Wednesday, January 31, 2007

李登輝的深沉算盤 [好文共想/享]

台灣不可能由民進黨一黨長期執政,台灣未來的政黨輪替是要由泛藍與泛綠來輪替嗎?那台灣豈不大亂,教科書要改來改去嗎?護照加註要換來換去嗎?九二共識到底是有共識還是沒共識要變來變去嗎?

作者:巴布
原載於東森部落格 - 註一:參見「李登輝強調非台獨 大力主張開放中資 還想走訪大陸」 http://www.ettoday.com/2007/01/31/11342-2048627.htm


民進黨執政後,在台聯創立要走台獨深綠路線時,由陳水扁掌權的民進黨就需要往中間靠攏,這是執政黨的責任,也是李登輝為台灣所定下的戰略,但民進黨在無準備下執政後,為確保其執政的權力和利益,完全與創黨理想愈走愈遠,罔顧轉型正義,讓台灣社會無和解共生的基礎,只一昧的牽就政治現實,在各種政治勢力間搖擺,意圖左右逢源。結果是既沒和解也無法共生,造成的是台灣人民的失望以及對本土政權的嚴重傷害。甚至在2005年的三合一選舉時陳水扁在自己執政不力,無法開拓中間選民票源的情況下,陳水扁一個回馬槍回過頭來搶了深綠的票,台聯應狀大而未果,民進黨自己則灰頭土臉,陳水扁完全打亂了李登輝的佈局和苦心,這是陳水扁和民進黨對台灣最大的罪過。   

如今單一選區兩票制選舉在即,台聯正要泡沫化,台灣兩黨競爭型態即將形成,民進黨和國民黨會是未來的兩大黨嗎?台灣不可能由民進黨一黨長期執政,台灣未來的政黨輪替是要由泛藍與泛綠來輪替嗎?那台灣豈不大亂,教科書要改來改去嗎?護照加註要換來換去嗎?九二共識到底是有共識還是沒共識要變來變去嗎?…答案是當然不行。台灣獨立趨勢已成(有62%的台灣人民自認其為台灣人),民進黨不想走到中間,那走在中間的黨得要由一個不是深藍的黨來擔綱,以進行必要的政黨輪替,未來的台灣才不會大亂,因為現在的中國國民黨已是個被深藍所綁架的黨,這個中間路線的開拓者,就是新繼任台聯黨主席黃崑輝宣佈將改走中間偏左路線的「台灣民主社會黨」。

其背後影武者李登輝並重新定調自己的立場,強調沒有必要追求台獨,他不是台獨教父,甚至說台灣早就主權獨立,何必再追求台獨,再說下去只會讓台灣「降格」的言語等等,都是為了要使政黨轉型爭取中間選票,成為一個真正中間偏左照顧弱勢的政黨,李登輝說他不是台獨200次有多少人會信?(一如馬英九如果說他不是統一又有多少人能信?)李登輝拋出此一議題是要激發台灣人思考:誰會是那個中間偏右強調經濟發展的政黨?會是目前執政的民進黨嗎?民進黨會願意且有能力來扮演這一角色嗎?難不成會是一新興政黨嗎?如此,台灣社會即可跳脫藍綠的思維,在兩個台獨黨(明獨與暗獨)之間進行選擇以落實民主。

李登輝主張鼓勵開放大陸外資及觀光,他批評民進黨政府朝夕令改,結果造成台灣與中國經貿失衡,不但流失資金、人才和技術,也影響到老百姓的生活(註一),難不成李登輝也要同時扮演那個中間偏右強調經濟發展的政黨嗎?在台灣獨立鞏固的大藍圖尚未落實前,希望李登輝能活到百二十歲,是台灣之幸,但在那之前,希望民進黨好好跟李登輝談一下,如何為台灣各自扮演好正當的角色,在排深藍的基礎上分進合擊,擴大票源到70~80%以上。

Monday, January 22, 2007

當前台灣四惡共生的亂象

< 好文共享>

「四惡共生」的國會亂象

何榮幸2007-01-23 08:15 中時

立法院沈淪至此,藍綠「雙惡共生」已不足以形容其墮落,加上選民漠視、媒體失職所構成的「四惡共生」,才是國會結構性腐爛根源。選民不覺悟,媒體不提升,別想奢望藍綠政黨會走回正途,國會亂象仍會繼續躍上CNN成為國際笑柄。

