Don't be silly

That piece of advice must be harkened to by Trong Chai, the minority leader at the Legislative Yuan, and his colleagues who are planning to sue President Ma Ying-jeou for treason.

As a matter of fact, Chai and his Democratic Progressive Party lawmakers have all but exhausted every possible way to accuse Ma of selling out Taiwan. Finally, they seemed to have found one in the Constitution, which provides for immunity of the president of the republic against criminal prosecution, “unless he is charged with having committed an act of rebellion or treason.”

To do this, they are now claiming that Ma and his National Security Counsel secretary-general Su Chi had Taiwan's top secret hydrological data transferred to the People's Republic of China. The Liberty Times reported the data changed hands at a meeting of scholars in Beijing not long ago.

The opposition leaders took the liberty to charge that the classified information threw Taiwan's doors wide open for an invasion by the People's Liberation Army, which is presumably chomping at the bit to wash the island in blood to bring it back to China's communist fold. They have also decided to sue Su for security compromise and treason, of course.

President Ma's spokesman Tony Wang denied the charges at once. In fact, Ma told the accusers “Don't be silly,” albeit not in so many words. Even if imagination were stretched beyond the limits, no one would come up with an idea of suing the popularly elected president for treason.

Su Chi demanded that Chai either produce evidence within 24 hours or apologize for his idiotic gaffe. Ma's national security advisor threatened to sue Chai, if no apology were offered in public. Needless to say, no evidence can be concocted in a day to incriminate him, for the simple reason that there never has been such a security compromise.

Chai, the founder of the Formosan Association for Public Affairs (FAPA) and of the Formosa TV network, refused to apologize after he could not produce evidence of Su ordering the transfer of the hydrological data. He offered a countercharge, however. He has vowed to sue Su for falsely accusing him, if and when he is accused of trying to accuse the NSC secretary-general.

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