Please sign up the petition to refuse military personnels in the campus.
This is initiated by The Humanistic Education Foundation.
Excuses that the petition letter and rationales are both in Mandarin.
Contact: The secretary division, the Humanistic Education Foundation.
Ms. Lin: 02-23670151* 117
Fax：02-23625015 E-mail: slin@hef.org.tw
NB This does NOT stand for WS. WS' requests never change. Please view this article as a support and advertisement for the value that Taiwan needs to be free and democracy. Thanks for your patience and understanding.
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Showing posts with label military. Show all posts
30 Nov 2008
Transitional Justice in Taiwan: An Austrian Perspective
Christian Schafferer
eastasia.at
Vol. 6, No. 1, June 2007
ISSN 1684-629X
Sixty years ago, the Nationalist Chinese Army brutally killed several thousand civilians in Taiwan. After the massacre, the Chinese Nationalists under Chiang Kai-shek and his son Chiang Ching-kuo continued to rule Taiwan until 1988. During the Chiang era, tens of thousands of civilians were persecuted, tortured and killed.(more)
28 Nov 2008
"Named must your fear be before banish it you can."--Democracy in Danger: No Military on campus.
“Named must your fear be before banish it you can.”
As Master Yoda said:
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2008/11/28/2003429730 (correct link)
While people finally demonstrate against the parade and assembly law (years to late), they should recognize military instructors in schools and universities as a much bigger danger for democracy.
I visited a number of Schools and universities in my life. None of them needed any military instructors to guarantee safety on campus. I did not even know that safety in a school or University is something to worry about.
Actually in the countries I went to school and University a military instructor would be considered to be a mayor security risk and a danger for freedom and democracy.
Why a military instructor has any qualifications in counselling seems to be a hidden secrete. Usually people would hire a PhD in Psychology for such a difficult job.
So why are this guys needed? What purpose do they full fill and who controls them? Who controls the army in general?
There can only one constitution and one law in a country and its army must be under this system and not beside or above.
The first principle in a modern army in a democratic country must be to safe and honour this democracy.
Drill and discipline is necessary to make an army able to operate, but someone should not understand it as a training just to blindly follow commands (that would be fascism), but as a training to make responsible decisions under pressure, responsible in the light of ethics and constitution.
Military instructors are the opposite of what is needed. They make the society a part of the army.
In a democracy the army must be part of the society. So civil instructors would be needed in the army to teach soldiers and especially young officers the fundaments of a democratic society and the ethics they need to make decisions in a responsible way. These instructors should be independent of political influence, for example a priest or a monk or a professor of law or history or politics, …
To abolish military instructors immediately is a conditio sine qua non for a country that is even thinking about to use the word democracy to describe its political system.
As there are rumours that military instructors work as spies for the government to collect information’s about students active in the protests, it might be the time for a counter strike and photograph and identify the military instructors, as they are one of the main enemies of democracy.
They must be named to be banished.
As Master Yoda said:
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2008/11/28/2003429730 (correct link)
While people finally demonstrate against the parade and assembly law (years to late), they should recognize military instructors in schools and universities as a much bigger danger for democracy.
I visited a number of Schools and universities in my life. None of them needed any military instructors to guarantee safety on campus. I did not even know that safety in a school or University is something to worry about.
Actually in the countries I went to school and University a military instructor would be considered to be a mayor security risk and a danger for freedom and democracy.
Why a military instructor has any qualifications in counselling seems to be a hidden secrete. Usually people would hire a PhD in Psychology for such a difficult job.
So why are this guys needed? What purpose do they full fill and who controls them? Who controls the army in general?
There can only one constitution and one law in a country and its army must be under this system and not beside or above.
The first principle in a modern army in a democratic country must be to safe and honour this democracy.
Drill and discipline is necessary to make an army able to operate, but someone should not understand it as a training just to blindly follow commands (that would be fascism), but as a training to make responsible decisions under pressure, responsible in the light of ethics and constitution.
Military instructors are the opposite of what is needed. They make the society a part of the army.
In a democracy the army must be part of the society. So civil instructors would be needed in the army to teach soldiers and especially young officers the fundaments of a democratic society and the ethics they need to make decisions in a responsible way. These instructors should be independent of political influence, for example a priest or a monk or a professor of law or history or politics, …
To abolish military instructors immediately is a conditio sine qua non for a country that is even thinking about to use the word democracy to describe its political system.
As there are rumours that military instructors work as spies for the government to collect information’s about students active in the protests, it might be the time for a counter strike and photograph and identify the military instructors, as they are one of the main enemies of democracy.
They must be named to be banished.
23 Nov 2008
Military personnel on campus in Taiwan
In Taiwanese universities and high schools, there is a group of personnel you would never find in democratic countries: military training instructors. In the old days, they were responsible for talking students into joining the KMT, policing students’ appearance (length/colour of hair, nails or skirts/trousers; whether one had their shirt tucked in and shoes shined) along with students’ thoughts on the government, reporting those who were not loyal to the party and the leader’ and giving basic military training to students on the side. (more)
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