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...Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian is seeing red these days, he can blame Shih Ming-teh. Shih was once chairman of Chen's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). But for weeks now he has been leading crimson-clad demonstrators in protest to force the President to resign over corruption allegations against him, his aides and his relatives (they deny any wrongdoing). Shih, 65, spoke with Time's Natalie Tso about Chen, Taiwan's democracy, and his "red revolution...
...What's driving you to lead these protests? Chen makes all the major decisions on his own without any discussion with others. Also, he wavers in his stances. People can forgive him these things because of his lack of experience and his lack of vision, but when [the financial scandals] came out, I was really, really mad. I had to do something...
...Chen was one of the lawyers who defended you democracy activists in 1979 after clashes between the opposition and the police. Why turn against him? I struggled [with this] for a long time. It's tough for me emotionally. But, out of friendship, a lot of people in the DPP are afraid to stand on the right side...
...Kuomintang (KMT), which the DPP ousted, also had corruption issues. The DPP can't say: "Since the KMT did it, why can't I?" That's why the people took power from the KMT. If we don't make Chen resign, people will say, "He could do it, so why can't I?" [Then] we will never have clean politics...
...DAVID CHEN Hacienda Heights, Calif...