No, no – BANANAS. They wouldn’t want anyone to think they’re STOOPID, would they?
(Photo from the Taipei Times.)
That’s a skeletal Uncle Sam clutching a PAC II (Patriot) missile. Which is pretty scary, if you happen to be a red who doesn’t want any of Beijing’s 800 to miss their targets.
Communist capitulationists (banana farmers, my foot) marched to the de facto American embassy in Taipei on Friday, offering this bit of choice defense budget advice for their country’s leaders:
"Don’t buy weapons, buy bananas!* [Stephen] Young, get out of Taiwan!**"
With stategic vision like that, how did the KMT EVER manage to lose a civil war?
(Hat tip to The View from Taiwan for pointing out that Peking Duck was there, and later blogged about his run-in with the mob.)
* Taiwan is currently facing a banana glut.
** Stephen Young is America’s top diplomat in Taiwan.
UPDATE: The papers all said that there were "scores" of protesters, which is pretty small considering Taiwan’s population of 23 million. As a Where’s Waldo-esque exercise, compare Friday’s protesters to the ones in this picture:
(Photo from the March 15/06 ed of the Taiwan News. Sorry, no link available.)
Same skull mask and gloves, same missiles, same guy in the yellow hard hat. How much would anyone like to bet that the "banana farmer" of Friday’s protest was the "credit card slave" of seven months ago?
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Dude, you rock! Spotting that same feller in both pics. You know how it is with these banana farmers — they’ve got so much time on their hands.
Michael
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Thanks. Though I don’t think I would have bothered to look back at that old pic if I hadn’t read all the “banana farmer” talk in Peking Duck’s comments section.
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Busted!
Great catch, Foreigner! LOL!
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and I would assume the man with the “worker” hat probably has never done any manual labor in his life.
As for KMT’s motive, the picture says it all.
http://img364.imageshack.us/img364/7246/061025mabowkw3.gif