[cclogg]

My girlfriend (who is Taiwanese) and happened to be visiting home during this time, went to observe the protests during the first week. From what she told me (going off memory here), there's many people going to the protests for 2 hours just so they can mark on their Facebook wall that they were there... and many others who don't actually care nor understand, but just follow the vocal protestors. However, there are indeed those who care, as marked by your 3 different groups.

P.s. she also said the police were not a problem for her. The ones they were dealing with were generally trouble-makers and basically out of control or whatever.

Oh well, I hope Taiwan can sort this out, it's a great country :)