Ma just told us in pt. 3 that nobody in his admin. was willing to take responsibility for anything.
Next, he says that changing the Parade and Assembly Law (PAL) was one of his campaign promises. Removing the Hanzi for Taiwan from the web site for the pres. office wasn't promised, but that was done before the end of his inaug. speech. With a 3/4 majority in the legislature, what's his excuse?
Read about the pres. web site changes:
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2008/05/23/2003412701
B4 and after images:
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/9206/detaiwanificationoftaiwju1.jpg
And the proposed changes to the law are BS.
When *one still has to look to the gov't to decide if a protest is going to be "problematic,"* we know that an authoritarian-loving gov't like Ma's (he wants the KMT Youth to "produce another Hu Jintao" and likes "the Singapore model") won't approve protests against his gov't. (The Wild StrawBerries were violently removed from their protest site the night after this interview aired.)
About the KMT's delays in changing the PAL:
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2008/11/10/2003428178
How those changes -- once decided upon -- don't make Taiwan any freer:
http://taiwanstudentmovement2008.blogspot.com/2008/12/changes-in-parade-and-a...
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/national/national-news/2008/12/05/186244/A...
http://taiwanstudentmovement2008.blogspot.com/2008/12/1224-wild-strawberry-pr...
About Ma's love of the Singapore model:
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2008/05/11/2003411673
How the police violently removed the Wild StrawBerries from Liberty Square (自由廣場) just hours after the end of Human Rights Day:
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2008/12/12/2003430879
Video of the above incident:
http://taiwanstudentmovement2008.blogspot.com/2008/12/20-mins-video-clip-on-1...
A FAPA statement condemning the police for that incident:
http://taiwanstudentmovement2008.blogspot.com/2008/12/fapa-statement-regardin...
A Canadian MP's condemnation of the police brutality:
http://taiwanstudentmovement2008.blogspot.com/2008/12/taipei-times-interview-...
About Ma Ying-jeou's days as a "student spy" during which overseas pro-democracy Taiwanese were blacklisted:
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2007/07/05/2003368201
More at the bottom of this page:
http://www.taiwandc.org/twcom/103-no1.htm
Discussion in Taiwanese and Chinese:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wCn6FI0C14
Ma is [not telling the truth] when he says that only "around 30" protesters were injured. There are *pix* of over 50 cops being violent. You know there are many more than that:
http://www.yuyen.tw/2008/11/blog-post_7959.html
Many videos of the police brutality are on YouTube. Here's the documentary "Red Caution" (with English subtitles) showing a lot of nonviolent protesters getting hurt:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRwc50s6Vu4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY6wfhCy5AE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XyLbx8K_qM
More police violence:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfyrlVG5pik
http://yufuhome.blogspot.com/2008/11/blog-post.html
http://vivataiwantv.blogspot.com/2008/11/day3-081105.html
KMT pol Jason Hu (胡志強) is scolded as being "shameless" and was spit at, but nothing worse:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQW7txaFGI0
Ma is [not telling the truth] when he says that Wang Ting-yu (王定宇) "pushed" Zhang Mingqing (張銘清). Wang rightfully scolded Zhang (who had threatened Taiwan many times), and Zhang *fell*, but Wang immediately *helped Zhang up*. See the video:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7681711.stm
The headline of the BBC piece above is also [not telling the truth]. If the crowd had "attacked" Zhang, he would have been hospitalized at the very least. The crowd was expressing righteous anger.
Ma is [not telling the truth] when he says that Chuang Ruei-hsiung (莊瑞雄) or any other DPP official threatened to throw eggs at Chen Yunlin (陳雲林). Michelle Wang (王美琇) from the Northern Taiwan Society was the one who said it. Look for those 2 names here:
http://fe1.udn.com/NEWS/NATIONAL/NAT3/4583794.shtml
Ma is [not telling the truth] when he says that surveys said that "60 - 65% of the public approved of Chen Yunlin's visit."
The KMT's own poll (done by the Exec. Yuan's Research, Development and Eval. Comm.) put the number 10 to 15 %-age points lower: 50%:
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2008/10/29/2003427212
[Fuller description to come...]
View Part 1 of the interview here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJpWGInM1xQ
View Part 2 of the interview here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJYP-xnt-pc
View Part 3 of the interview here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5UHZaTY10E
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I came across your video while looking for videos of Chen Shui Bian's corruption case. If you put up a Youtube video, you should expect and welcome comments. If you don't permit any comments, why come to Youtube at all? Please brighten up and be happy. Life is short, so cherish every moment. I do hope, however, that you are sane and not, as you call yourself so unkindly, Mad Dog. Wishing you a Happy and Prosperous Chinese New Year.
chenlaifa 3 years ago
chenlaifa wrote:
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I see 3 of your comments here so far (gee, how'd that happen?), but all you're doing is cluttering up the space and making yourself look like a fool. You even misspelled my username 3 different ways.
Actual discourse would consist of you using facts to try to refute my arguments or correct my mistakes. I welcome actual discourse, but so far, you've only been able to whine.
Brighten up, chenlaifa, and cherish my mockery of you.
TimMaddog 3 years ago
TimMadDog,Tks for yr reply.There's no need for you to please me.You simply put up the original video and let readers judge its contents for themselves.If you want to admonish Ma, you can do it in a separate video.I'm not a fan of Ma or any Taiwanese politician.They do not measure up to what a real political leader is.Mao Zedong and Deng xiaoping are examples of real political leaders.Whatever their faults or mistakes, they did not fight for themselves or their children but for the whole country.
chenlaifa 3 years ago
It is very clear that you want Ma's distortions to go unchallenged. *That* is sordid and biased.
Not a fan of Ma? Why are you here? Got honesty?
Speaking of "real political leader" Mao Zedong's "faults or mistakes," how 'bout that "Great Leap Forward," which is called "a major economic failure and great humanitarian disaster with estimates of the number of people who starved to death during this period ranging from 14 to 43 million"?
Now go away, or I shall taunt you a third time.
TimMaddog 3 years ago
Hi Tim Mad dog, it is sordid of you to massage the video that you put up in Youtube. You should let readers see the video unbiasedly and judge for themselves the contents of the video. Honesty seems to be lacking in Taiwan. No wonder there are still Taiwanese supporting the corrupt Chen Shui Bian.
chenlaifa 3 years ago
chenlaifa, it seems that it would please you greatly to let Ma's distortions of the truth go unchallenged. *That* would be "sordid." Got "honesty"?
Now perhaps you didn't notice, but I didn't edit anything Ma said, and I included a plethora of links in the video description to back up my assertions. How many of those did you follow? Any?
BTW, YouTube didn't let me add my full description due to length, but I'll be tightening the text up and adding even more links later.
TimMaddog 3 years ago