Battle between Freedom and Equality | Lee Yee

A netizen left a comment under my article from a couple of days ago, and said that if Trump is re-elected, he would turn “dictatorial”, and pursue “Trump thinking as mainstream”. He said that he “divides the United States and gave birth to racism, white nationalism, and xenophobia”, which is disastrous to human civilization, etc.

Under the constitutional system of the United States, one will have to step down after one re-election, and there is no way to bring about a dictatorship. Moreover, just look at all the stormy attacks mainstream media throws towards him, how is one to become a dictator? In a multicultural America, how could any almighty notion exist? As for racism and xenophobia, the cited example is him crowning the novel coronavirus “Chinese virus”, and the media claimed that this has caused a sharp increase in anti-Chinese speech online. But the virus did originate in China, did it not?

Other than the infiltration of Chinese interests that drove the U.S. media’s anti-Trump campaign, it has also been the “leftard” ideologies that have dominated academia and the press. How does one define “leftard”? Something that So Keng-chit said a few days ago was very appropriate, "the definition of “leftard” is that they replace strong and weak with “wrong and “right”; strong must be “wrong”, and weak must be “right”. Leftards uplift the weak by putting down the bullies to attain moral high grounds. The leftards must oppose the United States, for the see the United States as strong. The leftards sympathize with Saddam Hussein, because compared with the United States, Saddam Hussein is weak. They cannot see that Saddam Hussein is strong compared with the Iraqis. Hence the ‘tard’ in leftard.”

It is not that they cannot see, they are just intentionally not seeing. The mainstream media reports about Iraq after Saddam Hussein had fallen were that there was no longer a stronghold of a government, which led to the loss of societal management. Bombs were exploding daily, and blood flooded the land of the country. People lost homes and livelihoods. However, data showed that in the later phase of Saddam Hussein’s regime, Iraq’s population was 26 million, and the per capita GDP was only US$625, not to mention that the inflation rate was high in the three digits. After the United States attacked Iraq and introduced the democratic system, the Iraqi population has risen to 35 million, the per capita GDP has increased to US$4,600, and the inflation rate has dropped to 6%. Despite the global economic slowdown, the Iraqi economy has grown by an average of 9.9% per year for more than a decade.

In addition, the mainstream media rarely reported the substantial progress in Afghanistan’s economy and people’s livelihood after the United States eradicated the Taliban regime before establishing a democratic system in Afghanistan. It is rarely reported that after South Africa got rid of the white regime, social security was horrifying. It is because such truthful reporting is not politically correct.

Shouldn’t the motto of news publishing be “all news worth reporting”? When political correctness overrides this creed, there is no longer press freedom.

The so-called political correctness stems from anti-discrimination. Anti-discrimination means upholding the concept that “all men are born equal”, and to protect vulnerable groups. Anti-discrimination used to be a kind of progress, since the starting point is not the interests of the majority of society, but the moral and spiritual demands. But when this kind of protection gradually develops into a disregard towards differences and the diversity of human life, it becomes leftards who wave around the banner of political correctness. If the welfare of new immigrants is treated the same as that of local residents, how is that different from obliterating the long-term tax payment of local residents? Using Black Lives Matter to rationalize violence and chaos, you get Black Lives Better, and ignore the fundamental problems of the root causes of issues such as the Black community’s slighting of education; with the police worrying that law enforcement will cause them trouble, the crime in the Black areas will increase. Anti-discrimination has developed into a state where even praising women for being beautiful is discrimination. Obama once praised the Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris as the most beautiful State Attorney General in the United States, and was then accused of discrimination by feminists. He was forced to apologize. To protect LGBT, many American college toilets no longer distinguish between men and women, making women fearful.

“All men are born equal” is a false proposition. Some people are born with a silver spoon in their mouths, and others are born in the slums of Africa. How are they born equal? American conservative Russel Kirk said that we must pay attention to diversity and differences. Only before God and a fair court can there be true quality; all other attempts to achieve equality will inevitably lead to societal stagnation. If the balance of natural differences and conventions is tipped in order to pursue equality for all, then it will not be long before tyrants or despicable oligarchs start to create new inequalities.

Socialism waves around the banner of equality, and has been breeding tyranny for a whole century. Modern leftards is another form of pursuit of equality, one that is destroying the freedom of human society. Freedom is more important than equality. If there is no freedom, there will be no equality among people who are not free.

This U.S. general election may as well be regarded as a battle between freedom and equality.

