Most of you probably know by now that Ma Ying-jeou studied at Hahvahd in his student days. Now, in the middle of the political and legal circus surrounding the indictment of former president Chen Shui-bian, Ma's Hahvahd mentor and Nerd Lord has gone public with criticism and advice for his former student. Here is a piece of it:
The Harvard Law School mentor of Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou said Saturday that his former student needs to urgently act to prevent an "increasingly disturbing circus atmosphere" from prejudicing his predecessor's right to a fair trial.
. . . "It is as if there are people trying to repudiate all the progress that Taiwan has made over the past 15 years," he said, referring to the island's gradual transition from dictatorship to multiparty democracy.
. . . Cohen said Ma's handling of the Chen case revealed an apparent choice to placate the extremist wing of his ruling Nationalist Party rather than reaching out to Taiwan's broad political middle.
Ma, I hope you're paying attention. You still have a lot to learn, grasshopper.
Cohen's comments follow an unspeakably disgraceful episode involving various lawyers, prosecutors involved in the Chen case, and the Justice Minister himself (details here).
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