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Time to man up
Wednesday, Jul 21, 2010, Page 8
Contrary to your front-page report (¡§Farmers rally in Taipei to protest land
seizures,¡¨ July 18, page 1), the recent land ¡§expropriation¡¨ case would be more
commonly recognized for what it actually is if it was described as the ¡§theft¡¨
of private property by the Miaoli County Government.
This is not a ¡§land issue¡¨ and its implications are not specific to farmers. It
is a violation of the supposed universal right to property described in Article
15 of the Constitution of the Republic of China and it therefore ought to be
regarded as having much broader implications far beyond ¡§farming communities.¡¨
Pick your skirts up, stop being a bunch of socialist sallys moaning about ¡§lack
of oversight¡¨ and so on and start telling it like it is. The government is not
the citizen¡¦s friend and it will steal anything from anyone anytime it believes
it is necessary.
MICHAEL FAGAN
Tainan
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