ARE YOU KIDDING ME??!!!

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Chen Sui Bien gets Life

ARE YOU KIDDING ME??!! In a country saturated with corruption and political embezzlement, the only one getting a (in my opinion) EXTREMELY HARSH sentence is the Man who stood up for Taiwanese Independence and FREEDOM from CHINA?!!  I'm sorry I can't stand by the wayside and not react in disgust to this lopsided 'justice'.  Chen may be wrong but everyone on this island knows this kind of stuff happens left and right in the government.

I'm not Taiwanese, but I grew up here.  This is home, and I know better than to speak out of turn, but this is ridiculous.  Forgive me if you don't agree, but what I have witnessed these past few years is a corrupted system of media, politics, and JUSTICE carried out by the CURRENT Ruling Party.  I'm tired of watching young Taiwanese cheer for the national team in the Deaflympics by yelling, "GO! CHINESE TAIPEI!"

CHINESE TAIPEI!!!??? Are you serious?!  Has the whole island decided to lie on its back as THE BULLY UP NORTH WALKS ALL OVER US?! This is TAIWAN!  I'm not even Taiwanese, and I was so offended that I had to walk away from the TV immediately.

I am even ashamed of the fact that I can't speak a lick of TAIWANESE.  To the point that every time I am addressed in the local language, I apologize for disrespecting the heritage of my adopted country by not learning to SPEAK in TAIWANESE!

I will always be a foreigner living in Taiwan.  But after all these years of watching a single party rule this 'democratic' country, the voice of a generation begging for identity and national pride voted for a local son of Taiwan to be their President and leader back in 2000. I jumped out of my chair with joy after the election votes were tallied. I watched my folks jump with joy and called local Taiwanese friends to congratulate them.  It was awesome. 

and now?

Now I get on BBC, and this same man is led away with a life sentence for embezzling money and allowing gross corruption during his presidency.  I'm sure he's not innocent, I'm pretty sure he stole from the Taiwanese people, but I also have a feeling that the CURRENT PARTY has abandoned JUSTICE by the wayside in favor of making an example out of anyone that would try to declare INDEPENDENCE from CHINA.

This trial was nothing more than a faux.  A giant "Don't F*** WITH Us" sign from the current party, and their buddies in China.

I love Taiwan, this is my home.  But aside from all this political 'riff raff', what I saw today on BBC was the current state of my beloved adopted country. Taiwan, nothing more than an infested, corrupted, corpse of a once bold and promising new NATION.