Quotes

"Fascism and communism both promise "social welfare," "social justice," and "fairness" to justify authoritarian means and extensive arbitrary and discretionary governmental powers." - F. A. Hayek"

"Life is a Bungling process and in no way educational." in James M. Cain

Jean Giraudoux who first said, “Only the mediocre are always at their best.”

If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law. Sir Winston Churchill

"summum ius summa iniuria" ("More laws, more injustice.") Cicero

As Christopher Hitchens once put it, “The essence of tyranny is not iron law; it is capricious law.”

"Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." Ronald Reagan

"Law is where you buy it." Raymond Chandler

"Why did God make so many damn fools and Democrats?" Clarence Day

"If I feel like feeding squirrels to the nuts, this is the place for it." - Cluny Brown

"Oh, pshaw! When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have." Owen Wister "The Virginian"

Oscar Wilde said about the death scene in Little Nell, you would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.

Thomas More's definition of government as "a conspiracy of rich men procuring their own commodities under the name and title of a commonwealth.” ~ Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English Speaking Peoples

“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.” ~ Jonathon Swift

Sunday, June 16, 2013

Hong Kong Demonstrators Show Support for Snowden in N.S.A. Leak Case

Now how is this for irony in the Red Chinese Special District? 
Careful though, there may have been some Mainland Orchestration to help these demonstrations along. m/r

Hong Kong Demonstrators Show Support for Snowden in N.S.A. Leak Case - NYTimes.com
June 15, 2013  -
By 
HONG KONG — Chanting slogans like “Shame, U.S. government,” demonstrators marched from a downtown park to the United States Consulate on Saturday to urge that Edward J. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor accused of leaking documents about American surveillance programs, be allowed to remain in Hong Kong.
One of the protest’s organizers, Tom Grundy, a British expatriate, called on China and the United States to refrain from pressuring Hong Kong about Mr. Snowden. “We want an independent judiciary to decide on the case,” Mr. Grundy said.
A second, unintended irony, Obama as the
International face of Orwellian "Big Brother."
Hong Kong, which was ruled by Britain until its return to China in 1997, retains a legal system that is widely respected for its independence in its status as a special administrative region of China. Some activists, however, have criticized recent court appointees as having more pro-Beijing connections than their predecessors.
In his first comment on Mr. Snowden’s case, Hong Kong’s chief executive, Leung Chun-ying, indicated Saturday that Hong Kong would follow established procedures if it is asked to surrender Mr. Snowden to the United States. He also indicated that the Hong Kong government would look into Mr. Snowden’s disclosure that the National Security Agency might have gained covert access to the main hub of Internet servers here, located at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
“When the relevant mechanism is activated, the Hong Kong S.A.R. government will handle the case of Mr. Snowden in accordance with the laws and established procedures of Hong Kong,” Mr. Leung said in a statement. “Meanwhile, the government will follow up on any incidents related to the privacy or other rights of the institutions or people in Hong Kong being violated.”
Though the protest was small — organizers said about 900 showed up, but the police said it was more like 300 — it underlined the political maneuvering set off by Mr. Snowden’s arrival here.
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