Glutter’s Hong Kong.
I am going to go the protest today. The reason I am going out there is partly because it’s a beautiful day and it’s a good day to walk with a few hundred thousand people who believe in freedom. It’s a good day to go out and be with people who I agree with and people committed on a day off their holidays to stand out in the hot sun to make a point that politics do matter and we are sick of a government who does not have to answer to the thoughts and feelings of the people. Who believe in the rule of law, free speech, and that the rich and powerful do not know better simply because they are rich and powerful. It will be a pleasant experience to be able to stand in a crowd of people who are not so stupid to believe in propaganda. So hateful to themselves that they believe they are not unready to make choices about their own fate. Who is not so arrogant to believe that normal Hong Kong rens need a guiding hand by people who only have their own and their friend’s profit in mind masquerading at "Doing the best for the city."
They do not.
I keep thinking of the guy last night who said the "Right Wing" is going to make Hong Kong poorer and how I couldn’t even be bothered to engaged him in conversation. He grew up in the UK or at least was educated in the UK and somehow missed the point of what it means to live in a democracy and why it is important. If someone can miss the point that much, I can’t be the person to change him. But I have no respect for him because he doesn’t have enough respect for me and the people who believe that the power shouldn’t be arbitrarily given to people who tow the party line and will do what they are told to do by a even more power force somewhere in China who got their power through questionable circumstance that he said "I would be out there protesting against the protesters if I was on the streets today."
Why are those people more equip to run a country? Why assume those people have our best interests in mind? If they do, then they should not be afraid to be criticized and discuss their policy instead of banning websites, putting people in jail and censoring information that they deem to be "subversive" or "Sensitive."
What has to be covered up so badly that one will be jailed for dissent?
I was listening to the radio last night and the hosts were saying that "We live in a free society and that’s why people have the right to protest."
We do not live in a free society.
We live in a society that has some of the trappings of freedom that is held together by a small constitution that was hammered away by our old colonizers, that is obvious our government don’t respect and the Chinese government has on one too many occasions "Stipulated" that it can change.
We live in a society that our rule of law and our independent courts is constantly being eroded and our free speech is threatened.
That’s not a free society.
Something that is free has those things guaranteed.
We live in a place where our freedom is precarious.
We live in borrowed time of a time before.
Last night I wrote about how it can always be 1997 because it’s a code between my friend and I that we were young and having fun. But that is only in our minds and perception of reality.
We don’t live forever in 1997.
We live in a time and place where not only the year is fading but the reality of our freedoms is also further away than ever before.
Getting democracy means that Hong Kong can be in some aspect 1997 forever. It means we know our courts are safe. That our speech is protected. That we can gather.
But getting democracy means we hold that shield on our own and not through a foreign colonizing power.
That’s something we should have, but first we must fight for.
Today I will spend an afternoon in the hot sun contemplating that.
And you can count us person to person as well.
It would be so much more pleasant if I could just go to the ballot box in an air conditioned room for a few hours every four years where I know the counting is fair, that it is secret, and my voice is heard.
It is not the case. So I shall walk.
A funny thought. I am standing in the hot sun so I can go back into the airconditioned room one day with the power of a pen, a piece of paper, CHOICE, privacy and respect.
But when that happens the comfort of that action goes far beyond the physical. It’s mental.
It’s a comforting knowledge that in four years time. What I have on that day remains the same forever.
Yan Sham-Shackleton Online 
Consider:
The missing element in every human ‘solution’ is
an accurate definition of the creature.
The way we define ‘human’ determines our view
of self, others, relationships, institutions, life, and
future. Important? Only the Creator who made us
in His own image is qualified to define us accurately.
Many problems in human experience are the result of
false and inaccurate definitions of humankind premised
in man-made religions and humanistic philosophies.
Human knowledge is a fraction of the whole universe.
The balance is a vast void of human ignorance. Human
reason cannot fully function in such a void; thus, the
intellect can rise no higher than the criteria by which it
perceives and measures values.
Humanism makes man his own standard of measure.
However, as with all measuring systems, a standard
must be greater than the value measured. Based on
preponderant ignorance and an egocentric carnal
nature, humanism demotes reason to the simpleton
task of excuse-making in behalf of the rule of appe-
tites, desires, feelings, emotions, and glands.
Because man, hobbled in an ego-centric predicament,
cannot invent criteria greater than himself, the humanist
lacks a predictive capability. Without instinct or trans-
cendent criteria, humanism cannot evaluate options with
foresight and vision for progression and survival. Lack-
ing foresight, man is blind to potential consequence and
is unwittingly committed to mediocrity, collectivism,
averages, and regression – and worse. Humanism is an
unworthy worship.
The void of human ignorance can easily be filled with
a functional faith while not-so-patiently awaiting the
foot-dragging growth of human knowledge and behav-
ior. Faith, initiated by the Creator and revealed and
validated in His Word, the Bible, brings a transcend-
ent standard to man the choice-maker. Other philo-
sophies and religions are man-made, humanism, and
thereby lack what only the Bible has:
1.Transcendent Criteria and
2.Fulfilled Prophetic Validation.
The vision of faith in God and His Word is survival
equipment for today and the future.
Human is earth’s Choicemaker. Psalm 25:12 He is by
nature and nature’s God a creature of Choice – and of
Criteria. Psalm 119:30,173 His unique and definitive
characteristic is, and of Right ought to be, the natural
foundation of his environments, institutions, and re-
spectful relations to his fellow-man. Thus, he is orien-
ted to a Freedom whose roots are in the Order of the
universe.
– from The HUMAN PARADIGM
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The truck bringing up the rear of the pro-Democracy march was representing orgainisations affiliated with the local Catholic Church. So for those that fear eeeeee-vil secular humanism, this march wasn’t one to fear.
And dammit, should have responded earlier and asked if you wanted to meet up somewhere in the crowds, I’d be up for it.
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What an unbelievably scorcher of a day that was…
Did u see the mainstream’s coverage of it? Lots of them were ‘happy’ stories… that just demeans the whole thing… fuckers
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We cam meet up some other time..
Edwin, we can’t all be too depressing all the time right?
yan
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I am a spanish journalist working in HK and a casual reader of your blog. I just wanted to tell you that it is refreshing and encouraging to know that there are people in this city concerned about politics, people that believe in Freedom and that want their voices to be heard. Keep on doing it like that!
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