tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post6121856486746093138..comments2023-10-22T18:25:39.688+08:00Comments on The View from Taiwan: Taiwan News on most recent Chen Shui-bian detentionMichael Turtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-39465765646849130452009-05-20T11:09:53.729+08:002009-05-20T11:09:53.729+08:00Then if it is agreed that CSB is guilty i do not u...Then if it is agreed that CSB is guilty i do not understand all the uproar about whether or not he eats or has one hour of excercise. He is getting better treatment than most other prisoners and i haven't heard about anyone getting uptight about any other prisoner. Since i am not back in Taiwan as often as i would like, is there a blog where this case is discussed without being in either political camp? I must also say that i really appreciate this web site. The pictures are incredible just amazing. Thank you.Bobby Commandernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-29306291339780265492009-05-19T18:15:00.000+08:002009-05-19T18:15:00.000+08:00No one said he's not guilty, but that doesn't make...No one said he's not guilty, but that doesn't make his treatment the least bit fair.Robert R.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12956389352825464115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-82800446130546712102009-05-19T11:30:00.000+08:002009-05-19T11:30:00.000+08:00If you can't see that CSB has totally fooled and l...If you can't see that CSB has totally fooled and lied to the people, then you're drinking to much rice wine. He and his family are nothing but crooks. Do you really think they have all this money from his salary over tghe past 12 yrs or so? Please wake up you should be smarter than that.Bobby Commandernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-38673238715424594852009-05-16T15:15:00.000+08:002009-05-16T15:15:00.000+08:00Seems pretty clear to me that the reason to treat ...Seems pretty clear to me that the reason to treat CSB so is to keep him from speaking publicly and stirring up the TI crowds.<br /><br />Despite his seeming fall from grace, he still has strong influence at the grassroots level. <br /><br />In some ways, he's being treated a lot like Aung San Suu Kyi - perpetual incarceration and isolation, and trumped- up "charges" to justify this on a legal basis. <br /><br />I think the KMT are rather afraid of Chen!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-26912065854410691442009-05-16T03:02:00.000+08:002009-05-16T03:02:00.000+08:00One correction: The Taipei Detention Center does n...One correction: The Taipei Detention Center does not have visiting hours both Saturdays and Sundays; not only Saturdays as I noted in my previous comment.<br /><br />No outsider can confirm Chen's condition until Monday.SYnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-15537429707632760082009-05-16T02:20:00.000+08:002009-05-16T02:20:00.000+08:00Michael wrote: it's like coming downstairs in the ...Michael wrote: <I>it's like coming downstairs in the morning to find the cat threw up on the rug, but you let it sit there all day because you just can't face cleaning it up.</I>This reaction is understandable and I tend to feel the same way at times.<br /><br />The punishment package that Chen Sui-Bian receives for going on hunger strike, I've learned, includes:<br /><br />1. Confiscation of a hand-held mini TV set and a raido of earplug size until the end of hunger strike.<br /><br />2. No exercise time (out of the confinement cell) until the end of hunger strike.<br /><br />3. No visitors for one day (May 13)<br /><br />4. A "訓誡" ("scorn of lecture") delivered by the detention center officials. (This "訓誡" thing is a concept I have yet to grasp.)<br /><br />Without the radio and TV and not being allowed to contact other detainees, Chen is in semi solitary confinement. Nobody knows about his conditions except for the guards.<br /><br />Note that solitary confinement itself is a very controversial form of punishmen and is only applied to extremely violant prisoners. Even an outright solitary confinement does allow for one hour of (out of cell) exercise time every 24 hours. One must note that Chen is neither a prisoner (he is a detainee) nor hurting anyone. He simply does not eat.<br /><br />This evening (May 15, Friday) after the closure of visiting hours, the dentention center pro-actively came out to claim to the press that Chen has taken 400 cc of rice congee and "is now in good health". Nobody can confirm or deny the claim until Sunday (when the demo gets started) as there is no visting hours on Saturdays. Yet, this was meant to humiliate and discredit an ex-president who says that he is on hunger strike until May 17; possibly also an attempt to quash the spirit of the Taiwanese who are gearing up for Sunday's planned demo.SYnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-15781020277932672002009-05-15T11:52:00.000+08:002009-05-15T11:52:00.000+08:00Isn't it misleading to call the KMT the "ruling pa...Isn't it misleading to call the KMT the "ruling party"? Taiwan isn't a parliamentary system at all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com