Zell in Hell
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Sat Sep-18-04 10:06 AM
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Your biggest foreign political heroes? |
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Mine is Leung Kwok-hung, a leftist activist who was just elected (unlike those right-wing anti-democracy shit stains appointed by the pro-Beijing business community that (s)elect the other half of the legislature) to Hong Kong's Legislative Council.
Leung is known for his long hair, his Che Guevara T-Shirt, his obessesion with getting to the bottom of the Tiananmen Square massacre, and the demonstrations and events he leads against Tung Chee-hwa and other Beijing-appointed fascists.
Leung calls for an entire legislature and a chief executive chosen by universal suffrage, more protection for the rights of workers, the transformation of Hong Kong into a Scandinavian-style welfare state, an expansion of press freedom, and laws to protect disadvantaged groups from discrimination and hate crimes.
By far the most intelligent and progressive-thinking Chinese politician since Sun Yat-sen. (Emily Lau, Martin Lee, Lee Teng-hui (if you consider him Chinese), and Chen Shui-bian (idem) come close.)
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Sat Sep-18-04 10:09 AM
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I just hope it doesn't have to come to this in the States.
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Smarmie Doofus
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Sat Sep-18-04 10:34 AM
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3. If he did this on the West Bank... |
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he'd be flatter than a pancake, dead as a doornail and know one would remember his name or the event.
If they were permitted to know about it in the first place.
Ahhh... freedom of the press.
Paul
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Sat Sep-18-04 10:36 AM
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4. Wasn't that guy Killed? |
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Sat Sep-18-04 10:29 AM
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Zell in Hell
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Sat Sep-18-04 10:48 AM
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Sat Sep-18-04 11:46 AM
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6. Ang San Suu Kyi, Nelson Mandela, Hugo Chavez, Gerhard Shroeder |
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Lula da Silva, Jose Luis Zapotero, Helen Clark..and others.
All have had the courage to defy BushCorps on Iraq and other issues.
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Sat Sep-18-04 12:15 PM
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7. Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu |
Zell in Hell
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Sat Sep-18-04 12:16 PM
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I didn't know that.
Why are the liberty-minded opponents of Asian totalitarian governments always left-leaning?
Ang, Chen, Lee (Martin and Teng-hui), Leung, Lau, etc...
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