I really like the idea that young people are getting involved. If she (zhou cheng) was in my district, I would have voted for her. Second, in parliamentary politics, the name of the game is to get elected, and then get re-elected and get even. To sabotage the system, you have to be in the parliament, as said by Lenin long time ago. So the right move now is to accept the government's proposal and fight for the extra ten seats. Long live Lenin! But if you guys are (1) frolicking with an ex-student in a sofa bought by your wife, (2) hiding under a hotel bed of your ex-lover, instead of voting this past Sunday, then I am mightily disappointed.I really have nothing to add to it. OKAY, I do. I remember something I read some time ago, it goes something like illusion is a powerful half-truth, it affects how people act and hence the character of a society. Nobody thinks that there was ever or is democracy in Hong Kong, past or present, and yet people want to believe in it.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Thoughts on This Minor Shitstorm That is Called By-election
Another email I intercepted and savaged from the Internet gutter. Unlike me, whoever penned this knows what he is talking about.
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There isn't a lot of democracy here in Hong Kong but the people of HK enjoy a high degree of freedom, lots of human rights and security because there's the rule of law and a very professional police force. The only complaint that I have is income disparity - the rich being incredulously rich and the poor dirt poor. The minimum wage legislation due out this year will go a long way in alleviating the plight of the down-and-out.
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There can be no denying that HK has more democracy now than, say, in the 1970s and 1980s. In 2005 HK missed a chance of moving forward, albeit slowly, in the democratisation process. It seems very likely that HK is going to miss another opportunity to inch forward towards a more representative system of government in June 2010. We'll wait and see.
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There are probably two or three or even more Hong Kong's if you look at it economically. And nobody thinks the same law applies equally to everybody. And yet there is this legal system founded and passed down by the class-ridden English, as hypocritical as it can be, that legal system actually prevents overt corruption and wholesale abuse of human rights like you know where. This is something that Hong Kongers and dare I say most other parts of the world cherish, a legal system that guarantees and protects individual rights, not just serving for the governing class.
ReplyDeletesome people are more equal than the others, it's also applicable in HK.
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