民進黨立委這回竟然用上「機車大鎖加快乾膠」奧步 (: 台語發音),讓國會議長無法進入議場主持議事。這已經不是尊不尊重國會多數的問題,而是執政黨有沒有基本格調的寫照。經此一役,民進黨在二00八之前做為「比爛政黨」的格局幾已蓋棺論定。

當年朱高正在萬年國會時代大鬧議場,的確是威權體制下反對黨不得不然的抗爭手段;但民進黨在民主時代仍以非理性方式抗爭,實已超越「朝小野大」結構下的合理杯葛尺度。執政黨不帶頭反省,藍綠「雙惡共生」將永無寧日。

民進黨當家鬧事卻一副理直氣壯,原因是國親兩黨並未承擔國會多數的應有責任。看看國親立委主導的本會期最後一次院會議程,前三案都是極具爭議法案,中央政府總預算卻排在第二十八案,就知道國親兩黨多麼不在乎公共利益了。

國民黨有失最大在野黨職責的証據,更在於馬英九一再倡言推動的「十全大補帖」陽光、民生法案,沒有一案被真正排入優先議程;國親聯盟談的永遠都是立委提名分配而非具體落實改革,難怪國親同樣穩居「雙惡共生」的一端而無法卸責。

如果只談「雙惡共生」而不談選民、媒體責任,那才是各打五十大板。藍綠立委如此惡鬥仍有峙無恐,最大原因在於選民的泛政治化與健忘。泛政治化讓朝野政黨可以在選前輕易轉移焦點,健忘則讓選民太容易原諒立委諸公的墮落行徑。

選民如果不能真正就事論事,則立委平日問政表現根本無關宏旨。只要藍綠陣營在選前祭起「愛台灣」、「反台獨」、「中共同路人」等意識型態大旗,藍綠選民照樣自動歸隊。只要這樣的選舉方式有效,藍綠立委就不可能真正改變惡鬥格局。

至於媒體的嚴重失職,則明顯表現在八卦化與偽善這兩個面向。電子媒體近年來報導國會新聞的八卦化、花絮化走向,早已讓「三寶」式立委大行其道,認真問政的立委根本上不了鏡頭,辛苦三年還不如朝王金平丟一隻鞋子來得風光。

媒體在批判朝野政黨與立委諸公時,總是要求政治人物「拿出牛肉」、「推動改革」,但等到藍綠陣營真的端出公共政策,卻往往被媒體棄之如蔽屣,改革議題也總是被無聊政治口水、藍綠天王動向所淹沒。就此而言,媒體確實是國會亂象的「共犯結構」。

想要徹底改變「四惡共生」國會亂象,藍綠陣營、選民、媒體這四端的反躬自省皆不可少。民間團體最近再度組成國會監督聯盟,希望這回不要只是三分鐘熱度,能夠以此為基點擴散監督國會的力道,讓「四惡共生」的惡性循環出現解套的契機。

引用:http://editorland.chinatimes.com/ho/archive/2007/01/23/3041.html

Saturday, January 20, 2007

台灣現況

The State of Nation - 本文是以美國為例.

I hope someone in Taiwan can write an article on the state of Taiwan like Mr. David Wallechinsky did on Parade every year. In the followings, I have summarized Mr. Wallechinsky’s article in simple outlines:

United State of American is leading all nations in:

  1. Military: There are 460,000 armed forces stationed abroad in 144 countries. US has most advanced weapons and more deliverable nuclear weapons than anyone else.
  2. Economy: GDP is the highest in the world ($13.3 trillion) and has largest gold reserved (about $158 billion). US have 371 billionaires.
  3. Energy Consumption: Leads all nations in consumption of oil (1/4 of annual supply). Lead in usage of nuclear energy.
  4. Internet Users: 205,327,000 and counting.
  5. Highway Road: 3.98 million miles.
  6. Healthcare Cost: Highest among nations, $5,700 per year. But we are lag in doctors, high in infant deaths (No. 34 in rank of infant surviving).

Other areas that are lagging:

  1. Crime: Highest per capita rate of people in prison. 15th highest in murder rate.
  2. Women in national legislatures: There are 71 countries do better than US.
  3. Voting: The eligible citizen who voted, US is 138th of 172 nations.

