原帖由 Traum 於 2007-12-2 23:21 發表 
Zoids, as far as the by-election is concerned, Apple Daily is pro-Anson. Ming Pao pretends to remain netural when in fact many of their articles and columns side with Yip Lau. And then you have Sing T ...
If you try to state your own opinion as fact, please provide proofs. Newspaper might not be perfectly neutral (who can define neutral to start with) because readers themselves usually read it with biased mindset already. That's why your point there is not valid at all. I just see you throwing out accusations without any proof to back it up.
I used the US and TW for examples because US is considered the land of freedom, democracy, human rights, world police, etc. That's why it's normal to bring US up for example. Martin Lee didn't go to other country when he wanted foreign power to intervene China's internal policy. I used TW because TW is the closest democratic model around China, with very similar cultural values too.
HK is not ready for democracy due to internal and external factors, for one of the internal factors, as you agreed, "a large number of HK people are too short-sighted and have no political ideals at all". For one of the external factors, it is because HK must relies on PRC to have a sustainable economy and living style, therefore unless the PRC finally decides to let HK have democracy, HK is not ready to have democracy.
However, I think most people are just being misled to only concentrate their focus on the democracy issue to create political value for the opposing parties. Not having universal suffrage does not mean HK ppl do not have any freedom. At the end of the day, it's the freedom that really matters. HK has been ranked the 58th country on 2007 Pree Freedom list by Reporters without Borders, just 2 countries behind USA. Considered most other countries above HK in the list are western developed countries, and PRC itself is ranked pretty much dead last (163 of 168), HK citizens has pretty much any kind of freedoms as the west except universal suffrage. It is not hard to see universal suffrage is not permitted simply because it is closely linked with sovereignty issue, and we all know PRC will not bulge an inch on this matter. HK as of now is already enjoying highest level of autonomy in PRC (Ranked 1st in the eocnomic freedom list by The Heritage Foundation and Wall Street Journal), further asking universal suffrage is simply too much for the current PRC right now. HK citizens should understand that and be reasonable, instead of chasing the perfect ideal political system they were misled to believe. The history has shown HK successfully defended their freedom in 2003 by protesting. HK citizens should know there is limit to everything and should not ask for more unreasonably. I personally think status quo is the best option right now. |