Well done, Honorary Chairman for Life Lien Chan. With any luck, next year you may yet be the proud recipient of China's "World Harmony Peace Prize". Fingers crossed!
(Where Lien can share the podium with the previous winner -- General Chi "Mahatma Gandhi" Haotian. A tireless warrior for peace, who issued the courageous order to flatten Tiananmen Square protesters with 30-ton tanks back in 1989.)
Great stuff from Taiwan's Next Magazine:
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UPDATE: News reports from Hong Kong suggest that the Butchers of Beijing wish to make their Toady in Taipei vice-president of the People's Republic of China.
Nah. For China to publicly out their unpaid $15,000 agent would simply be too good to be true. Chairman Wormtongue is much more useful behind the scenes, cutting shadowy deals with Saruman.
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague."
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lien Chan image from Life.com)
UPDATE #2: MSNBC reports on the farce.
Well done? World Harmony Peace Prize? I hope your kidding me, but then, it's not surprising, in your self-induced illusion, the communists in China can do NO wrong but the KMT in Taiwan are evil! evil! evil!
Posted by: anti communist | March 27, 2011 at 04:29 PM
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You tilt at windmills, having missed the
sarcasm
in the post. So let's re-read it again to get a better picture of my "self-induced illusions" about the Chinese Communist Party, shall we?Now, y'see that little part about "The Butchers of Beijing"? I don't know about you, but where I come from, "Butcher" is NOT a term of admiration or endearment. Oh, and the stuff about the "heroism" of the Chinese Communist general who "courageously gave the order to flatten Tiananmen protesters with 30 ton tanks"?
I-r-o-n-y.
(Because it doesn't take much heroism to flatten unarmed civilians with tanks. Duh!)
As for the World Harmony Peace Prize, that's a black joke perpetrated not by me, but by the KMT's good friends in the CCP. I DID include a link explaining that, but obviously you neglected to follow it.
Once more, here are the links:
http://www.nationalreview.com/the-feed/251879/un-foolishness
http://foreignerinformosa.typepad.com/the_foreigner_in_formosa/2010/11/china-wins-another-peace-prize.html
http://shanghaiist.com/2010/11/03/un_awards_tam_general_a_peace_prize.php
Not surprising that you hadn't heard about China awarding its "World Harmony Peace Prize" to the general in charge of the Tiananmen Massacre. Taiwan's KMT-dominated media obviously succeeded in burying that particular story.
Posted by: The Foreigner | March 27, 2011 at 06:37 PM