My Country, My Home, How Do I Stay Here?

Awaiting a Democratic Hong Kong

China is going to “reinterpreted” the basic law, mainly what it means is that they are going to tell us that there is no way they will give legislative reforms for 2007 and Hong Kong will not receive universal suffrage even when about 60 plus percent of the population wants it. I know we can fight, but even before Donald Tsang and his task force reports on their findings, they preemptively makes this move. It means NO GO. Forget it.

In 1997 they told us that it was going to be ONE COUNTRY TWO SYSTEMS, which means we actually supposedly have autonomy. By 1998 our government set precedent and “asked” China to “reinterpret the basic law” for them due to the right of abode issue. The game was over then, but I don’t think people really knew or understood. Not even my friends or family, when I tried to explain to them that it showed our own government did not respect the rule of Law and it was only a year into the handover.

On a personal level, they banned my site. Yes, they banned all of typepad, but truly how many other people on this service writes or cares about China? Ten maybe? 20? I don’t know, but my site is banned, and this has always been the place I put my personal feelings on wanting a democratic Hong Kong, and eventually a democratic China. This is my space where I explore those thoughts, and they banned it. Come on. It’s in English, who is going to read it anyway? But with one move, my government closed down on my right to free speech as they will continue to try and close down the right to free speech for all of Hong Kong with article 23. I know most people have forgotten about it already but I don’t believe it’s gone forever, it will come back.

How do I live here? How do I stay, when I just watch my rights get eroded, over and over again. When my own Hong Kong government, can’t grasp some of the basic tenants of law, do not respect it, do not respect the people anyway. And they have to, choose to, don’t know how to stand up the Chinese government at all. Which is a government who don’t respect the basics, not even a little bit.

I thought I was moving to China a week ago. I don’t think I can. Just the issue of fear, the issue of not wanting to get in trouble, issue of maybe I simply can’t.

There are so many thoughts, but I can’t really write them down yet, it means something to do with my future, I don’t know how I feel. I guess I just keep thinking about this for myself.

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