Posted on 10/05/2014 7:19:32 AM PDT by Abakumov
Americans are caught up with the Ebola crisis and the Secret Service lapses in protecting the White House and the president’s family. But what is transpiring in Hong Kong may be of far greater consequence.
Last weekend, Hong Kong authorities used pepper spray and tear gas to scatter the remnants of a student protest of the decision to give Beijing veto power over candidates in future elections.
The gassing was a blunder. Citizens poured into the streets in solidarity with the protesters. Hong Kong police lacked the nerve or numbers to remove them. The People’s Liberation Army stayed in its barracks. Crowds clamoring for democracy controlled the city.
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Hmm... move to Switzerland, or even China.
I’ll watch this carefully.
China needs Hong Kong more than Hong Kong needs China.
China will capitulate.
Scots may not have had the balls to declare independence but I pray that you keep up the good fight until independence is yours.
If Hong Kong declares independence and China relents, I’m packing up yesterday.
Pei-Ping
Scotlanders had no such fears. Kind of sad, really.
This is China we’re talking about ,the Communists will kill half the population if they have to, so they can stay in power
I’m surprised that Obama hasn’t sent troops to help the PLA.
Oddly enough, the best solution for China would be an “NBC” split. For antitrust reasons, the NBC television was split in two, the Red network and the Blue network. The Red Network continued to be called NBC, but the Blue network became ABC, a friendly competitor.
In the case of China, the communist party would be split in two (which happens naturally, with subgroups forming blocs and factions in contention with other blocs and factions.)
The purpose of the exercise would be to “increase efficiency through redundancy.”
In effect, both groups would sponsor different ideas, and have different candidates, while criticizing the ideas and candidates of the other side, then all members would vote on the best alternatives from both.
I don’t this would start from the top, but from the bottom, with the central government using such alternatives to correct a litany of local and regional problems. And once they saw that it was *not* disruptive, but both an improvement and a popular one, they could expand on it with comfort that they were not causing disruption or anarchy, but causing balance and order.
Now that’s the kind of freedom we can all get behind
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