[Leica] Pray for Hong Kong

[Richard Man]

I can’t speak for Leo. As I have explained: my life blew up and continued
to be so. Indeed I am now looking for a full time job after 20 years. Life
intrudes

The kicker is that assuming I get a job, which is a must-do, I was thinking
perhaps to do another book as a give back. You have just ensured that it
will never happen

On Sat, Aug 17, 2019 at 16:06 Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:

> Richard, is protest not allowed here as well as in Hong Kong? You passed
> it on to Leo and it died a death with no explanation from either you or
> Leo. Delegation? More like abdication, methinks. Not such a low blow
> really.
>
> Douglas
>
>
> On 17/08/2019 20:57, Richard Man wrote:
> > Douglas, just for the record (again), that all LUG photos were
> transferred
> > to Leo. This is what I call a low blow, and this was the type of
> behaviors
> > that made me dropped out for ~a year.
> >
> > Shame on you.
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Aug 17, 2019 at 4:34 AM Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:
> >
> >> Good thoughts and prayers, Richard? I tried that while I waited for the
> >> last Lug yearbook, but.....
> >>
> >> Unfortunately, for the one country, two systems future of HK, some of
> >> the protestors have wandered away from the happy medium and are
> >> inflaming opinion in mainland China and elsewhere. With Trump
> >> effectively sidelined by the competing needs of a US/China trade deal,
> >> Xi will probably crack down on the next major violent protest and send
> >> in the Red Army who are parked on the border ten kilometres away. Hope
> >> you have shorted all your shares.
> >>
> >> Douglas
> >>
> >> On 17/08/2019 07:30, Richard Man wrote:
> >>> You may very well be right. However, that's what good thoughts and
> >> prayers
> >>> are for... perhaps, just perhaps...
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 11:17 PM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I am sorry to say that I am quite pessimistic. I was a child in Poland
> >>>> when the Prague Spring was crushed by the Soviet Union and four other
> >>>> Warsaw Pact countries in 1968, and I believe the same thing will end
> up
> >>>> happening in Hong Kong. And just as the world did nothing then, it
> will
> >> do
> >>>> nothing now. China is too powerful, it is an “internal matter” etc.
> >>>>
> >>>> Sorry…
> >>>>
> >>>> Nathan
> >>>>
> >>>> Nathan Wajsman
> >>>>
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> >>>> YNWA
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> On 17 Aug 2019, at 08:00, Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com>
> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> A number of LUGgers have lived in Hong Kong, some like Howard, for
> many
> >>>>> years. Some like Greg, occasional visitors. Many have visited.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I was born in Hong Kong, and the current events fill me with
> >>>> trepidation. I
> >>>>> talked to my Tai Chi teacher, and he said wisely, "Water always find
> >> its
> >>>>> level". A very Daoist thing, be like water.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> If I have the resource, I will go there now, to document the events.
> >>>> There
> >>>>> are lots of propaganda flowing around, including hilariously that US
> is
> >>>>> paying the protesters.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Anyway, please keep up with the news. I don't know what will happen.
> I
> >>>> hope
> >>>>> the Tiananman scenario does not happen. If you are on Facebook, you
> can
> >>>>> follow sites like Hong Kong Free Press (which is definitely very much
> >> pro
> >>>>> democracy and independence), or SCMP which was a very well respected
> >> news
> >>>>> source, but less so in recent years as it was bought by Jack Ma, the
> >>>>> Alibaba founder, but it still does provide news reports without too
> >> much
> >>>>> bias.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Without getting into politics, the current administration does not
> care
> >>>>> about democracy in Hong Kong other than whatever fits its selfish
> >> agenda.
> >>>>> However, we can still call our Congress representatives. Anyway,
> please
> >>>>> send good thoughts and hope for bloodless resolution.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thank you.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> --
> >>>>> // richard http://imagecraft.com
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