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Freedom of speech

Freedom of speech.

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Freedom of speech

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  1. Freedom of speech On learning what happened in Taiwan on March 20, Jackie Chan, a popular kung-fu Hong Kong actor, quipped that the presidential election was just a big "joke." Jackie, who married a Taiwanese-born girl, said what many people abroad felt about that election. To them, the whole episode - starting with the mysterious shooting in Tainan and ending with a weeklong series of mass rallies in protest against the "unfair" election - may be just like an installment of funny soap opera.

  2. But Jackie's quip does not sit well with a Democratic Progressive Party lawmaker. Parris Chang, a legislator at large, is calling for a boycott of Jackie. He wants the Government Information Office to ban Jackie's hilarious kung-fu movies and is urging the moviegoers not to see them. • Of course the lawmaker - and everyone else in Taiwan, for that matter - has every right to demand the boycott. Taiwan is a free country. If you do not any actor or actress, you can just raise hell and organize a boycott. How that boycott is motivated simply doesn't matter. Just like a TV monitor alliance that wants advertisers to boycott two cable television networks for ballyhooing the protest rallies, including the one on March 27 in which an estimated 500,000 supporters of Kuomintang standard-bearer Lien Chan took part

  3. But Jackie's quip does not sit well with a Democratic Progressive Party lawmaker. Parris Chang, a legislator at large, is calling for a boycott of Jackie. He wants the Government Information Office to ban Jackie's hilarious kung-fu movies and is urging the moviegoers not to see them. • Of course the lawmaker - and everyone else in Taiwan, for that matter - has every right to demand the boycott. Taiwan is a free country. If you do not any actor or actress, you can just raise hell and organize a boycott. How that boycott is motivated simply doesn't matter. Just like a TV monitor alliance that wants advertisers to boycott two cable television networks for ballyhooing the protest rallies, including the one on March 27 in which an estimated 500,000 supporters of Kuomintang standard-bearer Lien Chan took part • From : http://old.npf.org.tw/PUBLICATION/NS/093/NS-C-093-088.htm

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