By Hwa Lee-long
Tuesday, May 04, 2004,Page 8
Having agreed to give Hong Kong autonomy under a "one country, two systems" formula, Beijing finally showed its hand and ruled out elections there.
It is a weak and cowardly ruler who avoids universal suffrage. There has never been
and never will be a democratic communist government, simply because no sane citizenry would ever vote in favor of
a communist government. Communism is merely a tool of the dictator, a paternalistic regime based on the errant notion that an elite ruling class can best know how to take care of the "ignorant masses."
This is China in a nutshell. The dictators live in luxury while the peasants are kept in the dark, fed nonsense and taught lies about the Communist Party. There have been so many lies in Beijing for so long, no one remembers how to spell "truth."
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