Awaiting a Democratic Hong Kong
I heard on the radio the other day that some pro-china group made a statement that those not supporting Article 23 do not love China. We do not care about the betterment of the motherland because this is a “security” bill and therefore not wanting it passed is akin not wanting to protect our country.
However thankfully (I am being sacrastic here) they added that you still love the country if you oppose some parts of Article 23. It is healthy to want to modify certain aspects of the bill if it’s unreasonable. But in general for me to claim that I love my country, well I better agree with them.
Mainly they are calling us sellouts for not wanting to lose our rights to free speech and dissent.
Blah.
I don’t have much time otherwise I would be ranting about what patriotism means and how finding your government problematic has nothing to do with how one feels about one’s country and people.
We do not represent our government, our government represents us.
People always get the two mixed up.
Yan Sham-Shackleton Online 
Such is a concerted effort to distract the public from any progress towards a fully democratic HK. The best way is to laugh them off, shed ructions with them and go in steadfast steps for the right goal.
I said “concerted effort” coz, for anyone being observant enough, the communist mouthpieces have already rolled off, along with savage intimidation to the public, a smearing campaign against outspoken figures in favour of a unversial suffrage in the CE election. Taikung Daily did a column against Ng Chi-sum, political commentator and host of RTHK’s morning phone-in show last weekend, before which Singtao Daily did another ineloquent piece against the democratic legislators. This is what I wrote in my blog about Singtao’s piece + a translation:
The local Singtao Daily, a sister publication of an English newspaper The Standard and a popular Chinese magazine Eastweek, has been reduced to a pliant mouthpiece of the Chinese communist party since the Attorney General of Hong Kong withdrew an account of fraud charge against its chairlady several years ago. In a continuously concerted move to shatter hopes for an introduction of universal suffrage in the 2007 Chief Executive (HK’s head of administration) election since Beijing flung the gauntlet to Hong Kong’s democrats, Singtao brought itself to publish a letter to editor on its political section yesterday. Bearing in mind it never as far as I can recall publishes letters from just anyone for no reasons, I have little doubt that the ineloquent letter was cherry picked to reinforce the Beijing Pharaohs’ bellicose language delivered to us the Hong Kong “pariahs” through the octogenarian Basic Law mavens in bucking against our call for full democracy.
The following is a full translation to the letter:
Dear Editor,
I am a Chinese living in America. I concur with the will of the Beijing central government (concerning the universal suffrage issue). A political reform in that direction has hardly been brought to a head. The 35 million overseas Chinese invariably say ayes to this view of mine, as well as to the will of the central government. The political reform must undergo studies by legal experts through a very long period of time (nevin’s note: the octogenarian mavens said the universal suffrage could be held no earlier than 2047). No one should jump the gun on the conclusions.
Margaret Ng (HK Democrat legislator; Senior Counsel), Martin Lee (HK Democrat legislator; Senior Counsel; former Chairman of Democratic Party), Albert Ho (HK Democrat legislator; Vice-chairman of Democratic Party), Emily Lau (HK Democrat legislator; Chairperson of the Frontier Party) and their allies have neither in their lifetime tasted the roughshod treatment of British colonial rulers, nor read about the history of a China bullied and buckled by Britain. Under the masquerade of a political reform agenda is their covetous intention to destabilise and dismantle our motherland. These people are terrorists. These people shall be chucked out. Had they had in America caused such lousy ructions in such a sleight of hand, the American government would have arrested them. The 35 million overseas Chinese are on the side of the central government. Thank you.
Howard Jang
What a shebag of hysterical bullshit!
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Fuck him. He lives in the US?? What’s he got to say about it? Why is there 35 million over seas chinese in the first place? Errr. Coz they didn’t want to live in China due to the political or economic situation.
I have such serious problems with people of the diaspora who feel they deserve more rights than those who have stayed. And that Mr. Howard Jung is a good example of those arrogrant twits.
Yan
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He’s a fine one to talk indeed living in the US. Besides he’s wrong, it’s part of the democratic process for the US to question and to accept other thoughts and thinkings. It’s in their constitution. That’s their patriotic duty. Terrorists indeed. Live under the threat of IRA bombs while you go to school and then talk to me about terrorists.
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