Ma Ying-jeou

FTV interviews Ma Ying-jeou, Part 4 of about 8

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• published: 05 Jan 2009
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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-assembly-law-in.html http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/national/national-news/2008/12/05/186244/Assembly-act.htm http://taiwanstudentmovement2008.blogspot.com/2008/12/1224-wild-strawberry-press-conference.html 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-1211-incident.html A FAPA statement condemning the police for that incident: http://taiwanstudentmovement2008.blogspot.com/2008/12/fapa-statement-regarding-police-break.html A Canadian MP's condemnation of the police brutality: http://taiwanstudentmovement2008.blogspot.com/2008/12/taipei-times-interview-rights-lawyer.html 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 Tags: Taiwan Matters 台灣時事