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Cowards should be fired
While reading a Taipei Times article on the refusal to play the national anthem
at a national celebration, I was outraged (¡§DPP furious over refusal to play the
national anthem,¡¨ April 1, page 3). The abysmally craven cowardice displayed by
the organizers of the founding of the Republic of China committee, who lacked
the courage to play their own country¡¦s national anthem during a celebration to
unveil the year-long celebration¡¦s slogan and logo, was evidently an attempt to
appease the sensibilities of the communist Chinese.
I was also sickened by a premonition of what the future holds for people who are
such nauseating, abject cowards. I say: ¡§Shame on all of them!¡¨
They should all be immediately fired and replaced. If Chiang Kai-shek (½±¤¶¥Û) were
still alive, heads would roll without a doubt. Literally. These curs would be
killed (or at least severely punished) for their cowardice.
Council for Cultural Affairs Minister Emile Sheng (²±ªv¤¯) ¡X who doubles as head of
the committee, was reported as saying that he defended the committee¡¦s choice,
saying that the National Flag-Raising Song (°êºXºq) ¡§was chosen to go along with
the ¡¥light pace¡¦ of the PowerPoint presentation the committee had chosen for the
occasion.¡¨
This has to be one of the most laughably and patently ludicrous statements that
I have ever seen in print.
It¡¦s purely and simply a load of codswallop and stinking bullshit, emitted by a
buffoone like in the Italian La Commedia dell¡¦Arte.
At first, given that the article was published on April 1 ¡X a day traditionally
reserved for pranks, buffoonery and tomfoolery ¡X I had originally assumed that
Sheng¡¦s statements were the result of an impish and perverse desire to play an
April Fool¡¦s joke on the readers of this paper.
I cannot describe the acrid, sinking feeling in my stomach when I realized that
this was not the case.
Michael Scanlon
East Hartford, Connecticut
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