When the Excavators Came to the Rice Fields

[TainanCowboy]

Word...


"Forget about it Jake...Its Chinatown"

[urodacus]

Despite a promise by the Presidential Office last week to help farmers in Zhunan Township (竹南), Miaoli County, who oppose a plan by the county government to take over their land to make room for a science park expansion project, the county government moved in excavators to dig up farmland in the area yesterday morning without notifying residents.

This is the KMT all over. Bunch of lying gangsters and thugs. Mind oyu, they're all politicians. You can't trust 'em to be good at anything except as fertiliser.

[Charlie Jack]

It turns out it was all an unfortunate misunderstanding:

"I really didn’t know there were rice paddies there,” [Miaoli County Commissioner] Liu [Cheng-hung] [劉政鴻] said.

--"[Premier] Wu offers Dapu farmers new farmland," Taipei Times, July 23, 2010

Here's a video which includes statements by Premier Wu and County Commissioner Liu:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlxWrF3JthQ

Why another science park? What about the one outside Tainan that they can't seem to fill with business?

Considering the financial benefits that a science park brings, I can easily see why some people would feel it's high time a new one was built in Miaoli County:

. . . in 2001, a district court sentenced [Her Jy-huei / Ho Chi-hui] to 19 years in prison and a fine of NT$220 million for corruption involving the development of a Hsinchu Science Park affiliate in Tunglo, Miaoli County. He reportedly misused his position to persuade the authorities to subsidize a company to the tune of NT$3.2 billion, allegedly pocketing significant bribes in the process. In a major twist last May, the Taiwan High Court pronounced Her not guilty.

--"Former legislator on the run while judges and prosecutor kept in detention," Formosa News, July 14, 2010

[Poagao]

Despite a promise by the Presidential Office last week to help farmers in Zhunan Township (竹南), Miaoli County, who oppose a plan by the county government to take over their land to make room for a science park expansion project, the county government moved in excavators to dig up farmland in the area yesterday morning without notifying residents.

This is the KMT all over. Bunch of lying gangsters and thugs. Mind oyu, they're all politicians. You can't trust 'em to be good at anything except as fertiliser.

Su Tseng-chang and Tsai Ing-wen also might want to explain their policies on the matter during their tenures as premier and vice premier under the DPP administration, during which the project passed its environmental impact assessment despite protests by local residents, which led to a lawsuit by the farmers. The High Administrative Court annulled the assessment two and a half years ago, but the DPP administration refused to suspend the project and filed an appeal.

[sandman]

This is the DPP all over. Bunch of lying gangsters and thugs. What's worse is that they're so utterly inept, you can hardly even grace them with the title of "politician."