228樂團 請轉載給適合的人(務必!!)(急)

hello guys
這封信是關於在228那天要來表演的樂團Strike anywhere, 他們是被認定為一政治punk樂團
(http://www.strikeanywhere.org/ )(http://www.myspace.com/strikeanywhere ), 而來228這一個表演似乎並不太適合它他們所站的立場

,原因大概是他們並沒有告知這是一個什麼樣的活動,因此我寫了這封信給主唱,若是你同意以下的內容希望你也可以將這封信以你的名義寄出.也或歡迎妳在信尾加上你的附註 感謝

他們的email是-strikeanywhere@hotmail.com
請你寄給他們的同時也寄出附件給我,我會再寄至他們私人信箱以確保他們收到
Hi Thomas,

(this is sent by whom had already agreed with the context below, to the vocalist from strike anywhere)

I’m writing you this letter first I want to say, me and my friends are all happy because you guys are finally coming, but also sad the same time, that you guys are coming on such a festival supporting anti-china and the ideology of supporting war.

I supposed you haven’t get any idea from the people who are organizing this festival. In 2004 when this same festival was under a totally different name as “say yes to Taiwan, say no to china” a band called “king Ly-Chee” from Hong Kong came for the festival. So did a few other bands from Japan and China. Every band was asked to say “say yes to Taiwan, supporting Taiwan independent from china, and say NO to china” on the stage, and they did great job, except for King Ly Chee, who didn’t have any idea what was this about. The whole festival was like a very ROCKING political propaganda we have never seen in Taiwan, supporting the president present and the former president, which both of them are with the same ideology of supporting Taiwan independence, even it could lead us to war. Because of the reason King Ly Chee didn’t say the statement as how they pro-taiwan and anti-china, they got ditched after the show with no one gave them a place to stay and no one took care of them. They were confused, angry and misled, an year later they told me they got ban from china for playing this pro-taiwan festival. Of course this is just another bully story from China. But also this could be a big lose too, it depends on what you are willing to lose. This is just a story and probably doesn’t say much, if you care you can write to King Ly Chee and ask about this.
Basically I want to write this letter, coz I like you guys for the messages you want to send within the songs, and it doesn’t fit to play such a festival with such ideas. I don’t know if you read anything about Taiwan and the struggle we have with China, but I believe you must watch some CNN and have seen how the politicians fight in the congress. The political situation here is more like a bunch of kids trying to play adult and then they just ruin everything, such as every other country. (this is actually harder than I think just to explain this whole situation.) Ok, let me start from the beginning… now we have 5 different Parties in congress, but they are actually 2 main ideology on the struggle with us and china, (since we are talking about the festival, so I will just focus on this) one is that we should go independent with whatever it takes, people on this side never deny about the possibility of war, (this is the biggest question we always ask them) and they think it is worth it, for some reason these people really believe we will win on the battle filed, because America will be kindly to save our ass(maybe we could be the second Israel?) And the other side think we just remain the same situation, they don’t want wars, they just want thier life gets better, I had met some of these people by going to almost all protest against weapon-purchase from American, where the Eagles only sells us cheap, broken weapons to get rid of their economy deficit, and buy more new weapons for Iraq. Some of these people believe China is the answer, which is totally wrong, Chinese government is nothing better than the government we are having, and they are certainly not a Marxism/socialism country. But also not everybody in this side wants to be part of china. Most of them just want to have a peaceful life where they can have the same regular days like what they have now.

So, about these people who are doing this festival, they are the group of people who supporting our former president, who was first a loyal KMT(a party disagree Taiwan independence) then after his retirement he became an aggressive pro-taiwan independent leader, this festival became a big political concert propaganda to promote the idea of Taiwan independence and the race different form us and people in china, I remember they were playing a little theater on the stage in 2004 to show how “evil” the “Chinese” are, they laugh and curse about those politicians who disagree with them, calling them the pigs, and emphasized on the race, we are “Taiwanese” not “Chinese”. And all Chinese are bad, evil…. Oh except for this band “punkgod” who came from china, they are the “true hero”. And this band’s lyrics are all about how they are going to kill communist, what different ways they are going to do that. Sum up, they are all hateful lyrics. While on the show, you see flag waving, slogan yelling, speech giving under the whole idea how evil Chinese are, its almost like a neo-nazi concert from another America history x movie without the violence.

The funny part is, this year they start to talk about transitional justice, none of us could believe this because of the ideology they always stand for. And their leader(the former president) did an interview talking about how he never support Taiwan independence, we were shocked, he was talking how he is becoming a centrist lean-left, which is totally opposite from what he was. And if you do a search you will know, he is a 100% capitalism president before, even we can say a pan- imperialism slavery believer, right wing president.

There’s actually other good fun festival in Taiwan worth coming, such as the spring scream in march/april or the other rock festival in summer. As the matter of fact, strike anywhere has been defined as a political punk rock band, this could be a lot of promotion for them to the young kids if you guys come to such a festival. And here I am not asking you guys not to come, of course you guys must only sing about the things you believe, it cant just be words. So I am only writing this letter to give you a heads up, and you decided for yourself, just please don’t stand for something you don’t believe, this is certainly not a regular music festival.
warmest regards,

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