The hottest controversial issue agitating Taiwan in these days was a university student had been allowed to inveigh against the Minister of Education openly in the Legislation Yuan (Taiwan’s Senate and House combined).  A formal, sacred interpellation turned out to be a series of invectives and done by a student instead of legislators was said due to the Ministry of Education had “cared about” students’ demonstration against media monopolization which might happen in Taiwan, and the act had been deemed as an interference to the freedom of speech.

The sequel of the farce was on.  Was the attitude of that student proper?  Should he owe an apology? (He apologized.)  Should the rules of procedure in the Yuan be modified?  Should the focus return to its main theme: media monopolization?  I would not care a damn about those things because all of them were irrelevant to the root cause of the incident.

If there were an anti-trust law prohibiting a media from merging others, just punish that media.  If there were no such law, why agitating college students to protest a media-conglomerate-to-be whose main sponsor is a Taiwan group successfully doing business in Mainland China?  Afraid of the public opinion centralized towards pro-China and final unification?  Come on, lesser and lesser people in Taiwan obtain information or public opinion from newspapers, they just listen to those TV pundits’ tirades of criticism, or even mumbo-jumbo in relation to politics or trivial affairs.  Who bothers reading newspaper every day?   Furthermore, the inconvenient fact is, people in Taiwan have little say in the final decision of their fate.  Everything concerning China-Taiwan relation proposed by the islanders is but a false issue.  So why had been all that fuss over that would-be “media behemoth”?   

DPP had been in quest of “adventure”, Taiwan Independence, and eager embrace of foreign influence: from Japan and America.  But that “lofty” aim is all just pie in the sky, and DPP know it well, still they keep on fooling their diehard boosters.   How about KMT?  In order to follow the so-called mainstream mindset of Taiwan, they hew to the principle of “Independent Taiwan” (or independent ROC, whatever).  So what is the difference between two parties?  The answer is basically no difference.  They were just trying to beat each other and grasp the chances in every election, and then unaware of what to do in their tenure except preparing for the next campaign.  Don’t be puzzled by their fighting each other for the intractable issue they just couldn’t solve; the truth is they are vying with each other for being the leader of a puppet state of the U.S.. That’s it.