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Home Editorials of Interest Jerome F. Keating's writings Tales of the Bandits Taiwan-style, the KMT and PFP

Tales of the Bandits Taiwan-style, the KMT and PFP

Chen Shui-bian sits in jail for supposedly misusing campaign funds and supposedly accepting bribes though it seems now that the Prosecutors brow-beat the witnesses to falsify testimony against him. (One has already admitted to that via his lawyers) Not to worry, on the KMT side of the aisle James Soong who was accused of making off with US$8 million dollars of KMT campaign funds in what is called the Chung Hsing Bills Finance scandal is all of a sudden forgiven by the KMT, and prosecutors for misuse and pocketing of campaign funds are no where to be found. Now why is that?

Well it is election time and the KMT looks like it is angling for all the help it can get so it does not want to offend the PFP; ah yes, it is nice to see how justice is tossed out the window when the threat of Ma and the KMT losing the election looms on the horizon.

Whether James Soong embezzled it or not, the KMT which had been saying it would drop charges if all were returned, now even seems to be willing to forego that if Soong will only encourage the PFP, his party, to help out in the election. and of course Chen Shui-bian still sits in jail. Is there a double standard of justice in Taiwan?? You judge.


Source: Jerome F. Keating's writings



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Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chairperson Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) could expect a sound relationship with the US and China if she were to win January’s presidential election, former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) wrote in an article published yesterday.

“I’m confident we will have the first female president in Taiwan’s history in January,” Chen, who is serving a 17-and-a-half-year jail sentence for corruption and money laundering, wrote in his latest column titled “The truth you did not know.”

The DPP presidential candidate would stand behind her pledge to safeguard Taiwan’s sovereignty and not make deals with China in exchange for personal benefit, Chen wrote in the article, which was dated July 30.