Indictment, finally
It was about time. The Prosecutors of the Special Counsel finally issued an indictment for former President Chen Shui-bian (and 13 others), giving the government some kind of sound reasoning for imprisoning the ex-president — nevermind that we don’t actually have habeas corpus here. Why the delay? President Chen has already public admitted to wrongdoing, so it’s not like there was a lack of evidence to get the indictment before now! Curiously, as soon as the indictment was issued, President Chen was released without bail. So, let me get this right:
We arrest a man and imprison him without an indictment,
Weeks later the court issues an indictment,
We release the accused without bail.
Isn’t this backwards from how most democratic governments do things?
