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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (572)	1/15/2001 11:53:08 PM
From: Rolla Coasta	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

young people in authoritarian societies don't make the ultimate decision whether or not to wage war on a neighboring country. I certainly agree with you that young people should have their rights to choose. But before actually achieving this goal, things have to be sorted out in a gradual manner. It is not an overnight phenomenon that can guarantee every ignorant, uneducated, and directionless folks to vote for someone who cast their hypocritical imagines on TV or in person for political gain. And it is also easy for foreign people to bribe into the political system by dividing every party into pieces. You know the paternal elders of the Chinese leadership are so wary of this. Like you said, don't be so naive. And ironically enough, when the Brits ruled HK before '97, HK people (either young or old) didn't have a chance to choose their leaders too. I guess the Brits didn't want HK folks to politically interfere the Brits in making money and building up cash flow to feed the kings and queens, helping to bring up their womanizing princes ... And that's why I held so much promise with the Tianamen Square demonstrations. It was a sign that young people were going to assert themselves in opposing a leadership that seemingly has had little regard for their individual rights. The student leaders at that time were also against each other, because some of them wanted to make history of their own and become a national hero of some sort. They were disorganized and just fooling around themselves in party style with ego struggle. How can someone trust them to lead their nation with so many threats from outside world - like lots of religious groups out there ready to jump in and get a piece of Chinese big pie for recruitment. For instance, Islamic fundamentalists and Fa Lun Gong remain the biggest threats to China. And China really cannot afford a holy civil war there. In fact, one of the greatest strategies of imperialism was to encourage these powers to war with one another to the point of exhaustion, at which point they were ALL conquered. You are right on the money. Brit imperialism and others had brought different religions to the local Asian people and basically let the folks clashing with one another. Totalitarian regimes are like a political mafia. You mean when the Brit ruled HK before '97, it was like a political mafia ? I certainly do not like any totalitarian system. But for someone, it is a very effective system to guard against foreign threats or even local mafia business. Take Macau as an example after the takeover - a 180 degree turnaround with no mafia shootout. The Chinese paternal elders should know all the foreign threats well. regards, Q