Tuesday, December 06, 2005

Fighting Legislators


This is a Numa Numa video using footage of fighting Taiwanese legislators. It's pretty sad how Taiwanese politicians resort to physical violence. Historically, however, the fighting played a part in the democratizing of Taiwan.

Back in the 1980s when opposition parties were illegal, many Democratic Progressive Party legislators started fights because they were literally not being heard. Creating commotions got them on TV, which helped publicize their democratic causes.

To still pull this stunt now (it seems like it's mostly the KMT, the party that fled to Taiwan after losing the Chinese Civil War in 1949, who are inciting violence nowadays though) in such a different societal and political context is just so immature.

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