A Glaring Example of What is Wrong in Taiwan

Taiwan Living in Taiwan
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I read this yesterday and was amazed at this storys’ tone.

[quote]Police officer punished over handcuffing councilor
By Chang Ling-yin, Taiwan News, Staff Reporter
Page 3, 2007-07-10 02:21 AM

A police officer who forced an opposition Kaohsiung City councilor to spend time in handcuffs at a police station on June 28 for interfering in a case was further punished yesterday at the request of the city council.

The Kaohsiung City Police Bureau decided to give the police officer surnamed Chang two minor demerits instead of the original one minor demerit and a transfer after the city council criticized the disciplinary action as too lenient to be acceptable.

In addition, Chang’s precinct chief, who was originally not punished for Chang’s behavior, was given a minor demerit for poor supervision.

Kuomintang Kaohsiung City Councilor Lan Hsing-mu was tackled to the ground and handcuffed after becoming embroiled in a dispute over a traffic policeman’s handling of a drunk-driving case involving the politician’s friend.

The councilor went to the station because a female driver had been arrested for an alleged drunk-driving offense and called Lan for assistance, complaining that she had not been allowed to rest for 15 minutes before taking a breath-alcohol test as stipulated in related regulations.

According to police, the videotape recording of the legislator’s actions, which has not yet made public, showed Lan arriving at the police station, telling the police he was a city councilor and demanding to know how the case would be handled.

A conflict erupted after the policeman replied, “No matter who you are, we will handle the case in our usual manner.” A lot of pushing and shoving followed and in the ensuing melee, a policeman surnamed Chang cuffed the councilor.

Lan declined to comment on his brief detention, but Kaohsiung City Council Speaker Chuang Chi-wang voiced strong dissatisfaction over the police’s decision to cuff a Kaohsiung City councilor.

“It is ridiculous that a city councilor was treated like one of the nation’s top ten most-wanted felons,” Chuang complained after being invited to watch the videotape.

Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chu (陳菊) and Kaohsiung Police Chief Tsai Yi-ren then went to the city council to issue their apology to Lan in person and announced they would give Chang a minor demerit last Thursday.

But the city council felt the punishment was too lenient and threatened to make public the video, which councilors contended clearly shows how poorly the officers treated the councilor and could damage the police department’s inage.
taiwannews.com.tw/etn/news_c … ?id=482310[/quote]

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The old “I know people that are bigger than anyone you know.”

Sucks on the surface of it, although I wonder how badly the cops were carrying on and if that’s not the main point. Of course, it being the Taiwan News we can never hope to know the real story. And to think, those bastards fired me once.

HG

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I’m thinking the reason the video has not been made public is that it shows the “Councilor” person being very deserving of what he got.

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[quote=“TainanCowboy”]
A police officer who forced an opposition Kaohsiung City councilor to spend time in handcuffs at a police station on June 28 for interfering in a case was further punished yesterday at the request of the city council.[/quote]

I hope I have a chance to buy that cop a beer some day. No wonder most of his colleagues do diddly-shit.

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Sad, sick, fucked up mouthbreathing scum. Not at all surprising though. Now we need a DPP councilor or two to kick up a tit-for-tat stink about it. Business as usual in this godforsaken shithole we call home.
Pathetic.

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This is probably the first case of abuse of power ever recorded, right?

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Let’s hope this story gets some more play - I want to see that video…

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If you go to the link and read the story, you’ll notice a box for “Comments” at the bottom.
owever, if you’re like me and actually want to comment on this travesty, you find out you have to “Register” to do so.
Well, I emailed the paper and complained about this. And I very quickly recieved a polite response apologising for this and telling me that I could indeed send a ‘comment’ via

Service@etaiwannews.com

I am sending a “comment” this afternoon and I hope others will also do so.

For the chillens…

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Give that cop a promotion for doing his job, and the councillor jailtime for assaulting a policeman, or obstructing justice.

Oh wait, I’m dreaming.

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At least I hope the policeman ground his heel into the councilor’s gonads while he was cuffed - if that smear of loathsomeness has any gonads.

It doesn’t half make one fume to read stuff like that. And a major thumbs down to Chen Chu for taking the scum politico’s side - I doubt she’ll be making any such groveling apology where she truly owes it.

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Someone should start a support the policeman Chang website. :thumbsup:

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Does anyone know if this story has appeared in any of the other Taiwan media outlets?

I have sent a comment to this “newspaper” and encourage others to also let them know how pathetic this story is:

Service@etaiwannews.com

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I think he should run for public office! Wouldn’t it be great to have a guy like this in the Ministry of Justice ? :notworthy:

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Anyone have the cop’s photo? I wanna make a T-shirt saying “I’d vote for this man”

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How about this one ? chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/2007 … driver.htm
He gets a light sentence for drink driving because he’s an alcoholic. He’s totaled 3 cars while drunk but still has a licence ? :loco: Having pity on him and not sending him to prison is one thing, but why is he still allowed to drive ?

Any one like to take a guess why deaths are drink-driving are going up ?

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I hope the officer appeals.

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[quote=“sandman”]Sad, sick, fucked up mouthbreathing scum. Not at all surprising though. Now we need a DPP councilor or two to kick up a tit-for-tat stink about it. Business as usual in this godforsaken shithole we call home.
Pathetic.[/quote]

You omitted the word ‘cunt’ from your excellent appraisal, sir.

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[quote=“TomHill”][quote=“sandman”]Sad, sick, fucked up mouthbreathing scum. Not at all surprising though. Now we need a DPP councilor or two to kick up a tit-for-tat stink about it. Business as usual in this godforsaken shithole we call home.
Pathetic.[/quote]

You omitted the word ‘cunt’ from your excellent appraisal, sir.[/quote]
Sorry, TomHill, you must be a bit out of the loop if you’re unaware that cunt and DPP councilor are synonyms.