Commenting on the arrests, Taiwan Provincial Governor Lin Yang-kang stressed that the government tolerated some nonpartisans 'biased words and improper actions in the past, because it wanted them to repent by themselves.
林主席為此三度面謁總統，但總統卻指示說：「我們復國建國需要各種的人才，我們為鞏固基地的團結與壯大，政府應該以忍耐與寬容的態度來對他們。」