Lien's plea for `faith'conceals aninsult to all - TW

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By Chin Heng-wei???

President Chen Shui-bian (???) was sworn into office for his second term on May 20, raising the curtain on the Democratic Progressive Party's (DPP) long-term rule. As the most significant milestone over the past half-century in Taiwan's history, Chen's inauguration marks the watershed between the ending of an outsider regime and consolidation of a newly rising democratic power.

The process of the new filling in for the old is hardly smooth. Especially in pace with Taiwan's silent revolution, the state-party institution of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) that had held on to power more than five decades is unlikely to crumble overnight. Although the KMT candidates were defeated in democratic elections, the party's past rule still emboldens the crestfallen to defy justice, truth, the rule of law and proceedings of democracy.

The remnant force now clings to a vain hope of overturning the election results. If their plan of overturning the results is aborted, they might mobilize to the last drop of their energy and spare not even the destruction of enemy and self alike. This is the mindset of the KMT that gives rise to chaos -- from the 2000 recall bill to the 2004 coup, to today's grouchy pan-blue camp that apparently thinks "If I can't be the star, then I will smash the stage."

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