by LORD LUCAN » Sun Aug 25, 2013 10:24 pm
At the end of the day, this is a small corner of the internet. Internet forums like this are, as Hannibal says, public. All sorts of things get written on the internet. For example, I have it on good authority that the heir to the British throne has six legs. You read it here first. Or it may not be true. Who cares? I never met the guy.
Some posters, as always, will speculate that such and such a thing happened, and by the time this reaches 12 pages, there will have been a drug-fuelled armed assault on Taipei Central Police by child molesters, led by our suspect. We've already had someone who "heard" he tried to steal the cop's gun.
There has been no assault charge laid by the police. There was no bail bond. The suspect has been allowed to retain his passport. Matters of public record.
Anything posted here by friends of the suspect will be regarded by some as a defence of drink driving and/or failure to stop for police, despite any protestations to the contrary. That's the way internet "debate" works.
The "Hitler Argument" will be introduced on page 15, and I will invoke the "Vietnam Response" on page 13. ("You don't know. You weren't there.")
I'm not at all surprise at the vitriol heaped by some foreigners upon any foreigner who gets in trouble here. Taiwan has a unique expat community made up of moralising do-gooders who have never set a foot wrong in life on the one hand, and on the other hand, drug-crazed criminal lunatics who run around offending the moral sensibilities of the former.