By: Joachim von Staffeldt

Joachim von Staffeldt — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 04:01:17 +0000

A native of one of the oldest democracies in this world, Denmark, I find it extremely strange and highly worrying to read how any Taiwanese can even begin to consider a unification with one of the most repelling dictatorships ever to exist. China is indeed such a tyrant regime. They represent torture, random executions, political persecutions, political imprisonment, no freedom of speech, no free press – in short, all that lies within the very concept of totalitarianism. China is equal to Communist terror, and they don’t ever hesitate to infiltrate the most basic elements of any democratic structure in for instance neighbouring Taiwan – such as hacking the results of free elections, intimidating the present pro-China KMT government, and threatening with military intervention, in case the honest desires of the Taiwanese people to gain full independence should become too predominant.
How can anyone prefer a return to dictatorship, the way it was during the days of the White Terror, at the expense of a life in freedom? It’s big money and big business, deciding the fate of the common man in Taiwan, as it seems. Consequently, the common man in Taiwan must continue taking to the streets, to protest – and protest, over and over again.
A new revolution is needed, in order to uphold and strengthen the development, following the best event, ever to take place in Taiwanese history – the introduction of democracy in 1992.
The recent buyout is but one signal, obvious as a warning to the Taiwanese public, that things are at present taking the wrong direction. Cherish your freedom, and fight monopolies. We are many outside Taiwan, who care a lot for you, the people.

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