Remember how the KMT threatened to sic John Law after Theresa Shaheen when it looked like she might deliver some unwelcome news about the validity of Ma Ying-jeou’s old American green card?
Theresa Shaheen, former chairwoman of the American Institute in Taiwan, is being given a…warning against getting involved in the "green card" issue over Kuomintang presidential hopeful Ma Ying-jeou.
"We wish Ms. Shaheen to know that it’s unlawful for an foreign national to get involved in an election in Taiwan," a top aide to Ma said yesterday. According to the Election Law, no foreign nationals may electioneer for a candidate in Taiwan.
Well, I was just throwing out old newspapers around here, when I happened to run across this:
Meanwhile, Ma’s campaign team invited a US immigration lawyer to support the candidate’s claim that it was not necessary to complete an I-407 form to give up one’s green card.
Query: I wonder if Ma’s aides issued similar threats to the U.S. immigration lawyer whom they invited to speak on their candidate’s behalf? I mean, you can’t graduate with an S.J.D. in Law from Harvard like Ma did, and not believe in the sacred principle of equality before the law, can you?
Can you?
POSTSCRIPT: My initial post on the subject can be found here.
UPDATE (Mar 31/08): Therese Shaheen denies the KMT story that she was ever willing to wade into the green card controversy:
In her statement, in English and Chinese, Shaheen said she was "never involved in any matters" regarding the green card issue during the presidential campaign.
"Fantastic rumors about my alleged involvement, my plans to make public statements about it, and the allegation that I was doing so because I favored one party over the other were 100 percent false," she said.