‘Rocks’ on cheeks
Dear Johnny,
I’m baffled by the shiny new Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) you folk have just given absolute power to.
It’s not the ass kissin’ or the total capitulation to the Chicoms (I like this term you often use) that I write about now, but the way these spineless brown-nosers totally abandoned a young patriot who was on her way to cheer on your fellow countryfolk (“Yang slams Taipei for lack of help,” Aug. 12, page 1).
Not only was it appalling that they accused her of “making her own bed,” but more so in their display of the bitter hatred of all things associated with the now opposition party.
It’s not enough that the KMT just spent the last eight years boycotting everything in the legislature to brainwash the entire nation into thinking the administration was incompetent (easy when you control various media outlets), but this time they turned their backs on a real fan.
In fact, she went out of her way not to offend the Commies by replacing the Taiwanese flags on her clothes to that of the pathetically degrading, Commie-approved flag (it’s sad that the only “Republic of China” symbol on this rag is a KMT sun).
So all it boils down to is her support for a different candidate.
Sad it is that a party hell-bent on the “party-state” mentality would sacrifice one of its own, because of party affiliation, to appease a regime that threatens this nation with ballistic missiles and imminent war. How could any of you have thought that the KMT could ever respect the democratic process? Oh yeah ... by boycotting referendums?
If I were her and actually made it into hell, I would have had the Taiwanese flag painted on one butt cheek and the words “Kiss this Hu! Taiwan ROCKS” on the other, and mooned every camera I came across.
It’s my sincere hope that, as a nation, you will all wake up real soon and try to foster some of your own opinions about what kind of future you want for your kids.
Instead of nodding in agreement with some idiot on a talk show (way, way too many) who doesn’t know squat but can really yell, why not go and stand up for your country and bring your real flag everywhere you go?
Stand by your countryfolk, regardless of party affiliation or social class, and you will be recognized and heard.
I now see clearly why the Commies chased the KMT out of China. When are you going to wake up and do the same?
James
Chiayi
Johnny replies: Well, James, your prognosis sounds healthy, but a place that would reinstate a memorial to a vicious but incompetent little dictator (as silly as the original change was) is eons away from agreeing on a flag that would best instill that old “Olympic spirit” in its nationalistically challenged athletes.
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