Organizers of the campaign aimed at ousting President Chen Shui-bian (
Anti-Chen campaign organizers plan a "siege" of the Presidential Office next Tuesday because they say the mass parade that encircled the building and the president's residence on Sept. 15 failed to provoke a "positive response" from Chen.
Chien Hsi-chieh, the campaign's deputy coordinator, said the campaign is considering four different plans of "attack," including asking protesters to conduct a sit-in around the Presidential Office, confronting the police near the cordoned-off area, pushing through barricades or simply pretending to push through the barricades in a symbolic gesture.
The final decision will be announced by campaign leader Shih Ming-teh (
Chang Fu-chung (張富忠), the campaign's news coordinator, said plans for achieving the movement's aim of forcing Chen to step down, including a recall motion against pan-green legislators for refusing to support a second recall motion against the president, would also be discussed.
"But we won't make our detailed plans public unless the police tell us where the cordoned-off area will be," he said yesterday from the sit-in area in front of Taipei Railway Station.
The campaign's original plan was to send 5,000 "peace corps" protesters to besiege the Presidential Office in a peaceful manner.
Following the "siege," the campaign will return to Ketagalan Boulevard on Oct. 14, and continue its sit-in at the site until Oct. 22.
Shih and some of his campaign members, meanwhile, yesterday continued their nationwide tour, visiting Keelung, Hsinchu and Taoyuan County.
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