Thursday, January 18, 2007

Updates on Taiwan

Newnations.com has just published updates on Taiwan. The following is the summary of their updates (Update No. 34 - 02/01/07). For more detail information about their survey and observation, please go to their website.

Taiwan : JANUARY 2007 An end of year review


All things considered, Taiwan has weathered the past year rather well and better than many had expected. As has been the case in other parts of Asia, the economy has steamed ahead largely ignoring the shenanigans of the political class. The smart money suggests a similar picture for next year.

Taiwan's export-driven (at least in large part) growth has benefited from the better than expected performance of the US economy (which will come in at around 3.2 percent for 2006) and the continued surge of China. The Chinese economy will likely grow by a further 10.5 percent this year after recording 9.9 percent growth last year.

The ongoing strong demand for Taiwan's manufactures translates to domestic economic growth this year of around 4.1 percent. With the upcoming Chinese Olympics looming ever closer, export demand is expected to remain robust next year and well into 2008.

So far, we have given out the good news. Now for the bad news: It has not been a good year politically for the ruling Democratic Progressive Party nor especially for President Chen Shui-bian whose wife was recently indicted on one count of fraud.

Taiwan's political system remains as rambunctious as ever and for much of the year President Chen Shui-bian and his senior DPP leaders have remained in a veritable state of political siege engendered by internal rifts and factionalism within the party and by allegations of corruption in high places that the opposition forces led by a renascent Kuomintang (KMT) under presidential aspirant and party Chair, Ma Ying-jeou, have been eager to exploit. Fresh attempts to impeach the President have so far come to nothing but have led to paralysis in much of government and especially in the government's legislative programme where the opposition has opposed simply for the sake of opposition without weighing the merits of the case. In that, of course, there is nothing new.

But even here there may be a silver lining to the dark political clouds hanging over Taipei and it may be found in the electorate at large. The results of the Taipei and Kaohsiung mayoral polls held on December 9th, took many by surprise.

A growing electoral maturity?

The DPP hierarchy will be breathing a collective sigh of relief that the mayoral elections maintained the balance of power between the two major parties. The KMT held onto the Taipei mayorship (but with a reduced vote) while the DPP won unexpectedly in Kaohsiung in a cliff-hanger contest that had earlier been deemed impossible to win.

Given the wide expectation that the election outcome would see a further repudiation of DPP politicians by the electorate for their perceived failures and links to corruption scandals, the electorate proved to be unusually forgiving (or, perhaps, more discerning than many had thought).

In Taipei, the DPP pitched former Kaohsiung mayor, former premier and DPP stalwart Frank Hsieh against the KMT candidate Hau Lung-bin (Hau Lung-pin), a former head of Taiwan's environmental protection administration (EPA) who has vowed to develop Taipei into a city that foreigners would find comfortable to live in. Prior to returning to politics to contest the mayoral race, Mr. Hau was secretary-general of Taiwan's Red Cross Society.

Mr. Hsieh is generally regarded to have run a lack-lustre contest and while he was bested by his opponent, he did succeed in cutting significantly the margin of victory as compared to previous contests. He lifted the DPP vote by a full 5 percent as compared to the 2002 result.

He also succeeded in vanquishing a strong "third contender". This was no less than James Soong, popular former Taiwan governor (from the days when Taiwan also had a provincial government as well as a national one-a fiction dismantled by former president Lee Teng-hui). Soong and his People First Party (PFP) secured barely 4 percent of the vote. It was a humiliating defeat and upon hearing the result, Mr. Soong announced his retirement from political life. Without him, his political party will not survive long. His party's legislators-having lost their chief financier-have little option but to return to the KMT fold from whence they came.

The other minor party, the Taiwan Solidarity Union (TSU), appears headed the same way. Its candidates performed miserably both in Taipei and in Kaohsiung.

Clearly, the signal from the end of year elections is that voters are becoming tired of the splintered political system and minor parties that appear to be personality-based without a clearly defined platform of coherent issues relevant to the broader electorate. Taiwan appears headed towards a clear two-party political system in future elections.

