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Even Cheng Nan-jung Would Not Side with the Tsai Gov’t in Its Doings

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 Even Cheng Nan-jung Would Not Side with the Tsai Gov’t in Its Doings

 

United Daily News Editorial (Taipei, Taiwan)

 

January 2, 2020


 Translation of an Excerpt

 

 

The DPP highhandedly rammed through the "Anti-Infiltration Bill", taking Taiwan to a state of "quasi-martial law rule". On the same day, National Taiwan University professor Su Hung-dah made public the details about being brought in by the police for questioning, on the grounds that a year ago on his Facebook page he criticized the Tsai government’s policies about the “National Palace Museum’s moving south”; it was determined by the Bureau of Investigation, under the Ministry of Justice, that his posting “affected national security” and “endangered social stability”. Su Hung-dah asked: "How could a Taiwan that has lost the freedom of speech galvanize people's hearts, defend democracy, and counter totalitarianism?"

 

President Tsai demanded that the "Anti-Infiltration Bill" be enacted within a specified time, for the purpose of suppressing rivals, threatening dissidents, and restraining cross-Strait exchanges. However, before this bill was enacted, the acts of the DPP government using the pretext of “fighting fake information” to restrict freedom of speech had been quite rampant. For the past year, incidences have been widespread about cases that members of the public were brought in for interview because they reposted messages on their smart phones or wrote commentaries on the Internet. In southern Taiwan, over 70 farmers were separately subpoenaed by the district prosecutor’s office for forwarding a video of the remarks made by Kao Chin Su-mei, an independent legislator, at a press conference. Moreover, in Kaohsiung City, an assistant of sub-district chief Chen Ching-mao, was also visited by the police carrying a subpoena for forwarding a photo taken of Green legislator Tsai Yi-yu and Slow Yang; she was only one of the 50 defendants named in the same case. This category of incidents is too numerous to cite.

 

The most ironic part is that when the police precinct believed that the Su Hung-dah case could be dropped in accordance with the “Social Order Maintenance Act”, the bureau of investigation, nevertheless, insisted that the police precinct continue interviewing and interrogating in violation of the law. Viewed from this, today's bureau of investigation has been virtually playing the role of the now defunct “Taiwan Garrison Command” without the name of Taiwan Garrison Command. Myriad arrows, such as the five national security laws, the "Anti-Infiltration Act", the “Social Order Maintenance Act”, etc., are being shot simultaneously; in Taiwan, which claims to be "democratic", how much room do the people have for freedom of speech?

 

If the DPP still remembers Cheng Nan-jung, he was the one who immolated himself three decades ago, protesting the ban on “dangwai” [outside the ruling party] magazines. Didn’t he do this to seek "100% freedom of speech"? Three and a half years ago, was it not President Tsai who proclaimed the day of Cheng Nan-jung's death as "Freedom of Speech Day"? Looking at today, the DPP’s acts destroying freedom of speech as well as democracy and human rights, not only Cheng Nan-jung, but also Chai Trong-rong and Huang Hsin-chien, would all step out of their graves in fury!

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