A Shameful Double Ten's Day
Yesterday was October 10th in Taiwan. There, for over 50 years, the day has been called “Double Ten’s Day” which supposed to be like the Forth of July in the USA, a national birthday for the Republic of China and greatly celebrated by the KMT(China Nationalist Party) Government, and even continued untill yesterday. In hindsight, it should be discarded after Year 2000 when a non-KMT president took the office. President Chen Shui-Bien was duely elected in 2000 and again in 2004 and his term will last until May 20, 2008. Shame tirned anger which became wrath and hatred, the Chinese Nationalist Party(KMT) and it’s cahoots tried ever unsuccessfully through various means to recall and/or topple him for innumerable times alreday, have now cooked up a new rally of red-clad mass with a politically non-person who once was head of the DPP(Democratic Progressive Party) as it’s front, to force Mr. Chen from his office. These red-clad people have been roaming mostly arround the capital city, Taipei and their swarmings earned them a nick name, “Red Ants”. What’s the most shameful was commited by the KMT and PFP(People First Party) members of the Legisrative Yuen, which corresponds to the US Congress and Senate, who not only red-claded when attending the Official Double Ten’s Celemony in the front square of the President’s Office Building yesterday, they furled up anti -Chen banners, shouting and stamped the platform floor in attempt to shame and distrack President Chen who was about to deliver his National Double Ten’s Massage. But to his credit, Mr. Chen was unraufled. His 12 minuits address was strong and to the points of Taiwan’s present difficult situation. He even suggested that the Double Ten’s Celebration shoud be scrapped beginning next year as it was forced on the people of Taiwan by the KMT government which occupied Taiwan after the WW II. In concluding, President held up a signed baseball given to him last year by Chien-Min Wang, the champion pitcher of NY Yankees, who wrote on it,”Go, Taiwan!”(Taiwan Chia-you!). This time, instead of “Viva, ROC!”,the President led the people to shout out aloud three times, “Taiwan Chia-you!”, “Go, Taiwan!”, “Chia-you! Chia-you! Chai Chia-you!”, that was, “Taiwan, Go! Go! and Go!”.
Surely the behaviours of the red-clad ants and those “Chinese” legistrators during the official celemony made it a most shameful day for ROCÂ but not Taiwan. The people of Taiwan must, and all nations concerned, especially the USA, should pay close attentions to what were said in Mr. Chen’s address. There are much food for thought in regard to peace in Taiwan and for the world arround.
