Recently I've started going back over all my postings from the beginning in September 2010 up to the present to look for any expired links to articles or access to documents I've included with the postings. Sure enough, I've found several expired links. So, I'll be updating them and posting the updates here as I finish them.
Today I searched from September 2010 up through March 2011 and revised access to my "Letter to Acting Judicial Yuan President" in my blog post 3+ Years of Fighting Prejudice, Discrimination & Injustice in Taiwan (Sept. 19, 2010). It is now embedded and visible as part of the blog page.
It's a judicial system in name only. There really is no justice in Taiwan. It's the law of the jungle. If you have power, connections and money - you can literally commit murder and not be prosecuted in Taiwan.
ReplyDeleteIn the earlier days, President Ma would have executed former President Chen. Now they just throw their rivals in prison instead of killing them like they used to. That's progress! aha!
Yes, you're very right it's a judicial system in name only. The government and judiciary are infamous for spouting off all the laws on the books and international covenants signed. However, in reality they willfully manipulate, twist, violate, and flaunt any of those very same statutes and agreements any time it pleases them to suite their objectives.
ReplyDeleteThey don't usually use such flagrantly overt tactics such as executing a former president or making opponents disappear like in the bad old days. Instead, they use "soft" tactics like they've been employing on Chen to kill him covertly, claiming it's all following "the law." Such unseemly and illegal tactics have been used on both Taiwanese and expats for many years by the the island's government, the judiciary, and anyone with the right amount of economic clout and connections to the people in power.