2-16-15
The weather
has been beautiful the past few days. I am sitting on the patio while writing
this. I have resumed riding up the Han River after our return from Cambodia and
extra nights in Tao-yuan and downtown Taichung. I am bringing one book with me
to read again when, for a few weeks, I had started bringing two and even three;
my attention was getting dilated. One book is enough to read.
There have
been over one hundred fifty hits on the opinion piece in the few days since I wrote
"Sacrificial Sunflower Fools" in taIWWan and posted to English
Taiwan News blog. There have even been about seven people who
commented including Michael Turton who called my piece "high comedy."
Everyone who commented is not ready to volunteer to help organize workers into
unions.
One clown
who commented on the piece mistook me for a "pan blue" blogger until
Turton put him straight. One guy insulted the Wobblies and used fear of
violence to condemn labor organizing. Another turkey said unions are good but
the Sunflower protesters are, too. Of the fifty plus hits, not more than twenty
went back to the "Stinking Kettle of Fish" opinion piece I referred
to which named some in the DPP responsible for co-opting the movement. I don't
plan to respond to any comments. No one wrote to me directly. Two people liked
the post including the author of the blog.
There’s some schmuck who claims he’s been in FAPA
for years and didn’t like me writing, “FAPA wants to keep American
influence strong in Taiwan; their lobbyists pander to congressmen and senators
with a means to do so.” There’s also a fear monger named Les Sharp
who feels the need to defend Sean who wasn’t at all being attacked. Courtney
Donovan Smith, the creator of the Facebook page is sitting pretty. He’s no
friend of the union, either; none of them are, except for some guy Courtney
knows called Red.
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