Down and Out and Blacklisted by the KMT as late as 1992
Monday October 15, by Jerome F. Keating Ph.D.
Pundits of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) always try to make the pseudo claim that the KMT supported democracy as early as the 1960s by allowing paltry elections in Taiwan. What they don't say of course is the following. The elections were only for lesser positions because the main power of the country was held by the KMT President and Legislative Yuan (these were the KMT loyalists with an iron rice bowl. They were elected in 1947 and never had to run again; those that were still alive by 1992 were finally retired. They don't say that the KMT held the country under martial law until 1987; and that the dreaded Garrison Command which could interrogate prisoners with no restraints was not disbanded until 1992. They don't say that they did not allow opposition parties until 1987 though the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) with many of its members still in jail from the Kaohsiung Incident in 1979 did dare to form a party in 1986. They also don't say that they had a blacklist to keep out anyone that was opposed to the KMT or was for independence. Since the KMT had given up aspirations of retaking China one would think that being a democracy meant that they were independent. Not so in the KMT's mind.
The Blacklist was a book used by the KMT to control who could enter the country, particularly foreigners. Many of the categories were common to any country, criminals, smugglers etc. but the categories to note were number 1 and 3 found in Photo 6 where there are seven categories of undesirables (listed 1 through 7). This classification appears on the pages in a special column right before the the A, B, C classification of how to treat them. That also is found in photo 6 and in a column on the name pages.
Herein are posted some photos of the black list published as late as July 24, 1992. I will write more on his when I return from my travels. Herein are a couple of comments on some pages. For detailed viewing of smaller print, move cursor to find full resolution and click there.
Photo 8, page 349 lists the well known Wu Ming-chi, a former head of FAPA and pro-Taiwan activist living in the States.
Photo 9, page 78 lists Coen Blaauw Jan Pieter, of the Netherlands who worked with FAPA and for human rights.
Photo 10, page 198 lists Linda Gail Arrigo, former wife of Shih Ming-deh and long time activist for Taiwan rights.
Photo 11, page 162, lists Richard C. Kagan, whose recent biography of Lee Teng-hui was posted previous to this post.
Photo 12, page 332, lists Gerrit Van der Wees, another Dutch person who has long worked for human rights in Taiwan.
The key to remember is that these people were being kept out as late as 1992; a far cry from the claims of the KMT being pro-democracy in the 50s and 60s.
Look over the sheets and see if you recognize any other names. Some are repeated more than once if more than one agency has a file on them.