I have only just seen the official news report that former President Chen Shui-bian and his wife have been sentenced to life in prison for corruption during his eight years in office. Life imprisonment? For theft? And it wasn't even the kind of Bernie Madoff or Enron corruption that emptied the bank accounts of innocent people and left them bereft of financial security in their retirement years. A lifetime in prison? And this while the torturers and murderers who shot the victims of fascist Nationalist execution squads, who dragged people from their homes in the dead of night, remain unpunished to live out the remainder of their lives in comfort and the security of knowing that the machine will protect them? And this while those who supported the murder machines under the two Chiang regimes--the Squirrel and his archenemy the Incompetent--remain respected and free? Not a single person was sentenced to prison for their role in the executions and tortures of the White Terror years,
The sometimes lunatic and often unreasonable rants of an American "big nose" living in Taiwan.