TR EMERITUS

Ran across Dr. William Fang’s column on Wednesday, the one titled, Two shining examples of the judiciary: HK, Singapore.  Fang has a reason for praising Singapore in particular — prior to the Taiwanese presidential elections, then-KMT-candidate Ma Ying-jeou suggested undemocratic Singapore was a model worthy of Taiwanese emulation.  Fang gives away the game near the end of his column:

It is well-known that quite a few political activists tend to overemphasize the universal value of the kind of “freedom of speech” cherished by them . . .

In other words, wouldn’t it be terrific if “political activists” who disagree with the policies of the KMT government were slapped with defamation suits and muzzled — just like they’d be in Singapore.  Which didn’t you know, has one of the BEST judicial systems in Asia?

(See pages 39-45 of this document for a short list of “political activists” who have been silenced by the Singaporean oligarchy.  They include such bomb-throwing radicals as the Far Eastern Economic Review, the International Herald Tribune, the Economist and the Asian Wall Street Journal.)

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