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

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Where the rule of law was once honored, no "Democracy" was needed.

As a Crown Colony, the supreme rule was basic individual freedoms and extremely limited regulation, Hong Kong flourished. The Chinese Communists tried to continue this as a separate system for a limited period, but totalitarians want total control with capricious regulation. Once people have long had individual freedom and consistent rights, they won't accept repression without a fight. m/r

Why Beijing Won’t Back Down in Hong Kong | National Review Online

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014  By 

They can’t afford to risk the protests’ spreading to the mainland. 

We are still in the early days of the Umbrella Revolution, but the student demonstrations in Hong Kong already present the greatest challenge to the authority of the Chinese government since the Tiananmen Square democracy movement of 1989. There are major differences, of course, but in some ways, Hong Kong is an even greater threat to the continued power of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Because of this, don’t expect that Beijing will back down soon or allow its proxies in the Hong Kong government to do so.
What Hong Kong represents is an alternate vision to political development in China. The 1984 agreement between Great Britain and China that paved the way for the end of British control over the island guaranteed Hong Kongers’ right to elect a chief executive democratically by 2017, a prospect that strikes a blow at the heart of CCP control of China. Allowing a successful democratic precedent to be set would raise the specter of other regions demanding similar rights, however unrealistic those hopes might be. Beijing’s paranoia over and increased repression of Buddhist monks in Tibet and Uighur separatists in Xinjiang means there can be no prospect of liberalization allowed anywhere that China claims territory.
Moreover, Hong Kong is supposed to represent the viable marriage of authoritarian government with capitalist economics. Westerners generally assume that the two systems cannot indefinitely survive together, even if short-run economic success is often possible and even impressive. Yet the CCP’s plan is to deliver economic growth for hundreds of millions while denying them any say in their political future, in perpetuity. Hong Kong occupies a unique place in this equation — China would like to incorporate it into the political system permanently, to prove the CCP’s approach superior. If the people of Hong Kong reject this arrangement, then the entire underpinning of the CCP’s political philosophy and the legitimacy of the government are publicly refuted.
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