SUPPORT YOUR COMRADES IN HONG KONG
There is no freedom without economic freedom. As JAM VIEWS continuously preaches, everything is about the money. While mainland China's attempts to control and suppress Hong Kong are framed as infringements on freedom and democracy, educated JAM VIEWS members see this struggle for what it has always been; governments grabbing the economic jewels to tax them, control their destinies, and to then turn around and redistribute them back to the people as a gift, as aid.
Remember that Mayer Amschel Rothschild famously repeated that he didn't care who ran the countries, as he just wanted to control the money. The reason China President Xi needs to control Hong Kong's prosperity, and will eventually screw it up by killing the golden goose, is that economic freedom empowers the masses. If Hong Kong's capitalism continues to bleed over into the mainland, the China state-run economy which owns stakes in all successful industries and "companies," will soon find itself with too many actual competitors.
Once the masses have economic options, such as with the current historically-low unemployment in the U.S., and most notably for minorities, the maternal role of the government is no longer required, or desired. For Hong Kong citizens they now realize that it is much worse to have had economic success and freedom and lost it, than to have never had it at all. President Xi, along with all other socialists and communists, doesn't want more people to understand this.
In America, if more people have individual economic success, they will scoff at Bernie's and AOC's attempts to make them believe that they need the government to give them health care or an education. With economic prosperity and rugged individualism, the people decide to buy their own services and products, to include the specific model, size and color they desire. If people can control their own lives, then what power and what jobs are Bernie, AOC, and Xi left with? Back to waitressing, I assume.
Jess Leung, a Hong Kong student, proclaimed, "Without freedom, there is no difference from being in jail." One of my favorite op-ed writers, Peggy Noonan, summed it up best. "The second country that needs a slap this week is China. It needs to be told no - colorfully, vividly, and in a great chorus. It needs to know the upset it is causing in trying to muscle the people of Hong Kong with extradition moves is not worth the gain - that it will ruffle things in a way that is not good for China. The world admires Hong Kong's freedom, bustle and success...world be roused. Push back through word, opinion and argument."
Surprising the world, 2 million out of 7 million Hong Kong citizens marched last weekend in protest to China's attempt, through their puppet Chief Executive Ms. Lam, to pass an extradition law which allows them to swoop into Hong Kong and grab any citizen who doesn't follow the party line politically, economically or socially.
It can be very dangerous to have great success or an agenda contrary to the party in power. Did you pay attention to the fact that the great majority of indictments and charges from the Mueller investigation were for "lying to federal agents?" The charges were not for actual underlying crimes, but for mistating details during the multitude of threatening discussions on the record or off, under oath or not, with immunity or without. That is the game. Why do you think everyone refuses to be interviewed if they can avoid it?
In 1984, Britain and China signed the Sino-British Joint Declaration setting forth Hong Kong's future legal and economic autonomy. The 1992 U.S.-Hong Kong Policy Act laid out the framework for Hong Kong as a customs territory and economic entity separate from China. Therefore, Hong Kong now enjoys special advantages with the U.S., to include tariffs, visas and law enforcement. But, China's massive state bureaucracy cannot let this ideology spread further inland, or President Xi might have to get a waiter job himself. He prefers the recently-awarded King For Life.
All politics are local, and all freedom is economical. Support your capitalist comrades in Hong Kong, and support individual economic empowerment at every turn in the United States. How quickly things can degrade for those of us who are not diligent in protecting what is right and true. Does the NSA record your every call and text and store them in massive data storage facilities? Do we want the government to give us our food, our work, our healthcare, and our education? Why would we want any of that?
Tom Fund, a history major in Hong Kong, recalled that he only learned about the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre by accessing an unpublised manuscript written by his history teacher which included photos of tanks rolling over citizens. Staring at the pictures he asked, "Are they really real?"
As the Founding Fathers understood that the power of the Second Amendment lied not in being able to protect us from one another, but in protecting us from a tyrannical government, the citizens of Hong Kong now understand that economic empowerment is even a much stronger weapon for protecting their families' safety and prosperity.
This week JAM VIEWS salutes the courageous citizens of Hong Kong. World be roused!
"There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in the world; those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed." - Ray Goforth
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