When Mr. Chen Shuibian
was re-elected as the president of
Taiwan immediate after the event of
belly shooting, Jackie
Chan reportedly
branded the democracy of Taiwan style
A Joke of Sky Proportion (天大的笑话),
with which he made himself quite
unpopular in Taiwan.
But before long many
people in Taiwan apparently indeed
believe that they have made a fool of
themselves by electing an alleged
theft accomplice. And they rose in
rebellion. Yet a defiant Mr Chen did
not budge.
Taiwan has descended
into chaos ever since. The people are
divided along the colour lines, into
the blues, the greens and the
oranges; and along the time lines,
into the categories of the natives,
the earlier settlers and the later
migrants.
The authentic Taiwan
natives are ethnic Gaoshan people,
who have long been pushed to earn a
living off unfertile land in deep
mountains. The majority of the
members of the so-called native party
Minjindang, are actually the
descendants of the earlier settlers
from Fujian province, that includes
Chen Shuibian. After pushed the
aborigineas into the margin, some of
the descendants of the earlier
settlers portrait themselves as the
indigenous people and turn against
the later comers who are mainly from
other parts of China. Imagine this
kind of farce occurs in America or
Australia, where the white settlers
claim they are the natives and they
have the right to discriminate the
new migrants … Bet they would be
condemned by the whole world.
A party, that is based
on a bold lie about its true identity
and has been working tirelessly on
dividing the society into opposing
groups and openly discriminates
against those who do not belong to
it, has hardly anything in common
with the principles of the Democracy.
In fact, its ascending to the power
in itself is the biggest mockery and
ridicule to the Taiwan’s democratic
progress. If a ritual of voting
alone, even a fraud voting,
constitutes democracy, then the value
of the democracy may should be
reassessed.
So Jackie Chan upgraded
Taiwan style democracy to The Joke of
the Universe (宇宙的笑话)
Yesterday, on the
national day ceremony, Mr. Chen gave
a solemn speech in which he accused
the Chinese government of not
listening to what people have to say
("being a dictator") and of
making threats of violence against
Taiwan.
During his talk, the
parliament blues (the representatives
of the opposition party) and the
parliament greens (the
representatives of the governing
party) were once again engaging in
violent exchanges of punches and
grunts. It was quite a show when
those middle-aged men and women
fought tooth and nail, literally, as
if they were a bunch of kindergarten
tots: pulling hairs, grabbing collars
… mommy, mommy, he slapped my
wrinkled face … daddy, daddy, she
kicked my beer tummy.
So for the foreseeable
future, the folks in Taiwan will have
to endure a "dictator" who
refuses to listen to what people have
to say, and live under the threat of
violence that could erupt at any
moment on the parliament floor.
Wonder what Jackie Chan
has to say now, ‘cause there seems
no room for a further upgrade. Beyond
universe, what else?
