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Thursday, March 25, 2004

Lien Chan is a crackpot and a fucking liar

Whoever believes him is fucked in the head, too

While warning (some might say "threatening") of a "very serious problem" if there isn't a recount of the votes from last Saturday's presidential election in Taiwan, loser Lien Chan told the world that (as paraphrased by ChannelNewsAsia.com) "200,000 soldiers and police were unable to cast their ballots ... [many of whom] were KMT supporters" because of an emergency mechanism put in place after the attempted assassination of incumbent president Chen Shui-bian the day before the election. The interview Lien gave on CNN, during which he expressed those thoughts to Mike Chinoy, was conducted in (very slow) English, and although I couldn't quote him exactly (the above excerpt from the article sounds pretty close to the words he used), I heard him very clearly with my own ears as he told the scowling reporter.

Yep. He said it. I do know this much.

An article in the Taipei Times says that according to the Ministry of National Defense:
... only 13,000 military servicemen, who were part of the normal combat alert status used during all previous elections, were required to stay at their posts instead of going home to vote after the "national security mechanism" was launched. [National Police Administration] Director-General Chang Si-liang, when approached by reporters, said that he never ordered his fellow officers not to vote.

"We needed more manpower for the mechanism. However, all officers took turns voting, unless they voluntarily gave up that right. I never asked them not to vote," Chang said. [Emphasis mine]
A day earlier, it had already been reported by Deputy Minister of National Defense Lin Chong-pin in another Taipei Times article that these "13,000 troops had been unable to vote ... because they were on combat alert, a standard procedure on election days because of the threat from China." [Emphasis mine]

One might imagine that if there were 200,000 of Lien's followers -- with guns -- who felt the election was stolen from them, they might be throwing a coup right about now. However, there aren't that many protesters right now, many of them are women, children, and seniors, and the only "weapons" used so far have been air horns and a campaign truck.

Yet on Wednesday, according to local Chinese-language media, Lien Chan spoke words that would invoke charges of perjury were he in court. Here's my translation of the pertinent section:
[NOTE: The original press conference was being conducted in English, so this is a second-generation translation which may account for some discrepancies. However, I'm confident that my point remains valid.]

[One of three requests Lien and Soong had regarding the outcome of the election was] an explanation of why military and police personnel, because of a "national security mechanism" being invoked, were unable to cast ballots.

A French reporter didn't understand, and asked, "According to the information provided by the Minister of National Defense, the number of people involved in the national security alert was fewer than 20,000. Why does the KMT and PFP support the claim that over 200,000 people were unable to vote (because of this)? Also, how can you be so sure that these people would have voted for the KMT-PFP ticket?"

Lien Chan replied that the number "200,000" was mentioned by his chief international policy advisor Su Chi, and that he (Lien) never said such a thing. [Emphasis mine]
Monkeys were then seen flying out of his ass.

Going back to the top of this post, one must recall that a little over three weeks before the election, he also "warned" of possible riots. Let me repeat "the opposition's theme" as quoted in an earlier post:
"[T]he 'complexities' of collecting and casting three ballots will inevitably spark election conflicts and 'riots.'" [Emphasis mine] [LINK])
How could he know such a thing? Planning the riots himself would be one possibility. Or maybe he knows a really, really good fortune teller.

Yeah. That's the ticket!
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