Extending the farce

Hemlock sums up the situation with today’s release of the detainees. Not content to quietly let a bad mistake fade gradually in the memory, the government has decided to make a big song and dance about their release. You couldn’t make this stuff up!

The Hong Kong Government Face-Saving Department swings into action today, led by its famous Molehill-Mountain Conversion Team and the highly capable Laborious Over-Dramatization Unit…

Brilliant!

Here we go again!

I hope to address the current institutionalised panic in more detail when I have time later. But I just have to say that the government’s imprisoning of 300 people against their will in the Metro Park Hotel for no rational reason whatsoever is a gross violation of their human rights, and I hope that they were take appropriate legal action for false imprisonment when they are released. I hope that a good number of them are foreign citizens who will be fully supported by their governments in this.

It is a crying shame that Hong Kong has been made the laughing stock of rational people worldwide by the actions of the administrative class in Hong Kong. These people were very well trained to administer the city under other people’s leadership, but they are totally and utterly out of their depth intellectually when it comes to providing the leadership which this city has been so sadly lacking for the last 12 years.

Amongst the reasons I will never live in the UK again…

Here you can read a rather distressing tale from the UK. Three men out of control on alcohol murdered a mentally-impaired man. Today they were sentenced to “life” with minimums of 12-15 years imposed. This is bad enough, but what was the reaction of the victim’s family? Yes, they hit the alcohol to celebrate the sentences. The irony was obviously completely lost on them.