When I first set foot aboard USS Nimitz way back in 1978, there was a black market in T-shirts that said: “BOHICA. Our screws never stop-USS Nimitz CVN-68″.
BOHICA means, for those unfamiliar since its dropped out of the daily usage in naval operations (don’t want to offend the women or homos you know), Bend Over Here It Comes Again.
Spike reports that for Hong Kong, that little phrase is most correct. The dickheads in Beijing have screwed them yet again. Sold out by the British back in 1984, absorbed into the worlds biggest dictatorship in 1997, and slowly but inexoribly being swallowed by the seething hordes north of the New Territories-my beloved Hong Kong takes it up the a$$ yet again.
So that’s it. It’s over. Stick a fork in it, it’s done. Democracy in Hong Kong – died before birth.
Donald Tsang-Sir Bow Tie himself-is of course quite happy. He can go on mis-managing Asia’s greatest city. Hemlock probably has the best summary right here of why Bejing hates Hong Kong so:
My far more interesting idea is that the delay is simply out of spite. Making Hong Kong wait five years, then another five years, then another five years is Beijing’s way to send a message to the presumptuous and ungrateful rabble who lived under the barbarians and enjoyed it. This is the People’s Republic of China. You obey the Government not the other way round. You get your make-believe democracy when we say so. Most of all, perhaps, it is a message to themselves to sooth their paranoia. We are in power. We don’t do requests.