Brain Fertilizer

Boy did you misread what I wrote! I'll be posting later today. The prosecution of Ma was of course political, like the prosecution of Chen -- as I have mentioned many times. But minds like yours read what they want to read.....

Michael

The only thing I linked you as saying was crying foul. The rest is an impression of not only your general themes in writing, but also those at Taiwan Matters and That's Impossible Politics from Taiwan.
The final sentence is admittedly exaggeration. But I've seen you make statements on your blog that indicate you seem to think that whatever Chen Shui-bian does for independence is automatically for democracy. That isn't necessarily the case.
I'll edit to clarify.
Other pan-green supporters and media make a big deal out of the 1 million signatures that Chen got for the referendum. Chen himself said he had no choice but to listen to such a large number. On the other hand, pan-green media and Chen feel no such compulsion to listen to the opinion of the 1 million signatures demanding Chen step down.
Why the assumption that the anti-Chen petition is the only one politically motivated? Why the assumption that only the Blues have a political machine? You and your fellow bloggers have strongly implied just those things, although you don't necessarily say it flat out.

You give Chen Shui-bian more support for defending Shih Ming-de than you give Shi Ming-de. Who gave up more for the cause of freedom in Taiwan? I'll give you a hint: his initials aren't CSB.

Why do you ignore the dirty tricks that the Pan-Green's use in every single major election? ...from a last second selectively-edited film designed to imply Blue vote buying to a faked sex tape (both helping the DPP to narrow victories in Kaohsiung), to an extremely suspicious assassination attempt that just happened to give Chen the excuse to prevent a huge block of military from voting.

I didn't get all that from one post, no. But from reading you (and other Green blogs and news media) off and on for more than a year.

I do dig your photos, though.

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I do accept as true with all of the ideas you have presented for your post. They're very convincing and can certainly work. Still, the posts are too short for newbies. May just you please lengthen them a bit from subsequent time? Thank you for the post.