A parallel message is the eschewing of extremist positions. Both major parties are now converging towards the centre and middle-of-the-road politics. With the demise of the minor (and more extremist parties) they have more freedom to manoeuvre. This has to be good news for the future of Taiwan.

Calmer waters ahead?


The outcome of the December elections, which commanded as much attention as recent national polls-such was their significance-should provide some respite to Taiwan's embattled president. The result demonstrates that allegations of corruption in high places have lost persuasive power with Taiwan's voters.

Mr. Chen has survived three recall motions in the Legislative Yuan (Taiwan's unicameral parliament) and in recent months, close aides as well as family members have been linked to corruption scandals. His wife has been indicted on one charge. Nevertheless, corruption has also hounded the opposition KMT and if mud stuck, it has done so on both sides of the political fence.

But President Chen's relief is only temporary and he remains in a precarious position. Should the corruption charge facing Mr. Chen's wife be proven in court, then the pressures surrounding the president could once again come to the boil forcing his early resignation. Barring this development it is widely expected that he will remain in office to the end of his term in 2008.

Next year (2007), Taiwan will return to the polls for a new legislature and for a new president to take office in 2008. The coming year will therefore again see politics playing a large role in Taiwan's life. The difference, however, is that both major parties appear to have consolidated their core basis of support. The result of coming elections will therefore hinge on the middle-ground swinging voters. Expect both parties to pay special attention to wooing the middle ground. This factor alone will moderate the extremist policy stances taken by both the KMT and the DPP in earlier elections.

Already speculation is rife as to who will be the contenders for the 2008 presidential race. This time it looks likely to be a two-horse race and for the KMT, former Taipei mayor (and current party chair) Ma Ying-jeou appears the favoured candidate. On the part of the DPP, four party leaders appear to be contending the selection process. These include Vice-president Annette Lu (who remains the favoured candidate) together with Premier Su Tseng-chang, party Chair Yu Shyi-kun and former Kaohsiung mayor Frank Hsieh.

It needs to be remembered that in the two previous presidential contests, President Chen Shui-bian emerged the winner with a minority of the vote because the conservative vote was split between rival candidates. This time, in a two-way play-off, the DPP will find the race that much harder to win. At this stage, the smart money would be on Ma Ying-jeou as Taiwan's next president.

And what about the economy?


Most analysts predict not much change in the domestic economy next year although there are signs that Taiwan is becoming a more attractive destination for private equity placements.

Taiwan's GDP growth for 2007 is generally expected to remain within the band between 4.0 and 4.6 percent. The Council for Economic Planning and Development has announced a target (not necessarily of course the same as an "expectation") of 4.6 percent for next year while Goldman Sachs puts their expectation at 4.5 percent. The Chunghwa Institute for Economic Research (CIER) is opting for a more conservative figure of 4.13 percent while the Economist Intelligence Unit predicts 4.2 percent GDP growth.

MasterCard Worldwide caused some furore recently when it announced an expectation that was far removed from other estimates. MasterCard is forecasting that Taiwan's economic growth next year will be only 1.2 percent.

In defending its low forecast MasterCard pointed to weak domestic consumption and slowing growth in Taiwan's two major trading partners-China and the United States. Other observers dispute this pessimistic stance and point out that while consumer demand has weakened in the aftermath of the consumer loan crisis that affected the banking system earlier in the year, the public at large continues to spend.

CIER expects private consumption to increase by 1.5 percent next year while the CPI will increase by 0.72 percent. The unemployment rate for the year is forecast to be 3.92 percent. Generally most observers believe the MasterCard estimate to be unduly pessimistic.

Taiwan continues to benefit from private equity inflows


According to US investment banker, Merrill Lynch "Asia's private equity boom looks like it is a long way from fizzling out". Taiwan is well placed to benefit from the investment drive. Given benchmark interest rates of round 2.2 percent and yields in excess of 4.5 percent, a large number of Taiwanese companies appear to be potential investment targets according to the banker. One indicator of the attractiveness of the island's companies is the offer on November 24 by Washington-based Carlyle to buy out Advanced Semiconductor and Engineering, the world's largest chip tester and packager. If consummated the deal could reach US$5.46 billion making it the largest ever acquisition in Taiwan. Other key acquisition targets include Taiwan's telecom, technology, cement and transport companies.


Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Prof. Tom Plate on Abian's Metemorphosis

陳水扁的蛻變

Tom Plate
(UCLA 台灣事務專家,本文由中時的王嘉源譯)2007/01/18

 七年前陳水扁當選台灣有史以來第二位真正的民選總統,但連任之後卻風風雨雨不斷,使得他已不再是民進黨的超人氣王,彷彿有一天早上睡醒,卻發現自己變成了某種「政治昆蟲」。

他最近在出訪[編註:由尼加拉瓜]回程過境洛杉磯國際機場時,特別撥冗接見我及另外一些學者,我們同坐在一間小會議室內,我趁機向這位四面楚歌的總統請教,問他對自己當前處境作何看法,而他似乎有不少話很想一吐為快。

陳水扁針對國內外對他的種種批評,擺出了反擊姿態。他隨即夾帶嘲笑的手勢批駁國內的批評者,指稱他們全帶有政治動機;而當主題觸及台灣商業色彩(乃至黨派色彩)濃厚的新聞媒體時,陳水扁更變得像是一隻發怒的蠍子。

陳水扁指控台灣媒體假造民調,誤導外界對台灣的印象,毒害全國氣氛。他又指稱:「甚至我們的司法單位也被媒體誤導。我們的媒體包含一堆毫無分寸的記者!(reporters without borders)」

他堅稱,這種媒體偏頗現象只會讓台灣的敵人有機可趁,其中當然包含中國在內。他說:「終極統一不能夠是唯一結論,它不能夠是我們的唯一選項。不像我們的對手(國民黨),我們並沒有說未來一定要如何...」

不過,筆者提醒他,他公開主張台灣追求自己的政治前途,特別是把中國大陸排除在外,這種做法可能無意中陷台灣兩千三百萬人於險境。

他答稱:「主權和獨立問題歸屬於台灣人民,並非中國的管轄範圍」。他又說,關於台灣前途問題,他的立場實際上是主張維持現狀。他說,台灣是一個事實上的國家,獲得廿多國承認,並且是全球第十九大經濟體,如果台灣自身過得很好,台灣人民怎會想要與中國大陸合併呢?

他如此反問當然不無道理,但這個問題的答案卻包含一種令人不快的想法。那就是,中國很可能會把台灣的命運拿在自己手中,企圖以香港模式迫使台灣重新歸併中國大陸。

陳水扁的批評者擔心他不斷進底線,最後可能會逼使中國大陸大舉出動軍艦犯台。如果台灣人民想要睡好覺,擂鼓獨立的動作最好放低調:北京的文攻動作隨時可能變成全然不同的戰爭。

然而,陳總統對這個論點完全無動於衷。他說:「如果我無法捍衛這個國家的尊嚴與安全,我就不配勝任這個工作。」

隨著彈劾總統的聲浪消褪,陳水扁應會一直做到明年任期正式屆滿為止。這一年北京也將舉辦奧運,等到這場運動盛會落幕,北京便可以認真思考要如何對付這個它口中所謂的「無賴國家」(rogue state)及「分離省分」,而屆時陳水扁早就卸任。

但問題在於,由陳水扁在八年總統任內所編織的台灣獨立蛛網,屆時會不會太過堅韌,任憑台灣內部任何人都無法輕易拆除。

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

天下雜誌的最新台灣民情調查

According to 天下雜誌, Taiwanese have many important issues to worry about. Here is their report taken from China Times. Let us go through these problems before we jump into the action!!
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天下雜誌國情調查:馬蘇謝王居總統大選領先群
中央社2007.01.16 [From: 中國時報]

 天下雜誌最新二○○七年國情調查今天出爐。調查顯示民眾對於有可能代表各黨參選二○○八年總統大選的幾位候選人,在總分一百分的情況下,馬英九得六十五分最高,其次是蘇貞昌的五十七.二分、謝長廷五十四.三分、王金平五十四.二分;四人都在領先群,但整體得分並不高。

  天下雜誌「二○○七年國情調查」是「天下雜誌調查中心」針對全國年齡在十八歲以上的國民,以分層隨機方式抽樣後進行電話訪問,調查時間自二○○六年十二月 二十七日起至二○○七年一月九日為止。總成功樣本數為一千零七十筆,當信心水準在百分之九十五時,抽樣誤差為正負三個百分點。


