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Wednesday, April 07, 2004
btw, i think i have to blog this incident tat happened on monday. late sunday nite, or should i say early monday morning, just before i went to bed, i received this fwd mail from judith telling me abt this talk by Center for China Study. It is a talk by two prof from taiwan, Zhen Da and Dong Wu talking about the recent Prez election in taiwan and its future blah blah blah. well... it listed the profs coming and one of them was Liu I-Chou. who is from Zhen Da and is this really big shot political science prof in taiwan. always kena quoted in news n such. but the other person, since her uni is listed as Soochow uni, i have no idea wat tat uni is and can't find who she really is.but anywae, with such a solid guy from Zhen Da, i decided to go see the talk and leave the class which i am suppose to have early. so after the block test for tat class, me and mike rush to the Social works building to listen to the talk. well... the male prof oledi done with his presentation and the female one is doing her turn. no choice lor, so we sat down and listen. and i must say, i am pretty irritated by what she said. she clearly has a political preference. yet, to the many audience that are there hoping to listen to an academic explanation to the whole mess that is in taiwan now, some of her comments are far from being neutral and unbias. here are some things she said which i happened to take down. (gave up after awhile coz her english sux real bad and the explanations she gave are just misleading...) 1. in explaining the date of such a hike in discarded vote this time compare to 4 years ago, she stated that this increase has no ambiguity coz there is a rise in every county and city. even those controlled by KMT. --- i say, even if a county is ruled by KMT magistrate, the appointing of supervisor that makes every decision including how to determine whether a vote is valid or invalid, at individual polling station is by the central election burearu. hmmm... i wonder who controls the central govt agencies?!?! 2. as a side note in explaining why there is a change in the how to determine whether a vote is valid, she made the remark tat this change which make the criteria more strict is by KMT, since KMT feel that its opponents supporters are less educated and thus will not be able to follow such complicated instructions. --- ahah... i am sure everyone in the crowd enjoyed the laugh. and probably felt that KMT tasted its own bitter food for its silly smart alec behavior. but y she neva give ANOTHER sidenote saying that this change was vetoed and reinstated like a million times 2 weeks b4 the actual voting day until no one noe for sure wat the exact guideline is? and that the bill was supported by DPP in the beginning also?! hmm... do you guys get wat i am trying to pt out here? this prof is using the tactic tat all taiwanese politicians love to use. they onli tell you half the truth. (well, here in US, they are one step ahead, everything they say oso dun exist... MUAHAHA... WMD my ASS ya shitface...) she say onli one side of the story and ignore the other side. if this comes from politician, i dun mind. but she is here speaking as an academic. why? is she scared of being prosecuted and kena cut in her research fund by DPP govt? harlow... she is overseas, and there is something call academic integrity you noe. fuck it. i AM challenging her academic integrity. coz when i approach her in private and ask her about the possibility of faking votes, she was very firm in brushing off my suggestion and claim that since every vote has to be check and seen by all present in the polling station, there is ZERO possibility for cheating. but as we can see, reports are still coming out on irregularities involved in many polling stations where vote counts are not transparent. go visit this site http://music.mychat.to/temp/s.htm and you would noe wat i mean. if this site dun work, msg me and i will send you a copy of this video clip, which unfortunately is in chinese, but essentially it shows a KMT representative raising doubts about how the vote count is being carried out in that particular polling station and her concerns were either totally ignored or being barked down by a man. go see for yourself i am mean. i am not suggesting tat my pt is THE pt and that her pt is invalid. wat i am saying is, THERE IS A DIFFERENT VOICE OUT THERE. as an academic, you should at least address both sides equally before making your judgement or opinion. it is unfair for you to onli list one side or make fun of one side when there are ALSO counter arguements present. one could well say that the incident recorded in this video is a minority. but just how minority is it? can we be sure? i say no. there are many weird issues involving this whole election. and i dun see why as the people of this country, i do not have the right to find out and investigate these puzzling issues. btw, if you wanna challenge me to wat i just said, i am setting ONE pre-conditon here: recently, a recount is being called by the losing pan blue party. Prez Chen has said that he is willing to support a XING ZHENG YAN PIAO 行政驗票 while pan blue and others are calling for a SHI FA YAN PIAO 司法驗票. by rejecting wat prez chen proposed pan blue is being hailed in the media as being making trouble and sore losers. in their word, why the hell does pan blue still wanna make trouble when prez bien has already agreed to a recount. YOUR JOB IS TO FIND OUT WAT IS (if there is any...)THE DIFFERENCE IN THESE TWO TYPE OF RECOUNT. hopefully this small exercise will let you understand the tiny little tricks that politicians in taiwan use to mislead the public. answer will either be posted when 3 ppl left their comments (call it motivation) or when i feel like giving it (which means it is when i am bored... MUAHAHA)
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