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To: Chas. who wrote (55282)	9/21/2009 10:33:53 PM
From: Maurice Winn	5 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217822

Chas, you obviously have a low reading comprehension level. How on earth did you get the idea that I thought Great Britain, or Britain, or the UK, or England, or The British Empire, or The Crown, or the British Government, abandoned Hong Kong? I did use the word abandoned, but you must have got yourself tangled up and mentally transferred that word and reversed the idea in another part of my post. No wonder things seem crazy to you. Here's the hard part: <It's one of life's oddities that Great Britain delivered freedom, prosperity, capitalism, common law, english, habeas corpus and all that good stuff to Hong Kong then abandoned them there. > That means Great Britain abandoned those things in Hong Kong, not that they abandoned Hong Kong. Those are abstract things. Prince Charles couldn't have collected english and packed it with the flag to return it all to London. Habeas corpus can't be repossessed. Freedom is just that and you can imagine [perhaps] that repossessing freedom would be a contradiction in terms. Great Britain gifted those things to Hong Kong without even a licence fee, royalty payment or other remuneration. TJ uses english as though he owns it. So does ElM. Strangely, they have an anti-Anglo ideology rather than worshiping the Anglosphere which gave them so much, without even asking for a thank you. Noblesse oblige, Mqurice PS: What's your first language?

To: Chas. who wrote (55282)	9/22/2009 12:10:04 AM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 217822

to be precise, the 99-year lease you spoke of is on now freedom mountain kowloon, liberty isle lantau, and wonderful cove lamma; money rock hong kong was a colony, and was abandoned, surrendered or otherwise let go by once-empire britain. britain did grudgingly make available 50,000 passports for application by the abandoned lucky refugees, and unexpectedly, only 2-3,000 folks out of the 7 million applied, and the passports could not be given away. poor little portugal did instead the honorable act, handing out eu-enabled portugal paper liberally to macau folks for the asking.