The following are excerpts of letters to the Liberty Times on the Pachang Creek tragedy.
"The KMT should stop the `I told you so' remarks. Just ask yourself who established such a murderous rescue relief system -- the ruling party of more than five decades or the new administration that took over just over 2 months ago? What is the point of bickering at each other now? Facing such a tragic loss of lives, the opposition parties act as if they have found a fault of the new administration and are making a big fuss. To me, it seems as if they are overjoyed by the unfortunate incident."
Chang Chun-yen
Taipei
"KMT lawmaker Mu Min-chu
Yang Li-mei
Taipei
In Taiwan, we go through the the trouble of mobilizing rescue personnel and an ambulance for a cat stranded under a bridge, but we can't rescue four of our own trapped in a river. Are human lives so worthless?
Yu Wen
Nantou
Since neither the police nor the military are at fault, then it must be the fault of those four workers, for they never dreamed that the rescue system in Taiwan would be so complicated.
Huang Ta-yuan
Taipei County
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