Comments on: Criticism of Taiwan’s Protest Crackdown Goes International http://regimewatch.blogivists.com/2008/11/28/criticism-of-taiwans-protest-crackdown-goes-international/ So many petty tyrants...so little time Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:32:43 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5.2 hourly 1 By: charlie Wu http://regimewatch.blogivists.com/2008/11/28/criticism-of-taiwans-protest-crackdown-goes-international/comment-page-1/#comment-905 charlie Wu Sat, 29 Nov 2008 17:28:33 +0000 http://regimewatch.blogivists.com/?p=80#comment-905 To the chagrin of the international observers, the KMT government would not admit to any violation of its own Constitution but also ostensibly "promoted" all the policemen who vehemently carried out the government orders. The Control Yuan is impotent and the Judicial Yuan is "owned" by the KMT. Protest after protest, hunger strike after hunger strike, the Ma Ying-Jeou government would not flinch, it would not stop but continue to go down the road of unification with China. In merely 6 months after taking office, Ma's KMT machine has systematically hollowed out Taiwan's treasury, technical/commercial advantages, and its hard earned freedom on the one hand and drum up media frenzy with numerous high profile arrests of current and former DPP officials to divert attention on the other hand. Ma Ying-Jeou is not afraid of the dissent of the people of Taiwan for he now controls the resources of the government, including the military, the police , the national security apparatus, the investigative/prosecutorial bureau, the courts, plus 80% of the press and media. And if the situation gets out of hand, he has Beijing and the PLA backing him... At the same time, Taiwan's freedom protector, the U.S., is too busy with her wars, financial crisis, and transition of power... What an opportune window for the Sino-centric strategists. To the chagrin of the international observers, the KMT government would not admit to any violation of its own Constitution but also ostensibly “promoted” all the policemen who vehemently carried out the government orders.

The Control Yuan is impotent and the Judicial Yuan is “owned” by the KMT. Protest after protest, hunger strike after hunger strike, the Ma Ying-Jeou government would not flinch, it would not stop but continue to go down the road of unification with China. In merely 6 months after taking office, Ma’s KMT machine has systematically hollowed out Taiwan’s treasury, technical/commercial advantages, and its hard earned freedom on the one hand and drum up media frenzy with numerous high profile arrests of current and former DPP officials to divert attention on the other hand.

Ma Ying-Jeou is not afraid of the dissent of the people of Taiwan for he now controls the resources of the government, including the military, the police , the national security apparatus, the investigative/prosecutorial bureau, the courts, plus 80% of the press and media. And if the situation gets out of hand, he has Beijing and the PLA backing him… At the same time, Taiwan’s freedom protector, the U.S., is too busy with her wars, financial crisis, and transition of power…

What an opportune window for the Sino-centric strategists.

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