You democratic weenies

The other day I walked by a newspaper stand, and on the SCMP's (HK's leading English newspaper) front page was an article about mainland's conditions for universal suffrage in HK. It was based on a writing from a mainland law expert.

The conditions include:

- Article 23 has not been passed;
- insufficient patriotic education;
- lack of community consensus;
- too soon for the redistribution of economic power;
- no law in place to govern political parties;
- equal participation in politics not yet achieved.

...said the Democratic Party was misleading Hong Kong people through "blind worship of universal suffrage", which was "just one kind of democracy".

He said Hitler and Mussolini had come to power through elections and were "experts at inciting people’s emotions". Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian had used his election-eve shooting to play on the emotions of voters.

"Even in the United States, which has 200 years of democratic history, most of its presidents were only of mediocre calibre. There have been few outstanding or talented ones," he said.

Umm.. what a brilliant piece of writing... umm.. I always thought that these HK people are not patriotic enough to vote... It'll be like Canada allowing the existence of Bloc and Parti Quebecois, see how counter productive it can be.... HK needs the stability of a one party system... yeah...