信心

信心

• Against the backdrop of KMT's non-stopping sabotage (焦土政策), Taiwanese make great strides moving forward. Taiwan is competing with the rest of the world with her hands and legs tied by KMT, yet she has done so well under such adverse circumstances. All Taiwanese must be proud.
• North America Taiwanese Professors' Association (NATPA) created several booklets, three of which should be useful in helping Taiwanese decide what to do in the 2008 elections:
  • 西元2000年來台灣重要成就實例
  • 咱一定要贏！
  • 台灣人有自信

• 比較台灣與中國
  2007 國民黨總是要以中國多好多偉大來唬台灣人。中國有多好？我們來比比看！
  

比較台灣與中國

2007 國民黨總是要以中國多好多偉大來唬台灣人。中國有多好？我們來比比看！

國名	台灣	中國
政治權利* (2007 自由之家指數)	2	6
公民自由* (2007 自由之家指數)	1	7
情況	自由	不自由
2006 年每人國民生產毛額**	16,088美元	2,104美元
2006 年每人國民生產毛額 (PPP Adjusted)**	31,770美元	7,594美元
失業率#	3.9% (2006)	4.2% (2005) 至20%

*Scale: 1-7 (1=最自由, 7=不自由)
**Source: The Economist
# Source: CIA Factbook;中國的 4.2%是根據官方登記的都市失業率，農村則高得很多;Time Magazine的非正式估計全部是20%﹝參看經濟篇﹞

“People across this country are awakening to their rights and seizing on the promise of the law. But you cannot be a rights lawyer in this country without becoming a rights case yourself.” -Gao Zhisheng, Chinese civil rights lawyer

Supporting Human Rights and Democracy: The U.S. Record 2006
Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, The US Department of State

“The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is an authoritarian state in which, as specified in its constitution, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is the paramount source of power. Party members hold almost all top government, police, and military positions. Ultimate authority rests with the 24-member political bureau (Politburo) of the CCP and its nine-member standing committee.

Although the constitution asserts that “the state respects and preserves human rights,” the government’s human rights record remained poor, and in certain areas deteriorated. There were an increased number of high-profile cases involving the monitoring, harassment, detention, arrest, and imprisonment of journalists, writers, activists, and defense lawyers, many of whom were seeking to exercise their rights under law. The government tightened restrictions on freedom of speech and the press, including stricter control and censorship of the Internet. Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), both local and international, continued to face increased scrutiny and restrictions. As in previous years, citizens did not have the right to change their government. Other serious human rights abuses included instances of extrajudicial killings; torture and coerced confessions of prisoners; and the use of forced labor, including prison labor. Legal reforms continued to stall, as the party and state exercised strict political control of courts and judges, and maintained closed trials and administrative detention. Executions often took place on the day of conviction or immediately after the denial of an appeal. A lack of due process and new restrictions on lawyers further limited progress toward rule of law. Individuals and groups, especially those considered politically sensitive, continued to face tight restrictions on their freedom to assemble; their freedom to practice religion, including strengthened enforcement of religious affairs regulations implemented in 2005; and their freedom to travel. The government continued its coercive birth limitation policy, in some cases resulting in forced abortion and sterilization”.