We should start by realizing that the Ganden Lineage has no future at all within the exile Tibetan society and most of it's western satellites (fpmt). It is maintained alive artificially for now in the south with no tangible solution in sight. Everything we do is aimed only at the moment without a long term objective. This is not good and it's not clear what we can hope to accomplish with our present course of action. 'What's our exit strategy?' said Johnson to McNamara. 'We do not have one, Sir!' was the answer.
Street protests are ill suited for our cause
Protests can look bad on TV and send the wrong message, they often do. For example, when Chi'a muslims protest on TV, most of us don't feel so interested in what they have to say, why? First, because we've already bought a story about them long time ago, we have our little preconcieved idea about them. Second, because in TV, content is secondary and appearance is everything. Protesting against the Dalai-Lama will look bad on TV whatever the issue, like Chi'a Muslims protests, and will backfire because 99% of those viewers we want to convince already have a favorable opinion about the DL and will not dig deeper for the truth. All you have on TV is 9-10 seconds max to make your case and we cannot make our case in this timeframe (Hell! We can barely explain our case to a new buddhist in half an hour, ours is a very complex problem indeed!). People do not change opinion and belief in a 9-10 seconds clip. People only understand what they want from a newsclip. Newsclips or short stories in newspapers only reinforce people's views and opinions about the world and this will obviously play in favor of the DL. Street protests are a bad idea...
Towards an ideas front
If all those street protesters spent the same amount of time on wikipedia, for example, to straighten the facts about our Dharmapala or establishing other truths, it would bear much greater results in changing views and minds about our lineage and practices in the medium and long term. TrinleyKelsang is fighting this wiki war pretty much on his own right now, we should produce a concerted effort to rewrite the article there. We also have a lot of work to do on the scholary front in refuting the Dalai-Lama's (and some scholars') arguments' about our lineage and protector. The 'volition' behind this website has already translated Trijang DorjeChang's work on Duldzin, this is excellent! More translations should be made available like Pabonkha's biography and collected works, etc, to straighten the facts and dispel doubts and slander. All these should be published, made available and sent to Dharma magazines & Librairies, scholars & Universities, etc. With a little patience, these will reap much greater rewards in the medium and long term.
This is how, I think, we can best save our Lineage from the lies and deception of the DL, not by bluntly shouting and screaming! But rather by meditation, reflexion and composition. This is the example our fathers have set out for us to follow. This is our Lineage's practice and style.
'Abiding within the well trained quality of contentment with few desires,
Having much studied and heard the great tradition of the great path blazers,
And with the dialectic of subtle analysis
Emanating a hundred thousand expressions of scriptural sources and reasoning,
Having fulfilled the heart commitment of Dorje Shugden's five families
And fulfilled the heart commitment of the host of attendant entourage,
Accomplish the practitionner's aim as wished
And reduce enemies of Lozang's teaching to ashes'
