彷彿他便能獲勝.

一個人如果還想保有一點做為一個人應有的格調,那麼,在他改變世界之前,其實最該做的就是改變自己,至少讓自己有別於這樣一種窩窩囊囊陰陰暗暗的華人文化或台灣文化.

西方社會縱有萬般不是,但在 "做為一個人" 這一點上至少是沒有問題的,我很難想像到處會有這樣一種西方人: 只因為對方不支持你的黨你的政治明星或反對你的某種主張或想法,然後就會像蛆一樣傾巢而出,用各種陰暗歪曲的手段去傷害對方.

西方人很少有這麼沒出息的,也很少這麼低能. 西方人彼此想法不同不太會構成一種緊張關係;西方人想法不同,只會藉由論事析理的本事來競爭,看誰擁有更多的理性來決定是非對錯,而不會動用理性之外的任何手段,更不可能動用台灣社會或華人社會所盛行不衰的各種不可思議的卑鄙手段去傷害人.

我不了解中國,難以論斷,但道理是一樣的,從來沒有一種社會能夠純粹藉著船堅炮利或大量財富來 "崛起",這樣的崛起是崛起個什麼碗糕呢?

北島說得很對,中國物質興盛了,但人文精神卻持續淪喪. 很難想像這樣一種物質興盛究竟在人類文明上能具有什麼樣輝煌的意義? 終究我們還是得回到一個一個 "人" 身上,回到無數的 1, 回到無數的原點,回到生命的開端,意義的起源.

我們不該有這樣一種心態: 希望別人去拯救世界而我來坐享其成,反正死是死道友,不是死貧道.

世界其實不可能改變,除非我們先改變自己.

忘了聽誰說的了,好像是 william james吧,大約是這麼說: 希望別人去打拼,最好是能多多犧牲奉獻(就好像有些波蘭醫學生的家長 "鼓勵" 我繼續跟那些生物對抗一樣,為什麼是 "我" 呢? 拯救世界是 "我" 的責任嗎?) 這樣一種心態叫做 "正常". 而那些坐而言不如起而行的志士或者說笨蛋們,則謂之 "異常".

但人類文明進展的關鍵,恰恰就在於從前者變成後者,從正常變成異常;從很會打算盤到不知計算自己的利害得失.

這樣一種轉變,恐怕需要千百年或更長的時間,但沒有走上這一步,人類便很難往前演化,而只會趨於毀滅,註定在不斷重覆的歷史和痛苦中起伏而終究毀滅. 世上如果有什麼事是確定的,那麼這件事就是了.

曾聽過一場有關生物演化的演講,舉證兩種人類曾存在地球上,一種孔武有力,技巧高,很會求生存,一種軟弱無力,而且不切實際愛玩愛做夢,但後者卻存活了下來,有人說那是因為後者並不光只會計較利害得失,反倒很浪漫,而正是這樣一種不夠自私不夠務實的生存態度給生命帶來演化的空間與希望.

就算不談師徒,只講朋友,待友之道理應是這樣: 設身處地成全你的朋友,就像成全你的家人一般.

如果你不會願意自己的家人遭受某種痛苦,那你就同樣也應該不願意看到朋友承受那樣的痛苦. 就好像學姐經常阻止我罵綠營或批評醫界主流一樣,因為他們知道這種勢力這類生物不能惹.

但卻有很多所謂讀者或朋友,很喜歡看熱鬧,看到我被人批鬥抹黑時特別爽,很刺激. 可是,假如今天我是他們的親人呢? 他們還會感到刺激感到爽而跑去圍觀看熱鬧嗎?

77歲再關20年意思就是關到死.

陳真

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法波兩國轉軚捨棄波蘭斯基

(星島日報)2009-10-03

擁有法國和波蘭國籍的奧斯卡金像導演波蘭斯基（Roman Polanski）三十一年前涉嫌在美國強姦未成年少女，上周在瑞士被捕及可能被引渡到美國受審，一度觸發波蘭及法國官員不滿，但事態逆轉，法國和波蘭政府已不再支持他。

法國政府人發言人沙泰爾改口說，波蘭斯基應面對司法制裁，不能凌駕法律。波蘭總理圖什克亦指示部下對此事保持克制。

美國當局將要求法院判處波蘭斯基入獄十八至二十年。洛杉磯縣地方檢察官庫尼說，追捕波蘭斯基並非要逼害他，而是要跟進他在一九七八年涉嫌犯下的罪案。

加州州長阿諾舒華辛力加也說，金像導演不能凌駕法律，在法律面前，波蘭斯基該像其他人一樣受到相同對待。

瑞士當局上周六在蘇黎世機場拘捕七十六歲的波蘭斯基，稱是應美國發出的國際通緝令拘捕他，並準備把他引渡往美國受審。波蘭斯基當時正擬出席瑞士一個電影節。

波蘭及法國方面對波蘭斯基被捕一度不滿，波蘭前總統瓦文薩指波蘭斯基是「偉人」，要求赦免他，法國外交部長庫什內則對其被捕感到遺憾；兩國官員還曾致函美國國務卿希拉莉(相關)，要求美方放人。

洛杉磯警察局長布拉頓在接受當地電台訪問透露，美方將要求判波蘭斯基至少18至20年監。

過去數十年來,英美這些在無數戰爭中犯下無數令人髮指姦殺擄掠抄家滅族的戰爭罪行的混蛋們,如今大多健在,甚至持續惡搞,罪惡深重無以復加,各種慘劇何止千萬?

