Tai Ji Men

Peace through justice is the first goal for a sustainable world. The U.N. and democratic states themselves are often weak in pursuing it, as the Tai Ji Men case demonstrates.

For the tenth time, the United Nations’s highest human rights body hears about the Tai Ji Men case.

We can all understand, without justifying it, episodes of corruption. But it is the blatant capsizing of reality that bewilders the world in face of the non-justice inflicted on Tai Ji Men for almost thirty years.

We normally associate violence against religion or belief with blood and torture. But court decisions may be inherently violent, too.

The decision by the Taichung High Administrative Court was a step towards serfdom, not liberty and democracy.

Violence against believers continues to shed blood. But there is also a less visible administrative violence, of which Tai Ji Men have become victims once again.

The article was amended in 2021 to make it less favorable to taxpayers. But the Taichung High Administrative Court applied the amendment retroactively to unjustly hit Tai Ji Men.

Decisions of courts of law can both prevent and generate violence. The fathers of the Greek tragedy already knew it, as does—unfortunately—Tai Ji Men.