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October 06, 2004
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Memory and loss
Cable TV is reporting that DBS, the bank that robbed itself, is going to offer a minimum of HK$100,000 compensation for each box holder. Now I think about it, I had a safety deposit box there. Yep, that's right. It had lots of old and hard to value jewellery in it, and mounds of cash to boot. This is better than the lottery... In even better news, Long Hair Leung lost his stupid attempt to use his own oath of office in being sworn into LegCo. Justice Hartmann of the High Court was to the point, according to the SCMP: "(Mr Leung) has not been able to demonstrate an arguable case ... the intended oath, no matter how laudable, will be unlawful and will have no effect."No doubt he will have still attempted some kind of grandstanding gesture at the ceremony today. As expected, he has gone from making a mockery of LegCo to making a mockery of himself. I still stand by my prediction that he won't be a LegCo member within 6 months. It's looking conservative. UPDATE Having just watched the footage of Leung taking the oath, perhaps I was wrong. He dutifully read the correct oath before screaming his own addition. So perhaps his slow metamorphasis has begun. posted by Simon on 10.06.04 at 05:50 PM in the
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my (unscientific) assumption was that his votes came from people who wanted to watch the media freakshow. at this rate, the act is getting tiresome in a hurry. yelling out slogans before and after taking the oath exactly according to script just does not equate to an important fight for democracy in any sense. i for one have reached saturation and am automatically tuning off all references to him. posted by: eswn on 10.06.04 at 07:46 PM [permalink]Yep I'm a bit fed up of him too and he needs a good ol' trim. posted by: Best Blogs in Asia on 10.06.04 at 07:58 PM [permalink]Come to Australia, "The go along get along country, mate." Pathetic. posted by: germaine greer on 10.07.04 at 09:36 AM [permalink] |
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