Why don’t OUR politicians beat the crap out of each other?
Matt M. texted me about a Korean parliament fight, with injuries, the other day, so I decided to see if I could find a video on Youtube. To my surprise, there is a veriable cornucopia of political brawls out there. I’m going to try to embed the Korean one with the best video, although unfortunately the sound quality is poor. Oh — I couldn’t embed it, so here is a link to the video. There are lots of other amazing ones out there, such as one at the Sudanese parliament where people hit each other with chairs. There’s also the Czech vice president slapping another politician in the head. Of course, there are tons of videos of Taiwanese parliament fights, some with backround music.
On a side note, it was nice to see female politicians mixing it up with their male counterparts. It puts the lie to that stuff I’ve read a lot of Western guys in Asia say on the Web about how they want to marry an Asian woman because they “never argue.” What fantasy world are they living in? My female students had a good laugh over that one.
December 20th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
This is the political utopia we chinese are hoping for for our democratic progression(or regression).
It may not look nice, but it reflects well on the democratic level one nation(or region) boasts.
So I wanna ask our great party: WHY DON’T OUR POLITICIANS BEAT THE CRAP OUT OF EACH OTHER?
Then again I may be redundant here.They don’t need to beat each other up, they have “three representatives” to align them…
December 20th, 2007 at 3:12 pm
This is the political utopia we chinese are hoping for for our democratic progression(or regression).
It may not look nice, but it reflects well on the democratic level one nation(or region) boasts.
So I wanna ask our great party: WHY DON’T OUR POLITICIANS BEAT THE CRAP OUT OF EACH OTHER?
Then again I may be redundant here.They don’t need to beat each other up, they have “three representatives” to align them,not to mention “harminious society”…Guess they are cool…
December 20th, 2007 at 9:36 pm
It seems like those parliament fights, plus Tsai Ming-liang’s THEWAYWARD CLOUD, could be used to try to persuade the Mainland to accept Taiwand’s independence. Like, “Look at this stuff. You don’t want these people as part of your country, do you?”