Wan Chin: Thank you, President Trump for saving Hong Kong from the PLA massacre by calling General Secretary Xi Jinping to stop obliterating Hong Kong in 14 minutes. (The 14-minutes calculation show how accurately US know about HK's weakness and CCP's military ability) We were scared when US intelligence showed that ten thousand communist soldiers stationed near the border a few months ago and we thanked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Vice-President Pence for warning CCP against the use of force. But we didn't know that Trump personally phoned Xi and stopped him from the bravado. We are grateful for this wonderful friendship. A friend in need is a friend indeed.
We trust President Trump will do the most strategic choice when he is about to sign the prematurely passed Hong Kong Human Rights Bill four months ahead of time, stealing the President's time to deal with Xi.
The Chinese communists are cunning but they obey political realism in order to survive. The soviet communists were romantic and would choose a tragic end by Gorbachev. But not the CCP, the ultimate realists. The CCP only listen to the iron fist of military power and follow the heavy-handed and strong-minded.
As I analysed in my fb post two days ago, the main strategy between Trump and Xi is the squeezing of US$ for Xi through tariffs and the squeezing of time for Trump's first term of office through procrastination of trade deals and distraction of the Hong Kong human rights diplomacy. From a freedom fighter in Hong Kong with thirty years of close entanglement with the communists, I would advise the President to consider these:
1. Be heavy-handed and strong-minded: Keep the tariffs while making the preliminary trade deal, which is already a big concession from the all-round trade deal. Why cut the tariffs when China gain from the deal?
2. Xi squeeze Trump's time. Trump should return to Xi the double and let him feel the lovely pain: threat to take away Xi's permanent office as state head. A gesture of small-scale conflict in the South China Sea would cost Xi's office. A Chinese Gorbachev will be made to meet Trumps demand if Xi choose to remain romantic about his China Dream.
3. Meet the Hong Kong distraction head-on: support strongly the Hong Kong case and make it a prerequisite to the trade deal, otherwise double the tariffs and start new tariffs. Grab more corrupt cadres and spies overseas. This will cost CCP's double loss while they create a sideline in the HK issue.
The best way to protect Trump's nice friend Xi who is not so fit for his office is to put him down. That's the best protection Trump could offer to a nice friend. Trump will at the end save the lives of Hongkongers and the life of General Secretary Xi. Prosperity and stability in East Asia. World order changed. Big job done by the great and kind President Trump.

Kung Hei Fat Choi !
Happy Lunar New Year !

首先要恭喜自己剛剛那一年keep住有野做。
今年做到年三十先收到爐。
年初二繼續啟市！

收爐前最後一條片係為9dargonsultra The 9 Dragons Steven Carr 拍攝比賽。三分鐘嘅短片，我哋兩日用咗接近三十個小時拍攝，如果將footages真係要剪可以剪到一個鐘嘅紀錄片。呢個比賽嘅 cut-off 時間相當之緊湊，根本冇乜留力跑嘅本錢。
參賽兩日50/50 嘅跑手我真係好佩服
Day 1 89km (50miles) + Day 2 50km
我覺得第二日起到身已經係當贏咗。

今次比賽見到好多精英跑手都搏盡老命去跑，所以我哋都搏盡老命去拍。好多謝Sum捱通頂車我哋去拍野冇你根本拍唔成。

Film by Zoey Chann / Joshua Leung 仁在野 / Vincent TakShing Chan Composethestory
Drone shot by Vincent TakShing Chan Composethestory
Film Edited by Vincent TakShing Chan Composethestory

The 9 Dragons
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HOKA ONE ONE

What a weekend!

With The 9 Dragons presented by HOKA ONE ONE still lingering in our minds, we are pleased to present our official film.

In the 50 Miles race we had Justin Andrews overcoming stomach issues to win the race. Edith Fung dominated the ladies race and won by over an hour.

In the 50 kilometre race, Guomin Deng held a masterclass of running in Hong Kong obliterating the course record. The ladies race was a tense affair with the top three ladies battling all day, to come in consecutively at the finish with Charlotte Taquet taking the win.

Then the 50/50.

Magda Boulet demonstrated what a class act she is by leading from the start of the race to the finish. Always with a smile on her face. A hard earned second place from Jcy Ho demonstrating what an immense amount of potential she has.

Wow! A two day battle between Julien Chorier and Kazufumi Ose with Julien taking a 9 minute lead on day one. On the second day they stuck together like glue until Needle Hill where Kazufumi started to add to a lead as the Hong Kong weather got hot. It was a tense wait and Kazufumi had built up enough of a lead to win by 3 minutes.

Whether you finished or DNF'd, we know that you battled against your fellow runners and yourself. You pushed yourself to the limit and learned about yourself.

Next year - we have something up our sleeve....

Registration opens 5th August.

Video Credit: Composethestory and Joshua Leung