<<But, TJ Maurice can travel to Wellington, once there he can stand on the steps of Parliament and declare his intent to form a political party that will throw out the scoundrels at no peril to himself from the present government ... Do you know what else? He doesn't need a passport to do it.>>
Really?! Well, yes, perhaps because Wellington is in the same system as wherever maurice happens to live in New Zealand?! and so a passport is not necessary, possibly, you think?
Fact of the matter is that HK is an UN recognized customs area separate/distinct from China the PRC, and when mainlanders or anyone else travels here from everywhere else, documents are needed. We of HK prefer to keep our documentation the way they already are, and for those of us who so choose, we buy other documentation, for safe keeping, so as to be able to ballot with our wallet and feet. This ability to choose, as in exercise of FREEDOM, is the ultimate guarantee that we will keep our freedom, that be FREEDOM, capitalized.
Truth is HK's political system is unique, works magic, is incredible, and absolutely fabulous, and fairly inexpensive to boot.
If one is foolish enough to want to form a political party, has the wherewithal to finance it by whatever means, one is free to do so in HK.
The question is why? We have 5 parties already.
Given that HK is #1 in the world bar none in economic freedom, the only freedom that truly matters if one had to choose only one freedom, then any and all political effort will far more likely mess up what is already excellent, rather than improving what is already #1. No?
If one wants to start a news paper or magazine in HK, go ahead, but we already have 45 daily newspapers and literally hundreds of magazines, all for 6.odd million souls.
I am not even from HK, in the origination sense, and I only made my home here, adoring what has been and is being achieved here.
Your direction indicates that you are a reader of Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, and the New Republic.
Suggestion: read the Constitution of the United States of America of earlier editions, and perhaps begin to realize how far off the path those other scribblings are from what was good.
Chugs, J |