 調查顯示,民眾對於有可能代表各黨參選二○○八年總統大選的幾位候選人,除了馬英九、蘇貞昌、謝長廷、王金平等人在領先群外,緊接在後的分別為呂秀蓮的四十九.一分、連戰的四十七.二分與游錫 (方方土)的三十九.九分,大家差距都不大。

 若進一步分析幾位可能的總統候選人在「清廉」、「瞭解並關心人民生活」、「國際觀」、「有清楚的治國目標與方向」、「領導能力」等指標得分,馬英九得分領先其他可能的總統候選人,唯獨在「執行魄力」一項上,蘇貞昌領先馬英九,顯見蘇貞昌做事「衝衝衝」的形象深入民心。

  對執政與在野的兩大黨的去年表現,民調顯示民眾都打了很差的分數。在總分十分的情況下,民進黨平均得了三.八分,國民黨平均只比民進黨多不到一分,得了 四.七分。許多中產階級的共同心聲是,台灣的政黨政治是負面競爭。高達百分之五十的民眾認為,當前台灣最大的危機是「政黨惡鬥,為達目的不擇手段」,其次 有百分之四十三點三民眾認為「經濟發展遲緩、貧富差距拉大」是台灣最大危機。


天下雜誌國情調查:貧富差距嚴重形成台灣危機

  天下雜誌二○○七年國情調查出爐。從經濟表現來看,有百分之六十三點一的民眾不滿意台灣的經濟表現,並有高達百分之八十六點九的民眾認為台灣貧富差距比以 前更嚴重,創下六年來新高;值得關注的是有百分之四十三點三民眾認為「經濟發展遲緩、貧富差距拉大」是台灣最大危機。

 天下雜誌「二 ○○七年國情調查」是「天下雜誌調查中心」針對全國年齡在十八歲以上的國民,以分層隨機方式抽樣後進行電話訪問,調查時間自二○○六年十二月二十七日起至 ○○七年一月九日為止。總成功樣本數為一千零七十筆,當信心水準在百分之九十五時,抽樣誤差為正負三個百分點。


 這項調查 顯示在兩岸政策上,當問及台灣經濟是否過度依賴中國大陸?抱持正反態度的比例各有四成六左右,比例都相當高。顯示台灣社會對兩岸經貿發展仍存在極大的認知 差距。但矛盾的是,當問及民眾是否要開放兩岸政策,卻是一面倒要放寬。有百分之五十五點五的民眾認為應大幅放寬或政府應完全不要管,百分之二十點三認為維 持現狀即可,只有百分之六點七的人認為應該緊縮。

 值得注意的是,二○○七年國情調查顯示,「台灣社會的撕裂」並不如多數媒體與政治 人物所描繪的:「因為統獨問題,社會對立增加」。分析歷年調查發現,在統獨議題上,過去六年來,希望維持現狀的民眾增加十個百分點以上,從百分之五十二加 為百分之六十三;而支持獨立或統一的人都約在百分之十三,且較六年前降低六個百分點。顯示台灣在統獨議題上,極端的人減少了,而中間的人增加了。

 近來討論最熱烈的教育議題「一綱一本」,調查顯示有高達百分之七十五點五的受訪者贊成使用統一版本的教科書,顯見目前「一綱多本」的教學方式,帶給家長與學生許多困擾。

 經濟與兩岸議題上,民眾有深度的隱憂,但調查顯示在社會力上,台灣社會卻蓄積著正面的能量,過去一年,有近三成四的人曾經當過志工或參與公益活動;計劃在新的一年裡,投入志工活動的比例則高達百分之四十點五,顯示台灣內部蘊藏著豐厚的人力資本,政府可好好運用。

Monday, January 8, 2007

Who are Anti-intellectualism.

最近看到 白麟在自由廣場答辯南方朔對反智主義的定義. 我認為大家先要對知識份子(Intellectuals)有個瞭解. 知識份子並不等於學者. 引用Noam Chomsky (MIT的教授) 的定義: :「知識份子是一個屬於任何人的職業,他代表著獨立思考,有些人或許有機會可以在社會上傳播他的思想。但這並不代表他就比一 位計程車司機更有知識,因為那個計程車司機或許比他更聰明並對問題有更透徹的看法。至於能不能讓自己的意見傳達出去,那是權力的問題。」

所謂反智主義 (Anti-Intellectualism) 是一群知識份子自以為他們是為著人民群眾, 但是他們又自認自己比人民高出一階層. 他們把不合他們自己想法的人稱為 [反智]. 這群新的知識份子多半只會在沒有風險及危機的情況下表現得很英勇, 並高談闊論.

