HK adviser loses job over democracy

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AP , HONG KONG

A senior Hong Kong government adviser who joined a huge pro-democracy rally last week said yesterday that he has been ordered to leave his job while his contract runs out.

Joseph Lian, a member of the top think-tank for Chief Exeuctive Tung Chee-hwa (???), said in an e-mail to friends that he was told on Monday to take paid leave until his job ends on Sept. 14.

Government spokesman Eric Chan confirmed Lian's early departure from the Central Policy Unit and said Lian would not be coming back. Chan declined to give a reason but insisted Lian had not been fired.

Opposition lawmaker James To (???) demanded that the government give a public explanation. To said Lian's departure raises questions about whether the former academic was being "punished for his political inclinations or for exercising his civil liberties.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2004/07/07/2003178021

Jackie 'Whore' Chan's Communist friends had Lian fired. Tell ya, there is absolutely NO DIFFERENCE between the Bush Administration/GOP Party and the Communist Party of China!

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1. Democracy is a big problem

"A dictatorship would be easier."

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2. let freedom reign