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Typhoon in a Teacup
Hong Kong has made the startling discovery that some of its young people are taking drugs instead of being the well-behaved ping-pong playing, academic over-achievers that they are supposed to be. Each day, it seems, the papers gloat over some new tale of teens and chemical depravity. Oddly, much of it occurs in the last place you would want to be while monging: school itself. We read of the private school boy caught in a corridor with three E's in his pocket; or of girls poleaxed by lunchtime lines of ketamine; or the youngsters wheeled out of classrooms, supine, after being found face down in their textbooks. Oh, the wickedness of it all.
Personally, the thought of being “on one” during a lecture on photosynthesis, linear equations or Tang Dynasty poetry makes me wince. But never mind. The government's endearingly inept response is to institute a program of voluntary drug testing in schools. Young pillheads will be asked to provide urine samples and if they refuse—well, nothing will happen. It appears that by law, under-18s are not deemed to have the necessary faculties to consent to such tests (even if the crafty scamps have the wits to score drugs amid the bleak concourses of suburban housing estates, under the noses of police and parents, at any time of day or night). Neither educators nor family members can compel them.
Despite this gross impediment to its overall effectiveness, the plan has provoked plenty of opposition. The silent majority sees it for the piece of tokenism that it is because, let's face it, the generally sober, orderly and decent people of Hong Kong really aren't living in a drug hell, whatever the gutter press may tell you. But social activists and panicky foreigners are in revolt, imagining voluntary drug testing to be the harbinger of some terrible Orwellian future of curtailed liberties and government snooping. Today, it's a student agreeing to provide a urine sample, the argument goes. Tomorrow, it'll be dawn raids on the homes of poets and professors.
Lol. And let us note that the colonial government was far more draconian. I remember drug enforcement as a secondary school student in Kowloon, where, believe me, there were no social workers politely coughing and asking for your signature on a consent form. Staff would raid student lockers and take them apart with grim sureness, even the packed lunches, which would be left in a soggy, inedible heap of squashed bread, cling wrap and sandwich filling. I once saw a teacher hold a lettuce leaf up to the light, just in case in proved to be anything smokable. If a fanatic like that really wanted your urine in a jar, he'd have beaten it out of you.
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While China, the Middle East and Mexico are all very interesting, one has to wonder why President Obama, whose father comes from Kenya, has not requested an official explanation from the British about the network of concentration camps they operated in that country during the 1950's. It is alleged that hundreds of thousands died, were tortured and sexually abused by both British officer and enlisted men. When a few Jews move into a caravan on the West Bank, the President becomes hysterical. When it is clearly shown that hundreds of thousands of Kenyans were imprisoned and tormented, the President doesn't even blink!
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Bigger storm and tsunami are on the way.
Duck,suckers!國務院智囊:港將成上海「配角、馬前卒」
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"It is alleged that" is firm ground for investigation by Chinese. US people are just too dumb to do anything that is "alleged". This is a Chinese responsibility, not a US one.
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What amused me most about this drug testing is that there is no announced plan or program to deal with those tested positive. Will there be sufficient qualified people to handle the drug addicts ? How many "addict schools" are there to handle them ? Will those tested positive be staying in their old schools ? And I particularly enjoy the statement that "one should not care about privacy of students in middle schools".
If the expected number of students to be found positive will be small, this is a program to do nothing. If the number expected is large, where is the resources to deal with a great problem ? This sounds like a program designed for the government, not the students, especially no those who are addicted.
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What can you tell the younsters to look up for the future of Hong Kong other than taking drug when the Grand State Council water thinktanks predicted HKG is doomed!
國務院智囊:港將成上海「配角、馬前卒」
Time has changed, China tsunami had already swept through HKG after 1997. Hong Kong has been under water ever since.
One piece of advice though, for those wealthy little supermen, you just have to join the CCP second generation Yuppies training program, in order to stay away from drugs and join the rank 0.4% owning 91% of national wealth.
Listen to what the "left-wing" patriotic local paper editorial has to say today:
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有錢集訓富二代 無錢襄助老弱貧
本文重點
• 忍無可忍 逼上梁山江蘇日前推出「富二代」集訓計劃,由省委黨校對當地富豪子女進行為期一周的培訓,包括黨校學習、基地培訓、導師幫帶、掛職鍛煉等四個主要措施。培訓費用主要由官方負責。
這項培訓計劃一推出,便引起了極大的爭議。富二代,在內地老百姓眼中是不學無術、驕橫野蠻、紈絝子弟的代名詞。尤其是近年來的富二代飆車、鬥富的醜聞不斷傳出,更讓老百姓對富二代深惡痛絕。因此,江蘇推出富二代的集訓計劃之後,老百姓普遍對此表示反對,認為當局完全是多此一舉,並將這個培訓班視作官商勾結的預備班。
內地很多富豪之所以在短時間內暴富,並不是靠他們的本事與技術,而是因為他們有過硬的靠山與關係。官商勾結、恃權斂財,是內地富豪發家的不二法門。所以,當江蘇一推出這個富二代集訓班,老百姓便條件反射,想到當局是為富二代提供認識結交官員的平台。
事實上,江蘇當局為富二代提供集訓的做法,有其政治上的考慮,就是想方設法籠絡「最先進生產力的代表」——民營企業家,將他們納入執政團隊,變成中共的執政基礎。這是中共從工農黨向權貴黨轉變的又一個嘗試。由於中共負責黨建工作的中央組織部部長李源潮是前任江蘇省委書記,因此江蘇這個創新,是否來自高層的授意,值得關注。忍無可忍 逼上梁山
在中共的黨章中,至今仍規定工人和農民是其執政基礎。然而在現實中,工人和農民的政治地位和經濟地位卻不斷下降,而民營企業家的地位卻不斷升高,這可以從全國人大代表與黨代表的簡歷中明顯體現出來,真正代表工人與農民的代表呈逐屆下降趨勢,而民營企業家的代表卻愈來愈多。
事實上,工人和農民是改革開放的弱勢群體,在國企改革、城市拆遷以及農村土地轉讓中,他們的利益大多受到不同程度的侵犯,前不久發生的吉林通鋼工潮事件便是最好的證明。
工人與農民本最應得到政府的關心與幫助,支持他們通過合理合法的途徑,維護自身的權益,但從目前情況來看,工人和農民被當局無情拋棄,而富豪權貴則受到官員的極力巴結。老百姓上訪,被當作敵對勢力遭鎮壓,而富二代驕橫,卻當作座上賓進行集訓,厚此薄彼,自然讓老百姓心中憤憤不平。
長此以往,不僅中共的執政將面臨危機,而且整個國家亦難免陷入動亂之中。工人和農民作為無產者,革命意志最堅決,一旦他們忍無可忍,逼上梁山,現有的政治格局將被徹底摧毀。
而富豪們則多數持有外國護照,國家一旦有事,他們很可能拍拍屁股溜之大吉,隔岸觀火,根本不可能與中共同舟共濟。諷刺的是現時的中共,又一次面臨着依靠誰的抉擇,然而,這也是一個生死抉擇。__________________________________________
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