但空有所謂國際法庭,他們依然逍遙法外,卻對一個三十幾年前的一個私人過錯,對一個都已經77 歲並無其它過錯歲的老人,像在追殺什麼恐怖份子般發出國際追緝令,窮追不捨,這種奇特的正義感,實在有點荒腔走板裝模做樣.

再說,當年幾位法官檢察官都已公開承認他們當初對波蘭斯基存有偏見,甚至因此說謊,目的就是要惡整波蘭斯基,因此,儘管表面上朝認罪協商的方向經營,暗地裏卻準備判他五十年,內幕消息傳出,波蘭斯基才連夜逃亡.

而且,受害者都已公開不知道說過多少次,說她願意原諒波蘭斯基並已達成庭外和解,希望波蘭斯基能夠重獲自由而不再受此案牽制,希望撤銷這個案子,並說自己的母親當年努力要把她推向影藝世界因此要她攀附波蘭斯基等等,三十幾年過去了,所謂正義的美國司法,卻依然窮追不捨.

如此 "正義" 的司法,面對美軍及其背後的戰爭發動者及各路軍火商,卻從未動過他們一根汗毛,甚至為虎作倀,為其殘害人權如刑求及任意拘捕無限期無罪拘押等等,提供法律基礎,這樣的所謂司法正義,實在可恥.

而且,波蘭斯基一案,案發現場幾位證人也證實,當年在旁人看來,一般會以為受害者應該差不多25歲,沒有人會想到她的真實年紀竟未滿14歲.

在這麼多有利於波蘭斯基的證據和證詞之下,經過了三十幾年,連刺蔣的黃文雄也不過逃亡26年就回到了台灣,也沒見他被以刺殺元首的罪名起訴或抓去槍斃,波蘭斯基的案子有嚴重到要追殺個三十幾年至今卻仍打算以死刑或無期徒刑或數十年重罪論處的地步嗎?

三十幾年前,台灣政府如果四處追捕黃文雄,就法論法,你很難說刺殺元首(子彈只差了蔣經國的頭部20公分)是法律上無辜的,美國抓黃文雄,你儘管認為蔣經國可惡而聲援黃文雄,但你也很難說以法律論罪是錯的.

可是,黃文雄後來不也在美國棄保逃亡? 逃了26年,如果今天國民黨或美國突然把他抓起來說刺殺元首應判死刑,不知大家心裏將做何感想? 你會覺得這樣的法律很偉大很正義很動人嗎?

當年的許多獨裁者,例如讓千百顆人頭落地讓無數家庭破碎的智利大獨裁者皮諾契(pinochet),晚年(1998年)至倫敦就醫卻被捕,英國尚且都能以其年事已高不宜受審的人道理由,拒絕各方的引渡要求; 儘管當年包括國際特赦組織在內,幾乎所有國際人權團體都贊成引渡審判皮諾契,但英國仍高舉人道大旗,釋放皮諾契.

難道波蘭斯基與未成年少女發生性關係的私人罪行,能夠與皮諾契相提並論? 更不用說那些戰爭罪行遠比皮諾契不知道要可惡幾百倍的美國歷任總統及無數美國軍官將領及許多跨國公司及軍火商等等這批人.

三十幾年全球追捕波蘭斯基的這種 "正義",不但可疑,而且可恥,甚至可恨.

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電影界為波蘭斯基叫屈 共同連署抗議拘捕
更新日期:2009/09/30 00:50 林仟懿

（法新社巴黎29日電） 法國電影工業聯盟SACD告訴法新社，美國一流導演伍迪艾倫（Woody Allen）、大衛林區（David Lynch）與馬丁史柯西斯（MartinScorsese）等人今天共同簽署請願書，抗議瑞士拘捕名導演羅曼波蘭斯基（Roman Polanski）。

代表表演與視覺藝術工作者的SACD，發起連署活動為羅曼波蘭斯基請命，目前已有110位演藝界人士參與連署，要求「立即釋放」他。

其中包括麥可曼恩（Michael Mann）、溫德斯（Wim Wenders）、西班牙大導阿莫多瓦（PedroAlmodovar）、達倫阿洛諾夫斯基（Darren Aronofsky）、泰瑞吉連（Terry Gilliam）、與達頓兄弟（Dardenne）等人。

執導過「失嬰記」（Rosemary's Baby）、「唐人街」（Chinatown）以及「戰地琴人」（The Pianist）等片的奧斯卡金獎導演羅曼波蘭斯基，26日飛往瑞士準備出席蘇黎世電影節，並領取終身成就獎。不過他人還在機場就遭到拘捕。

請願書上寫著，「法國、歐洲、美國與全球的電影人都對逮補行動感到錯愕」，並說這項消息對SACD而言，「太過震驚」。

「SACD認為，向當代一大名導致意的國際藝文盛事，竟淪為警方逮捕他的陷阱，令人無法接受。」（譯者：中央社林仟懿）

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