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Old July 9, 2003, 23:09   #1
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Hong Kong Democrats Victorious...
Basically, they've put the fork in the commie Beijing-appointed governor and the commie anti-subversion law dictated by Beijing. 500,000 demonstrated out of a total population of 7 million.

Rock on!

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Democrats? They won't know if democracy hits them in the head.
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Well, at least they know what it isn't--i.e., bad laws dictated from the out of touch commies in Beijing.
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I don't know, even Martin Lee himself said Section 23 is okay.
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And your point is.... ?
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I don't know, even Martin Lee himself said Section 23 is okay.
Is Section 23 anything like Section 31?
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How could they be bad laws if both the Brits and the so called "Democrats" gave their approval?
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Is Section 23 anything like Section 31?
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Re: Hong Kong Democrats Victorious...
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Basically, they've put the fork in the commie Beijing-appointed governor and the commie anti-subversion law dictated by Beijing. 500,000 demonstrated out of a total population of 7 million.

Rock on!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...l?nav=hptop_ts
The boys in Peking and I mean Peking may still have the last vote.
Don't be surprise if they excised that vote and whack a few thousand heads.
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No more than the KGB was like the Tal Shiar.
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maybe we should get ready for tian an men square 2.0
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The Party is trying to make Hongo Kong inot a model to show they can be nice. So they had to back down. Too bad such an attept anywhere else in China would not be recieved as passively by the Party.
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Re: Hong Kong Democrats Victorious...
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Basically, they've put the fork in the commie Beijing-appointed governor and the commie anti-subversion law dictated by Beijing. 500,000 demonstrated out of a total population of 7 million.

Rock on!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...l?nav=hptop_ts


I hope to god that someday Hong Kong will become seperate from China. China seems to be unable to break it's dictatorial history, and the citizens of Hong Kong should not have to endure what the citizens of China have had to endure for years.

Of course, I also advocate the liberation of China as well.
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Re: Re: Hong Kong Democrats Victorious...
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China seems to be unable to break it's dictatorial history, and the citizens of Hong Kong should not have to endure what the citizens of China have had to endure for years.
Like being second class citizens under British rule?
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Please. It's not like we were Nazis or anything to HK.
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No, but all the highest officials were Brits, and all the rules were either made in Whitehall or in the British Parliament.

Things got steadily better since the '80s, but Patten screwed us up bad.
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Re: Re: Re: Hong Kong Democrats Victorious...
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Like being second class citizens under British rule?
No, I'm thinking about pictures like these (no dead ones. Though I found PLENTY!)







I mean as an independant political entity with its own government structure and democracy.
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Well, Hong Kong was a dominion. The US does it to Hawaii. France does it to Corsica. New Zealand did it to Samoa.

Why is Hong Kong any different?
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Tassadar: I returned from Hong Kong two weeks ago after a week there, and I must admit some of the buildings there are pretty modern, and put shame to those pictures there.

However, it has to be impressed that a lot of the buildings from British periods are somewhat "shoddy".

Most the buildings from post-Britain are most flash indeed (I point out in particular the airport and the Mass Transit System). The hotel I was in (Holiday Inn, Downtown Hong Kong) was next to a place called Chungking House. It was the most derilect building I had ever seen in a metropolis, and no effort what so ever had been made to restore it.

I realise Hong Kong is a S.A.R. to Beijing, but killing non-Chinese history like that was quite shocking, to say the least.
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Some pictures of HONG KONG:

I like this picture. It shows a small boat in the face of an advanced, modern city.






HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION
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I'll post some pictures of my visit to HK soon.

But I must tell Tassadar those buildings above were all made from bamboo scaffolding.

Go figure.
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Well, Hong Kong was a dominion. The US does it to Hawaii. France does it to Corsica. New Zealand did it to Samoa.

Why is Hong Kong any different?
I was just responding to Tassadar, as he seems to think that we were better off under colonial rule.
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Right. This one is taken from mainland Hong Kong, on the way to the airport.

If you look in the middle of the photo, across the sea, you can see Tassadar's building, dwarfed by the surrounding ones.
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Next is a port. Look at those containers!
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Lastly, the suspension bridge connecting the mainland with Hong Kong Island.
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I wish I had taken some of Hong Kong at night. It really was a site to behold.
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If you look in the middle of the photo, across the sea, you can see Tassadar's building, dwarfed by the surrounding ones.
Yeah right
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Frozzy -- we do what to Hawaii?
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I was just responding to Tassadar, as he seems to think that we were better off under colonial rule.
Ah, I can easily trip you up with two simple words: QUOTE ME

I'm simply saying that becoming an independant political entity (read: a country) would be better for Hong Kong in the long run.
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Like Singapore? If you mean this, then most certainly
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