台灣在言論及新聞自由的情況下, 我們天天看到各種言論及推測. 但是可能有更大多數的知識份子, 他們本身有獨特的看法並且感到有需要解決目前社會混亂的迫切, 但是這群人沒有權力能讓一般群眾知道他們的想法及建議, 而自己也淪為台灣社會的 silent majority 的一部份. 可惜的是台灣的公開言論被一群有權但卻是真正反智的人操縱.

Sunday, January 7, 2007

台灣的人權進步了嗎?

台灣的人權進步了嗎? 請看下面的報導:

人權新聞 大法官獲踐踏人權獎
引自中央社 2006/12/23

台灣人權促進會今天公布「二○○六年人權新聞」,其中,批准鍾德樹死刑執行令、外勞政策、樂生院所搬遷等案榜上有名。另外,集會遊行法未廢除、大法官晶晶書庫釋憲案則獲頒「金狗盃年度踐踏人權獎」。台權會會長吳豪人呼籲社會及政府停止人權迫害,使人權獲得保障。

吳豪人說,總統陳水扁兩千年就職時宣示「人權立國」,但六年來,執政的民主進步黨對人權保障政策搖擺,加上在野黨的怠惰無能,雙方沈溺於政治鬥爭,漠視影響人民深遠的人權議題,他認為,今年是「國滅人權元年」。

台權會公布的「二○○六年人權新聞」有:法務部批准鍾德樹死刑執行令、外勞政策、新移民遭歧視、樂生院所搬遷、法院判決關愛之家搬遷、大法官晶晶書庫釋六一七號憲案、高砂義勇隊紀念碑拆碑及新聞媒體殺人、集會遊行法等人權新聞。

其中,今年發生多起社運人士因違反集會遊行法,面臨活動被解散、成員被逮捕的案例,民間團體在四月間成立「集遊惡法修法聯盟」,主張「廢舊法,立新法」,所提出的集會遊行保障法草案目前也已送進立法院,由跨黨派委員提案。

台權會認為,今年除了政治惡鬥造成社會的傷害,媒體報導新聞的方式與內容,往往造成嚴重的人權侵害。如電子媒體追逐總統女婿趙建銘、南迴鐵路搞軌案李泰安,揭露性侵造成大學生上吊自殺、報導師生戀新聞,使男老師憤而自殺等。

台權會建議,新聞媒體必須秉持客觀第三者的立場,完整報導,並應做好查證工作,不侵害隱私權及未審先判,並能秉持公正、公平原則與新聞專業,才不會侵害他人人權。

台權會最後頒發「金狗盃年度踐踏人權獎」:吳銘漢夫婦命案被告蘇建和頒給法務部「為廢除死刑而戰」一書,要求法務部正視死刑問題;吳豪人頒發「多功能集遊舉牌」一支給警政署,提醒注意民眾集遊的人權。

晶晶書庫負責人賴正哲則頒發「台北-新宿來回機票」給大法官,諷刺釋字第六一七號解釋案不符合國際趨勢。賴正哲因為販售香港男體寫真雜誌,今年五月間被法院宣判有罪,賴正哲提起釋憲聲請。

司法院大法官今年十月二十六日做出釋字第六一七號解釋案,認為憲法對言論及出版自由的保障並非絕對,仍須受到適當的限制,台權會認為,這會造成民眾對不同性價值認知的無知與歧視,也是對同性戀者人權的侵害。

另外,台灣國際勞工協會總幹事吳靜如頒發「新鮮營養鮪魚」一條給新聞媒體,強調新鮮的新聞才能兼顧人權。

台權會強調,歲末年終回顧年度重大新聞,除提醒台灣社會人權保障的重要性,並且體認人權的真實涵意,同時,督促政府及人權侵害者應該有所反省與改進,應善盡積極捍衛人權的責任,不要讓人權走回頭路。