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They are waiting for Chen to commit Seppuku.

I doubt Chen is brave enough to commit Seppuku. LOL

But that is the way of his overlords.

On last night's(Sept 9, 2009) TVB News, it reported that Chen Shui Bian might get a maximum of 30 years in prison.

Taiwan should exile him to Diaoyu island.

Kicking someone while they are down on the ground is cowardly.
yep, you are cowardly.

just execute him, not worth taxpayer money

You are the biggest coward for supporting evil people !!!

I am sure you support Hitler just like you support Chen Shui Bian !!!!

FCUK YEAH!!!!!!!!!!

That crook and his crippled b!tch recieved life sentences!!!!!

yup. FIRST EVER for a former head of state. How embarrassing.



cry me a river.

man, hes finished haha...

Chen is a myrter. His wife is a myrter.
Kmt Ma / most kmt politicians has pocket even more money than Chen , but they are walking around freely.
What do you think the Taiwanese citizens are thinking?! It reminds us of the kmt repression of 1950 to 1970's by the kmt when we see Chen.
FCUK YEAH in the next elections coming up in two years.
With Ma's approval at 16 percent. You will be crying for your mama.

Dont overreact with self-lies and self-deception.
That is the worst kind of lie, when you lie to yourself.
Lying to yourself and not wanting to see reality.
How can you call a corrupter as a martyr?
So should he be charged and prosecuted in an outside environment to satisfy your anti KMT hatred, maybe he should be charged in a far away country like Norway or something?
And do you think the results will be different then?

So becaourse of your anti KMT hatred, it has clouded your judgment, you cannot separate right from wrong, this issue from that issue, everything mixed up, and you lift up a corrupter as your hero.

Please evaluate yourself.

It is a triumph for democracy as I see. Chen is now in for wrong deeds, and the same could happen to Ma if he misbehaves. It is unprecedented, and sets a good example; it proves that democracy around Asia is not just about parliamentarians shoveling and slinging mud at each other. People can actually overcome their respective political convictions and carry out their business just as expected, which impresses me. I am a mainlander, and I would say bravo to these prosecutors; nothing about politics, it is only about how the whole case is processed.

^It is called setting a precedence.

It is ironic how supporters of the so called Democratic Progressive party are crying foul, when such great progress's are made.

cheers to chen water flat accepted into prison

Having low approval rating means nothing in Taiwanese "politics".

KMT proposes ‘decriminalizing’ fund

TIMING: The KMT caucus secretary-general said that now that former president Chen has been found guilty, talk of decriminalizing special allowance funds could begin
By Flora Wang
STAFF REPORTER, WITH STAFF WRITER
Monday, Sep 14, 2009, Page 1
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) caucus yesterday again proposed “decriminalizing” the use of the special allowance fund by government chiefs.

The KMT caucus first suggested an amendment to the Audit Law (審計法) in April 2007 that would decriminalize government chiefs’ personal use of special allowance funds.

The move at the time was seen as a bid to clear embezzlement allegations against then-former Taipei mayor Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九), who was indicted in February 2007 on charges of embezzling NT$11 million (US$338,000) from his special mayoral allowance during his eight years as Taipei mayor between December 1998 and July 2006.

Ma was found not guilty in the final verdict in April last year.

KMT caucus secretary-general Lu Hsueh-chang (呂學樟) yesterday said that the last legislative session did not make any progress in “decriminalizing” government chiefs’ use of their special allowance funds because the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) had insisted on also decriminalizing former president Chen Shui-bian’s (陳水扁) use of his state affairs fund.

“Now that Chen has been found guilty in the first trial, we can now discuss [decriminalization] of [how the government chiefs use their] special allowance fund,” Lu said, referring to the verdict handed out by the Taipei District Court on Friday sentencing Chen and his wife Wu Shu-jen (吳淑珍) to life in prison in the first trial of Chen’s state affairs fund case.

Lu told reporters that it was necessary for the legislature to pass the legislation given that some 200 government chiefs are still being investigated for how they spent their special affairs funds.

How government chiefs spend their special affairs fund — a monthly fund for public relations purposes — became the subject of a controversy after former DPP legislator Hsieh Hsin-ni (謝欣霓) and others in 2006 accused Ma of misusing his special allowance fund during his tenure as Taipei mayor.

After Ma’s indictment, about 200 incumbent or former government chiefs from both the pan-blue and the pan-green camps, including then-vice president Annette Lu (呂秀蓮) and former premier Yu Shyi-kun (游錫堃), were indicted by prosecutors for allegedly embezzling their special affairs funds.

DPP Policy Research Committee head Ker Chien-ming (柯建銘) said the previous legislative session had reached a consensus to push through the legislation during the upcoming fall session, but the KMT caucus had insisted on dealing with the matter only after a ruling was handed down in the first trial of Chen’s case.

The proposed amendment to decriminalize government chiefs’ personal use of special allowance funds means delinking the issue from the president’s use of the state affairs fund, an idea that members of the DPP are divided on.

DPP caucus whip Wang Sing-nan (王幸男) said he would propose a motion during the party’s Central Standing Committee on Wednesday, suggesting that the president’s state affairs fund be included in the proposed amendment.

“In essence, the function of the state affairs fund is the same as that of the [government chiefs’] special allowance fund. The only difference is that they are being called by two different names,” he said. “It would be unfair and unreasonable if the state affairs fund is not included in the amendment.”

In 2007, Ma stole $11 million NT from the Taiwan government, but he got off the hook, cuz he has friends in the kmt. Very corrupt!!
I have wonder, if this is the kmt's plan all along, to jail Chen, and get the DPP to pass to decrinimalize taking money from Taiwan government funds. We all know, the kmt has in the past taken more money than DPP ever could, and today kmt has the ability to steal even more money than all the other political parties put together.

If you are a mainlander, then you should be more worried about China and less about the foreign country of Taiwan. China' government officials steal 100 billion USDs equilivant each year from your Bank of China treasury. Yes, One million times more than what the Taiwan politicians could ever steal. You should be worried more about how to control that, rather than what's going on in other countries.