HONG KONG - MASSIVE DEMONSTRATION FOR DIRECT DEMOCRACY - 1/1/10

On New Year Day, I spent the first day of the new decade joining a massive demonstration in HK to demand that the Beijing communist government grant HK citizens the right to elect the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region's legislature & chief executive by a democratic one person one vote system as promised by the Chinese communist government in the Hong Kong mini-constitution passed in 1997 during the handover of sovereignty by Britain to the People's Republic of China. There were over 30,000 demonstrators among them myself and my friends. The procession started from Chater Road, Central and took 2 hours to reach the de facto Chinese embassy in HK in the Western District. HK citizens showed discipline and restraint in exercising the basic human right of freedom of expression. I sincerely hope that the Beijing government will honour their promise as set out in the Basic Law governing the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Even if that promise may not materialize every free citizen should exercise his or her inborn right to freedom of expression in a peaceful manner regardless of the outcome.

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[XiaoDanDragon]

China needs democracy! Stop the lying Chinese government! Save china, Tibet, and hong kong, we Chinese demand democracy! We don't need you ccp censoring our country! We want the truth govener! Show what happened in tinamen! We want the truth you lying government! You killed unamrmed students in 1989! You never payed attention to your people! Lying government! You are making china worse! Give me liberty or give me death!

[awc321]

@joekhcheng U are not answering my question. In any case, I certainly hope u exercise ur good judgment and not repeat the mistakes the Chinese made in 19th and early 20th century where the in-fighting only opened the door to foreign manipulation and outright seizure of territories.

[joekhcheng]

@awc321

Please don't mix up a party or a government with the rich tradition of the the noble Chinese race. We have over 5,000 years of culture. A government comes and goes. This is the law of nature which works in constant cycles as the great I-Ching ( Book of Changes ) predicts. A race and culture endures the test of time and is at peace with nature. Any responsible adult can exercise his own judgment as to whether or not a government respects basic human rights. i have exercised mine.

[joekhcheng]

@awc321

I hope you were old enough on 4/6/1989 when the tanks of the People's Liberation Army rolled over demonstrating students and workers killing an unknown number of them in Tiananmen Square. Would you call this soft ? It was clearly set as an example for anti-communist demonstrators. Such atrocity is autocratic single party rule run wild. It is for this reason that my family emigrated to Australia which we didn't like. Freedom is like air as you say. How can one live without it ?

[awc321]

@joekhcheng Hi, just be aware that some people want the Chinese to fight among themselves. Of course, they won't say that. The Taiping Rebellion and 1911 revolution only weakened China to the advantage of foreign powers like Britain and Russia.Are u aware of the color revolutions going on in EEurope and the former Soviet republics and who are the ones behind it. Be careful not to be used by others.

[awc321]

@joekhcheng Neither did these activists carried out any large scale peaceful demonstrations under the British, like they do now under Beijing ? Is Beijing too soft than London ? Neither did western media complain abt lack of democracy under the Brits. This is already evidence to me. Its like someone who has lived w/o air con for a large part of his life all of a sudden said he could not live w/o it. U should be careful of the motive of others.

[joekhcheng]

@awc321

HK was a colony under British rule. This is a painful part of history. The only way to change that was by violent revolution which was not warranted by the circumstances. Nor was this the general consensus of the HK citizens. After 1997, HK had regained national sovereignty and promised the election of its chief executive and legislature. But this is not happening. One must not speculate on others' motive unless supported by evidence. I'm proud to be a free Chinese but not a communist.

[awc321]

@joekhcheng

My question was why those who fought for democracy now did not do so before 1983. Some of them were British civil servants. Now, they talk about democracy, what was their real agenda ? Are they being used by foreign powers to create a base in Hong Kong to fight to look after foreign business interest and to fight against Beijing ? They wanted to create a pro-US regime like in Georgia, Poland, E Europe, a regime that obeys Washington ? Beware the gweilos.

[joekhcheng]

@awc321

HK was ceded to the British by the unequal Treaty of Nanking in 1840. In my teenage days to talk about politics was forbidden in HK. In my university days in 1971, i was involved in the first generation student movement and our organisation succeeded in getting the government to accept Chinese as an official language. I am afraid that was the best HK citizens were allowed to do. In 1997 China promised us election of the chief executive. That is why we demonstrate.

JKHC 27/3/11

[awc321]

@joekhcheng Why did you not stand out to fight for direct elections during the British rule, before it was decided that HK would be handed back to China ?