Looking back, not more than five or six years ago activities with similar appeals would inevitably summon riot control police to nervously stand guard, with concertina wire spread in front of them. A decade before that, when martial law had yet to be lifted, any "organized assemblies were taboo.
然而回首來時路，不過五、六年前，主題類似的活動，還不免引來鎮暴警察嚴陣以待、張著刺鉤的鐵網拒馬一旁伺候；更別提再往前推溯十年、任何「集會結社」都屬禁忌的戒嚴時代了。