Lynn sought out Li Ao, a critical author who was writing for Wenshing Magazine, and this began the crucial human rights and protest side of his life.

Li Ao introduced Lynn to Presbyterian and other ministers such as Milo Thornberry who were secretly collecting information on the abuses of the regime.

This provided him travel all over Vietnam, as well as regular R&R trips on US military flights to Japan by way of Taiwan, which gave him ample opportunity to smuggle letters for Li Ao—and indirectly for Peng Ming-min.

He witnessed the heavy police harassment of Li Ao and Hsieh and Wei Ting-chao, and tried to give them access to foreign reporters.

He also linked up with the efforts of Ms. Miyake Kiyoko (San Dzai Ching-dze) who was for a while still able to slip in and out of Taiwan and visit the wives of those imprisoned and human rights informants.

Lynn also began to more actively train foreign students in Japan to undertake human rights missions while on jaunts around Asia.

[3] With the rise of the Formosa Magazine democratic movement in Taiwan, late 1977 to 1979, Lynn became a crucial link for contact with world media, and his ICDHRT newsletter had a mailing list of 200.

In Connecticut, living with his father, Lynn threw himself into human rights work for El Salvador, with a murderous government then supported by President Ronald Reagan.

[7] His funeral was held two days before his 72nd birthday, and was attended by fellow activist Linda Arrigo, and politicians Tsai Ing-wen, Hsu Hsin-liang, and Su Chih-fen.