Where has all the justice gone?

The cold front keeps slapping the island, with raindrops falling on a city that seems to never sleep. 

 Among some people, the sleepless nights are caused by the very fact that the island is turning increasingly politically-orientated along with deceptive economic indicators. Some can’t sleep well for not having job, including me who tried several rounds of job searching these past few months. Therefore, it’s widely seen that lots of middle-age jobless persons rushed to become taxi drivers.

Every time when I am out toward Taipei downtown, I always take a taxi. It hurt me when I had a chat with the drivers. Most of them, forced to retire either under pressure or their companines' relocations to China, said there is decreasing job opportunity at present on Formosa , thereby driving a taxi is the last resort for their survival. I agreed, and hated myself not able to drive. Another reason for the city to remain awake is a rising number of clubs, where young girls, with some even owning master degrees, can find a living.

Limelight turns more splendid on the LinSen North road. Taipei city is on track to copy Taichung-like style full with sex and pistols. Some law enforcement officials, sadly and needless to say, look willing to allow the clubs to welcome those drug-using customers, whom in the A-Bian administration were banned. These officials need money or the so-called kick-back to support their families. Reasonable, doesn’t it sound? Coincidentally, there is no wonder for the club runners mostly to prefer the KMT.

Taiwanese should praise the KMT-ruled government for recovering the economy which grew 9.98% last year. Viva !  Viva !  With this backdrop, civil servants are entitled to a wage hike after missing that for five straight years. If that is the case, why did Taiwan report less tax income for the past two years? That was because traders took in orders in Taiwan yet exported products in China , which is the end-beneficiary to collect the tax revenue. Well, the KMT unfortunately fails to know the truth, be it purposely or not.

More-than-800,000 people would applaud the KMT party for its latest measures to court civil servants, at the expense of other society groups which are, however, lucky enough to also enjoy a hike but in prices of food, gasoline and new houses sales. The DPP has been at a loss to deal with the KMT scheme, let alone launching a fight-back or street protest. This weak-turning opposition party, as it appears now, will choose to wait patiently to have its day and win in future elections. That will come, of course, only after the KMT does provoke the whole public or resume corruption as years ago.

Chinese history is marked partly by drastic revenge at the turn of each dynasty, and that brusing battle was once again repeated here in Taiwan as reflected by a seemingly continuous jail term for A-Bian. At last, I am deeply worry about the feasibility for some to step up restriction against speech freedom, which the DPP advocated and contributed most to Taiwan democracy. 

Fairness is no more in the air of Taipei city, neither justice. Nobody, sleepless as he is, will sing the song titled “where have all the flowers gone?”  We should sing together for the new version – Where has all the justice gone?