Yoichi Hatta statue beheaded at Tainan's dam

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What I really hate is their smug grins as they proudly get their 5 minutes of fame.

This same clown 5 years before had turned the gates of a government agency into flames. How he’s out and about and yet pkays another idiocy like that again amazes me.

They had a personal vendetta against someone at the school. It escalated to this.

What really bothers me is that the law allegedly can’t touch these jerks because the antiques they destroy have not been declared national monument. Of course, hoping to protect Japanese era stuff is a dream. Please remember that the studio of the mother of modern Taiwanese dance was burned down after it was declared a monument, so that really does not help anyways.

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They broadcasted it live on Facebook. Said it brought bad Fung shui lol

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This has been an issue lately in Canada. People are protesting against statues, covering up statues, talking about removing statues or threatening violence against people who want to remove them, turning the former US embassy into an indigenous people’s center, protesting that the architecture is culturally inappopriate, renaming a major building, asking why other buildings aren’t being renamed, and so on.

America may have a solution, for once. :astonished:

Yale University has long wrestled with similar complaints about Calhoun College, named for benefactor John C. Calhoun, a U.S. senator from South Carolina and outspoken proponent of slavery during the pre-Civil War era. Last year, Yale asked historian John Fabian Witt to resolve the controversy. […]

To decide what deserves to be removed and what should stay, the Witt test applies four questions, modified here for domestic use, that weigh the actions and time periods of commemorated individuals.

  • First: Is the principal legacy of the namesake fundamentally at odds with Canadian values? This requires a broad understanding of the life’s work of the individual in question.
  • Second: Was the relevant principal legacy significantly contested during the namesake’s lifetime? Isolated statements or actions considered controversial today may have been conventional wisdom at the time. Context matters.
  • Third: At the time of the naming, was the namesake honoured for reasons fundamentally at odds with Canadian values? Why was this person commemorated?
  • Finally: Does the building play a substantial role in forming community? The more prominent the edifice, the greater the casefor retaining names of historical significance, Prof. Witt says.

Using the Witt test, Yale announced in February the removal of Mr. Calhoun’s name. White supremacy, it concluded, was his principal legacy. Mr. Calhoun claimed slavery was “a positive good” and that the Declaration of Independence erred in stating all men are created equal. For this, he was criticized in his own time and today.

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And they keep on vandalizing…sigh…

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And now a unification fanatic almost beheaded a real person.

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Yeah, he broke into a KMT military history museum, stole a so called “Nanjing massacre katana”, which itself (the katana) is a KMT forgery, and cut the MP with it.

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There really is no end to Chinese nationalism until they clash with US (and in doing so they hope Japan would give them the kind of submission they want)

Basically Chinese nationalism will keep on aggravating until exhaustion. That they picked on Taiwan for now is only because US and Japan allow them and because the Chinese are still testing the water. As their appetite grows and as bullying Taiwan becomes less and less emotionally stimulating, Chinese nationalists are becoming more and more overtly anti-Japan and anti-West.

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Yeah, try to read an actual book instead of Facebook meme. Most were notified to evacuate months ago and did so. As it wasn’t wet season, flooding was very slow early June. So slow that JIA didn’t find out until after 3 days after. The number was a communist propaganda that included deaths due to famine even in later years as KMT government counted the famines in 39 and 42 to be also caused by this dam breach.

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:rofl:

You mean there’s a single book that can settle how much blame the KMT should receive for breaching the dam at Huayuankuo? Might that book be a KMT military history textbook?

I’d like to see the source for this one.

Your point being? You admit that the dam breach caused famines between 39 to 42, which the KMT officials denied early on, and gravely delayed relief efforts. The fact that local officials insisted on taxing famine affected areas also didn’t help matters. The KMT also actively tried to place the blame of the breach on the Japanese afterwards.

Subsequent famines were caused by the ecological devastation following the dam breach, which wouldn’t be the first time in history that a serious flood causes years of famine and disease. You are also ignoring the fact that the breach wasn’t fixed right away, so subsequent floods took place during rain season with the dam left in disrepair. The Yellow river didn’t completely go back to its original course until 1947.

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Intellectually honest person when challenged would seek to verify the truth. If you are incapable of using Google, for whatever reason, there’s no point. I am not here to be sparring partner for bitter people.

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Good advice, hope you take it to heart as well.

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Perpetrator gets 5 months. Whole news pasted, as it is CNA:

Taipei, March 8 (CNA) Former Taipei City councilor Lee Chen-long (李承龍) was sentenced to five months in prison Thursday for vandalizing a bronze statue of Japanese engineer Yoichi Hatta in Tainan last year.

A woman, Chiu Chin-wei (邱晉芛), who helped Lee carry out the decapitation of Hatta’s statue at the the Yoichi Hatta Memorial Park near the Wushantou Reservoir, was sentenced to four months behind bars on the same charge of damaging the property of others, the Tainan District Court said in its ruling.

Their punishment can be converted to a fine of NT$1,000 (US$34) per day of the sentences, the ruling said.

According to the ruling, Lee and Chiu, who were disgruntled with remarks praising Hatta’s contribution to the Chianan Plain for building the reservoir, drove to the reservoir April 14, 2017 and stayed at a guest house there overnight before going to the statue the next day, where Lee used an electric saw to decapitate the statue.

Lee admitted to the crime afterward, while Chiu was found guilty of keeping watch for Lee while he was committing the offense, the ruling said.

Both Lee and Chiu can appeal the ruling.

Although the Tainan City government swiftly repaired the statue and sent divers to search for the decapitated head in the reservoir, it has never been found.

Which explains the tit for tat cover:

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Basically mutual revenge will doom all in Taiwan.

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In other words, they won’t serve any time, unless they chose to.

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In other news, there are protests by teh same usual gang because teh Government chastised the fishing boat that trespassed into Japanese waters… like twice… this month and got itself hosed down. So they break teh law and complain when the Government does not “protect its children” but rather “hits its own childrens’ face”. Quote from headline.

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And those protesters called for the PLA to protect Taiwan’s fishing boats.