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The Tsai Gov’t Shows its True Colors and the Agent Exposing the Reality of Judicial Reform

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 The Tsai Gov’t Shows its True Colors and the Agent Exposing the Reality of Judicial Reform

 

United Daily News Editorial (Taipei, Taiwan)

 

September 15, 2019


 Translation of an Excerpt

 

 

Shi Mu-chin, chairman of the Commission on Disciplinary Sanctions of Public Functionaries, under the Judicial Yuan, had no sooner handed down a ruling in the impeachment case of Kuan Chung-ming, President of National Taiwan University, , then Shi Mu-chin himself tendered his resignation because he was exposed to have been involved in improper socializing. After assuming office, President Tsai Ing-wen personally shepherded the “great cause” of judicial reform; however, in the Justice Ministry, Chiu Tai-san, then Minister of Justice, got involved in a lobbying case, then current Deputy Justice Minister Tsai Pi-chung, a DPP legislator, was ridiculed for guiding his friend Chen Ming-wen in avoiding money laundering violations by not reporting to the authorities. Moreover, then deputy chairman of the Commission on Disciplinary Sanctions of Public Functionaries, in a discussion in an internal meeting, in an attempt to trump up charges against against Hou You-yi, now Mayor of New Taipei City, self-styled "Dongchang." Now, in the Judicial Yuan, Shi Mu-chin, chairman of the Commission on Disciplinary Sanctions of Public Functionaries, dubbed the "judge of judges", has violated the ethics of a judge. All these have hit the Achilles’ heel of Tsai Ing-wen’s judicial reform in her “recruiting only the Green" and "turning the Judiciary into Dongchang."

 

Judicial reform and transformational justice, which is closely related to the judiciary, are facets which Tsai Ing-wen has considered the most important and exerted much effort in the past three years. The Shi Mu-chin case has given the Tsai government a loud admonition, meaning that while with great fanfare, it held a National Affairs Conference on judicial reform focusing on such issues as citizen judges, pyramid litigation and organization of courts, as well as trying cases by the Grand Justices, apparently omitted the more important issue of "personnel selection." Even the chairman of the Commission on Disciplinary Sanctions of Public Functionaries has violated the norms of ethics for judges, so in bragging about the accomplishments of judicial reforms, we could only use the word "revolting" to describe people’s feelings.

 

Those who should implement transformational justice suddenly blurt out words of injustice; those who should be an exemplar of public functionaries, however, frequently step on the red line of ethics; those who should maintain a high degree of sensitivity toward money laundering were anxious to help extricate a good friend from a predicament. From Chang Tien-chin's attempt to trump up charges against Hou You-yi, now Mayor of New Taipei City, to Shi Mu-chin putting Kuan Chung-ming on trial, then to Tsai Pi-chung's being involved in providing guidance to Chen Ming-wen, even Chiu Tai-san's "referral of a petition", none of these is not the showing of true colors in the current Tsai government, or better still is a chemical solution to show the true mark of Tsai Ing-wen’s judicial reforms. And all of this originates in the fact that the Tsai government, in recruiting people and promoting policies, disregards rationality and justice, only seeing partisan interests!

 

[Editor’s notes: 

1)      Dongchang is a Ming Dynasty secret police organization equivalent to the modern-day Gestapo.

2)      The Republic of China adopts the continental law system; therefore, the term judiciary in this editorial includes court and judges on the one hand, and prosecutors on the other. For this reason, transgressions in the Justice Ministry, which is an agency under the Executive Branch of government, has also been cited as transgressions in the judiciary in this editorial.]

 

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