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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 (蔣介石) 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 (盛治仁) — 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 (國旗歌) “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 — a day traditionally
reserved for pranks, buffoonery and tomfoolery — 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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