佔中不佔中

　　傳媒朋友一直關注我在「佔領中環」一事上的立場，我答應了他們在我的專欄上表述看法。

 

1)你支持爭取普選嗎？要「真普選」還是「袋住先」？

 

　　我從來未擁有過普選，因此我未能分出真偽。我生於英國殖民時期的香港，當時的政府是由英國委任，我一生中經歷過不同的管治者的管治，有優有劣，從來未有人問過我這道問題。由沒有投票發聲的機會到現在的改變，對我來說是很大的進步！

 

2)中央歪曲普選的基礎，作為一個人際關係的專家，你會鼓勵你的支持者站出來，爭取自己的權利嗎？

 

　　假如我們三餐不繼，沒有工作，政府又腐敗，市民活在水深火熱之中，我定會站出來反抗，不過，現在的現況不然。如果出來抗爭，我只是在爭取一些本如其貌的事！此情此景令人聯想起當年97回歸前的移民潮。不少人因聽到各種傳聞而賣掉香港的房子遠走高飛，在當時而言仿似是最好的決定。較幸運的雖然搬回香港，卻沒有能力再次置業；運氣較差的不能回頭，找不回香港的根，只能在異國鬱鬱不歡地度過餘生。這些人聽信別人的意見而作出這樣重大的決定。不好意思，未有足夠的憤怨教我站出來反抗，我不知道我要抗爭的是甚麼！

 

3)換句話說，你認同這「小圈子」選舉？

 

　　學聯的領袖不是由學生一人一票選出來的！他們只是由300票選出的！他們本來就是「小圈子」選舉。

 

　　在2013年的9月，香港學生的分布如下：

 

 

　　不論以何等方法計算，以300票來代表573,450個學生實屬「小圈子」。以上數據更未有包括新來港兒童、非華語學生、資歷架構、成人教育、專修學校（如資訊科技、會計、秘書、護理、語言、音樂學校以至私人補習學校等）再加入這些數據，這個人數比例非常接近特首選舉中的1,200個選委的比例。

 

4)你想居住在一個更民主的社會嗎？想我們的下一代享有真正的民主嗎？

 

　　《經濟學人》進行的一個非常全面的有關民主的調查，結果正好與大部分人的想法相反，美國出乎意料地不在全球十大最民主的國家之列，事實上，是前十五位不入！所以並沒有指罵的理由，簡單而言：

 

　　(A)民主排名較香港更前的有斯里蘭卡、菲律賓、印尼、孟加拉……

 

　　(B)台灣被評為「部分民主」，新加坡及泰國則為「混合政權」……她們的情況比香港更差。

 

　　讓我誠言，可以選擇的話，即使在孟加拉可以享有更多、「更好」的民主，我卻會選擇居住在較次等的香港、台灣、新加坡或泰國。

 

　　肯定的一點是沒有人可以以民主之名去破壞香港經濟、法律、形象，以及香港的未來。為了下一代著想，這裏需要的是和平。

 

　　（按：中文內容乃翻譯及撮寫版本）

 

Occupying Central

 

  Friends from the media have been asking me many questions regarding my position in the topic, “Occupying Central”. I promised  to answer them in my column.

 

1)Do you support the fight for universal suffrage? A“Real” election as versus a “Fake” one?

 

  I cannot tell the difference between a “real” election and a “fake” election because I’ve never had one. I was born in the British colony of HK where the governor was sent to us by Britain. There were many governors in my life time, some good ones, some bad ones. Nobody ever asked us. From not having any say  to having a vote at all, that to me is already a huge improvement ! 

 

2)The Beijing government is distorting the fundamentals of our election, as a relationship expert, would you advocate your followers to stand up and fight for their rights? 

 

  If we had no food, no job, a corrupt government & civilians were suffering… Yes, I would certainly stand up and fight. But that isn’t the case now. If I was to fight, I would only be fighting for what others said it should be ! A bit reminiscent of the immigration fever prior to the 1997 handover. Many sold their flats to move away based on hearsay, seemed like a good idea at the time… The lucky ones returned but no longer able to buy a flat. The unlucky ones can’t even return home…dreadfully unhappy in their adopted countries - they had made drastic decisions based on other people’s opinion. Sorry, I don’t feel sufficiently vehement to stand up and fight, I wouldn’t know what I am fighting for !

 

3)In other words, you are accepting this  “small circle” election?

 

  The leaders of the Student Union (學聯) were NOT voted by one student one vote ! They were only voted into position by 300 votes ! THAT in itself,  is “small circle” election.

 

  In Sept 2013, the student population of HK looks like this:

 

 

  By any standard, 300 votes representing 573,450 students is very “small circle” indeed. The above figures have not even included the NAC( Education for Newly Arrived Children), NCS (Education for Non-Chinese Speaking students), QF (Qualifications Frame-work),  Adult Education, Specialized Education (e.g. Information Technology, accounting, secretarial, nursing, language, music schools… private tutorial etc.etc. ) To include these figures, the percentage representation is very close to voting a Chief Executive with 1200 votes.

 

4)Don’t you want to live in a more democratic society? To ensure that our future generations will enjoy true democracy ?

 

  According to the very thorough Democracy Survey conducted by The Economist, contrary to what most people believe, America is surprisingly, not within the top ten of the most democratic countries in the world, in fact, not even within the top fifteen ! So they really shouldn’t be pointing fingers.  In synopsis : 

 

  (A)Countries with a higher democratic ranking than Hong Kong include Sri Lanka, Philippines, Indonesia, Bangladesh… 

 

  (B)Taiwan is considered a “flawed democracy”, Singapore and Thailand a “hybrid regime”…

all even worse than Hong Kong.

 

  In all honesty, given a choice, I would rather live in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore or Thailand with lesser and "inferior" democracy than to live in the likes of Bangladesh with more and "better" democracy.

 

  One thing is for sure, no one can justify ruining the economy, rule of law, image and future of Hong Kong in the name of democracy. For the sake of this and future generations, let there be peace.

 

 

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