编者按：一年前，新西兰著名主持人、专栏作家克尔·伍德罕姆（Kerre Woodham）在《新西兰先驱报》发表署名文章《法轮功，请走开》（Kerre Woodham: Going, going, Gong），呼吁法轮功远离奥克兰的圣诞游行。然而近日，法轮功试图通过威逼的方法参加奥克兰游行的行为，再次惹怒了伍德罕姆，她在先驱报再发文章对法轮功进行驳斥，文中同时提到她曾因前一篇文章，受到法轮功成员的骚扰。
一个星期以来，我一直在设法戒酒。今年可真不寻常，在年末的时候，那些信仰坚定的人毫无顾忌地用他们的理念影响着我，也不管我愿不愿意。所以，在周末喝个小酒似乎是一个好主意。
不过，正当周四晚上我坐在桌边写这篇文章时，身旁正放着一大杯红葡萄酒，我希望以此平息我的神经。我谴责法轮功。这个好斗、刺耳、具有强迫性的团体又试图在奥克兰圣诞游行中不请自到，并且从来不许别人说个“不”字。
这个准政治性的伪精神组织多年来一直试图操纵圣诞游行，当他们被要求带着那些蜡笔画的海报离开游行现场时，就立刻开始变得蛮横无理。
他们恐吓要向高等法院提起上诉，如果是惠灵顿市议会就会屈服，但如果是奥克兰儿童圣诞游行信托基金会，基金会则会回答：“法庭上见！”太棒了。
我曾就这个问题与他们你来我往讨论了好几分钟，那些忠实的法轮功练习者排成一排，用把我堵在路上的方式告诉我他们是如何的高尚，如何的爱好和平，如何的温文尔雅，而他们唯一想做的就是传播爱与光明。
这可太伟大了，伟大得简直有些过头了。传播光明和爱没有任何问题，但只要不是在圣诞游行过程中。
我在教会湾见过他们行事，虽然我没有转变信仰，但我不明白为什么这些人不被允许去了解我们的想法。如果他们想拥有自己的游行，可以向当局申请批准、然后祈求个大晴天，努力去做。但究竟为什么他们一定要获得参与圣诞游行的权力？
这表明法轮功多么不愿意了解或欣赏新西兰的的传统，他们试图用威逼的方法进入游行。记住，法轮功自食其果，达尼丁市（Dunedin）市长称法轮功过去在“意图表达方面不够老实”，随后一直被该市圣诞游行所取缔。
如果他们认为他们把游行组织者告上法庭，会为他们赢得朋友，并感化人们，那么这无疑是文化隔阂，需要加以纠正。看在上帝份上，这可是圣诞游行。还会有比这更为温醇良善的群体活动吗？
事实上，几个电话接下来，法轮功信徒们在电话里不屈不挠地说服，几乎烦得我也要跟着抽泣几声了，但我坚决认为：任何政治组织、游说团体或者激进组织，无论他们如何温和，都不应该出现在圣诞游行中。
游行里应该有的是仙女、卡通人物、圣诞老人和一个基督诞生的场景，当然该是耶稣基督诞生的场景。
毕竟这是圣诞游行，而不是农民节日快乐游街。如果耶稣是这个季节存在的理由，那么他至少应该参与其中。
但是，那不是我的游行，也不应由我决定。这是基金会的决定。他们的游行则由他们设定规则。如果你不喜欢，大可建立自己的与之匹敌的游行，更好的办法是，在另一个游行中不请自到吧。
我们没有看到法轮功出现在“裸体电单车”巡游中，或是任何嘉年华会的狂欢队伍中，对吧？
一对夫妇打电话过来为法轮功进行游说，我很快就厌倦了，并且在节目中禁止他们再打进电话。
我有点沉迷于自己的一点极权主义之中。但我认为这样真的、真的很好。
这无法阻止他们打电话进行坚持不懈地法律威胁行为，不断地要我老板的电话号码（比尔，对不起啦），不断承诺给予各种各样的报偿。我对这些人优柔寡断、放任自流的态度使他们变得更加讨厌。他们是消极侵略型的恶棍，他们不属于圣诞游行。
克尔·伍德罕姆的网站：www.kerrewoodham.com
Kerre Woodham: Booze and bullies
But as I write this on Thursday night, I'm sitting with a stonking great glass of red wine beside me to try to calm my nerves. I blame the Falun Gong. Yet again, this militant, strident, obsessive group is trying to gatecrash Auckland's Santa parade and won't take no for an answer. The quasi-political, faux-spiritual group has been trying to get in behind Santa for years and when they're told to shove off and take their poxy pastel posters with them, they get stroppy. They threaten High Court action and if you're the Wellington City Council, you cave in. If you're the Auckland Children's Christmas Parade Trust, you say "see you in court", and good on the Trust. We were discussing this on talkback and, within minutes, the loyal practitioners of Falun Gong, aka Falun Dafa, were clogging the lines wanting to tell me how spiritual and peaceful and gentle they were and all they wanted to do was spread love and light. Which is great. Just dandy. I have no problem with a little light love spreading - just not in the Santa parade. I've seen them at Mission Bay doing their thing and although I wasn't converted, I can't see why they shouldn't be allowed to prospect for clients. If they want to have their own parade, apply for the grant, pray for fine weather and go for it. But why on earth should they demand the right to participate in the Santa parade? It shows how little the Falun Gong are willing to understand or appreciate New Zealand's traditions that they try to bully their way into the parade. Remember the Falun Gong have form - they are now banned from the Dunedin Santa parade after what the mayor called "dishonesty about their intentions" in the past. If they think they're going to win friends and influence people by taking the Santa parade trustees to court, then there's clearly a cultural disconnect that needs to be corrected. It's the Santa parade, for goodness sake. Could there be a more benign organisation? As it was, the twittering defence of Falun Gong bored me to sobs within a couple of calls. I have strong views about what should be in a Santa parade. No political groups, lobby groups or activist groups, no matter how benign they might appear. There should be fairies, cartoon characters, Santa and a nativity scene. Definitely a nativity scene. It is the Christmas parade, after all, not the Farmers Happy Holidays Santa Parade. If Jesus is the reason for the season, then He should at least get a look-in. But then it's not my parade and not my decision. It's the decision of the trust. Their parade, their rules. And if you don't like them, establish your own rival parade or, better still, try to gatecrash another. We didn't see the Falun Gong at Boobs on Bikes, did we? Or any of the Destiny marches. I quickly tired of the Falun Gong lobbyists after a couple of calls and banned them from the airwaves. I pretty much indulged in a little totalitarianism of my own. And it felt really, really good. That didn't stop them calling constantly, threatening legal action, wanting my boss' number (sorry, Bill) and promising all kinds of retribution. My flabby liberal laissez-faire attitude towards these people has turned into active dislike. They are passive-aggressive bullies - and they don't belong in the Santa parade. Original text from: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinionews/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=10544538 (New Zealand Herald, Sunday, November 23, 2008) |
I've been trying to lay off the booze during the week. It's been a big year and the Piss Fairy was sprinkling her dust rather too liberally on to my shoulders towards the end of it, so it seemed like a good idea to keep the drinks to the weekend.