Should go down a treat on the street.
You’ll definitely raise a few laughs when you get your heads kicked in by an angry crowd. 
why not just ‘infiltrate’ the rally wearing animal costumes…let the cameras focus on the ‘fringe’ elements of the crowd…example: a pack of 40 foreigners hanging out in Ape costumes picking away at guitars…be sure to bring a couple cases of whisbih/binlang…maybe some green cigs…with this rain, we could slide around in the mud, a la the first Woodstock. further dillute their ridiculous parade with even more outrageous misfits…who needs kenting and spring scream…its already wild up here in taipei…
No, that would be a very bad idea. They will kill you. I’m serious.
i suppose the best i could hope for is lightning to strike the speaker’s stage a few times in the next couple days/weeks(however long they plan to chill on the streets)…i’d be interested in knowing how pan-blue would try to blame the DPP for this, as they do with anything negative that happens to them(traffic accidents, papercuts, extramarital affairs, tripping down the stairs, etc…)
But it would make a cool video.
Just seen on TVBS:
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The KMT are trying to organise buses up from the South to Taipei this Saturday, but they’re having trouble finding bus companies who are willing to do it. It seems they’re having to requisition small school buses instead.
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People have been wandering around the protest in Taipei with a box collecting money for the ‘Lien/Soong KMT protest fund’ - except the organiser have just announced that such a fund doesn’t exist … so someone’s been running a nice little scam!
Amused me 
What do you suppose will happen when all the demonstrations and the legal fun and games come to nought? Lien is obviously not going to stop. What is he going to do?
Organize nationwide strikes? Yet more demonstrations, but bigger and better? Persuade the army to takeover ‘to restore order’? I am convinced these are the sorts of things going through his tiny mind at the moment.
Even some DPP supporters are going to the rally by the presidential palace so they can have free food! All you can eat. There are four servings a day. You can even earn 1500nt. That’s how much some students are paid to recruit more students to linger around there. Man, it feels like a carnival and turning out to be a fun event instead of a rally against the president. Maybe this is how it will end. I think the DPP should join in just to make fun of the situation.
Yeah, I just saw that - it’s all over the TV news tonight. Four square meals, free of charge, + stipend (500 to go, 1500 to recruit). I always thought this stuff was rumor-mongering, but there it was, in living color, along with student interviewees saying they go for the free food and cash, and feel obliged to linger there for a little while (greenies included). Apparently, the over-the-counter pay isn’t technically illegal, since it isn’t vote-buying. Pretty audacious, and now public knowledge. Of course tonight Soong said during his obligatory five-minute appearance at the outdoor loony bin that he isn’t encouraging protests for himself, but for “the people.” Makes your eyes get all watery.
On a related note, you’ll love this: the word is that during 313, pan-blue public officials were each required to bring ten people or face losing their jobs. I heard this from a number of people before and after 313, but was skeptical until today. The laoban of my favorite little biandang joint was telling the other person in the place that he’s very “kelien” because his son, a “gongwu renyuan,” coerced the entire extended family into going to 313, even though they’re all green and later voted for A-bian. To top it off, when they got there, his son handed out flags for everyone to hold and wave (“diulian”). He said that even though the free food at the demonstration is hurting his business, his son expects to drag him along again this Saturday. This sounds like great stuff for the news crews - or if it’s already hit the news, I missed it.
I talked with a foreign friend today who said he might go over tomorrow for the free food and see if he could get some money. I said “Yeah, I’ll bet they’d love to put a foreign pan-blue supporter’s face on the news.” He reconsidered.
SCL Wrote
Turning on the TV this morning I saw Soong sitting in the rain–skipping breakfast I presume–with a couple of unlucky national security bureau guards around him.
Got a couple cases of sour grapes to send Soong and Hsu annyone?
[quote=“whiskas2”]SCL Wrote
Turning on the TV this morning I saw Soong sitting in the rain–skipping breakfast I presume–with a couple of unlucky national security bureau guards around him.
Got a couple cases of sour grapes to send Soong and Hsu annyone?[/quote]
I can send them some cheese…cheese goes good with whine. 
This is troubling: [quote]Taiwan radicals urge violent protests
Financial Times, UK - 6 hours ago
… Only a revolution could succeed in overturning Mr Chen’s government, Chiu I, legislator of the People First party (PFP), told the Financial Times. …[/quote]
But I haven’t been able to read the whole story yet. The site isn’t responding.
I finally got through. Here’s an excerpt:
[quote]Radical elements within Taiwan’s opposition are pushing for violent protests against President Chen Shui-bian.
Only a revolution could succeed in overturning Mr Chen’s government, Chiu I, legislator of the People First party (PFP), told the Financial Times.
The remarks are part of a growing power struggle within the opposition that could end in its break-up. A large-scale demonstration planned for Saturday is expected to be the watershed in deciding the future of the island’s landscape of political parties…
The KMT and PFP said they expected at least 500,000 people to join the demonstration in Taipei on Friday. But both parties and different factions within the KMT were fighting over strategy.
“We need to storm the fortifications,” said Mr Chiu. He said demonstrators should ram through the police barricades in front of the presidential office. “You cannot conduct a revolution if you think about your public image. Only with open conflict will we be able to scare Chen Shui-bian.”[/quote]
WTF?!
Let’s hope that Soong will condemn such remarks with the necessary severity. And could Chiu be tossed in jail for such comments?
Cranky Laowai wrote:
[quote]WTF?!
Let’s hope that Soong will condemn such remarks with the necessary severity. And could Chiu be tossed in jail for such comments?[/quote]
If I am not mistaken the same Chiu Yi was the legislator on top of the truck than rammed into the police barricade of the Taichung (Kaohsiung?) court a day after the election. So the SOB got plenty of practice in violent demonstration.
Well, I don’t think that I will go down and check the demo out.
The pan blues are showing their true colors - this should at least lead to an internal split, or a try to call them to order - we are looking at a REAL riot!
Did anyone catch the morning news? Apparently they’re having “open mike” today at the pan-Blue protest, and a well-dressed middle-aged woman who claimed she was a disgruntled ex-DPP member was allowed on stage to denounce Bian’s crimes against humanity.
As soon as she got on the mike however she told the crowd that there was absolutely no election fraud or anything suspicious about the shooting. giggle
Anyway, you can imagine the reaction of the crowd. She needed police escort to protect her from the screaming mob that was trying to get a piece of her. This one guy kept on yelling: “Are you from Japan? Are you Japanese? Ta ma de!” [Huh???]
One of the current future violence theories goes like this: “KMT operatives dressed as DPP supporters …in green colors… disrupt the Saturday demonstration, with violence, maybe shootings.
Then all hell breaks loose…”
I didn’t say this. I am just reporting what I am picking up on my police scanner. Chatter.
Tomorrow could be a very ugly day.
Wow, that took a bit of courage. I’m impressed.
Yeah, we should offer her a bit of protection. She will need it.
If Lian zhan gets power, it’s likely to be a pretty tough time for the people who had the courage to stand up against them.
I don’t have a copy of the Constitution at hand, but I think when the dust settles, President Chen could charge Lien and Soong with sedition.
And the DPP is calling for all its supporters not to take out flags, wear hats or display A-bian merchandise during the demonstration.
The Blues should take a deep breath and consider very, very carefully how far they want to push this tomorrow. I think they know that a recount will not change the result and that this is the last gasp. Once the CEC certifies the election today (have they already?), President Chen would have the legal mandate to bring in the military to put an end to unrest or even declare martial law. But this would be tragic for the nation as it would rip the fabric of society.