Commentary on the Denise Ho Red Paint Incident: Questioning the Tsai Ing-wen Government's 'Double Standards' in Treating the Unionist Party versus Student Movement Activists

Regarding the incident where red paint 🍅 was splashed on the Hong Kong 🇭🇰 female star Denise Ho, who came to Taiwan to promote her political ideas, the Tsai Ing-wen government determined to strictly prosecute those who “likewise expressed their own political appeals” under four major charges, including organized crime.

Hey, I remember what some Taiwanese people are most proud of is calling themselves a democratic and free country and pursuing various equal rights. Even the current United States allows the existence of communism in its country, yet we seem to have returned to the period of martial law implemented by President Chiang Kai-shek to maintain peace and stability in Taiwan and prevent invasion by the Communist Party.

I don’t like the China Unification Promotion Party either; they are holding the flag of the People’s Republic of China 🇨🇳 and slapping our 🇹🇼 Republic of China’s face. But the freedom of speech that should be protected cannot exclude them, otherwise, that is a half-baked Taiwan-style democracy.

⚖️ Strict Prosecution of the Unionist Party v.s. Decriminalization of the Sunflower Movement

Splashing red paint is naturally a criminal act, just like the crazy Taiwan independence activists splashing red paint on bronze statues everywhere; both need to be constrained by law. However, is the government now planning to over-cite penalties only for the Unionist Party?

This reminds me of the street crowd violence incidents 🧱 where Tsai Ing-wen was called “Violent Ying,” as well as many criminals in the 🌻 Sunflower Student Movement; later, after Tsai Ing-wen was elected President of the 🇹🇼 Republic of China, they were all decriminalized with the phrase “political incident.”

The ancients said, “When one person attains the Tao, even his chickens and dogs 🐓🐩 ascend to heaven.” Nowadays, this is truly and fully realized through the DPP.

In my heart, true freedom of speech is the right to protect all speech and claims. As for involving crimes, one should also be mentally prepared to accept punishment, and this naturally includes that group of criminals protected under Tsai Ing-wen’s wings.

Actually, what people like us have always opposed is not the DPP itself. It’s just that some of us with logic backgrounds from science and engineering backgrounds extremely loathe double standards ⚖️, so the conclusion “Taiwan will not be better until the DPP falls” naturally appears. 迫