Tuesday, November 11, 2008

The Handcuffed Chen Shui-bian


I certainly deplore the extremely violent acts of the protesters against Chen Yunlin, Chairman of China's Association for Relations Across the Straits (ARATS). Chen's official visit to Taiwan was Beijing's highest-level visit to its political rival in 60 years. The protest-turned-commotion brutality exposed the ugly side of the society.

In Malaysia, all the street protests so far have been orderly. Malaysians are a lot more peace-loving and restrained in this respect!


I applaud the admirable maturity in democracy in Taiwan when the IPP (immediate-past president) Chen Shui-bian was handcuffed by prosecutors Tuesday for being involved in overseas money laundering and graft. He was later ordered by court to be remanded .


Yesterday was such a disgraceful day for the ex-president.


Malaysia is much less mature than Taiwan in democracy. Four years ago, Pak Lah vowed to take the big jaws to task. With Pak Lah about to call it a day, the rakyat are still wide-eyed with dismay about the whereabout of the so-called big jaws.


We are falling several steps behind Taiwan.














4 comments:

长竹 said...

你可有巴拉的部落格?很想看他写的东西。

Tony Hii said...

WSP, Pak Lah is the nickname of our Prime Minister. As far as I know, Abdullah Badawi hasn't got his own blog.

长竹 said...

哦!错了!真是太不敬我们的首相了!
应该是那个很会写部落格的主人,被抓的然后又被放出来的那个才对!
因为不常说他的名字,所以常常弄错名字。

Tony Hii said...

WSP,he is Raja Petra Kamarudin, popularly known as RPK. His controversial blog is at http://mt.m2day.org/2008/.