Employees of the KMT-owned Broadcasting Corporation of China applauded and cheered in their office upon hearing that the 80-year-old former president Lee Teng-hui (李登輝) had developed heart disease and had to be hospitalized.
When people of such ilk serve as broadcasters, what exactly do they broadcast to the Taiwanese people? Do they broadcast the message of their Satanic hatred to every corner of the country?
During the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, moments before one plane hit the twin towers, the terrorists told the passengers through the intercom what they were going to do. When fearful women and children hugged each other and cried, one smiling terrorist told them, "Don't be silly. It won't hurt."
More than 3,000 people died in the attacks. A group of Chinese reporters were visiting the US when TV channels aired footage of the planes hitting the towers. They applauded and cheered upon seeing those scenes. The US government angrily ordered the reporters to leave the country.
In Taiwan, media star and politician Sisy Chen (
Ostensibly, these are "normal" people with high levels of publicity and angelic faces. But what are their inner worlds like?
A political prisoner I know was jailed for 15 years during the White Terror period. All his friends implicated in the same case were executed. He faced a broken family and some of his family members had died when he was released.
At the times of former presidents Chiang Kai-shek's (
This is one kind of disposition, culture or upbringing.
When DPP candidate You Ying-lung (
Sisy Chen said, "People who voted for You are `toothless' people," [(
This is another kind of disposition, like that of those BCC employees who cheered when former president Lee was hospitalized. Brewed and fermented in the same cultural "pickle pot," they exude the same pickled odor.
Life can be depraved or noble. Human beings are one of the very few animals that can clap their hands. One can send out love by clapping one's hands; one can also send out hatred with the same act. This is determined by whether one's mind is filled with cow dung or a bodhisattva's disposition.
Wu Chin-fa is a columnist.
Translated by Francis Huang
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