Moreover, it was reported that on December 9, private American companies in Kaohsiung had been notified from the U.S. to be on alert for possible violence. All of these facts combine to demonstrate that the Kaohsiung riot was a carefully planned conspiracy of "Taiwan independence" elements to subvert the government from inside and outside the country.
台灣省政府主席林洋港針對此事，特別對全省同胞發表談話，他呼籲大家要珍惜國家得來不易的安定秩序、及富足安樂的生活，一定要相信政府，信賴法律的公正及尊嚴，大家共同為建設國家盡心獻力。他並且提到，美麗島雜誌自創刊以來，言論異常偏激，蓄意在醜化政府、謾罵執政黨。