This is what the Chinese Government “representatives” said about direct elections in HK for 2008 Today:
“Blah, blah, blah, Blah, blah, blah, Blah, blah, blah, Blah, blah, blah, Blah, blah, blah, Blah, blah, blah, Blah, blah, blah, Blah, blah, blah, Blah, blah, blah,, Blah, blah, blah, Blah, blah, blah, Blah, blah, blah, Blah, blah, blah, Blah, blah, blah, Blah, blah, blah, maintain stability, economic growth, Blah, blah, blah, Blah, blah, blah, Blah, blah, blah, Blah, blah, blah, Blah, blah, blah, Blah, blah, blah, therefore, Blah, blah, blah, Blah, not ready, blah, blah, Blah, blah, errr, blah, Blah, blah, blah, (NO), Blah, blah, blah, Blah, blah, blah, Blah, blah, blah, Blah, blah, blah, Blah, blah, blah, Blah, blah, blah, Blah, blah, blah, Blah, blah, blah.”
This is my response:
“Blah, blah, Discouraging, Disheartening blah, blah, blah, Autocratic, blah, Blah, blah, blah, Despotic, Blah, blah, blah, Blah, blah, blah, Blah, blah, Dictators, blah, Blah, blah, blah, Blah, Democracy, blah, blah, blah, Paternalistic, blah, blah, Blah, blah, blah, Totalitarian, Blah, blah, Regime Change, blah, Blah, Tyrannical, blah, blah, Blah, blah, blah, fight, Blah, blah, blah, Blah, blah, Autocratic, blah, Blah, blah, Oppressive, blah, Blah, blah, blah, Blah, blah, blah. F blah, U, blah, C, blah, K, blah, blah, Y, blah, blah O, blah, blah U, blah, blah, blah, China. blah!”
Yan Sham-Shackleton Online 
Hey, I really like the look of your place!
Thanks for the link, by the way. I’ll definitely be linking you. Your’s offers a good perspective on issues that I often don’t get into as much since we’re so focused on what’s going on w/ our US -ahem- democracy.
I’ll defintely be back!
I know it’s discouraging. I’ve been getting a lot of experience in that department lately. The seemingly constant drop on this roller coaster has plateaued a bit…we’ve even experienced some highs and good curves. But, we still have a lot of work and cannot take our eye off the ball for one minute. November will be here sooner than we think. May the powers that be, find it in their interest to be on our side.
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Well maybe it’s not the “powers that be” maybe it’s the people need to go vote brainy OUT! 🙂
Please?
Yan
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Yan, this exemplifies what I like so much about reading your weblog: your razor sharp rapartee.
There was an article in the NY Times today titled, “China Bars Steps by Hong Kong Toward More Democratic Voting.” Talks about China’s heavy-handedness, and the fact that it is not giving HK the “high degree of autonomy” it said it would when the UK handed HK over.
It’s a spooky world we live in, isn’t it? (China, mid-east, Iraq, Palestine-Israel, N. Korea, Pakistan, black market nuke sales …)
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Why thank you Tom, I am glad someone out there caught it. I put a huge ammount of thought into this post (believe it or not). It was like, I was too tired to explain what happenned, don’t even have that much to say. What can I say now that I have not said before? What stance can I take that is at all interesting, which this site doesn’t stand for? I wasn’t going to go on some rant, I heard it all on the radio already. I wasn’t going to write an extreme discouraged post about lost hope. I am NOT going to become a terrorist to get this, I don’t want the other in my city to resort to violence to achieve this either. Which is really the only avenue left in some ways. I can’t see us being India and resorting to massive passive resistance. People have to eat and feed their families. Done deal. Nothing. Blah blah blah.. all bullshit.
Yan
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