Subject: Laws must be enforced at National Cheng Kung
UniversityTo: moe
CC: Control Yuan
Vice-President Lu
Ministry of Education
11 December 2003
Dear Ministry officials,
These abuses at National Cheng Kung University cannot be allowed to
go on for much longer. The Ministry of Education must do something
about the lawlessness at our university. I expect Ministry officials to
establish principles of law here. Send officials to Tainan and resolve
these problems.
Democracy is a government of laws, not committees. The belief that
so long as committees violate laws, then it's all right is not an
acceptable principle in a democracy. The principle that if one person
does something wrong it is wrong, but if 15 officials do something wrong
it is right is not a principle of democracy. The International Charter
for Human Rights has made this very clear already.
I repeat: Democracy is a government of laws. Committees cannot
change the laws, only act in accordance with the laws.
I won a Ministry ruling on 8 January 2001. No committee at
National Cheng Kung University can change the legal benefits of that
ruling. The latest action by the university, claiming to cancel my
increments for six years, is not only wrong based on the Ministry
decision; but it is wrong based on a ruling by National Cheng Kung
University appeal committee as well. How long are you going to tolerate
the mockery of law at our university?
If the Ministry of Education does not realize it is time to send
officials to Tainan to impose law in our university, then when will the
Ministry think it's time?
One thing for certain: I intend to defend my rights here, even if
I have to appeal outside of Taiwan to do so.
Sincerely,
Professor Richard de Canio
Department of Foreign Languages and Literature
National Cheng Kung University
(06) 237 8626
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