Jolly good rant and damned accurate also.super danger mouse hans wrote:Yup he used to go to Taipei Sports BAr a lot and tell all his stories how he would be working with customs agents to bust consignments of drug shipments and how he had shoot outs with drug gangs at the shipping ports.
No mention of cracking down on Taiwanese employers who hire foreign workers on this site? I personally can't wait for this crackdown. The Taiwanese government should be well within its rights to deport anyone who works illegally here. Blackcrusader will be the first to be deported with his fake ID an all.
Because that means that Taiwan will have to eventually respect its own laws. It means employers will have to provide foreign workers with the amount of hours promised on their contract. It also means that the thousands of illegal street stands will be made to procure licenses. The Filipino and Thai prostitutes up at Longshan temple, who the police turn a blind eye towards, will be deported and the pimps thrown in jail. The factories which employ south east Asian workers illegally where their visas have run out ( I know personally about 15 of these workers, and they have been working illegally for years) will be shut down while investigations are conducted and their Taiwanese management tried or fined.
It also means that foreigners will be treated the same as each other. I find it sickening to walk into an immigration office to see a line of south east Asian workers waiting to have their iris scanned and to be fingerprinted, while the supposedly superior western workers need not go through this level humiliation and ridicule. Either do it for everybody, or don't do it at all. This is a perfect display of how racist Taiwan actually is.
In fact, I can't wait to watch the whole system of Taiwanese industry crumble and fall to its knees.
The very reason Taiwan exists in the form that it does today is because the whole system of Taiwanese industry relies on lack of enforcement of labor laws and tax collection. The system enables and encourages people to work illegally, and fortunately. it works. Without respect for their own labor laws, it is unlikely that foreigners who find themselves in the labor market are going to respect laws that employers and native colleagues don't respect themselves.
It's the same with buxibans. The whole industry could not survive if every teacher had to be legal. Many teachers earn more from moonlighting than they do from their ARC job, and Taiwan would not necessarily be an attractive place to come and work if this were not the case. Even a couple of real white collar foreigners I know in Taiwan here have a small teaching gig. Buxibans, the MOE and the police are connected. The whole country runs on GuanXi. There will be the odd example made here and there of towel-less foreigners, but it will be business as usual, because hiring people illegally is big business and the Taiwanese government knows it.
And finally, let's not forget to remind ourselves that the rule of law here is derived from a bunch of losers who ran away from China and who were essentially immigrants themselves, and that half of the population is, or are descended from them. They were foreigners forcefully imposing themselves on the local culture with the use of terror and violence which lasted for nearly 50 years.
I would add that the 'foreigner' invasion has its roots much farther back time than a mere '50 years.'
Dodgy dirt-balls from the Middle Kingdom have been using the island, and its indigenous peoples, as their R & R outpost for 500 + years. And that's not counting the Euro-trash round-eyes who kept getting kicked off the island.
